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How testability can help(codon.com)
32 points by threedaymonk 12y ago|8 comments
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Each checked item costs the airline: moving them around requires labour and equipment, and there are further expenses dealing with the inevitable proportion of lost, stolen, delayed or damaged bags. It probably shouldn't be surprising
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
That sounds entirely believable. At $PREVIOUS_JOB, the Puppet git repository was large enough (several GB) that cloning it was painful, and new starters were handed a pruned repository via the local network so that they could get something
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
Well, theirs doesn't: it falls outside the purview of OSHA via the loophole of not being in the US :-) In fact, the relevant UK legislation is marginally stricter, and permits up to 50 people at work for 3 unisex toilets: http:/&
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
All three cubicles are indeed unisex. (I used to work there.)
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
It's quite useful, so implemented it in bash: https://github.com/threedaymonk/ncsi
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
"Gypsy cab"? That sounds awfully racist.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
We do have HFCS in the UK, but we call it glucose-fructose syrup. I've noticed it in the ingredients of an increasing number of beverages.
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by threedaymonk 12y ago
I personally know someone who acquired an inactive username within the last year. You might need connections: this individual used to work at Twitter.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
You can go one better: just symlink cat and avoid an unnecessary exec.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Yes, I use FPM quite a lot to make debs for any ad-hoc installations on Ubuntu. It's a lot easier than the actual Debian packaging tools! E.g.: https://github.com/threedaymonk/packages/blob/master/go
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
You'll find much discussion of the growing popularity of snuck on Language Log: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/index.php?s=snuck Snuck is "orig. and chiefly U.S." according to the OED, but it&#
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I use a Kensington Expert Mouse (it's actually an optical trackball, despite the name) which fits very well with the finger arrangement you describe. I use my little finger for the right button, though; I don't know if that's
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
> Chromium OS, for example, could have been forked and used in a lot of cool ways but that hasn't happened yet and I doubt it will. Well, there's CoreOS, though the end result is rather different.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I don't know; to me it reads like someone trying to show off, but I don't think it's helpful. > The latter three overlong encodings aren't considered canonical, and software devs have to fix them to make string matchi
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Anything can be realised with off-the-shelf technology plus time. Your posited solution further down the page would also have involved work in setting up the pool configuration and switching, so let's not pretend that it comes at zero
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Whilst it's true that the American standard is taught in Japanese schools, people come out of schools not speaking much English. To achieve a native-level ability in English, a Japanese person would probably have spent significant time
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Well, there's the obvious difference, that the money stays in your account for longer with a credit card. There are legal differences, too: credit cards are regulated by the Consumer Credit Act, which makes the card issuer jointly liab
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
It depends where you are, I suppose. I live in an area with a lot of transient foreign nationals working in banks nearby, and they're used to dealing with non-chip cards at my local Tesco. The person in front swiped a Venezuelan Visa w
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I never stop being surprised by just how far south everyone lives in Canada. London gets about 7 hours and 50 minutes of daylight on the shortest day; in Scotland it's less than 7 hours.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Briton is widely used in Britain, e.g. in news articles: "Tokyo destroyed by giant reptile, 3 Britons feared dead"
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
I see what looks like a Hebrew letter nun. It's a private use character, so there's no real guarantee about what it will look like. I'll refrain from making a sarcastic comment about the Apple-centric world-view of Apple user
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Faster payments are so fast in some cases that, transferring between accounts with different banks, I see an update in the recipient window before the sending bank website has finished serving the confirmation page!
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
> having a fallback $30 GSM phone isn't a bad idea Especially if you need to use SMS two-factor authentication on your normal home number. Trying to make a bank transfer when the code is sent to SIM A and the data plan is on SIM B i
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
It's really easy to thwart ad-blocking at the micro level, as you've found. Third-party ad networks have to be much more predictable, which makes them a lot easier to block. In some ways, it's the same as with comment spam: i
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Wow. I hadn't seen OpenResty before, but I don't think I could bear to fight through that website to get to information.
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
http://picturesofpeoplescanningmstags.tumblr.com/ (which I made in a fit of apparent prescience last year.)
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Having done some hacking with those little TP-Link devices (well, on a TL-MR3020, which is almost identical), I will say that Debian on a Raspberry Pi is much easier to work with than OpenWRT on a TL- . With the TL- devices, you have very
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Mailpile: Let’s take email back(mailpile.is)
520 points by threedaymonk 13y ago|232 comments
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by threedaymonk 13y ago
Although "end", when used for time, usually refers to the chronologically later boundary of a period, there are other senses of the word in which an end can also be a start: a line has two ends, and we say "from end to end&qu

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