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by s_kilk 10y ago
A few (rambling) thoughts, as a long-time Clojure dev who's recently been focusing on Elixir. The thing I like most about Elixir is the low friction between it and it's host language, Erlang. Erlang is a functional language right
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Re: voice synth, I think that's just an artifact of how birds vocal chords (or whatever gizmo they've got in there) work. The timbre of the voice is going to be different than that of a primate. EDIT: you can even hear it in their
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by s_kilk 10y ago
This Raven speaking Finnish is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOVYMQP7gMM
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by s_kilk 10y ago
It's like when you're at a party and suddenly some coked-up lunatic smashes a glass. You tend not to stick around to see their next trick. Any sane person with the means to do so will be lining up their exit strategy.
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Brexit could cut London house prices by more than 30%(theguardian.com)
4 points by s_kilk 10y ago|0 comments
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Unlikely. If you look at the age breakdown of the vote, millenials and other assorted youngsters voted overwhelmingly for "Remain", while the older cohort voted for "Leave".
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> A good story should work even if you know what will happen. Agreed. My first play-through of Dark Souls was thoroughly spoilerified, because I was consulting a walkthrough and reading a little bit ahead of my current progress, from sta
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I just record all my discretionary purchases in a spreadsheet and recoil in horror at the end of the month. My monthly spend has been steadily dropping since I started doing this about six months ago. EDIT: I seem to have misunderstood the
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Cognitive overload in software development(teotti.com)
2 points by s_kilk 10y ago|0 comments
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by s_kilk 10y ago
And, crucially, OSX is the only real option for running both unixy programs and high-grade commercial software such as the Adobe Suite on the same machine without dual-booting
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I suspect this clip (from Sky News on 2016-06-24) will go down in history as emblematic of the whole affair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNe-yHr7uJc
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I assure you, my comment was not edited.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
We're making the mistake of assuming that "move" is not the win-condition in this scenario. Corporations don't care about solving these problems. Simply moving the problem somewhere else counts as a win for them.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Same, I don't recall ever using AdSense.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Thanks! :D Feel free to point more people towards the site! We could do with some new blood.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
[Show HN: Nightchamber, a slow-web social site: nightchamber.com] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8881622 It's still running today, though the user-base has stabilised around a dedicated core of users, and not see
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Yeah, I'll accept that it could be difficult to add capacity in the center of the city.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Appropriate, given most of the UK will look like the New Londo Ruins soon enough.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
If Scotland gets its Independence, then Edinburgh is a great candidate for a new London for the finance industry, as it's already got a decent finance presence.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Sometimes we don't get the government we want, but sometimes we get the government we explicitly rejected.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Personally, because my home (Scotland) is being dragged into this situation against its will. If the English want to destroy themselves they're entitled to do so, but not drag the rest of us down with them.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
[also Irish, currently living in Scotland] Off the top of your head, what do you think the odds of this turning into a United Ireland would be? Surely both sides of the border would rather unify than go along with this madness? Or am I drea
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by s_kilk 10y ago
With any luck they all flee to Dublin or Edinburgh and we get a huge boost while England self-immolates.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Unfortunately, many developers have a mortal fear of anything from before the year 2000. They've grown up with this tribal wisdom of unix and it's various tools being a beardy wilderness of byzantine hacks and toxic waste dumps. M
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Also, if you're working remotely from a more affordable location you may not need as much salary in order to live a very comfortable life. I think our expectations are skewed by the crippling cost of living in SF, New York, London, etc
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Is guile part of the default packages on any unix-alike distribution though? The huge upside of perl is not necessarily that it's available, but that it's available by default.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Same trick with Quake. The soundtrack was done by Trent Reznor, so I consider it to be a 'secret' NIN album.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
> But in the last six months, the sequel strategy seems to be deflating. Several follow-ups—including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Zoolander 2, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, The Divergent
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by s_kilk 10y ago
Until we get more on the shooters motives it's hard to tell. However, a mass shooting specifically targeting an LGBT club seems unlikely to be coincidental.
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by s_kilk 10y ago
I have a theory... The Freemen look around and see that the world appears to be run by means of legal chicanery, little of which they understand. They feel helpless and lost in the face of this gargantuan machine of State. So when someone p

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