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by creature 4y ago
What To Draw and How To Draw It, by Edwin Lutz and available on archive.org, is another good example: https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz/mode/2up
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by creature 8y ago
Is it possible you're thinking of the Halifax Explosion? That killed hundreds and destroyed a huge portion of the city, but that ship was carrying ammunition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
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by creature 8y ago
They were setting up a non-profit arts space. I don't feel like the customer/business relationship is a good fit there.
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by creature 8y ago
If a company holds some information internally, and an unauthorised third party surreptitiously obtains that information, wouldn't you call that stealing?
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by creature 9y ago
Neither, in this case. Under the GDPR, you'd be expected to reply something like "As described in our privacy policy we use Stripe for processing payments. The data you enter on our checkout is transferred directly to Stripe, and
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by creature 9y ago
Tom Stuart did a seriously great talk about this, which really helped my understanding of monads. You can read it as a blog post, but I recommend watching the video. It's worth finding the time for. https://codon.com/re
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How an episode of “Why Are Computers” is made(codon.com)
3 points by creature 10y ago|0 comments
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Exploring weird maths with code(alexpounds.com)
3 points by creature 10y ago|0 comments
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Fixing a bug with millions of followers(developers.500px.com)
2 points by creature 10y ago|0 comments
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Potential password/credential breach at Datadog(datadoghq.com)
2 points by creature 10y ago|0 comments
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Moving on from GitHub(jonobacon.org)
4 points by creature 10y ago|0 comments
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Dimensional drawings for all Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods [pdf](developer.apple.com)
1 points by creature 10y ago|0 comments
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by creature 11y ago
There's a number of techniques you can use, but most come back to fundamental principles: keep things small and self-contained as possible, try to decouple elements of your program, try to keep things consistent (and have one standard
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by creature 11y ago
I use Siri fairly frequently, but in certain narrowly-defined situations: when I've got my hands full, or am doing something else. The two that come to mind are when cooking ("Hey Siri, set a timer for 15 minutes") or when I&
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by creature 11y ago
Go to university & get a degree. A degree opens a lot of doors in the future, even if you think it shouldn't matter. That's both simple things like "Getting your CV past a clueless first-screen HR person", and comple
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by creature 11y ago
> It seems like we're engineering people to be terrible at handling the complexities of interpersonal relationships. To me, this seems more like "engineering Facebook to be better at handling the complexities of interpersonal r
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by creature 11y ago
Don't forget the thousands of years humanity spent naked. Thankfully, startups are now here to solve that problem.
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Bassel Khartabil, Syrian open-source developer, has been sentenced to death(ethanzuckerman.com)
2 points by creature 11y ago|0 comments
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by creature 11y ago
I don't think there's any suggestion that VW used these techniques, but there are other indicators that could be used. Things like "If the car door or bonnet is open while the engine is running, switch to low-emissions mode&q
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by creature 11y ago
FetLife, the kinky social network, is entirely remote.
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by creature 12y ago
Your first step is to figure out what elements exclude people. Personally, I think your current activities have strong elements of competition & machismo. There's also a large skill-based component to some of them (it's hard f
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by creature 12y ago
With the rake tasks, you're better off learning "rake -T" (list all rake tasks that have a description). You can find the one you need in there, and the most common ones will soon sink in via osmosis as you use them regularly
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by creature 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: London, UK or remote I'm a full-stack developer with nearly a decade of professional experience. I like Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and Python. Right now I'm looking for a 3-6 month full-time contract, ideally in London
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by creature 12y ago
The London Hackspace is one of the biggest in the UK; I'm not sure why you had trouble finding it. It's a dedicated two-floor space in East London that's open 24 hours a day for its 1,000+ paying members. https://l
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A $58,000 lesson in mid-volume manufacturing(kickstarter.com)
2 points by creature 12y ago|0 comments
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by creature 12y ago
There's a book, Design for Hackers: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-B... The author also produced a free 12 week email course: http://designforhackers.com/
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by creature 12y ago
I think the thing about freelancing is: you're never going to have one source of leads. There'll never be one thing that makes someone think "Yes, I should get in contact with this person," but it all helps create a good
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by creature 12y ago
I'm using Feedbin - http://feedbin.com/ . It's got a nice minimal interface and it integrates with iOS apps well. And it's open source, though a) kinda tricky to get up and running and b) the developer isn&#x
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by creature 12y ago
Post-mortems like this are always really enlightening. I'd really like to know more about some areas the author glossed over, though. What were the grey/black tactics they used to get past the initial chicken-and-egg problem? And
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by creature 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, on European hours I'm a full stack web developer with nearly a decade of experience. I generally work with Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and/or PHP, but I've used several other languages professionally and

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