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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 sid…

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 plan…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_and_Monaghan_bombings

Ironically, the Figma tagline is "Nothing great is made alone"

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-d…

> So what exactly is left for a corporate tax to collect? £220bn in profit last year. It's in the headline.

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 m…

> 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 actual…

Ryanair did the exact same thing.

There are still a lot of extremely useful JQuery plugins and widgets with JQuery as a dependency.

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 r…

Which google services are you using? Is it just the map widget?

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…

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

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.

>“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 im…

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 Solution was to add a hidden column for each…

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))…

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 …

> 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 …

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 cach…

Survival of the offspring is also a factor. Better one that makes it to adulthood than ten who do not.

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-jok…