yareally

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   by yareally 10y ago

   Have to go back about another 100 years before the American Civil War for military useage of submarines. Also, rifled bullets/artillery shells, breech loading rifles, cartriges and semi automatic (repeating) rifles first came in mass u
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   by yareally 10y ago

   History of fences on Wikipedia talks about it dating back to at least feudal times when discussing property rights and boundaries. Obviously much farther back when discussing defensive use cases (Hadrian's Wall and The Great Wall being
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   by yareally 10y ago

   I've never driven a Tesla to compare, but the 2017 Audi A4 does lane keeping much better than I expected and would say the A4 is comparable based on what others have said about Tesla. I think Mercedes has a pretty comparable system as
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   by yareally 10y ago

   Cucumber and Gherkin originated in Ruby.
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   by yareally 10y ago

   > In January 2015, I accepted a position as a Software Craftsman at Pillar Technology in Columbus, Ohio Software Craftsman?
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   by yareally 10y ago

   I don't think it's far fetched for someone in the late 19th century to imagine an automated, in-home telegraph system that printed out content for someone to read. Someone might have even had their university assignments sent over
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   by yareally 10y ago

   You're correct. Spray is being deprecated for akka-http and is really "spray 2.0."
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   by yareally 10y ago

   > " I'm using it for just a web API, and I've had several scala developers tell me to use akka-http instead because it is simpler " Have you tried Spray? It still uses akka for actors, but I consider it easier to use
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   by yareally 10y ago

   > I am yet to experience an enterprise customer that has jumped into Git. My company recently did (1000+ employees), though from what I've seen, many of my coworkers familiar with only svn are still using git like svn. We also have
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    by yareally 11y ago

    I learned about double/single dispatch when I was an undergrad taking a course on design patterns. Trying to wrap my head around the visitor pattern was kind of a pain, but once I saw how it was done in a language that supported double
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Birds are also scientifically classified as dinosaurs[1]. > "Avialae ("bird wings") is a clade of dinosaurs containing their only living representatives, the birds." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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    by yareally 11y ago

    There is: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/operator-overloading.h... (Kotlin compiles to js or jvm byte code)
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    by yareally 11y ago

    1) The parsing and converting are done with separate methods. Thus single responsibility. 2) It's a very small library. Less than 200 lines (including comments). There's no reason to put this in 2 jars, classes or packages. Have y
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Not sure if you parsed my comment incorrectly or you meant to reply to someone else :)
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    by yareally 11y ago

    > BTW, does anyone know of a tool to do the reverse? I created a java/scala library[1] (source is scala, but there's a jar with dependencies for java) a few years ago for an Android app I was hired to work on that converts nest
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Also in Ohio and quite happy here. The lure of higher wages in CA isn't so amazing after taxes and the higher cost of living. My salary here would be a typical developer salary in the Bay Area if you factor in that. I might have to dri
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    by yareally 11y ago

    You left out tax differences and inflated costs for other necessities such as food, transportation, entertainment, etc.
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    by yareally 11y ago

    It's a very prominent installation option in Visual Studio 2015 that you can't miss. If you mean something else, please clarify.
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Yeah, I nearly dropped it once while switching hands. That was the end of running with it for me.
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    by yareally 11y ago

    His cons need some clarification. > Good luck finding a case that offers non-trivial protection. They exist, but the phone is already big enough. > You likely cant walk into your carrier's store and buy one which means you have t
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    by yareally 11y ago

    I have one. I find the width too large and I'm 6'4". Dislike having to carry it while running as well due to the size. I end up taking my cheaper, smaller windows phone while running instead. Also, the slippery metal back can
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Ah yeah, I read something about they're trying to use "deodorant" for kiwis to stop predators from sniffing them out. Interesting stuff though and not sure what came of it, since it was last reported 5 or so years ago.
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    by yareally 11y ago

    > Is this is the reason why are the going extinct. Nope. Have you seen animals in heat? They do crazy things like that and us being humans, anthropomorphize their behaviors to be something they aren't. No one claims kangaroos are in
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Non sequitur. Many abundant species (including dogs) also attempt such behavior with animate and inanimate objects.
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Any chance of just posting it as an article submitted to hn? I'd love to hear about it as well (amateur ornithologist). If not, my email is in my profile.
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Don't have to be elite by any means. I run around 20 miles per week at a 8 min mile pace and my resting heart rate is in the 50s. Nothing amazing or near what I did training wise compared to when I ran cross county. If I stop working o
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    by yareally 11y ago

    The concept behind amp is also quite "old school". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
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    by yareally 11y ago

    > They should also be purpose-built for specific missions just as we built planes in WW2. Even in WW2, all the major nations had aircraft that were multipurpose. Even the famous P-51 was built to be multipurpose. The difference between t
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    by yareally 11y ago

    I had a similar background--worked my way through school doing small to medium size freelance projects. Much of my freelance work was contracting for one company (where I was mentored by one the senior developers) and few startups, so it wa
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    by yareally 11y ago

    Yeah, I think that would be possible. The ones where I am are kind of skittish compared to the ones I see in urban areas (I live a semi rural area).