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Ask HN: Python library for regex with “extent-of-match”
2 points by georgeam 4y ago|0 comments
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by georgeam 5y ago
If I remember correctly, Massachusetts has a law that says that potential employers are not permitted to ask candidates what their previous salary was. The intent of this law is to ensure that people who have been discriminated against in
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by georgeam 5y ago
I've listened to only 2/3 of it, but: he promotes Crystal+Lucky (crystal is compiled) as good replacements for Ruby and Rails. The second part of his talk is about promoting a new variant of open license called PostOpen, which wi
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by georgeam 5y ago
I think I obtain a lot of the benefits of focus without quite being this extreme. I use a lot of virtual desktops. One virtual desktop per logical activity. For example as a student it would be one desktop per course I'm studying.
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by georgeam 5y ago
Here is a book I happen to own (and I recommend highly), on the general topic of how to practice piano effectively. "The Practice Revolution: Getting great results from the six days between lessons", by Philip Johnston. It contai
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by georgeam 5y ago
Not to be too nit-picky, but a thousand dollars would help or save many children, not just one. $20 will get you a mosquito net on Amazon.
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by georgeam 5y ago
With the bees will go lots of foods that depend on them for pollination. Bees are very essential for agriculture.
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by georgeam 5y ago
The article mentions that there is a 500 gallon tank of some toxic material buried at a unknown location in the property. 500 gallons is very small -- 66 cubic feet, which is about 4 ft by 4 ft by 4 ft. In my opinion, that makes it complet
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by georgeam 5y ago
Nice idea and execution! Just one small suggestion. Could you consider increasing the height of the map? Even if it means putting the top white-background banner as a vertical column on the left edge. I was trying to find a location whi
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by georgeam 6y ago
Do you mind sharing how many mg (milligrams) of zinc are in the one you have which advises to limit use to 7 days? I noticed that the Mayo clinic site says the maximum dose per day for an adult is 40 mg. I'm curious whether this 40 m
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by georgeam 7y ago
I agree -- I would say the government should recognize the utility of the idea and request an emergency technical team from both Apple and Google to join up in a public-health emergency response consortium (to ensure interoperability) and b
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by georgeam 7y ago
In principle it could be installed as a system/default app on Android and iOS by Google and Apple respectively. Even more reach for people that haven't installed Facebook.
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by georgeam 7y ago
Kudos to Google for doing this. It is so much more effective to marshall a small number of extremely powerful cloud providers backed by very qualified and active techies, than a large number of weak providers (people using their home machi
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by georgeam 7y ago
Likewise, I would be glad to see it in 20.04. According to this page, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseSchedule , feature freeze for 20.04 is on the 27th of February so I don't see any reason why Openssh
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by georgeam 7y ago
For natural unprocessed eggs you're right. But for most eggs in the US and Canada, the coat has been washed off, as indicated by ihodes in sister thread. So refrigeration is important there.
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by georgeam 7y ago
I'm a strong believer in solving problems at the single point of failure. If you solve it at the Twitter level, what about any other internet/cloud based service that is designed just like Twitter? It would still be a problem.
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by georgeam 7y ago
I would also like to see a feedback option for wrong word (same spelling). For example I searched for "melee" meaning (close to) "chaotic fight", and one of the entries referred to a person called "MeLee". It
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by georgeam 7y ago
See youtube https://youtu.be/MvekG31FbJM?t=9 for an artists conception of the seating layout.
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Ask HN: What are your ideas for rideshare security?
2 points by georgeam 7y ago|1 comments
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by georgeam 8y ago
Airliners.net: http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1407217
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by georgeam 8y ago
It would also be helpful to see a comparison to tools like asymptote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote_(vector_graphics_lan...
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by georgeam 8y ago
Computer Science too don't get paid from my experience either.
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by georgeam 8y ago
Thanks for the reference -- that's rather unfortunate because Phil Freeman did a great job leading the project. BTW my question could sound like I am hoping Phil Freeman has given up the project leadership, which isn't what I mean
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by georgeam 8y ago
Could you provide a reference for this? I'm just hoping you are not mixing up Python (by Guido van Rossum) and Purescript (by Phil A. Freeman).
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by georgeam 8y ago
One solution I use is a 1/8" thick sheet of amber transparent rigid plastic/acrylic. It is designed to cut UV, but it also cuts blue light. I bought a 2'x4' sheet from an online site (since ads are probably not pe
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by georgeam 8y ago
Another thing that would be useful is for your version-control systems (git/svn etc) to be able to say precisely who made which changes. That gives you proof of who did which work. Even if your company/org does not use version c
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by georgeam 8y ago
It may be relevant that he applied elm-format to the codebase, apparently for the first time. elm-format puts very little code on each line and puts a lot of meaning into indentation, so that alone could inflate the LoC instantly without c
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by georgeam 8y ago
I believe there is a technical solution. The verification link should ask you for a password or a passcode of some sort which is provided to you out-of-band --- ie, not via email. For example the webpage where you sign up can give you a s
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by georgeam 8y ago
You don't have to login to Netflix to update your card details. Since the link you follow is coming from inside your email account, effectively Netflix considers you to be already logged in. And we are arguing that they should not.
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by georgeam 8y ago
Maybe I don't understand the second option, but it seems to me that if you do the second option and a wrong email address is provided in step 1, then in step 2, the wrong person can take ownership of the account and provide his own pas

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