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by robbick 8y ago
I'm disappointed by the response he got which said "This appears to be more of a risk acceptance rather than a vulnerability." I understand that some risk is acceptable but surely that is proportional to the cost of removin
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by robbick 8y ago
I hadn't heard that methane didn't last too long in the atmosphere before. What happens to it?
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by robbick 8y ago
I'm sure I am missing something, but surely every container ship that leaves china with a huge pile of mail has to return again to collect more - can't they just take stuff with them?
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by robbick 8y ago
1. Soma is a fictional drug from A Brave New World that keeps everyone happy
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by robbick 8y ago
I think he is saying that he is both the CTO and the lead developer
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by robbick 8y ago
Can't say I've seen enough to be confident on the best library but redux ( https://github.com/reduxjs/redux ) is just so simple, and has great, readable/understandable code.
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by robbick 8y ago
It may come up against the same pitfalls again and again but it has produced some of the most popular desktop + mobile apps out there because it consistently has some of the best benefits (large community, standards driven approach, lots of
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by robbick 8y ago
Does this product still exist?
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by robbick 8y ago
Agreed - in my mind the easiest way to consider it is to consider the 29th as an infinitesimally short day on non-leap years. On the 1st of March that day has passed and they are 18, on the 28th of Feb that day hasn't started. The same
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by robbick 8y ago
All of the 'big' UK banks are still on similar out dated technologies as TSB was, they were the first to try to move and it hasn't paid off. I hope the other major banks a) do it better b) don't use it as an excuse nev
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by robbick 8y ago
A brilliant excerpt from the end of the bbc article[0]: Yet Prof David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, sounded a note of caution about the findings. "Given the pleasu
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by robbick 8y ago
While this is somewhat true, it can easily lead to the idea that mental health problems aren't serious because they are just further along a scale than me. We all have kidneys that don't work perfectly, so we are all on a continuu
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by robbick 8y ago
Agreed - IMHO favoring the pedestrian is the correct decision
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by robbick 8y ago
Doesn't even need to be considered as a punishment, merely sensible anti-monopoly regulation. You shouldn't be able to buy your closest competitors so that you form a monopoly.
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by robbick 9y ago
The UN would suggest your numbers are correct but for Africa as a whole not just Sub-saharan africa https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/WPP2017_KeyFi...
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Show HN: Jest-theories – a simple test theory extension to jest(npmjs.com)
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by robbick 9y ago
> "Driving isn't really something that should be a career." Why not?
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by robbick 9y ago
Agreed - I think the 'its how the message gets conveyed' only applies to really trivial things, like 'expresso', or whom vs who where the incorrect version is so clear that it doesn't affect the readability.
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by robbick 9y ago
Can you give any sources?
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What I started dreaming about once I had everything I ever dreamt of – DHH(medium.com)
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