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by venus 13y ago
Geeze, that's some truly awful CGI in the first section of that video. You can tell the director is well aware, too, cutting away at every opportunity - quite a contrast to the loving treatment the camera later gives the 918. You'
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by venus 13y ago
I usually like the Guardian, but yeah, they've dropped the ball on this one. "Revolt"? In what possible sense could this be even compared to a popular revolt?
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by venus 13y ago
As someone who's on the other side of the world - is this real? I mean, seriously? How many of these "protestors" are there? I haven't seen any pictures of huge crowds. The only photo I have seen showed about 4 or 5 cran
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by venus 13y ago
An ex of mine's uncle worked for 40 years as a track engineer for a railway company in Tokyo. There, the trains cannot be stopped for any longer than absolutely necessary, and the engineers were/are frequently called out to inspec
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Stuck in the Ice(smh.com.au)
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by venus 13y ago
Your username matches your comment - harsh, unempathetic, and blind to a larger, kinder view of society as you pursue a simplistic, black and white ethical code. Your willingness to throw people to the wolves because they've pursued th
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by venus 13y ago
On their face these WoodEgg books look very attractive. I having been toying with the idea of setting up a company elsewhere than Australia, and would be very interested in an in-depth survey. Anyone who owns one care to share their thought
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by venus 13y ago
Seems like Disqus was a pretty poor choice for comments on this. I don't find them easy to read, they take ages to load, and worst of all they apparently dropped several of the guest's comments! If this is going to become a regula
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by venus 13y ago
A nitpick - addictive is the adjective you're searching for. If the word "addicting" exists at all, which is debatable, it would be a transitive verb - eg. the pimp's strategy is addicting girls to heroin, then exploi
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by venus 13y ago
According to the thread the story is taken from, the machines are now under the purview of ITAR: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/dmg-mori-gildemeister-m...
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by venus 13y ago
That is a rather misleading headline. A better one might be: "US arms export regulations force CNC manufacturers to implement anti-relocation lockout mechanisms" Of course it's not just the manufacturers being dicks; they imp
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by venus 13y ago
Databases? What databases? HN is persisted to flat files.
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by venus 13y ago
Interesting. A couple of years ago a company was going to move me to the states on an L1A (executive transfer); even though I was "only" the tech lead they seemed confident it would be fairly easy. Then again, they then proceeded
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by venus 13y ago
Thanks for that link (and for submitting it!). I've done something similar in deploy scripts, to warm up a fresh instance before bringing it into rotation - even better having it able to be baked into rack like that.
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by venus 13y ago
> the truth of life is that having a Masters degree opens 100x more doors than not having it This is true in some industries but not all. In the world of programming, it is perhaps true for your first couple of jobs. After that, if you h
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by venus 13y ago
What's this RailsApp.preload_all method mentioned in this post? Is that a github thing? Great post btw. I am looking forward to getting some production apps onto 2.1 in the coming weeks and seeing how performance characteristics have c
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by venus 13y ago
> NK implodes and tries to blow up SK and .jp along with it (australia?) I certainly wouldn't want to live in Seoul if (when?) that comes to pass but wouldn't be too worried even in Japan - it's a good 1000km, and I don&#x
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by venus 13y ago
I get what you're trying to say, but yeah, that's a bad example. I think it's extremely reasonable to regulate that things are safe by default - in fact, that is a core functionality of government. If you really want a tap th
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by venus 13y ago
What's so arbitrary and over-protective about the tap regulations you linked to? Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, and the statistics presented about the decline in third degree burns is a great outcome. Isn't that exactly what g
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by venus 13y ago
Fair enough. That does sound pretty annoying, I'd probably be pissed off myself! Anyway, your later comments put your original comment into better perspective, so thanks for replying.
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by venus 13y ago
>Speaking from experience: Western Union is awful. Absolutely horrible. They basically stole $50 from me > Avoid them at all costs. The point is that you wrote a very damning indictment of a company, accusing them of theft, and I poin
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by venus 13y ago
I am having difficulty picturing this situation. The form you filled out when you sent the money had carbon copies, which are retained. If data from the form was mis-typed later, they should be able to check their copy, or you might be able
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by venus 13y ago
I was shocked by the rails results, and the massive number of errors, so I looked into it a little. The setup they're using is an nginx serving 8 unicorn workers with a backlog of 256. They then throw requests at that with a concurrenc
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by venus 13y ago
Glad to see someone else here has seen Dennou Coil - IMO it should be required viewing for anyone interested in AR! It's not perfect, but has some fascinating ideas about where AR could go.
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by venus 13y ago
WTF? But she never got a job after being rejected! She managed to get a failed college application reversed with her song and dance act, and that's it. When she tries that on a real job, it fails, and she goes on and rationalises that
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by venus 13y ago
The most important feature for me is mandatory named args: def foo(bar:) Named args with defaults solved one half of the problem we'd been solving with the "options hash"; now that's the second half. Can't wa
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by venus 13y ago
Yeah, I do agree with that. I'm slightly less happy about the HTTP live streaming being in the Plus package, though. I've been playing around a lot with a media app using HLS and I can't even trial using nginx for it - not th
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by venus 13y ago
"NGINX Plus Standard" costs $1,350 annual subscription per server. It sounds like this company has a pretty strange setup, running "hundreds of VMs", presumably all running nginx, and it's the combined impact of tho
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by venus 13y ago
If you're interested in this phenomenon, you might like Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/course/status.htm
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by venus 13y ago
You're going to miss out on a lot of good things in life if you persist with this hyper-cynical attitude. How you managed to arrive at such a twisted misinterpretation is baffling, but it's a comment on you, not the book.

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