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jamestenglish

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    Comment #28360274

    I had the exact same reaction to reading those lines. Everyone I knew was more than happy to use AOL to surf the World Wide Web it was only when their cost and speed stagnated next…

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    Comment #27633023

    Buried beneath the sensational headline is the fact that Panasonic has been slowly divesting over the past year. They did not just "dump" the stock today, they simply reported that…

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    Comment #27632995

    Even more appropriate: Over the course of the last year Panasonic has divested from TSLA and used the gains to expand car battery operations. The currently headline makes it sound …

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    Comment #26902872

    > web designers need to think long and hard about how they implement responsive design. No, web designers need to do their best to balance cost/value of changes. While this might b…

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    Comment #26862234

    Subscribed to all 3 of those, one of my new fav's Stuff Made Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1VqrHhDte54oLgPG4xpuQ

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    Comment #26277817

    Important to a user in 1 region/country. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346 Uber is a global app, so the other 9/10s of the code is for all the features and functionalit…

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    Comment #25917706

    Not on ubuntu but looked up in my settings how it is handled: Preferences -> General -> Applications Content Type: slack Action: Use Slack Do you have that setting?

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    Comment #24334664

    Appears like it may be experiencing the hug of death. https://play.friendyfire.com/ is returning 404

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    Comment #24276053

    https://www.usahockeyrulebook.com/page/show/1084649-rule-605... The penalty here isn't because your equipment fell apart, it is if you keep playing with broken equipment then that …

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    Comment #24001829

    Thank you! I clicked all the links on the page and still had no idea what SAT or the SAT Competition was!

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    Comment #24001615

    Anyone else having a hard time even reading this article because of the lack of contrast from text to background?

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    Comment #23118157

    My experience: The first thing I see is a big in your face "please accept our cookies so that this will work!" Uh, what is it? Do I want it to work? I tentatively click "YES COOKIE…

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    Comment #22742437

    I don't understand why I would use this over Helm? I am even further confused when I go to the docs and it has guides for creating a kpt package from a helm chart: https://googleco…

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    Comment #21398809

    Just because the outcome of the code (i.e. obfuscated code) is "clever" doesn't mean that the code that does the obfuscation is clever

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    Comment #19634880

    Not OP, but I too am confused. I understood the sketch artist analogy but that didn't seem related to this point: >They also trained the model with non-blackhole images. Since the …

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    Comment #19583557

    This was my thought exactly! It is awfully pretentious to tell someone else what their "dream job" is. People value different things and there are a ton of people who value the abi…

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    Comment #18239693

    I can see the messages from Minea as Lark, but when I click "SUBMIT FLAG" I get "Invalid Flag Submission"

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    Comment #15348088

    Paid Time Off, so vacation time

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    Comment #13170811

    You're correct. Fixed.

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    Comment #13170167

    Wow quick to the low effort Slack is just IRC comment. In my opinion Slack does something that is often very undervalues and easily overlooked, it is like the opposite of a death m…

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    Comment #13169341

    This was poorly worded on my part, Kubernetes does not in anyway solve this problem. Instead I meant to use Kubernetes as an example of the work being done to standardize and abstr…

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    Comment #13168885

    Very true, but decoupling is only 1 of the benefits of microservice. Polygot environments, scalability, etc also come with microservices vs modules. As with everything its about th…

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    Comment #13168389

    I am an older dev that did a lot of "SOA" work back in the 2000's and I disagree that microservices are a "reinvention". In my opinion they are a further refinement of those SOA id…

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    Comment #13168231

    Some counter points, especially with fallacy #1: > Fallacy #1: Cleaner Code > “You don’t need to introduce a network boundary as an excuse to write better code.” I see this all the…

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    Comment #12124845

    I believe the author did cover this in point 13: In looking around at the certificates that they support, I was not surprised to find that they accepted no other certificates as va…