zinckiwi

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World's steepest funicular rail line opens(theguardian.com)
15 points by zinckiwi 9y ago|2 comments
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
Curious, as this will start to affect my family soon: is TurboTax and its ilk not up to this task yet? (That is, a net nil return on foreign income given a double-taxation treaty.)
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
In New Zealand and Australia (and I'm sure many other places, but those are the ones I know first-hand) malls also feature supermarkets, post offices, and banks. They're designed to be a destination for not just "recreational
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
I had a lot of sensual deprivation as a teenager too :/
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
How to write right.
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
The Commodore Amiga. Used it from release in 1985 through to 1993, at which point I had to admit defeat and defect. Much has been written, including a great retrospective on Ars, but its failure wasn't due to engineering. Way ahead of
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
I've written many sites with React, Bootstrap, and a dozen or three other third party dependencies, but I've never run into a case of a button not responding when clicked or things taking a noticeably long time to load (assuming t
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
The credit card charge I don't mind so much. Budget airlines are understandably concerned about margins, and the 1% they charge is lower than what I understand prevailing credit card handling commissions to be. (Assuming that there is
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
I’m writing from the airport after going there at 5am on a Monday morning, but the day doesn’t matter. The Airlink 100 passes through central Edinburgh six times an hour or more, from 4am to midnight, every day.
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
Is there much value in "the knowledge" anymore, given the existence of GPS, phones, and map apps with real time traffic and accident information?
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
Alan Davies will be thrilled.
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
Same goes double/triple/multiplier-of-your-choice in the UI layer. While back end code usually has process and rules behind it, so many things in the UI are: - actually identical, but by coincidence - perceptually identical, but
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
Lost it at "Fuckley."
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
Wallaby damned.
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by zinckiwi 9y ago
The phone was always one app among many, even before the platform was opened to third parties.
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by zinckiwi 10y ago
I'm an expat kiwi would would have loved to move back from the US over the past few years, but unfortunately it suffers from a similar problem to the San Fran/SV scene here. Most tech employers are in Auckland, and the housing pri
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by zinckiwi 10y ago
It switches the axis of concern from separating out the different classes of code (HTML, JS, CSS) to separating out the functional goals of your code (Component A does this specific thing, Component B does that specific thing). Realisticall
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by zinckiwi 10y ago
Even so, I like to keep the imports local so I only have to change one reference to a custom-wrapped version if/when the need arises. I have a lib file to act as a manifest of components, and while most are mine, there are also some &q