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wakeless
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Comment #48409105
I'm assuming there's an optimisation in the source of this: ``` if(github) return false ```
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Comment #46820519
I did a similar set of evals myself utilising the baseline capabilities that Phoenix (elixir) ships with and then skillified them. Regularly the skills were not being loaded and th…
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Comment #46597114
So I built a thing that looks _very_ similar to this a while back: http://pipie.io/agent-tracker (it doesn't orchestrate) And what's really fascinating isn't that multiple people h…
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Comment #34159585
Don't forget the Paul Kelly song of the same name.
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Comment #22930800
A very cool approach, well done.
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Comment #22746750
There is a great episode of 99 percent invisible about this. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/
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Ask HN: Google Meet needs Brady Bunch mode
I have never heard so many feature requests for something in such a short time. My team is fully remote, happy with Google Meet (or Hangouts) except for the Brady Bunch mode. Peopl…
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Comment #16910825
Fair enough, I suppose. I still think the additional complexity of having to bring in the context for the save of passing 1 variable through the whole tree is overkill though.
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Comment #16910589
This is actually a really weird example of using the Context API. I have no idea why you would want to use it to manage a single switch of state. The far better examples are provid…
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Comment #16770465
How does this work in the case where the majority of your customers currently pay by direct-debit/cheque? This is certainly the case for us, but we have long been looking for a aff…
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Comment #15413000
Beer isn't in 'publicly' accessible vending machines any more as far as I can tell. It is however often available in the foyer of a place that normally sells beer (that might be cu…
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Comment #11736145
My favourite part of this is the "All systems operational" in green at the top. Yet, all systems are clearly not operational.
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Comment #10336090
No [video] ?
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Comment #10121763
Gee I spent far too much time on Astaria in the late 90s. I'm sure there's a few people around here that are in the same boat.
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Comment #9651692
We've been using this for a while, documentation isn't great, but it seems it's the best library for what it does. We had particular trouble with double tap recognition early on bu…
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Comment #9335283
There is significant friction from changing to anything that isn't Word (PDF/Latex to a lesser extent) in this space. I wonder what it is going to take for that monopoly to be brok…
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Comment #8480914
You are right in a sense. I think people are demanding more flexible, realistic and more consumer favourable laws. Rather than the rigid structures that are in currently in place.
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Comment #8141987
Here in Queenstown, NZ there's spa (jacuzzi) as a service.
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Comment #7742771
But my cat's name is quizzical.
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Comment #7485960
Credit cards have little wire antenna in them. If you basically cut it in down near the chip, the chip still works when inserted into the machine but the NFC doesn't work. I did th…
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Comment #7390230
In a lot of ways it's tricky, but easy at the same time. We end up trying to build strong concepts that can be mapped onto a few different problems within the event. A lot like an …
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Comment #7389740
As someone who is working in this space with a reasonably unsexy product, I'm a believer that back-office is where it's all at.
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Comment #7377374
UUDDLRLRBA
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Comment #7352311
These guys live in here Melbourne, cost of living is pretty crazy high. Sure, you could get away with paying yourself less than that, but 60k (less business expenses) puts them in …
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Comment #6984084
I personally think that the Git approach is closer to how I envisaged a (non-distributed) VCS should work. I'm the same as you, coming from SVN it was a godsend.