SamUK96

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by SamUK96 8y ago
Not to be dismissive of your idea, but isn't this decade(s) old? QT Creator, Dreamweaver, Wordpress, etc... All are in some form a "drag-n-drop code gen" tool. Could you elaborate on your point and how it differs from the exi
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by SamUK96 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Representation is a convoluted thing to talk about, let alone "measure". Many factors influence how many of $group enroll in a course, and with gender there are many, one of the main ones being that many women chose to stay at hom
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by SamUK96 8y ago
It would be useful to calculate the percentage difference between n_group/n_population and n_group_course/n_course. This would essentially calculate a "representivity" score for that course. So, for example, according to
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by SamUK96 8y ago
To obtain plastic, you need oil, which often requires removal of entire swathes of the biosphere. Funny how just one step can fool people like that.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
To be honest, there is a virtue signalling aspect to all this, it's pretty obvious that companies exploit this to increase sales. In my very honest opinion, does anybody with a bit of sense really think the boardroom at $corp care ab
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by SamUK96 8y ago
a good developer would do a simple *ngIf and do a toggle on either using <a href=...> or <my-fancy-button (click)="navToPage()">. Call it "olde time mode".
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by SamUK96 8y ago
What this is about is the increasing financialisation of the world's economy, in other worsds, consumers don't buy a "fridge" and own a fridge and have dominion over it (classical unfinancialised markets), they instead s
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by SamUK96 8y ago
It would be very interesting to know how bridge metrics (length, load specification, etc.) relate the longevity. Of course, some bridges last for centuries, but some last for decades. This is an order of magnitude!
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by SamUK96 8y ago
I'm going to get penalised for this but I have to say it because I presume no-one else will: Why the hell is this on HN? It has nothing directly related to anything to do with HN, and clearly has an agenda from the article's rat
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by SamUK96 8y ago
> sleepwalk into oblivion Tell that to the Egyptians, Romans, Easter-Islanders (debated now, actually), and the countless other human civilisations who didn't really appreciate their impending demise before it was too late. Hell, th
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by SamUK96 8y ago
War on cancer has been...not completely a fail? Certainly made harder by profiteering, but, y'know. Also, I find "War on poverty" hilarious. Like a country saying it's "making crime illegal".
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Hard to say. I don't think there will be a well-defined turning point. The thing is, the climate changes on long scales, and humans only pay attention to the immediate details, like children analyzing the stock market. The climate will
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by SamUK96 8y ago
> As non american, I’d love to know more about this kind of business with China, and how it relates to the US government political choices. Why the US looks so scared by China, if it has such economic relatons eith it? It's not just
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by SamUK96 8y ago
I'm curious how that connection to a sat net works with a normal consumer laptop. Or do you have some fancy General Dyn laptop?
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by SamUK96 8y ago
You forgot to use BlockchainVRAI.JS framework to orchastrate this together.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
How else is someone with an MBA going to make their qualification look like it means something? It's similar to marketing in many large companies for example, anyone will tell you that most of what marketing does benefits precisely
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by SamUK96 8y ago
I'm thinking of how the particularly douchebag-y programmer titled their git commit for that feature. When coding this kind of crap, shouldn't people realise what they're doing?
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Now that...would be ironic.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Oh wow thank you! I have wondered for years where it has come from. I love the following sentence: "...wondrous fruits of the earth and valiant warriors grow not from the same soil.". This all is reminding me of another saying, a
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by SamUK96 8y ago
I sometimes think if the barbarians of the 4th and 5th Century are like today's people who adopt Amish principles, and the rest of the population as 4th and 5th Century Romans. There are extremely identifiable markers.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Even as a ~20-30 year old, libraries and them acting as community "hubs" seems so foreign already. Part of me worries about the growing individualist and transactional nature of our social lives that the internet is causing [citat
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by SamUK96 8y ago
You are right, should of maybe included "if so". But still, surprising someone would think covering up SEO shitlording with such a thin veil would fool anybody. From the other comments here, it seems that the reason SEO is just ge
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Parent comment is why I tell everyone to read Pragmatic Programmer, especially the "broken-window theory" section. For those unaware, an empty house can go untouched for decades in NYC, but once it develops a broken window, it is
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Of course, I was talking about being suppliers to rushes/"fads", i.e. the industries/sectors that appear out of nowhere for fordubious reasons and with ill-thought, i.e. wars, cali gold rush, 2002 internet companies, bit
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by SamUK96 8y ago
But the linked startup is about SEO, i.e. spamming/abusing these communities to generate links, by offering a paid service for it. EDIT: I understand your comment now, yes it is. How this startup got funded I have no idea, it's
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by SamUK96 8y ago
obligatory HN comment about selling shovels in a gold rush No but this is such a pattern in human history. Don't fight war, sell the weapons. Don't mine bitcoin, sell the cards. Don't start a startup, start a meta-startup (
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by SamUK96 8y ago
I like how SEO articles like this one are trying so desperately to not seem like SEO scumlording anymore due to everybody realising over the past few years that it's mainly a very grimy/scummy industry full of fraud and grubbers.
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by SamUK96 8y ago
I understood the parent's point. I was stating that, regardless, I've always found it odd how people think the large corporations as "private companies", when they act far more like governmental agencies than even _gover
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by SamUK96 8y ago
Susskind explains String Theory (M-theory) very well in the lectures available for free on Youtube. He is a world leader on the whole matter (and one of the group that first worked on String theory). Essentially, string theory was inspired

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