loopbit

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by loopbit 10y ago
When you have to print thousands of leaflets for a client using that client's corporate colors and, after printing, it turns out that the artwork was in RGB and the colors are not exactly those the client wanted[0], yes, you notice it.
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by loopbit 10y ago
> not sure if one could learn to takeoff and land a Cessna badly in a week long bootcamp Yes, you can. Taking off is extremely easy, you just need to accelerate with the flaps down and pull up at around 90km/h (if I recall correctly
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by loopbit 10y ago
Maybe I'm not exactly the case you are asking for, but let me tell you my experience: I started college in '97 and specialized in robotics and AI. Dropped out during my fifth year (2003) for several reasons (some having to do with
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by loopbit 10y ago
If we are not the target market, then who is? I mean, yes, I agree, the average consumer is not going to use ethernet nor function keys. The average consumer is going to use the laptop to browse, write documents, watch videos and, maybe, do
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by loopbit 10y ago
I also use Rancher and quite happy with it. The cool thing is that you can set up and environment using cattle (their own orchestration system), k8s, mesos or swarm. Up to you and your preferences.
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by loopbit 10y ago
Also interested in something like this but I don't think I have time to do it on my own. If you end up taking it up and would like some help, give me a shout. My email is miguel at <username>.com
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by loopbit 10y ago
Not technical and the "creating new products or services that have changed the world" is hugely debatable, but how about Amancio Ortega[0]? A spaniard, son of a railroad worker. Started working as a shop hand at age 14 and it&#x27
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by loopbit 10y ago
I've almost always used story points and actually find them useful. As for the author's complaint, for me the key is this: > First of all, what are story points? Are they measures of time it takes to complete a story? If yes, t
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by loopbit 10y ago
El Capitan improves performance compared to Yosemite, just as Snow leopard improved on Leopard, but if you look into more than two generations of the OS the trend goes the other way. I currently have two apple laptops, an old macbook that c
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by loopbit 10y ago
As I said in other comment, the antibiotics one is a very simple case, but I've had plenty of other examples. As to report the doctor... To whom? Do you know how difficult it is to prove almost any kind of malpractice? I've had a
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by loopbit 10y ago
You are right, the antibiotics one is pretty simple, I ran with it because I didn't want to get into personal details. Let's put a simple one from my experience: No doctor has been able to tell me what the bilirubin is. They go on
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by loopbit 10y ago
Not only in Canada, it's like that in every country I've seen a doctor. As for the 'why'... You'd be surprised on how difficult is to get an answer like that from any doctor. My suspicion[0] is that they simply don&
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by loopbit 10y ago
> as part of their WRT line is intended to support open source firmwares Not sure about the 1200, but I have the WRT610N and it has never worked completely with Open/DD-WRT. The best I got (before leaving it and returning to the ori
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by loopbit 10y ago
Foreign exchanges giving worse exchange rate is better than the situation I've had many times in england, were I was simply unable to pay with or exchange northern irish or scottish pounds. Someone told me that, by law, they have to ac
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by loopbit 10y ago
Weird... I actually tried with a couple of different browsers (FF, Chrome and Safari) to check that it wasn't me logged in or something like that. Could it be ip-based, as I did all my tests with the same computer? Hmm... Anyway, thank
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by loopbit 10y ago
I was wondering about what you said about linking to a direct image being tricky. As far as I can see, you can put the link to imgur (like http://imgur.com/gKt0Owa ) or directly to the image ( http://i.imgur.com&#x
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by loopbit 10y ago
Not OP and don't care much about this, TBH, but: >> Remember the iPhone 4?[...] > translation: I was too stubborn to buy a case / bumper to prevent this and suffered and bitched for a year instead It might be just me, but
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by loopbit 10y ago
The main one is that, at least with the providers I used (three, including Fedex) there was no api and no way to interface with their systems automatically, everything had to be done through archaic websites with a usability designed before
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by loopbit 10y ago
As the ex-CTO of an ecommerce startup, I really hope you succeed and wish you the best of luck. There's plenty of us, little guys that need logistics/fulfillment and the options just suck. There's a huge space between startin
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by loopbit 10y ago
You forgot Gibraltar, but your point stands.
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by loopbit 10y ago
No, in many cases the JVM performance will match and sometimes even outperform a C++ implementation in terms of performance and I've seen a few examples of that, although math-heavy operations is usually not one of them. In terms of si
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by loopbit 10y ago
At least the UK seems to be making moves toward a better system, Terry Pratchett had a bit to do with it. The rest of the european countries are blind to this issue. This is something that hits very close to home, as I'm in the same pa
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by loopbit 10y ago
I don't see anything in the article that goes against gitflow. Is it just me? They don't want to use Github for the code review and prefer to use Gerrit? Good for them, I don't either and actually prefer GitLab or BitBucket f
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by loopbit 10y ago
On the other hand, you have to consider ISP deals. I've just got the S7 plus the Gear VR for 200 euros. Way cheaper than any option that includes the Rift.
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by loopbit 10y ago
I don't think that's right, do you have any links? Italy, Spain, Ireland, England... actually all european countries (AFAIK) use Monday as the start of the week. All countries with a strong christian tradition. The only countries
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by loopbit 11y ago
It may have come across dickish, It was not my intention. I had no time to go in more detail and just left it as a note. As for the issue at hand, yes, it's mentioned nearly at the beginning of the book, when the narrator is discussing
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by loopbit 11y ago
If you had read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance you'd known that it has very little to do with actual motorcycle maintenance, apart of using it as a tool to make its point.
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by loopbit 11y ago
Said in traditional business-speak: Work in a profit center, not in a cost center.
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by loopbit 11y ago
AFAIK, depends on the country and legislation. In Ireland (and Spain) I've had to produce originals where the signature was clearly hand-written (they looked for pen pressure points, for example). I've even had kafkaesque situatio
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by loopbit 11y ago
Funnily enough, I use a commercial app with the same name (Paperless) that does exactly that. It scans the documents, applies OCR and saves the pdfs in a folder that, in my case, is automatically synced with dropbox and backed up to a local

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