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by rpeden 8y ago
I like the way it looks. The thing with design is that there will usually be someone who thinks it's ugly. And I think that's okay. Everyone's aesthetic sense is a bit different. Nobody's going to like everything you do.
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Funny you mention that. I was considering amending my post to include IndirectionStrategy. But I was worried about opening a Pandora's box of indirection design patterns. I mean, who are we to assume that you want to invoke all this in
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by rpeden 8y ago
Just wrap it in an IndirectionManager and instantiate that via an IndirectionManagerFactory and you're good to go. :)
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Maybe they're using telecom satellites that are in geosynchronous orbit?
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Roguelikes are one way to solve the art problem. As someone else mentioned, the Unity asset store has plenty of assets too - some are free, and many others are reasonably priced. There are plenty of 2D assets available, as well as 3D if tha
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by rpeden 8y ago
OTOH, an ASP.NET web app written in 2008 and not touched since then would probably still run happily now if you bumped its version up to .NET 4 or 4.5. C# has had Linq and lambdas since 2007 so there's a decent chance the code would be
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by rpeden 8y ago
Consider that actual rock stars often aren't the world's best musicians from a purely technical perspective - but they're experts at delivering what their audience wants. Dan made a bit of a name for himself in a couple of
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The scale is massive. Take a look at the satellite view here: https://www.google.com/maps/search/chittagong+ship+breaking+... You can scroll up and down the coast to see how many ships are beached and being disman
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For what it's worth, this happens where there's single payer health care too: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/06/16/workplace_safety... For context, WSIB is a government agency here
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Doesn't Android or CarbonOS just get its signal strength information from the Qualcomm baseband OS? It's a second OS always running on your phone that you can't do much about. The baseband OS could be lying about signal stren
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by rpeden 8y ago
It's not quite voice, but I remember this device from when I was a child: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTNuJXi6UUk
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I've heard they're expensive to maintain and eventually stop responding to commands.
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They sure do, and if you drove into Ottawa on the 417 in the past decade, you went right past their office: https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.3788963,-75.7454491,3a,77.5y,... They seem to have pulled the Corel logo down s
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by rpeden 8y ago
> I have never had a problem breaking up a bunch of bananas in the store. Ah, so you're one of those people. Don't you realize you're condemning those poor banana bunches to an ignominous death in the dumpster? Nobody&
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by rpeden 8y ago
This kind of dehumanization isn't at all new in factory-type environments. Frederick Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management [1] was very popular 100 years ago, and included things like time and motion studies[2] which s
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by rpeden 8y ago
To be fair though, Peter Norvig is a lot more than just a "Google guy". I'd happily read an article that's nothing but Norvig quotes. I thought that the article was pretty decent, considering it is aimed at an audience o
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by rpeden 8y ago
Those crashes are often caused by engines ingesting birds. Here's one that happened to a BAe Hawk in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuLcVkW4YVg The on-board video shows it crashin
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by rpeden 8y ago
You could certainly be right! Maybe it is one of those names that could endear your company to a certain audience, but alienate it to a wider audience.
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Right, that's why I think familiarity with the game might be geographic - it seems like one of those games that's played in some places, but not others. Or it could also be the case that the same game is played, but with a differe
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by rpeden 8y ago
There's also TCAS, which is transponder based and will negotiate with nearby aircraft also equipped with transponders - so if there's a collision risk, the TCAS in one aircraft will be saying "climb, climb" and TCAS in t
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by rpeden 8y ago
Maybe it's a geographic thing? I feel like anyone who grew up in a region where duck, duck goose was a common game for children to play wouldn't be too confused about the name. Not that being confused about the name or disliking i
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Microsoft Bob. Not because it was great, but because I think we need more exploration into alternate ways to interact with computing devices. I've seen plenty of people - even young people - doing things wrong because their mental mode
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You're definitely correct, the Zeiss was one among many he used over the course of his career. I knew about the 500c but didn't mention it here because he wouldn't have been able to use it for these shots unless he were a tim
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When I saw these pictures before, I noticed they were all square. So probably not 35mm. You could expose square photos on 35mm film, but it would be unusual. So probably likely medium format of some kind? Adams was known to use the Zeiss Ik
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by rpeden 8y ago
Node does have a standard library. It's not massive, but there's a lot more available out of the box than is available in a browser. The tricky part is that lots is npm packages end up bundled into an app that runs in the browser.
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I agree with you in general, but I think a better rule would be to almost never rewrite code. I know that everyone thinks their predecessor was an idiot. And I agree that full rewrites are usually a bad idea. But sometimes, the predecesso
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For what it's worth, they seem to be hiring lots of developers at their tech centre in Markham, north of Toronto. I'm not sure where these developers fall under GM's corporate structure, though.
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It's just because Amazon's ReInvent conference is happening right now, so there are plenty of product announcements happening that are relevant to the HN community. The same thing often happens when Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.
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Sounds like Snyk: https://snyk.io/

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