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by tcdent 11y ago
I don't care how "broken" my multi-line if statement is, I would never add Zope as a requirement. Also, singleton (yuck) accessed via a helper function: yuck. Just import it. This starts to make sense where OP professes fon
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by tcdent 11y ago
Isn't that a problem with most typed languages? You're bringing in untyped data, so native types need to be spelled-out somewhere. There's a line somewhere between excessive verbosity and dumb trust (like the YAML snafu). I h
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by tcdent 11y ago
Substitute for meat, in texture and experience, or as an actual nutritionally-comparable food source?
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by tcdent 11y ago
If you pack a vehicle in a container you'll have it available when you arrive. People commonly containerize custom motorhomes as they travel between continents. Arranging travel for people and cargo on the same ship is less common, how
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by tcdent 11y ago
My comment did not advocate benefiting billionaires.
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by tcdent 11y ago
A "birthday charity" sounds like a great idea to me. Have a party, sing the song, everyone present donates $1 to charity for the "licensing rights". I haven't done the math, but I'm sure it's not an insign
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by tcdent 11y ago
I tried to watch Fantasia as a child a few times, but was never able to make it all the way through. It remains sort of a misunderstood anomaly on the shelf of early Disney movies. Haven't given it an honest try in a few years. Perhaps
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by tcdent 11y ago
Pretty interesting that the daily post volume has plateaued. Personally, I'm glad the growth has been curbed. Too bad we can go back to the good ol' days.
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by tcdent 11y ago
> Unfortunately, that means in my experience the quality drops, no 'homey' feel, and it negatively impacts the locals. Isn't this the fundamental goal of reviews; get a real opinion from the users on wether this is a good
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by tcdent 11y ago
Most people today associate it with Nazi's, but it's much older than that.
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by tcdent 11y ago
It's also intentionally difficult to gain access to the customer's card number on checkout. All the server is allowed to receive is a unique token representing the customer to complete the transaction with. Pretty clever, but I su
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by tcdent 11y ago
Wow, you guys really missed the point. Why can't we ask for nice things, even if they are "free"? How are you going to get a kid interested in programming historical weather analysis when he's got to figure out how to co
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by tcdent 11y ago
*.txt.gz is not exactly a modern data format. I share the parent's sentiment; finding easy access to good weather data is hard. Do you want your side project to be an experience in learning how to parse obscure formats and coordinating
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by tcdent 11y ago
> "Look, I don't know what the truth is here. To some extent I don't care. But I do know that there is a pervasive problem with sexism in tech, and I know that every time you or I publicly comment on it, we take a side. If
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by tcdent 11y ago
How is this sexism? Because it's between a girl and a guy? This could play out exactly the same between two females or two males. This is nothing more than a communication breakdown. "Matt thinks..." because Matt has to com
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by tcdent 11y ago
Huge problem with their service is time syncing between various 'tracks'. Radio streams spoil Gameday and vice-versa. I also find $25/mo to be just a little too high to indulge in video streaming.
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by tcdent 11y ago
Why Homejoy failed: > "We didn’t figure out how to deliver a consistently high-quality service" The review sites agree and so does their churn rate. If you don't have a high quality service, you don't have anything. T
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by tcdent 11y ago
Not to be confused with GNU atheism, where one doesn't worship, but uses the software anyway.
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by tcdent 11y ago
One of the best things I have done to improve my personal computing experience was to stop using a mouse and compute exclusively on a laptop. You likely have numerous seating options away from your desk, now you can use them all productiv
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by tcdent 11y ago
Most people are great. Ridesharing is great. There are different mentalities in the coordination organizations, though. For example, a Lyft driver mentioned to me they had an Uber recruiter in their car the other day. The person was pushy,
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by tcdent 11y ago
Interesting given the recent link between Parkinsons/Alzheimers and fungal infections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10401344
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by tcdent 11y ago
I've never really been a part-time employee, but I know a lot of people who have, and fluctuating schedules are a major pain point. Human decision-making really affects the process; people have to fit in somewhere and since one schedul
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by tcdent 11y ago
This is a course on developing Android apps, not for preparing you to work at Google, which most of the discussion here seems to miss. Students should most definitely be able to write a decent app after a class like this. Interface and back
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by tcdent 11y ago
It is unfortunate, but it compliments cognitive decision making well; ingest information from multiple sources, identify outliers and inconsistencies, the truth will present itself.
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by tcdent 11y ago
Print's not dead! It is no longer viable for mass destruction, but it will continue as an art form when tangible, lasting results are desired. Physical objects have infinite subtlety and printed materials are no exception. Textures of
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by tcdent 11y ago
Very interesting given Astro Teller's (Google X) perspective on partial-self-driving cars: "The assumption that humans can be a reliable backup for the system was a total fallacy." "It made us change our whole path.&quot
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by tcdent 11y ago
You're right. It's not gneiss as the article says, either. http://www.misapor.ch/EN/Home.html
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by tcdent 11y ago
Do you have anything published? I get really excited when I see crossover into this community. I'm in the early stages of my transition; the mentality is solidly there, still working on infrastructure and tools, and money.
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by tcdent 11y ago
I don't believe you need to be particularly tech-savvy to observe that the ad blocker extension you installed breaks the Internet.
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by tcdent 11y ago
That's a deadly mass of material. In the video, when they're taking the mold off, the trajectory from the top of any falling chunks is super sketchy, too. Would be interesting to see destructive tests. They obviously have digital

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