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Daedalus (YC W20) | Senior Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA & Karlsruhe, Germany | Full-Time Daedalus is reinventing precision manufacturing. We are a team started by two Open…

As a non-native English speaker, I find the omissions of "the" very prominent and interesting in SpaceX speech. "shortly before first stage shutdown", "resulting in loss of mission…

As a complete physics noob, can I mod this to work in 3D? I.e. model a concave rigid body shape, and have the fluid flow around it?

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jonasschneider/bfa93fbb35... Extended the melody & progression a bit. I'm so proud, this is awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyA6NZ9C9pM

They probably started development after the Skype fiasco at 30C3.

SMS/MMS are shit and a relic of the past. I don't think it's a good idea to try and build a product based on them, ever. Use the Internet.

Most points raised by the auther are criticism with specific Cucumber step implementations. I understand that this is not criticism of Cucumber-the-tool but Cucumber-the-process, b…

The entire idea is that, while keybase stores the pubkey, you don't have to trust them to deliver the right key. They have basically rolled their own type of digital certificate th…

> In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption. From what we can see, it’s pretty flat. Cue rimshot.

Well, classic key distribution problem is classic. You have to anchor your trust somewhere. And whatever you choose, somebody will complain. Cue web of trust PSA.

Related: Being smart doesn't automatically make you wealthy.

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> You've seen them. No. AdBlock.

Oh, I thought this was a wittily-titled article about Golang.

Love it, thanks for sharing!

The description sounds exactly like Tikal (1999), although Tikal seems to be more focused on strategy, rather than short-term tactical decisions. More info: http://boardgamegeek.co…

Literally the entire first half of the post can be read as "but it uses fancy techno stuff that can be constructed to violate some law." No real arguments against the currency ther…

Personal peeve: There is still a name collision beetween the popular use of "real-time" to describe "live" updates (usually as the defining aspect being "without polling") versus t…

The "D" in PDF does not stand for data, but for documents.