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by polymatter 6y ago
I think its relevant that his name is "Mr Aditya Singh". This might give a clue to his ethnicity and therefore how dangerous the judge (stupidly) perceives him to be.
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by polymatter 6y ago
I guess its https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim
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by polymatter 7y ago
Cam here to recommend Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s courses. I started on the Advanced Javascript and once I compeleted that have gone and done a few more with him (including Vue). It was instrumental in getting me competent enough to be a dev
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by polymatter 7y ago
fwiw I also agree entirely.
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by polymatter 7y ago
Nothing. The screenshot is meaningless. The story is in the twitter comments underneath. > Both programs want to ensure you only run one copy of themselves. So they create a global mutex using the GUID of their .NET assembly, right? >
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by polymatter 7y ago
or (c) eat the loss in order to gain market share. Thats the SV way!
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by polymatter 7y ago
I think its fairer to say you can only appreciate a truely competent boss once you have suffered an incompetent one.
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by polymatter 7y ago
Its more than a decade since I last read it, but I am fairly sure the point was everyone was monitored. There was no escape.
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by polymatter 7y ago
The UK doesn't have the same right to silence. Nor anything about taking the fifth either. Refusal to answer could be taken as obstruction of justice or contempt of court, and will likely be considered relevant information for a jury.
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by polymatter 7y ago
I will second that Types and Programming languages is a great book. The next book, https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/attapl/index.html does get into Dependent Types.
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by polymatter 7y ago
so did Hilary
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by polymatter 7y ago
See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
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by polymatter 7y ago
trademarks protect customers from confusion. copyright protects the right of an author not to have their work copied (without their permission) patents protect inventors from having their inventions used (without their permission)
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by polymatter 7y ago
I agree that the pharmaceutical industry spends a lot researching drugs. And so does the government eg [1]. In the situation of an imaginary future where patents are scrapped, pharmaceutical companies will be unlikely to continue to invest
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by polymatter 7y ago
Drug research seems more like an infrastructure thing more than a profit thing. Fund the research publicly. Academic competition is enough to ensure research is effective. Drug manufacture however seems more like a profit thing. Open up the
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by polymatter 7y ago
"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls" -Aristophanes The public learns the lesson that X is necessary when they see the consequence of not-X. Hopefully there is a gap betwee
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by polymatter 7y ago
If I needed to track down such a site I would try asking in person. Find a local knitting meetup and ask everyone there. Then go to the next city over and do the same thing. Hopefully you will bump into someone who knows someone who knows a
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by polymatter 7y ago
please do
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by polymatter 7y ago
'Back' according to https://medium.com/js13kgames/js13kgames-2019-has-started-3a...
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by polymatter 7y ago
where did you get unlimited data for GBP10?
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by polymatter 7y ago
In case you're serious https://tech.fpcomplete.com/haskell/promote may help.
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by polymatter 7y ago
Fraud mostly. Depending on specifics also impersonating an official/officer of the law and unauthorised access to information.
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by polymatter 7y ago
But then you would also need to explain things like vestigal elements in humans, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality . This is all neatly explained by evolution. For eample, why do humans have a tail bo
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by polymatter 7y ago
They found the bone in the rock. Scientists look at the rock and can tell the rocks age. They assume that the bone is about the same age as the rock it was found inside.
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by polymatter 7y ago
I'm sorry, did you just suggest we pack explosives in commercial cargo drones as a safety measure? Explosives enough to vaporise 10kg drone plus its cargo. Are we looking at mini nukes here?
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by polymatter 7y ago
Actually at that rate I think its probably more likely a simple error an the address database somewhere. Something simple like the postcode is in the address4 field rather than the postcode field. 20% of the time the employee rejects it as
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by polymatter 7y ago
...for now
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by polymatter 7y ago
The UK system is also highly dependent on utility bills as a proof of address if you are an immigrant.
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by polymatter 9y ago
For many people the standard communication medium nowadays is not a voice call but an asynchronous chat message. I wouldn't bother looking up the time in Melbourne, I'd just send a WhatsApp message. Uncle Steve can reply at his co
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by polymatter 9y ago
> How big/long is the game? About 30-40 minutes. Its very well done. I highly recommend

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