PMan74

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by PMan74 3y ago
Content moderation is another one - farm it off to an external entity like Accenture to manage and you are at arms length from putting some poor content moderator in front of some pretty disturbing content. https://www.nytimes.co
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by PMan74 5y ago
The Pharmacist on Netflix also worth a watch https://www.netflix.com/ie/title/81002576
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by PMan74 5y ago
"Hate Selling" is the term coined by one of the industry magazines https://skift.com/2015/08/10/travel-brands-stop-hate-selling...
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by PMan74 5y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not? > Perhaps the Giant Redwood is an ideal tree to re-introduce as we are told that our climate is beginning to return to these types of conditions. One of the justifications for rein
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by PMan74 5y ago
Seems to work well based on a quick trial on the web site. Annoying that I seem to have to download the app to see how much it costs.
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by PMan74 5y ago
> in a matter of 5 years or so Wouldn't anybody master a language in 5 years? I'm assuming you're talking about a situation where you are immersed in the language.
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by PMan74 5y ago
Most people involved in tech aren't there for the tech, they only care about money they are making from it. (And there's no judgement in that, if you make a living selling fridge freezers it doesn't mean you have to care much
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by PMan74 5y ago
Sowing wildflowers is becoming more popular here in Ireland. You can buy wildflower mixes or seed bombs but the expert view is to just stop mowing, there are enough dormant seeds in the soil. And those that are present are generally more
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by PMan74 6y ago
OAG aggregate timetable data from airlines and distribute that aggregated feed. You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they count that as 525 seats as opposed t
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by PMan74 6y ago
> The biggest story in tech no one’s talking about Is this not an old (3 years), well reported story? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-fetch-idUSKBN1ES1ZI
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by PMan74 6y ago
> Society has long preached that things like reading books is great for kids Wasn't always the case, Plato felt it would dull your memory. "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling
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by PMan74 6y ago
Bingo, right now, I use Kapwing for basic video editing, very easy to do the basics and the results are good enough for what I need. No way I'd spend the time to come up to speed with Adobe to do the same things.
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by PMan74 6y ago
> They cannot legally admit they looked at his code and copied the structure, because that opens them up to a copyright suit. AppGet is released under Apache License 2.0, Winget under MIT, I'm not sure how copyright would be an issu
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by PMan74 7y ago
I've a few sites on Hugo. If you're not an active developer (like me) you can deploy a site from a Netlify template and tweak from there. So pretty much the opposite of "zero to deployment" - gives you something working
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by PMan74 7y ago
"Hate selling" as it was dubbed by one of the trade magazines (over 4 years ago) https://skift.com/2015/08/10/travel-brands-stop-hate-selling...
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by PMan74 7y ago
27 million active Fitbit users at end of 2018. "Several" say they are getting rid of the devices because of a lack of trust in Google. How many constitutes "several" is left for the reader to calculate. 27? 270? 2,700?
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by PMan74 7y ago
Agile manifesto nailed that Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to chan
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by PMan74 7y ago
Small bug but something wrong with character encoding e.g. Busáras (bus terminal in Dublin) renders as BusÃ¡ras in right column
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by PMan74 7y ago
From an external viewpoint stuff like building your own internal chat application seems like a "too many engineers with too little to do" kid of decision. https://eng.uber.com/uchat/
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by PMan74 7y ago
Which is the bit I don't get. Even if FB say they have a trillion users, so what. Advertisers will advertise and pay based on the results they are seeing just like you did. Eric Schmidt made pretty much the same point about Google fak
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by PMan74 7y ago
> very warm and welcoming people I'd second this, one of the friendliest country I've ever been to. No significant tourist industry yet so most people are not trying to sell you anything. I think it's a genuine wish to be
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by PMan74 7y ago
In fairness it's not like the site wasn't already world famous. I'm not even American and I know of it and have been there. The city's (farcical) efforts are not making the site more famous.
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by PMan74 7y ago
You'd hope at this stage, based on various PayPal horror stories, businesses would not need this warning. > Do not kid yourself – your business is never, never > safe with PayPal. Move away or at least have a plan B > in place
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by PMan74 7y ago
Does anybody know how expensive the setup described is? - Remotely-controlled observatory at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile - A 160-mm APO-refractor telescope and a Moravian CCD - Presumably hefty image processing requirements - etc. I g
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by PMan74 7y ago
> it seemed like he did a really exceptional job profitably growing Expedia. Expedia comes a distant second Booking Holdings. https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/EXPE,BKNG/view/v1 So while he may have done w
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by PMan74 8y ago
[UK's] NHS world's biggest fax machine buyer due to 'stubborn' resistance to new technology, say medical leaders https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/11/nhs-worlds-bigge...
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by PMan74 8y ago
> Actually the content of the article makes this comment slightly unwarranted I don't think his/her frustration was with the article, rather with some of the HN comments on the article.
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by PMan74 8y ago
The Black Mirror system reminded me more of Uber: drivers doing the utmost to ingratiate themselves to passengers for fear of losing their livelihood through a few bad scores.
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by PMan74 8y ago
"An Air Accidents Investigation Branch report said warnings alerted the pilot, who fixed the error at 928ft (283m)." It's odd, you'd think that the sensation of dropping 500ft (152m) in 18 seconds would have alerted him,
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by PMan74 8y ago
> most likely a fluke I'd agree, probably not helped by the fact that the $9 item is a 2-pack. Never ascribe to malice that which is can be explained by stupidity. Stupidity might be a bit harsh here though.

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