chipsambos

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by chipsambos 3y ago
ok I believe it may not have been intended as a trick but I think it is. As a human, I'd have assumed you meant the trickier balancing scenario i.e. the plank and barrel on its side. The question you quoted ("Suggest a stable way
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by chipsambos 3y ago
I generally agree with what you're saying and the first half of your answer makes perfect sense but I think the second is unfair (i.e. "[is it] easier to balance a barrel on a plank or a plank on a barrel"). It's a trick
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by chipsambos 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings
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by chipsambos 5y ago
Ironically, the Figma tagline is "Nothing great is made alone"
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by chipsambos 5y ago
Some within the industry have been making noise that Google is quietly and slowly taking control of the whole trip funnel. Interesting read: https://www.cartrawler.com/ct/digital-disruption/googles-ste... I'd
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by chipsambos 5y ago
> So what exactly is left for a corporate tax to collect? £220bn in profit last year. It's in the headline.
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by chipsambos 5y ago
Agree it's incalculable, I don't mean that in the "it's too big of a number" sort of way but in the "we can't possibly know" kind of way: 1) The scale and depth of the disruption makes it impractical
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by chipsambos 6y ago
> Btw, anyone who lets FB that close to their eyeballs is a stone cold moron at this point. They couldn’t be trusted to run an online photo album, giving them the ability to actually control your sense of reality is nightmarishly awful.
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by chipsambos 6y ago
Ryanair did the exact same thing.
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by chipsambos 7y ago
There are still a lot of extremely useful JQuery plugins and widgets with JQuery as a dependency.
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by chipsambos 8y ago
There was a post on reddit a few years ago about a Java question posted by Larry Page: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2lyeqc/larry_p... Seems a lot of people could relate to one of the top
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by chipsambos 9y ago
Which google services are you using? Is it just the map widget?
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by chipsambos 9y ago
If he just continues on and loses one or more stars then, no matter how public he is about the restaurant's change of direction, it will be widely regarded as a demotion. Opening a second, more informal eatery might not appeal to him f
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by chipsambos 10y ago
But blowing the cart and hoping it would work was part of the fun. I hope (and assume) it could be updated somehow though e.g. usb or micro sd
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by chipsambos 10y ago
Yes, that's exactly the point I was making. It's why you need to be able to view them as temporary roles you are playing and not what you are or all you are.
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by chipsambos 10y ago
>“You go from working 50, 60, 70 hours a week to zero,” Moen says. “And it very much affects your identity. Who am I? For men, the answer usually is their job.” That is why it's important not anchor your identity in the transient. T
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by chipsambos 10y ago
I work on a SaaS spatial product and had to come up with a solution to the same point/boundary problem. It needed to be 'fast' (ideally <3s) when filtering, rendering, styling and summarising 100k points within 43k polygon
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by chipsambos 10y ago
var naming aside, the whitespacing is perplexing: U = random_double(); negSreal=-S; y1=exp(log(U*Nreal/qu1real)*nmin1inv); Vprime = y1 * (-X/Nreal+1.0)*(qu1real/(negSreal+qu1real)); if(Vprime <= 1
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by chipsambos 11y ago
I think it's fine. Well, "validity" is contextually sensitive of course. For example, if I want to test addresses against a regex I'm developing then, yes, they are valid but if I want to test my mapping application that
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by chipsambos 11y ago
> Another far more common antipattern that isn't mentioned here is premature abstraction He does address this one in point 9: Useless (Poltergeist) Classes Useless classes with no real responsibility of their own, often used to just
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by chipsambos 12y ago
There are better release notes in the download: --- 2015-01-23: Version 2.0.0 New features * Switched to Qt 5 and updated WebKit (issue 10448) * Implemented clearing of memory cache (issue 10357) * Added support for
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by chipsambos 13y ago
Survival of the offspring is also a factor. Better one that makes it to adulthood than ten who do not.
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by chipsambos 13y ago
This is the antithesis to sites promoting quality content (hn, reddit, etc). It only encourages people to publish shit. Like this guy: http://www.gigwise.com/news/88051/spotify-joker-earns-%C2%A3... May as well tr