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by patrickxb 7y ago
Lisp failed? There are multiple articles about it on the front page of HN.
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by patrickxb 7y ago
If someone doesn't want to vaccinate their kids they are risking the lives of many other people in their community with this choice, not just the kids they decide not to vaccinate. The problem is that infants can't be vaccinated f
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by patrickxb 7y ago
I think there are a lot more parts of "recycling" that are working besides putting recycling products in a separate trash can. In Chicago now, you have to pay for bags (plastic or paper) at any major store. It's 7 cents per
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by patrickxb 8y ago
I have this book even though I live in a major city. It's a great teaching manual and helps build up common sense to learn about what can be treated at home and what is serious.
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by patrickxb 8y ago
Also, the article doesn't mention how many users sign up in a regular 24 hour period (say on Wednesday a week ago). 3M in 24h is a lot of sign ups regardless (if they had 200M users a year ago, that's over a 1% jump in total numbe
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by patrickxb 8y ago
JS sprinkles became the stimulus package [1] [1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/stimulus-1-0-a-modest-javascript-...
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FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme(washingtonpost.com)
393 points by patrickxb 8y ago|303 comments
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China’s ban on the Boeing 737 Max inspires others, ramps up pressure on U.S.(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by patrickxb 8y ago|1 comments
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by patrickxb 8y ago
I don't find it appealing to use voice as an interface. I'd much rather have a button to press. I think the new feature in iOS where it guesses what I want to do (send a message to ABC, for example) based on previous patterns is
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by patrickxb 8y ago
I don't understand how they can afford the bandwidth... If this were on AWS it would be around $0.09 per GB for downloads.
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by patrickxb 8y ago
Seems like more work to apply and mentor a technical writer than just writing the docs...
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by patrickxb 8y ago
Me too. Seems like https://seatguru.com is the best site for figuring out the type of plane for a flight.
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by patrickxb 8y ago
Good catch...definitely updating every 30 minutes exactly.
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Tail recursion explained(youtube.com)
1 points by patrickxb 8y ago|0 comments
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Art Is Becoming a Financial Product, and Blockchain Is Making It Happen(nytimes.com)
45 points by patrickxb 8y ago|15 comments
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A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners(techcrunch.com)
1 points by patrickxb 8y ago|1 comments
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A secret 9/11 note from beyond the grave(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by patrickxb 9y ago|0 comments
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by patrickxb 9y ago
I think travel between HQ and HQ2 has to be a nonstop flight for it to be viable. The cities sorted by number of nonstops to Seattle per day: Los Angeles 23 Denver 18 Chicago 14 Dallas 12 Washington, D.C. 7 Atlanta 6 Newark 6 New York 6 Bos
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by patrickxb 9y ago
It would be nice if AWS could write something official about what they are doing. I've been noticing major performance changes in our instances and have no idea if it is related to Meltdown or something else. Google released a blog pos
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Collection of 90's-era web under construction GIFs(textfiles.com)
2 points by patrickxb 9y ago|0 comments
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Contempt culture(blog.aurynn.com)
3 points by patrickxb 9y ago|0 comments
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by patrickxb 9y ago
Is this a Babel fish?
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by patrickxb 9y ago
Who keeps flour in a bag like that?
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Send StatHat alerts to Keybase team chat channels(blog.stathat.com)
2 points by patrickxb 9y ago|0 comments
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by patrickxb 9y ago
Must be nice if you don't have to pay for it...
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Gt – go test with caching(godoc.org)
1 points by patrickxb 9y ago|0 comments
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by patrickxb 9y ago
Or you could return a pointer...
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The Admin Zen(adminzen.org)
2 points by patrickxb 9y ago|0 comments
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American Science and Surplus(sciplus.com)
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Go sync.Map coming to standard library(godoc.org)
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