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by wtbob 10y ago
The culture of Switzerland, particularly Zürich, is more South German than it is North Italian or East French.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Or, y'know, just wait, also like people used to do. One won't die without frequent sips of water. I remember once seeing a women in a church service with her mandatory stylish bottle of water. Now, it's certainly possible t
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The big difference is that this actually preserves a lot of structure, due to being oriented to columns (and/or rows): a real shredder produces chads without any of that, and would presumably be a much harder problem to solve.
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Ivory's a beautiful, extremely useful substance; outlawing it makes as little sense as outlawing alcohol, marijuana or beef. What needs to be done is to create the appropriate legal framework and property rights to give Africans an in
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Did it have zero impact? I wonder if white men at GitHub have the same promotion opportunities; I wonder if they face subtle forms of discrimination in the workplace. I am certain that some white men don't even bother applying there
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by wtbob 10y ago
Good point. Well, FWIW parliamentary procedure can still handle non-voting parties, e.g. the non-voting representatives of U.S. territories in the U.S. Congress.
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I have duplicity set up, sending encrypted backups to S3. It works pretty well, and is pretty cheap.
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> … generally written in low-level C … Maybe we should focus on that? Why are we writing OSes in C when more-secure alternatives have existed for decades? Why don't we consider writing our phone OSes (which don't actually r
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by wtbob 10y ago
I've had the same thing happen with a few of my submissions. On the one hand: cool, the story I liked is now being seen. But OTOH: not so cool, I like the HN metagame too.
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Me neither. I hope it is, but … I just don't know any more.
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That's why I use Mattermost, which Slack Without the Suck™. It's free, fast, easy to use, visually appealing, supports PostgreSQL — what more could I ask for? Well, a native Android client. But other than that, what more could I
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> A real barrier to a decentralised web is the difficulty of installing software on a server … Imagine if installing a server-side chat app, message board, project management app, or CMS were as easy as installing a desktop app. If you h
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Parliamentary procedure really isn't cumbersome; you can use as much or as little of it as you need. It's well-designed for organisations seeking to have discussion and reach decisions, even when the group may be ultimately unabl
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> … and you've got stuff to do, and the program isn't even broken. Well, it may be — that's one of the problems with C: you never really know for sure if a warning really matters or not. But man, there sure are a lot of
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> For example, his tone is too formal and sounds bureaucratic. He refuses to state his actual request until the end of a long winded description of his clout and authority. I see that as just being a professional adult. He states who he
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> The function in question that could return an error is being called in the main function. Who are you going to pass it to, exactly? The operating system: exit with a non-zero exit code, indicating the specific error.
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> But, if you still think it is important, what do you plan to do with an error that might just randomly appear in the future anyway? Terminate processing and pass the error back up the call chain. This is basically what exceptions do,
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In fairness, conditions and restarts could do the same job and would be more readable.
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> Yes, I realise you wrote "convince them that they may end their suffering," but makes little sense. Remember when you were a kid and your mother explained to you the difference between 'may' and 'can'? Ye
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> Do you think it was my job as a son to try to force her to continue, out of "support" for her? No; there's a major difference between refusing further treatment and pursuing suicide.
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> “Who am I to convince patients that they have to suffer longer than they want?” One wonders who he is to convince them that they may end their suffering. I think that there's something very cold about a society which says, 'o
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> Considering the non existence of a systemd developer community, it's pretty risky. There's also the fact that it's written in C . Writing security-sensitive software in C in 2016 is, in general, a grievous mistake. No
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I don't know if that's actually a good thing. In general, I prefer native apps ( real apps) to web apps; in particular, I trust an open-source application I compiled myself far more than I do some random website. Unfortunately, I
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> we don't see people migrating like crazy Yes we do! How many people do you know who were born in the state you now live in? I don't think one person in my office was born in this state.
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I'm reminded of this famous piece by A.J.P. Taylor: 'Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could liv
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> The kind of CEOs who get golden parachutes earn enough money in a single year to live a whole life on it without having a job again. You probably earn enough in a single year to live the rest of your life in a different part of the w
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> The transpiled JavaScript closely resembles the source TS, making debugging easier (source maps allieviete this to a certain extent). High-level languages look nothing like machine code, but we still compile them to it. > Transpilin
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But if you're going to transpile, why not transpile from a real language, not a Turing tarpit?
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There's some really, really good stuff here — well worth the read.
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My takeaway is that POSIX is completely broken and needs to be re-evaluated.

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