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Soon, Your Car May Be Able to Read Your Expressions(nytimes.com)
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by yawz 10y ago
> Would be nice if managers prevented small teams from choosing any technical choice they felt like. That requires knowledge, experience, and good technical & business judgement. Unfortunately not everyone has these qualities. Refu
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by yawz 10y ago
I, for one, want to see something beyond the shiny-toy syndrome when I talk to a team member about why we need to use the tool/technology/framework/library in question. I'm all for personal improvement, and every technol
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by yawz 10y ago
> the way most humans in history--and many still today--have had to scrimp for survival, working long hours in the fields, barely achieving subsistence, sharecropping for feudal lords or tyrannical landlords. We should have never left
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More Than 700 North American Bee Species Are Headed Toward Extinction(time.com)
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Best Practices for Modals / Overlays / Dialog Windows(uxplanet.org)
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by yawz 10y ago
I'm not sure if this year all figures are the same, but when I was car-shopping in November, Colorado state granted up to $6,000 in tax credits for new EVs. Federal tax credit was $7,500. And on top of that, Nissan was adding their own
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by yawz 10y ago
I love my cup of good coffee, but this is a little too expensive for me for day-to-day use. But I may use something like this when I'm on the move or camping etc. if it is truly better than the best instant.
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by yawz 10y ago
History is written by the... victors. It's not surprising to get a single-sided story when the other side didn't care much about leaving written detailed records.
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Small drone (~$300) 'shot with Patriot missile (~$3m)'(bbc.com)
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LG’s impressive 4K HDR Monitor will be available on March 28th for $999(theverge.com)
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by yawz 10y ago
First of all, I'd like to applaud this initiative. I worked remotely for 4 years (just switched to a local startup) and it was great for work-life balance (among other things). I wholeheartedly wish that it would be very successful. Th
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Inside Hangouts, Google's big fix for its messaging mess (2013)(theverge.com)
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Intel to Buy Mobileye for About $15B in Car Tech Push(bloomberg.com)
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by yawz 10y ago
When I read this, unfortunately I'm thinking "don't hate the player, hate the game". Lobbying is a double-edged sword, and it is a game played very well by the powerful and the rich.
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Ask HN: Using technical/development skills to give back to community/charities?
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by yawz 10y ago
My favorite historical place in Istanbul.
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by yawz 10y ago
If you're healthy, after your quick sugar intake, insulin would kick in and you would probably find yourself with lower sugar levels than 30 mins before.
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by yawz 10y ago
All joking aside :), checking HN is not time-wasting if it is useful for one's priorities (professional, personal development, etc.). I don't read everything on HN, but I can usually find here interesting articles, and most of the
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by yawz 10y ago
(I've a 6 year-old son, and I've been in software development for more than 20 years). As a general principle, it's all about "priorities", and "how bad you want it?". Most of us have time for things other
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by yawz 10y ago
We write code to be read by humans, and not by computers.
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by yawz 10y ago
I'm really sorry to hear this side of the problem. I truly hope that bioengineering the rhino horn will be successful in preventing more damage.
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by yawz 10y ago
I just can't believe this! Even zoos in a country like France aren't safe anymore. 1Kg fetches $60K?!? Not only the ignorance part that drives me mad, but how come so many men can be extremely obsessed about sexual performance? I
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Poachers kill rhino for his horn at French zoo(bbc.co.uk)
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by yawz 10y ago
Learning how to learn, and also how to practice. "Master Practice in order to create Mastery through practice"
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by yawz 10y ago
> Fear is a wonderful motivator :) Experience is the bag of s*#t that we carry with us. There's no teacher like dealing with real issues. And if you survive them you're stronger.
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by yawz 10y ago
> “At the end of the day, I can get three Chromebooks for each of the Mac devices I would have purchased,” No brainer, really. A device's cost and what value you're getting from it are very important, especially in a classroom
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by yawz 10y ago
Oh man! I'm old enough to having coded CORBA in Java and in C++. I'm glad we aren't stuck in that era.
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by yawz 10y ago
If I may jump in, here, for my 2 cents, I've never developed anything commercial with Closure, but I learned it, have played with it and have quite enjoyed it. Having never done any Lisp(-based language) programming before it didn&#x27
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by yawz 10y ago
I used to live in Ireland, and I loved the daffodil season. I still associate daffodils with Ireland. Great memories!

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