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by scanny 5y ago
Interested in this and had a google, closest thing I could find is this (is it right?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Serrano_(sailor)
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by scanny 5y ago
It would be worth scanning its pages (even without reading) to make sure whatever history is in there is saved for posterity.
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Ask HN: Developer Workload and Company/Team Disorder – How Do You Manage It?
2 points by scanny 5y ago|0 comments
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by scanny 5y ago
I think NZ is far better off than most other nations, we consistently rank 1st or 2nd as the least corrupt country on earth [0] (I am also a kiwi living in Germany :) ). Also anecdotally I cannot think of a single corruption scandal on par
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Ask HN: Rolemodels, Who Are Yours?
2 points by scanny 5y ago|1 comments
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by scanny 5y ago
Varies quite a bit. For me it was just a verbal interview with technical questions about how I would approach different problems. I sent a link to my GitHub beforehand and they were happy with what they saw so there wasn’t anything practica
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by scanny 5y ago
After seeing the size of them when empty I really am keen to see them in full swing. It’s beautiful here, touring by bike has been fantastic, it must be amazing when everything has leaves!
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by scanny 5y ago
Yes that is true, I keep seeing the chunks of my pay go and forget that there is a good reason (except for the TV licence!) I’ll edit my post
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by scanny 5y ago
My 2 cents: Just finished my first month in Munich as a Web Dev after moving from Australia. Company is great and colleagues are lovely. German bureaucracy sucks but apart from that it has been an experience of ‘the more things change the m
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How Slow Is JavaScript Really? JavaScript vs. C++ (Data Struct. & Optimization)(youtube.com)
3 points by scanny 5y ago|1 comments
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by scanny 6y ago
I’m curious as to how they get those sizes and quantities! Too they have cad models of both objects or are they just taking the radar returns and material and making an estimate?
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Instant Simple Journaling(github.com)
1 points by scanny 6y ago|1 comments
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by scanny 6y ago
Saw this posted on LinkedIn and loved its simplicity. Any thoughts? It seems great for what it is. (This is not my own work)
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by scanny 6y ago
Well the original plan would have put it as the first one in against a peer adversary [0]. The rate of attrition against '70s/'80s vintage air defence would have been horrific, can you imagine what it would be like now? [0]
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by scanny 6y ago
This would have been a fantastic lockdown activity, what an awesome idea!
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by scanny 6y ago
I would think that any industry where shrapnel could be present: Civilian weapons R&D, mining where explosives are being used, private security work, civilian firearm instruction, protection for targetted individuals e.g. Malcom X &#x2F
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by scanny 6y ago
This was beautifully written
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by scanny 6y ago
> I'm blocked for unknown amount of time because I was downvoted Is that really a thing on HN? Seems pretty unfair to block someone because of an unpopular view, isn't flagging used for that when a comment breaches the guidelin
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by scanny 6y ago
Same, I think it is just because of the 50 page PDF in display (though it does load asynchronously from the rest of the page).
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by scanny 6y ago
There is a legitimate reason for the difference: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/141542/what-causes-t... Geographic data is mostly off limits in China; state owned enterprises / native Chinese apps li
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by scanny 6y ago
It' a shame the rest of the world has can be impacted at the whim of U.S lawmakers given that so many major sites are U.S based. I wonder what it would take to have a more global distribution of hosts? Or is it impossible for a creator
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by scanny 6y ago
This was posted a while after your comment: ------------ kylebarron 8 hours ago [–] That's why they point to Mapbox GL JS v1 in the script tag [0] [0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/location/latest/developerguid
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by scanny 6y ago
They still happen, including a ‘Heat’-esque one in Brazil the other day [0]. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55155377
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by scanny 6y ago
Also keen on a link!
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by scanny 6y ago
Similar story from my high school history education. We had a good focus on historography and understanding the nature of different types of sources. I feel as though things like this are not valued as they could be in our wider education s
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by scanny 6y ago
You might be interested in this: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/... I have seen in demos coming from a few construction projects using this.
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by scanny 6y ago
The ESRI JavaScript API https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/showcase/ It does 3d, 2d, vector tiles, client side geoprocessing, and plenty of open data/service types
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by scanny 6y ago
Awesome work! Being able to setup poses and step through them (maybe even with Inverse Kinematics animating between poses) would be great, especially for things like martial arts technique learning or dance instruction. I was just thinking
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by scanny 6y ago
Should a physical version of a product (book, game) be priced the same or at a higher price as a non-physical version given the added costs associated with production? Should we encourage the consumption of physical items given the eventual
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by scanny 6y ago
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