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by tspike 8y ago
Stock price and home appreciation probably had a lot to do with it, but that does seem like a very short time horizon.
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by tspike 8y ago
What of the ripple effects of their investment in the research? If they are actually able to devise a sustainable alternative with the same properties, I would imagine that would have quite the applicability elsewhere.
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by tspike 8y ago
Wow, I had no idea. That's very disappointing. > Page was never aware of this, and his daughter has stated that she "was relieved that my father never knew about Lego before he died.” This leaves me with a different impression
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by tspike 8y ago
Unless you're Japan.
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by tspike 8y ago
Dumb question: is Splunk implemented with Hive?
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by tspike 8y ago
> integrated it in a top-100 app Same. Been leading the native side of an app with 30-40 native devs and ~20 JS devs. Initial integration is easy, but it opens up a lot of problems as time goes on.
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by tspike 8y ago
It is important to differentiate between distributed and remote, as well. I work for a very large company that has offices scattered all over the country. We are distributed, and remote exists but is not the norm. It is unusual to have a me
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by tspike 8y ago
React Native is fine for small, standalone apps. Don't ever try to integrate it into an existing native app. Better to stick to 100% native or rewrite it completely.
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by tspike 8y ago
This is by far the easiest way to build some exercise into your daily routine. I have a hard time grasping why people stand on escalators, as well.
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by tspike 8y ago
What parts of Colorado? If you look at a picture of Boulder from 1900 and one from today, the difference is striking. True tallgrass and shortgrass prairies are among the most endangered ecosystems on the planet.
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by tspike 8y ago
I just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54 , which another commenter said may be the catalyst for China's ban on importing recycling. I'd be hard-pressed to say a well-run landfill is worse th
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by tspike 8y ago
I particularly love this section: > Since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious. A good example was OpenText, which was reported to be selling companies the right t
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by tspike 8y ago
I was under the impression cattle require a lot of water, is that incorrect?
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by tspike 8y ago
The value that convenience has in our society can scarcely be overstated. (I agree with you)
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by tspike 8y ago
> Or was it my fault for not having the foresight to realize it was a mistake to spend roughly $200,000 on a school where, in order to get my degree, I kept a journal about reading Virginia Woolf?
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by tspike 8y ago
Yes, the requisite degree these days is a "PharmD"
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by tspike 8y ago
Safety critical software is a different ballgame.
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by tspike 8y ago
It continually amazes me the contortions people will put themselves through just to be able to keep writing Javascript.
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by tspike 8y ago
To me, what's depressing is the amount of energy people spend proving their experiences were so amazing versus actually experiencing them.
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by tspike 8y ago
Any plans to fix all of the build warnings RN produces for native devs?
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by tspike 8y ago
Systematic separation of children from parents as a matter of policy does ring some alarm bells.
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by tspike 8y ago
Any plans to fix the hundreds of build warnings RN causes and the broken configuration settings that make parallel builds impossible? Huge pain points in our hybrid native/RN app.
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by tspike 8y ago
> snoomoji Oh dear.
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by tspike 8y ago
Here's two: hapiJS and lacinia
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by tspike 8y ago
There are more speakers of Hindi than English in India, but they are geographically skewed toward the north of the country. Some regions (esp Tamil Nadu) are actively antagonistic toward Hindi. English is a good bet to be able to communicat
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by tspike 8y ago
He didn't do it alone. Here's one job posting open at the moment: https://www.theoceancleanup.com/careers/senior-engineer/ I'm assuming he dropped out of school because he saw an opportunity, had mo
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by tspike 9y ago
I hadn't been into one in ages, but about six months ago I went into one with my toddler and was shocked how completely un-interactive the experience was. There was almost nothing for him to play with. Just aisle after aisle of hermeti
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by tspike 9y ago
No kidding, at a 4% safe withdrawal rate, that's the same as a $2+ million nest egg. That said, I think he's concerned that, given GE's trajectory, the pension will evaporate. What then?
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by tspike 9y ago
Sure, I'm up for it
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by tspike 9y ago
I don't disagree with your comment, but the thing that often gets lost in these discussions is that at least for the Empire Builder, people generally aren't using it to go from Chicago to Portland or Seattle. Sure, a flight from C

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