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by zyxley 11y ago
I've been very happy about more interpreted languages adding optional typing for exactly this kind of reason.
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Could you elaborate on what you prefer about the Bitbucket equivalent?
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JIRA is one of those things that I've always seen mentioned as amazing if set up properly... but I've never seen it set up "properly". It seems to always get harnessed to the needs of management and/or multipurposed
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> much less what gender she wants to be the rest of her life But why are you assuming it's necessarily the rest of the child's life? The whole point of the current legal and medical structure using hormone blockers is to delay
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by zyxley 11y ago
Heroku is pretty straightforward for most stuff. Python, for example, is basically "make a requirements.txt, a Procfile to tell it what the entry point file is, and then push to the Heroku repo".
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by zyxley 11y ago
You could give some binaural audio a try. I've found it useful for relaxing during the work day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlPE6wPIfM
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> There have been no accidents or injuries related to the problem, a Tesla spokesman said on Friday.
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> additional motor support http://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-robot-suit-approved-...
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Sea Lioning, as I understand it, refers to a person derailing a discussion to which they are not a direct party. That's what that email (very politely) did, though, didn't it? However well-intended it was meant, it was a repl
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by zyxley 11y ago
It may not apply in this case, but it's absolutely a real thing. It's a method used by a lot of "polite" internet harrassment and forum trolls, for example, by demanding that people re-justify themselves on things that h
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In the particular context given, it seems more like an attempt to say "I will not submit to sealioning under the flag of reasoned debate". Mind you, that's not saying that the perception of sealioning is necessarily correct,
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> What went wrong all those years ago? It probably had to do with the general shift towards substantially more jobs requiring a college degree as a condition of employment, regardless of any actual relevance to the position, and at the s
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"to have" here is such a weasel phrase. Properly phrased title: "London Garden Bridge Trust will track mobile phone signals of bridge users"
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"Freedom of contract" is a silly thing to uphold as an absolute principle. The reason to uphold contracts is for the general good of society, not just "because a contract is a contract", and companies being able to put m
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The question is if any of that equipment can still be trusted.
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> People have been delivering food since For the urbanites among the ancient Romans, food vendors (and even things like grab-and-go street vendors and fast food restaurants) were a normal part of life, since their apartments generally di
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"Realistic" performance specs should include "doesn't have a chance of literally setting something on fire by drawing too much current through it".
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by zyxley 11y ago
I ran into exactly this earlier today. I needed to get a new Macbook charger and just buying one directly from the Apple store nearby was faster than (as I first attempted) trying to find one on Amazon without "this is actually a count
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by zyxley 11y ago
Another (free, but not open source) game like this that's been under very slow development for a long time is Transcendence: http://transcendence.kronosaur.com/index.hexm
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> I'd be surprised if the hardwood flooring example from the article held up in a court. It looks like the specific company mentioned only sells online and through dealers.
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by zyxley 11y ago
This reminds me of how I wish Plex had a mode to actually manage media files rather than just watching them. I hate manually organizing files, and iTunes despite keeping very nice folder organization doesn't quite work for this purpose
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> Anxiety is high among residence. [citation needed]
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by zyxley 11y ago
My grandparents' house in a deeply rural part of New England has one of those lights. Without it it's pitch dark out there, and since the bedroom is on the other side of the house it's easier to just leave it on all the time
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> a beautiful 30+ stories castle surrounded by a park of ~1 km radius The problem with this is that you're basically getting the worst of both worlds. You lose many of the real benefits of dense development because there's no s
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http://thewirecutter.com is a website that does something like this. They do in-depth reviews of all kinds of things and, as far as I know, make the money for the site off affiliate retailer links for the products they recommend
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> get the software to the point it only makes mistakes in a timeframe that is, at a minimum, several orders of magnitude greater than Bob making the same mistake That seems to be more or less the case with the Google cars. 300,000 miles,
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> My plan was a free trial that would run $50/mo. My first thought was "ow", but thinking about it more, that's not a bad price point to filter out people who think "oh, that's neat" rather than "o
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The preponderance of homework in primary and secondary school is striking compared to college, where there are plenty of classes where the entire load of work to be turned in is two or three moderate-length papers.
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> Formal wear being required in the office would be a very odd thing, indeed. "I know it's inconvenient sometimes, but you would not believe how cheap it was to rent out this extra space from the local symphony orchestra."
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Being conscious about your clothes really helps if you don't like dealing with fashion, paradoxically enough, since it means you can make your choices ahead of time. Try different things until you find one brand you really like, and th

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