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by tnjm 5y ago
You may have a point. Here in the Périgord, hazelnut trees are reckoned to decline in truffle production when they are around 10 years old. Oaks go on producing for decades. If he's planted solely hazelnut and he's waited nine ye
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by tnjm 5y ago
While this isn't for me as I don't use iOS daily, I wanted to say that I'm impressed with your response to feedback. And, for what it's worth, I saw the landing page on desktop and it felt nicely done, and the animations
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by tnjm 5y ago
I wonder if some people cope better with knowing less. If the procedure for removing the stitches from my eyeball had been explained in advance, I'd still have them now. Going in, I'd imagined the best possible outcome. This, of c
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by tnjm 5y ago
Dismaying to see lazy stereotypes about contemporary Amazonian shamanism regurgitated -- without evidence -- in the article. "Slightly less violent" than the Aztec empire? I couldn't find out whether the author has actually s
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by tnjm 5y ago
That's interesting -- my experience has been 180° away. I agree that recent features have added complexity and made the barriers for newcomers a little higher, though. At its core, however, everything just 'clicked', the temp
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by tnjm 5y ago
This looks lovely, but I wonder about the reliability for anything that touches living things. I set up an Arduino-based programmable logic controller to manage the fogging and primary heating circuits for our commercial greenhouse, with a
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by tnjm 6y ago
Can confirm. Having dropped my mobile in the bath (...) I needed wifi yesterday and only the fifth café I tried in provincial France had wifi available. (And that didn't work until I adjusted my settings to use the DHCP server's p
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by tnjm 6y ago
It does. This landrace grows in areas receiving high rainfall, and with high ambient humidity -- and in my experience it only produces the mucus in those conditions, which sadly is likely to limit its potential, at least without very signif
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by tnjm 6y ago
Vanilla orchids will flower quite readily in a greenhouse -- at least mine do, when they get tall enough. As others have pointed out, the real problem is more prosaic: getting cheap enough labour to hand-pollinate them. As a commodity, vani
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by tnjm 7y ago
GeohashPhrase looks quite brilliant. Will there be an open source implementation? I hope so -- it's hard to see it gaining traction against w3w without it, and it is undeniably better.
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by tnjm 7y ago
It's only enforcable against the parties to the contract. If a party receiving the seeds then passes them (against the terms of the contract) to another entity without the contract attached, that ultimately-receiving entity has not acc
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by tnjm 7y ago
The problem with this is that there's no legal mechanism to enforce it besides (perhaps!) contract law. If an entity receives the seeds without the contract attached, it can hardly be considered to have agreed to the terms. The providi
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by tnjm 8y ago
I had a deep lamellar graft 15 years ago, for keratoconus, and it wasn't painful, just uncomfortable for a while. The followup appointments also involved some discomfort, but were fine. As with any transplant, I'd say it might be
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by tnjm 10y ago
As a personal perspective, France seems to have done better than any other place I've lived in to stem the tide of urban decline. I live two hours north of Albi; local towns have free parking over lunch, so restaurants throng nearly ev
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by tnjm 10y ago
I use React all the time for individual components on server-rendered pages. It feels like a natural extension to formerly monolithic Rails/Node/etc apps. That said, when an SPA is called for I'd far rather use Ember and get
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by tnjm 10y ago
Brilliant: thank you!
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by tnjm 10y ago
It's continually frustrating that articles like this don't link to the original research. In the age of Sci-Hub, research is so much more accessible than ever before. More non-academic traffic to publishers' sites might even
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by tnjm 10y ago
The price of the machine I'm speaking about rose by £250 in the UK. It rose by $0 in the US.
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by tnjm 10y ago
A base spec 13" MacBook Pro (Retina) was £999 in the UK on Wednesday. It's now £1249. A base spec 13" MacBook Pro (Retina) was $1299 in the US on Wednesday. It's now $1299.
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by tnjm 10y ago
I think the point in the article is that if your income in GBP remained stable since June 23rd, Macs in the UK have become less affordable. That is, they're the cheapest in Europe in October 28th pounds sterling, but not in June 23rd p
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by tnjm 11y ago
Crédit Agricole. It probably helps that we're in the provinces (the Perigord).
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by tnjm 11y ago
A counterpoint: I moved to France with my family this year, and work as a self-employed developer while bootstrapping my own company. - our landlord wanted to see a tax return from the previous year and three months' bank statements. N
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by tnjm 12y ago
Hearty congratulations to all. I'm using RethinkDB in production, and it's a joy. The only annoyance so far has been data migration between versions; the elimination of this is excellent news. If you're considering taking Ret
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Ember delivers rapid improvements at Intercom.io(insideintercom.io)
7 points by tnjm 12y ago|0 comments
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by tnjm 12y ago
s3_website[0] is a very neat solution to this. It integrates automatically with Jekyll. A simple 'jekyll build && s3_website push' uploads all your changes to S3. I'm using it to power all my static sites. It'll
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Guys, stop sexualizing women in your mockups(blog.wells.ee)
10 points by tnjm 13y ago|6 comments
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by tnjm 13y ago
I did precisely the same thing last month. I had a great job, challenging and meaningful work, but there was something missing. Here's my experience six weeks in. I found enough freelance work pretty much immediately to pay my bills, a
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by tnjm 13y ago
I've been fortunate enough to interview several tribal people who were only recently 'contacted'. The latest came out of the forest in 2009. What is striking is how many of their friends and relatives died of outsiders'
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by tnjm 13y ago
But... the choice is theirs, not yours or mine. It's clear they know the outside world exists. They have chosen not to engage. (To put it mildly.) As an aside, there are more than 100 'uncontacted' tribes in the world. All of