DontGiveTwoFlux

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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
That's right, 'real' tech companies such as Apple, Intel, Samsung, and many others can sell as many products as there are bits streaming across the network.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
Sounds like your bosses have been a little micromanagey. Talking to more senior managers have been great ways for me to gain valuable perspectives on their goals and ask questions about how to achieve them. They should also be interested in
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
But the ‘learning the skills as you go’ part is where the seniors come in. I’ve benefited immensely from the code reviews which took things that technically worked but we’re convoluted and transformed them into code that could be maintained
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
Citations needed.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
The contracting company takes a significant cut of that.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
That is probably the biggest takeaway for me from the article. The insufferable Dr. Warwick gets his patients to comply. That is one of his cutting edge skills.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
You can try out Better Touch Tool to add a ton of custom gestures to whatever mapping you want. For example, I use a four finger swipe down to hit CMD-W, which closes the window in focus for most apps. https://www.boastr.net&#x2F
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
It seems like the kind of thing that doesn't take that many fatalities prevented to break even on.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
You might check this out: https://www.hypori.com/platform
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
This assumes it is most efficient to build the solar locally. These radiative panels have to be installed locally. Solar can be transmitted over wires from large scale plants.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
That's common for water allotment and agriculture. Western water rights allow for users to take only a limited number of acre-feet of water per year. If there is less water, then some people get bumped off the list for that year.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
Medicine as well. Medical residents can have shifts that are 24 hours long.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
Anyone read the paper to see what kind of flux this technology might have compared to materials used in existing membranes? I often hear about desalination as an energy problem, since the plants use so much to run. I'd be interested to
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
Vertical - the actual thing that provides customer value. Horizontal - scaling up your application to lots of customers. Scaling software is easy, there's no factory to buy more equipment for. Creating business value is much harder.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
Another difference - The free climbing on the Dawn Wall allowed for mistakes because of the ropes. Jorgesen (and maybe Caldwell, I can't recall) both took falls while attempting to climb the wall. The spirit of free climbing is that yo
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 9y ago
It keeps your hands dry when they get sweaty, making it easier to hold onto the rock. It's standard equipment for climbers.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
Life of the party here! What's the problem with giphy? Is it too silly? Too much light hearted humor going on in your team's chat?
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
One issue I ran into quite a bit was timeouts. I had a spreadsheet with a few hundred rows I was using to create Docs and send emails. I was running from scripts.google.com. Any operation running for longer than about five minutes would tim
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
While in most cases the man is frugal relative to his wealth, he still does own a private jet. Not exactly upper middle class. https://www.google.com/amp/www.cnbc.com/amp/id/49787452
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
Each switch of a gate causes energy to be expended. When a transistor switches, there is some current flowing and some voltage across the source and sink. That voltage * current is greater than zero, and therefore requires power. This is op
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
Except that if you buy the Berkshire Hathaway machine you'll put in $20 and get back a dollar.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
He's not talking about buying the homes and renovating like an investor trying to make money. He's talking about ways to make the neighborhoods more livable (and therefore more valuable) by having the cities invest in the infrastr
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
Have you used the Visual Studio tools? Could you point me in a direction to set this up on my system?
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
There was a Starcraft brood war AI competition that did not have a limit on APM. The top contestants were employing strategies that required APM an order of magnitude higher than what players could do. For example, in brood war, SCVs can re
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
I think it's been two or three years since I've plugged my iPhone into my computer to do something besides charge it. Good riddance! iTunes in the later years felt awkward and hard to use.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
Eh, I had to write a DFS the other day at work.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
I'm working on a big c# app right now. All over the code base are areas where we always assumed a call to .first() would always return at least one thing. The business needs have changed and now we have use cases where we return nothin
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
They also reinvest dividends automatically, and rebalance automatically when you add new funds so you aren't over allocated in a particular class of assets. Tax loss harvesting is limited to 3000 per year, but you can carry over until
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
I love the hacker news search. It's on every page, so no need to remember where it is. Best part- I would guess that about 3/4 of the time I search, I find what I'm looking for.
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by DontGiveTwoFlux 10y ago
Here's a vim tip that has me using macros way more frequently! Map <space><space> to @q. That way we to record a macro, space space to play it. Much easier to remember, especially because I usually only use one macro at a t

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