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by wmil 11y ago
It might have included a large amount of licensed code. They could edit and port it, but not relicense it.
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by wmil 11y ago
The "1%" is actually an interesting choice of number. Most NYC media types are friends with very wealthy people. They needed to pick a number large enough that it didn't seem like they were attacking people they know.
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by wmil 11y ago
More accurately: Apple doesn't bother with early adopter and enthusiast technologies. They wait until the tech is mass market ready and polish it. There's no real reason for Apple to get into VR yet. They can make a deal with O
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by wmil 11y ago
I don't know the specifics of the algorithm that HN uses, but reddit used to factor in 'post velocity'. Assuming HN does something similar then a relatively small number of quick early upvotes can send something to the front
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by wmil 11y ago
There aren't really that many journalism jobs out there. Especially compared to the massive number of J-School grads that come on the the market each year. Journalists look at Gawker writers and naturally think "There but for the
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by wmil 11y ago
It's certainly Europe's problem. Overpopulation, not war, is what's really driving the migrant crisis.
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by wmil 11y ago
The US can fix most of the H1B problems by just giving them out quarterly based on salary. This will mostly damage employers abusing the system -- I doubt this hog processor really vitally needs all of these "Manager Trainees" ear
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by wmil 11y ago
People focus far too much on different languages. The fact that Android and iOS have very different UI libraries is usually a much bigger problem. Xamarin's big selling point is a cross platform ui library.
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by wmil 11y ago
I am so glad to see someone write this. I've worked with too many designers who stack modals onto modals.
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by wmil 11y ago
Javascript SPA applications get less respect from business owners than they deserve. People see JS and throw their JQuery & some CSS developers at it. Or they use their backend PHP devs who've never written code that runs for long
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by wmil 11y ago
The problem goes back to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and the 'Deinstitutionalisation' movement in the 70s. Basically they shut down psychiatric facilities instead of fixing them. Now no one has a good solutio
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by wmil 11y ago
p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file. And I don't have to download anything to open a .zip or .tgz. Compressing a directory is a solved problem with standard solutions. You really should have a rea
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by wmil 11y ago
The size difference is trivial so there's no real benefit to .7z files. However it's a non standard format so I have to hunt around for what the CLI tool is called, then install it, the look up the options... Sure that's not
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by wmil 11y ago
7z only download links just fill me with rage. I don't understand why people keep pushing that format.
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by wmil 11y ago
It's not really large in terms of memory on any remotely modern system. But it is large in terms of learning curve. Emacs has a ton of concepts and interface quirks that don't transfer to or from other common software. It has it&
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by wmil 11y ago
ES3 is probably the real cut off for JS.
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by wmil 11y ago
There's a famous joke that "fascist" in politics just means "I don't like you" It's just an ill-defined insult at this point. George Orwell had interesting things to say. http://orwell.ru/
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by wmil 11y ago
Although types in _t are supposed to be reserved for future POSIX / compiler use.
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by wmil 11y ago
Insurance is also a huge issue for under 25s. At least in Ontario, insurance and gas is close to what it costs to rent a room in a house. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/adventure/trends/... The p
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by wmil 11y ago
He can still get 12 months in prison for skipping bail in the UK. From what I can gather there's no statute of limitations on that.
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by wmil 11y ago
Because at this point he's wanted by the police for skipping bail. The courts can't just ignore that because he's been hiding out for too long. The justice system has an obligation to bring him in.
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by wmil 11y ago
No. That's not how diplomatic bags work. Diplomatic privileges don't give the diplomats any right to transport individuals across another country's territory. Convoluted 'diplomatic bag' schemes don't reflect
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by wmil 11y ago
$ grep -c '^a.\{11\}y$' /usr/share/dict/words < 162 162 results, but I'm going with "aboriginality" skills.
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by wmil 11y ago
It's actually super easy to fix. Just pass a law stating that all asset forfeiture revenue must go into the general state revenue. Police only have an incentive to seize things illegally because their departments receive the money.
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by wmil 11y ago
There isn't much reason to. Without the Apple libraries and XCode support Objective-C isn't anything special.
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by wmil 11y ago
I was listening to a developer podcast and one of the hosts (Jeff Roberts?) had the right idea about version checks... Never allow developers to read the version number. Instead have a function where they pass in the version number and get
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by wmil 11y ago
It's interesting that SF can be so pro-immigration on the national level, but so anti-immigration on the municipal level.
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by wmil 11y ago
> The very first person who suggested Node http server must be fired that very day for offensive incompetence. I'm suspicious that it was an MBA who wanted to use cheaper JS developers on the project.
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by wmil 11y ago
> Ontario being a "have-not" province That's because Ontario's government managed to drive out most industry with an energy policy that created high and unstable electricity prices. As a result Ontario became a receiv
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by wmil 11y ago
You can mask poor ingredients by dumping salt and sugar into dishes. Sugar actually stops you from tasting all the salt.

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