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721.
by sho 8y ago
That sounds like a meeting for party members, often people (or the families of people) angling for local government jobs. Of course there'll be some True Believers but the subtext is it's basically a networking event. So yes, defi
722.
by sho 8y ago
> Careful with generalizing Well, indeed. In my experience it varies very widely and pretty much follows the pattern you see everywhere else - intelligent, curious people with good job options tend to be less concerned with patriotism; t
723.
by sho 8y ago
> BART has a carriage shortage so they try to shave off cars from longer routes This is just crazy. Compared to the cost of new track some additional rolling stock should be almost insignificant. You couldn't come up with a better e
724.
by sho 8y ago
> I am in market for new glasses I don't know where you are, but my go-to glasses provider is Owndays, the japanese chain. Decent range & fashion, competitive prices and - crucially! - they keep common prescription lenses in sto
725.
by sho 8y ago
Sorry but it utterly defies belief that Amazon were able to reduce their MDR by loudly pretending to be a grocer. The banker scans the document with a frown. He strokes his chin thoughtfully. "Amazon.. Amazon. Where have I heard
726.
by sho 8y ago
Wow. Thanks for posting that, as an outsider I had no idea QT was so .. straightforward. Now I want to check it out more.
727.
by sho 8y ago
> First Data offering clients rates like 1.5 cents per transaction and no basis points over interchange WTF? Where are they offering this!? Even if this is true, which sounds unbelievable, it's certainly not available globally
728.
by sho 8y ago
> people really have no excuse anymore I agree. Backblaze is $50/yr for unlimited backup. If your expressed behaviour is that your data isn't worth $50 then I have pretty limited sympathy when you lose it...
729.
by sho 9y ago
> One time when I tried googling for an address, I found that the person was also active on a forum for trading stolen credit card details. That was a bad sign Ha. You don't say!
730.
by sho 9y ago
Very possibly. They perhaps simply don't have the numbers. But regardless, for anyone who has travelled, the assertion that LA is > the most congested city in the world is simply laughable.
731.
by sho 9y ago
From the article: > In 2017, the average L.A. commuter spent 102 hours in rush hour traffic, making it the most congested city in the world Having lived in Jakarta and Bangkok, this is extremely hard to believe. LA is horrible for a supp
732.
by sho 9y ago
gRPC support is very welcome! I've used gRPC internally but have felt a bit uncomfortable exposing a server directly to the internet for outside client use. Not to mention difficulties deploying in a downtime-free manner. gRPC + TLS in
733.
by sho 9y ago
To be fair, although perhaps a bit impenetrable to outsiders, pretty much everyone I know uses airport codes almost exclusively to refer to cities in texts... or made-up TLAs like JKT for Jakarta when the airport code (CGK) is non-obvious.
734.
by sho 9y ago
> Blockchain and crypto are huge in HK and Singapore There's a lot of blockchain companies in Singapore yes, but no ICO company can get a bank account. Singapore banks are notoriously backward/conservative. As far as I can see
735.
by sho 9y ago
OK thanks for that. I guess you confirm that I do, indeed, live in a bubble!
736.
by sho 9y ago
Thanks for that. OK, that indeed confirms the list's uselessness. TL;DR: It counts all the hits on N search engines for any language with its own wikipedia page. Obviously that will bias towards older languages with a large cumulative
737.
by sho 9y ago
I, for one, find the TIOBE index absolutely incredible - ie, I don't believe it at all. As it says: "The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date" C is #2. Javascript, for better or wors
738.
by sho 9y ago
Well naturally I agree with you. But words are important. It's like if I state that The Beatles have, in total, more musical merit than Katy Perry. Well, that seems totally obvious too and one would be hard-pressed to find any sane ad
739.
by sho 9y ago
That is not my point. My point is that statements that rely on judgement and include phrases like "I think..." or "you think..." have nothing to do with facts . Consult a dictionary if confusion persists.
740.
by sho 9y ago
That category of statement cannot be a fact; it's your opinion. It might be true, it might even be obviously true, but it's not a "fact".
741.
by sho 9y ago
I actually went and tried it out on an iPad too. I admit it's not as nice an experience - in fact it almost seems buggy, scrolling up past the top of the viewport before the JS notices and suddenly pushes it back down. They could impro
742.
by sho 9y ago
This presentation is absolutely fantastic. Hard to remember a better example of digital journalism well used. No gimmicks - just relevant information intuitively presented. Excellent!
743.
by sho 9y ago
> What is the issue? Overreaching unions. Layers of consultants. Squabbling jurisdictions. And as the article mentions, the fact that they build so infrequently that they essentially have to skill up from scratch every time and can never
744.
by sho 9y ago
> NYC should stop building subways with tunnel boring Plenty of other cities worldwide use tunnel boring and get far better cost per mile than in the states. That's not the issue.
745.
by sho 9y ago
See also the USA, back in the day!
746.
by sho 9y ago
While you are totally right, you could have phrased that a lot better, and don't tell people to shut up.
747.
by sho 9y ago
Would probably be India or Indonesia with the highest body count. That's 1.5 billion people! Didn't mean to imply I don't care about people with bad plumbing. Yep I meant tuberculosis. Thanks for the correction. Time for bed.
748.
by sho 9y ago
Duh. Meant to type TB. Will fix, thanks
749.
by sho 9y ago
> a global pandemic of XDR Typhoid Well, it's not going to happen in developed countries; typhoid is spread by contaminated water, like sewers getting into water mains. There's a reason you've probably never heard of anyon
750.
by sho 9y ago
Just wait until this happens to something airborne, not via contaminated water.

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