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by sobani 8y ago
> Thirdly, it has no support for navigating deep comments into dedicated subthreads like Reddit has You mean like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129671 which directly links to the 'parent' of your
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by sobani 8y ago
Those 35% are (lower) middle class. Apparently none of the top 400 billionaires came from poverty.
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by sobani 8y ago
Which of the sample headlines I gave would not cause outrage you think? Maybe the last one will 'only' cause you to lose the respect and thereby business deals of your peers.
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by sobani 8y ago
> is there anything non-violent that is truly that weird? Weird and outrageous things I can think of that people have consented to: - 'playing' with excrement (Gross! this is what the owner of Whole Foods thinks of basic hygien
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by sobani 8y ago
Basic human psychology like cognitive biases seems like a good candidate.
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by sobani 8y ago
Especially the "stubborn enough to stick to it through bad times" part.
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by sobani 8y ago
It sounds like those instruments "spark joy" for you.
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by sobani 8y ago
Yes, practice makes permanent , including bad habits.
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by sobani 8y ago
- Subroutines must have one entry point and one exit point, and accomplish one task. Good thing every programming language nowadays enforce that lesson. I can only imagine how horrible it must've been to reason about a program when a m
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by sobani 8y ago
People get sick doing stupid stuff in the weekend?
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by sobani 8y ago
The EU is big enough to compete with the US and China. Without the EU, the UK is about as big as California.
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by sobani 8y ago
That's what Google did in Germany when a "have a contract with news sites" law went into effect. It didn't take long before Google got free access to all German news sites. Spain learned from this and make a minimum comp
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by sobani 8y ago
Apple had an eventful day yesterday (dropped by 10%). Despite that, the amount of shares traded (this includes day trades) was only ~90M, on a total shares outstanding of 5000M, so less than 2%. From these figures I find it hard to imagine
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by sobani 8y ago
10 years ago Proof of Work wasn't a well tested and reliable mechanism to achieve distributed consensus.
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by sobani 8y ago
Those areas you mentioned are all skills, where intelligence helps, but practice is far more important. And if your situation is like mine, then those friends probably spend way more time than you practicing those skills. Instead of analyzi
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by sobani 8y ago
Apparently delaying the message is rather hard for regular solutions. I've worked on a project where delaying the message (and playing a few tones first) was sufficiently hard that one of the reasons we got that project in the first pl
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by sobani 8y ago
And the GDPR might cause less tracking through like buttons: "the operator of a website embedding [...] the Facebook Like button, which causes the collection and transmission of the users’ personal data, is jointly responsible for
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by sobani 8y ago
> Less than some > above what most I don't see the contradiction here?
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by sobani 8y ago
"We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to rights restrictions." So it seems @eecc was correct about at least the "PBS? Not available due to rights restrictions." part.
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by sobani 8y ago
@lumost wasn't talking about splitting up a story into tasks, but splitting a story up into 'stories', because the actual story is to large to fit into a single sprint. So what you end up with are several 'stories'
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by sobani 8y ago
Which audio issues do you experience? I regularly watch videos sped up on YouTube and InfoQ and never noticed any problems.
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by sobani 8y ago
Wasn't 1MDB to blame on Goldman Sachs, a US company, and Jho Low, a Malaysian?
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by sobani 8y ago
A simple example of generics is generic collections. Without generics, if you need a list filled with TPS Reports you basically have 2 choices: - Use the 'untyped' List that deals with objects. You will have to cast to TPS wheneve
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by sobani 8y ago
Morals don't count for a whole lot if a patent trolls are also players in the game.
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by sobani 8y ago
As far as I can tell the article basically says: If you reward people for doing something, they will stop liking to do it and quality will suffer. BAAS helps people to do something they set out to do, but can't get themselves to actual
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by sobani 8y ago
Correction: Mondelez is a spin off from Kraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondelez_International
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by sobani 8y ago
Wikipedia [0] doesn't mention Buffett in its description of the event. All I can find is a description of Buffett betting that AmEx would recover after this crisis. [1] That sounds in line with Buffett's reputation: bet on a goo
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by sobani 8y ago
Fair Use is an American concept. Even so, YouTube already routinely mutes videos that contain background music. With the proposed law, the right holders can sue Twitch for hosting that video, unless Twitch ensured they have permission from
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by sobani 8y ago
Plenty of Kickstarters fail because the people creating the product realized too late how hard it was to create what they promised.
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by sobani 8y ago
> we tend to shy away from these "first encounter" moments because we're afraid to find out we sunk months (or even years) building something that nobody wants I believe this is the key line in bambax' comment: > T

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