ColinCochrane

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by ColinCochrane 3y ago
"Considering" might be a bit strong. All that's really happening is the CRTC is opening a public consultation in response to a formal complaint. A cursory look at the CRTC's website shows quite a few public proceedings
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by ColinCochrane 4y ago
That was a very entertaining read. Pulling no punches in the conclusion: > 'In the modern-day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case “being thrown out”. Obviously, this is little more than a figurative expression. Cases
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by ColinCochrane 7y ago
Code formatting is difficult to read on mobile because the text doesn't wrap properly. You end up having to scroll horizontally to read it all.
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Redundancy vs. dependencies: which is worse? (2008)(yosefk.com)
98 points by ColinCochrane 9y ago|29 comments
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Others Will Follow – SciFi Short(vimeo.com)
1 points by ColinCochrane 9y ago|0 comments
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Martin Shkreli headed to jail after Hillary Clinton threats(money.cnn.com)
15 points by ColinCochrane 9y ago|4 comments
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by ColinCochrane 9y ago
I ran a performance audit from the Chrome dev tools: First meaningful paint: 8,820 ms First Interactive : 11,420 ms Those are brutal numbers for just about anything, let alone a simple blog post.
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LHC double heavy particle to shine light on strong force(bbc.com)
1 points by ColinCochrane 9y ago|0 comments
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Man Buys Two Metric Tons of Lego Bricks; Sorts Them via Machine Learning(mentalfloss.com)
2 points by ColinCochrane 9y ago|0 comments
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At His Own Wake, Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death(nytimes.com)
1 points by ColinCochrane 9y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 9y ago
It seems like there are a couple big issues with this. 1) What if your passenger was using your phone? 2) What if you using voice-commands to send a text (especially if via CarPlay, etc...)?
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Problems of Matrix Organizations (1978)(hbr.org)
1 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
Here’s an example: while interviewing a man for a comptroller position, he asked me if I was familiar with financial statements, like a balance sheet. This person knew I had been an entrepreneur for years. When I simply replied yes, becaus
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
This is true, but I think the point the parent comment was getting at is that an investigation tends to take a more holistic look at the incident rather than simply assigning blame directly to a single factor. Even pilot error, especially
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If You’re Going Through Hell(theplayerstribune.com)
2 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
I'm not sure why the article refers to Chesterton's fence as a fallacy when it basically agrees with the principle that you shouldn't blindly push reforms without understanding the reasoning behind the existing state of thing
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Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine(ijr.com)
268 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|200 comments
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Starlite(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
SQLite is one of the best examples I can think of. https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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'Essentially witchcraft': A former naturopath takes on her colleagues(statnews.com)
2 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|0 comments
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Changing Baby's Diaper Now Considered Child Molestation in Arizona(slate.com)
14 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|0 comments
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
To be fair, the article is up front about that. But that's the point of this whole post: If you can't justify being nice for the sake of others, at least be nice for the sake of yourself.
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
In 2013, the Wunderland donated one square meter to each of the six major political parties in Germany, asking them to envision what the nation would look like if their party were in power. Top politicians and their advisors visited the Wu
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
Doesn't directly corroborate the story, but does back up that they worked together. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
Beware to anyone who follows that link directly (jwz isn't a big fan of HN referrals, for those who don't know).
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Beware of the Robot Pharmacist(backchannel.com)
2 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|0 comments
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Sierra Gets Creative(filfre.net)
139 points by ColinCochrane 10y ago|51 comments
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
MLS has been doing rather well. Attendance has been increasing steadily for the past decade[1]. The NHL, while certainly not as popular as the NFL or MLB, is pretty consistent as far as attendance numbers go, comparable to the NBA [2] [1]
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
You can encrypt org files pretty easily. http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/encrypting-files.html
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by ColinCochrane 10y ago
One of the captions says: Store shelves that are well-stocked, like those in this bakery near Zerpa’s house, are typically full of non-essential items set at sky-high prices

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