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stiller··on Show HN: Monocle – bidirectional code generation library
If there is an existing parser, like for a lot of templating languages, this is can be done, since templates are parsed to ruby in a separate step. Otherwise, it would require creating a ruby-based parser for a language, or porting the concepts to that language.
stiller··on BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury
The images were taken using the monitoring cameras:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/10/BepiColomb...

Images using primary instruments will follow when it reaches orbit in 2025.

stiller··on Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot
According to the World Bank, The Netherlands are the 23rd country in the world with the lowest organized crime:

https://tcdata360.worldbank.org/indicators/h3031de56?indicat...

They are tied with Switzerland with the 27th lowest homicide rate in the world:

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

stiller··on Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
Interesting point. I love my wife and children in the sense that seeing them thrive makes me happy and I'm willing to sacrifice my own comfort (and probably even wellbeing) in order to increase theirs. Some people seem to have a similar relationship with their employer, which baffles me.
stiller··on Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?
I'm sure they believe some people love what they do, it's just unlikely that the majority of the people grinding away as office drones do.
stiller··on The Atlantic to Install Paywall
Blendle offer a pay-per-article model. It's very hard if not impossible to make a sound business case for the Spotify model in journalism. The running costs for creating new content on a daily are much higher.
stiller··on The Atlantic to Install Paywall
Blendle provides something close to what you describe: https://pay-docs.blendle.io/ So it's mostly a matter of these publication signing up.
stiller··on The Atlantic to Install Paywall
Blendle offers instant refunds for this reason.
stiller··on The Atlantic to Install Paywall
Blendle offers this service, it's called Blendle Button: https://pay-docs.blendle.io/
stiller··on FPGA Webserver
If he makes it up to the HTTP layer, he can implement a very fast load balancer.
stiller··on IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replann...
stiller··on Are you a Facebook employee?
So, uh, yid has been let go?