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by rpeden 8y ago
I've read that ears are pretty unique. But I imagine that mass surveillance based on ear profiles would be difficult just because ears are small so it's harder to isolate high resolution pictures of people's ears. Also becaus
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by rpeden 8y ago
Always? If I'm standing 10 metres away, I don't think it would be too bad. Even at 1 metre away it would be fine. With images as large as the OP is talking about, at typical viewing distances pitch substantially larger than 1mm wo
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by rpeden 8y ago
In addition to the captain's glider experience, the first officer just happened to have served at the RCAF station where they eventually landed. So they had at least a couple of extra things working in the favour that day.
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by rpeden 8y ago
All of that probably has to be done in order for the AP-101 to be flight certified. As far as I can recall, they wrote their own operating system and didn't rely on any external libraries. Even when it was new, the AP-101 was part of a
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by rpeden 8y ago
Maybe OP just believes that writing PHP, Java, or C++ feels like walking on broken light bulbs. :) I personally don't mind working with those languages, as long as I'm not working on a horribly written legacy codebase.
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by rpeden 8y ago
I believe you'll find that overall consensus on HN will strongly disagree with you on this point. Here's the post most people will direct you to for an explanation of why you'll want to avoid hourly billing, and how to get to
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by rpeden 8y ago
Qt and Lazarus are fairly equivalent to Delphi and can generate binaries for all of the platforms you mentioned.
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by rpeden 8y ago
It might. He talks about revenue but not about profit. So we dpn't really know much about his costs, aside from him mentioning that he was spending a meaningful amount on insurance. It could very well be that acquisition cost was quite
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by rpeden 8y ago
I think freelancers and contractors also have an advantage in that they're exposed to a far wider set of business problems when compared to a developer working as an employee. When you're exposed to a bigger set of problems, you&#
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by rpeden 8y ago
Fume events are usually described as smelling like dirty socks or a wet dog. There was a fume event a few years ago that ended up going very badly for one of the pilots: http://avherald.com/h?article=4b6eb830&opt=1024 T
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by rpeden 8y ago
I don't think the Berkshire Hathaway site has changed much: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
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by rpeden 8y ago
It's giving you more than nothing. It's fetching and replacing the HTML that needs to be changed, but removes the need to do a full-page reload, so the browser doesn't have to re-load and re-parse all of the HTML, and JS, a
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by rpeden 8y ago
For now, https://i.reddit.com seems not to have any of the dark patterns.
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by rpeden 8y ago
Serverless is usually used to describe things like AWS Lambda, or Azure functions. You write your code, and push it to the cloud, and don't really think about the infrastructure. It is "serverless" in that you don't need
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by rpeden 8y ago
I'd say it depends on which ML derivative you're talking about. I've found F# to be pretty good in all of the areas you mentioned. Although not enough to literally provide an order or magnitude boost like the post you were re
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by rpeden 8y ago
Sometimes you'd like to have reverse thrust in-flight if you want to descend really, really quickly. Airliners don't have that feature anymore, but the C-17 and C-5 do. Actually, maybe some ex-Soviet airliners can still do it. DC-
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by rpeden 8y ago
It depends on where the engines are mounted. There was a Tu-154 that landed gear-up in Greece, then took off again, dropped the landing gear, and landed normally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal%C3%A9v_Flight_262
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by rpeden 8y ago
Airbus has been been doing "codeless" development with Esterel products for quite a while. I put codeless in quotes, because I believe the tools to generate code at the end of the day - but it's not code that is written by hu
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by rpeden 8y ago
If anyone wants to see the kinds of offices and studios other people have built this way, do a search for "Shedquarters".
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Selling React and AI courses on Udemy. And that's not a knock against the courses. Stephen Grider, for example, sells some very excellent shovels.
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by rpeden 8y ago
You're absolutely right! It doesn't make sense to do this most of the time. I wrote my original message in a rush and left out a lot of context. I usually only do this when I'm pretty sure I'll have to farm out the funct
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by rpeden 8y ago
I love C#, but I also don't find async and await in JS to be too bad. It's easy enough to wrap a non async library with promises so I can use it with async and await. I've sometimes done the same thing with non-async librarie
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by rpeden 8y ago
There were even Mac versions of Word and Excel years before either of them were available for Windows.
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I think every credit card I've had has given me the option of adding a second card for a spouse to use. Maybe something like that? Then just make sure you both have access to the online account so you can both view the balance at any t
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by rpeden 8y ago
I agree with you on display quality. I picked up a ThinkPad x220 for not much money, but I swapped an IPS panel into it because the TN panel it came with was really, really awful. I don't even hate all TN panels - the one one my old Ma
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by rpeden 8y ago
The tiny size of an Alpine + Go container is still nice compared to a typical Node or Python container, though.
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Do they accept pull requests?
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It reminds me more of Light Table than LINQpad or RoslynPad.
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Now I just need a Winamp plugin that changes my status to tell everyone what song I'm currently listening to, and I'll feel like I'm back in the 90s. :)
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I think most of those will work on QB64, too. So you could end up end with fast, native executable files on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. That doesn't matter much for those tutorials, but QB64 might be ever so slightly quicker to get up a

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