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by rowyourboat 9y ago
You could argue that since Youtube has created a public forum for others to work in, they should be held to different standards than a regular private company. I.e. Youtube should be regulated as infrastructure and thus can not longer unila
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Automatic emergency braking is already mandatory for trucks in the EU.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
True, but most cars in the luxury-sedan segment (and quite a few compact cars) can do that, so this is not autopilot-specific.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Well, it's much cheaper per area than an apartment, so for seldomly-used stuff, it may make sense.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I did read the article before answering you. I referred you to the original headline because it better fits the article's contents, not because I stopped reading there.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
A lot of research has gone into describing this "classist lie". It is not simply something that the parent stated as a truism. Organizational theory seems to suggest that founders are, as a general rule, not the best CEOs for a ma
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
It isn't limited to Vodafone. The original headline is "ProtonMail is being blocked in Turkey. Here’s how to bypass Turkey’s online censorship."
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
All the time. I don't really understand how you don't. Requirements change constantly, and the software's structure has to change with them, or become a big ball of tangly interdependencies. Refactoring is not a big deal. If
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
You kid, but seriously: Of course you will have to restructure your code as the product evolves. Good refactoring support is not crucial for this, but makes your life easier, and I found that by making my life easier, it lowers the mental t
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> It does the 20% of a full blown IDE's functions that provide 80% of the value. Does it support code refactoring (renaming variables, classes, moving classes or methods, ...)?
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I am a total layman, so could somebody explain the significance of this study? Obviously those substances alter the brain chemistry, that is not surprising, I think. How are those changes significant? Is there cause for concern?
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> As a community of mostly engineering-minded folks, I hope we can take this as a warning to not make our mission-critical systems depend on inputs that are merely convenient side-effects of third-party systems provided free of charge an
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
When moving from the US to Europe, I had the opposite problem. I had brought along a number of devices that I powered off a transformer (230V -> 115V) here, among them an alarm clock. Which worked off the AC frequency and thus was losing
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> I think the implication is more, "why are you only paying attention to us? If you think this is a bad practice, then you should be going after our competitors, too." "But, officer, everybody else was speeding, too!"
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
The comparison to the convenience store fails because in the digital realm, the customer does not need to physically travel outside the EU to do business with somebody outside the EU. Or, to look at it another way: If it weren't extrat
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Isn't this just a very long-winded way of saying "lift with your legs, not with your back"?
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> But hey, a piece of paper with signatures looks sooooooo much better in a court of law :) It does. But the parent post suggested that if there is no signed lease, tenant laws should not apply, and I tried to point out that it does not
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> you can sign appropriate lease contract Well, the thing is, by coming to an agreement, you automatically enter a contract. There is not need for a signed piece of paper; a written, explicit contract is just for both parties to be clear
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
It's the other way around: Inertial navigation is just a very accurate implementation of dead reckoning.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> You know it might be nice for people to get the terminology right if you are writing about this stuff... He specifically mentions in the article that he found both terms and used the one used in the literature he refers to.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> Thus, there is stronger evolutionary pressure to pay the cost of maintaining these systems. ... which implies that it is biologically possible to maintain them, which implies in turn that aging is a biological trade-off and not a physi
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Where exactly does he discuss that? His entire point seems to be that aging is inevitable: > The constant risk is environmental (accidents, infectious disease), but much of the exponentially increasing risk is due to internal wear. ... b
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
The headline's premise does not square with the fact that there are organisms that don't age and whose life span is only limited diseases, accidents and predation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_sene
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> you may sound a bit odd with the “das” in that specific case, no? No. As a native speaker, I would consider "die Fräulein" incorrect in the singular. "Die Fräulein" is the correct plural of "das Fräulein",
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Yes. "Mädchen" is the diminutive of "Magd", and thus neuter, as are all words in the diminutive. This not only goes for the diminutive suffix -chen, but for all German diminutive suffixes.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
I have and it has, so far, never mislead.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
The typical stuff an agency can reuse is all covered by frameworks and libraries anyway. You take an existing CMS or shop software and customize it, or take a web framework and build a very customer-specific service on top of it. Most every
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
> If you are unsure of what the outcome of what you write tdd will give you training wheels and help guide you. That may make some quicker for a little while. In my experience, if you are unsure of how you are going to solve a problem, w
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Task. But a three-month project is, at the abstract level, also a task. I misunderstood you, that is all that is happening here.
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by rowyourboat 9y ago
Okay, I'll jump. Any tips on a good mail/calendaring/contact solution that isn't google, and works and syncs across browser and mobile devices?

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