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by scrumper 9y ago
> To be fair, this may be useful whenever you want to save a canonical version of a document, though I’m not sure this was near the top of most-requested G Suite features. You're dead wrong there. Document version control with expli
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by scrumper 9y ago
Good find. Looks like a good amount of the interior ergonomics did make it to production cars: it reminds me a lot of the early 90s Citroen BX. Very similar steering wheel, wrap around buttons on the driver's binnacle. And the hydropne
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by scrumper 9y ago
Private offices for managers and more senior types, desk farms for the hoi polloi, and a separate, deafeningly loud typing pool. Very much like today's open plan, but with individual desks with some separation rather than long benches.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I think your choice of phrasing was inflammatory, although the point you made is fair.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Thanks. Yep, nobody knows. Maybe we'll (claim to) figure it out and get a book deal out of it.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Don't call people dumb, it's rude.
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by scrumper 9y ago
That's a very sad story. You are right, the inescapability is very hard to imagine. My own kids are 5 and 3. I am acutely aware that this problem is looming for us. So far, my kids almost never play with our iPhones beyond FaceTiming g
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by scrumper 9y ago
Well here's a suggestion: A recession manifests to a kid as a traumatic event - mom and lose their jobs, the family has to downsize, you get pulled out of private school. Big, bad things. But after that, it's done; kids are adapta
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by scrumper 9y ago
This is thoughtful and well researched. It is really worth reading properly; it deserves more than a tiresome, reflexive quotation of Betteridge's law and the assumption that smartphones are a universal good. There's actual data:
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by scrumper 9y ago
> After all, while the smartphone is also common in the EU, the teen suicide rates did not change that much Bad argument. Gun ownership in Canada is higher than the USA's, yet their firearms murder rate is massively lower. That does
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by scrumper 9y ago
Ah, I misunderstood your original post - didn't realize you were photographing monochrome through a succession of filters. Thanks for the explanation.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Well you don't need to do that, because the left wing has a red light, right has green. So as long as you're comfortable with the very reasonable assumption that the plane isn't upside down, you know which direction it was go
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by scrumper 9y ago
A good point, won't argue with you. But, at the risk of moving the conversational goalposts, I was thinking about the whole developer experience as much as just the language itself. With Swift, you can live entirely within Apple's
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by scrumper 9y ago
Ah, thanks I know what happened: I was using an iPhone app to read HN and accessed the link through its built-in browser. I checked again on desktop and you are indeed right, there is info available at the top of the page that I didn't
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by scrumper 9y ago
For those in the dark who don't want to do the digging I just did, Ring is "some sort of Skype or Hangout," to quote one of the project leaders.
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by scrumper 9y ago
There's more than a whiff of that in the article, for sure. Author at one point is put off Native by having to learn a "more complicated" language, i.e. Swift. It's hard to defend the assertion that Swift is more complic
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by scrumper 9y ago
Because the 55 year old is too smart to! It's not like those "kids'" are doing anything good at 3am either; their work seems to be flaky and fraud-prone. See: the DAO hack and recent Ethereum smart contract thefts to nam
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by scrumper 9y ago
A long and absolutely excellent read. Certainly its theory of the way people organize themselves in corporations was new to me when I saw it a few years ago.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I think you are right - great catch.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Is this bad advice? Wondering why it's getting voted down. Malwarebytes discovered the issue after all; they're not disreputable.
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by scrumper 9y ago
> I'm guessing whoever manages to implement a subset of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ in JS is probably going to win. I'm not so sure; PAQ is pretty slow and the challenge has a 30m time limit. Check o
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by scrumper 9y ago
I read "Each... value includes the hash of the previous value... chaining the sequence of values together" which is how immutability is ensured. (Amending a prior value would invalidate the hashes of every subsequent value.)
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by scrumper 9y ago
170 different types of core? Sounds like a nightmare for a new customer, conversely a bit of a dream for the mainframe sales team.
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by scrumper 9y ago
You can find out in this impenetrable, 500 page technical guide here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg248451.pdf It contains crystalline prose like this, something all technical manuals should aspire
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by scrumper 9y ago
Marketing message is all about 'trust'. Then you see the product images! They clearly forgot to tell their industrial designer what they were going for. It looks like a Terminator's shower stall.
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by scrumper 9y ago
And how! "Blockchain with IBM Z creates unprecedented levels of trust and transparency, allows alignment with cognitive capabilities and enables deployment in the cloud."
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by scrumper 9y ago
So debate that then, instead of engaging in sophomoric ad hominem. Why would a less litigious society, a more constrained regulatory regime, and corporate tax rates designed to incentivize capital repatriation not help the economy grow more
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by scrumper 9y ago
But it's ok to dismiss someone's ideas without consideration because of the size of their bank account?
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by scrumper 9y ago
"This is what Stephen King would write like if Stephen King could really write." Heh.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Late 1990s: 68k assembler, relational algebra taught via SQL, Prolog, C, and some Ada. And astard hard discrete maths, logic, and formal methods. Red brick Russell Group British university, not prestigious.

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