Jack000

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by Jack000 11y ago
Most of the compromises in the design comes from accommodating video. I originally preloaded almost everything, but found that even two videos in the DOM bogs down the browser and makes scrolling laggy. Anyways, I'm still working on i
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by Jack000 11y ago
the backend is just a bash script I wrote (github above) that compiles to a static site. It really needs a lot more work before I'd want to release it though.
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by Jack000 11y ago
I think that was the "finger mutton" http://www.echinacities.com/news/Hohhot-Local-Food#05
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by Jack000 11y ago
thanks! I mostly used a panasonic GX7. Easy to carry everywhere I go.
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by Jack000 11y ago
what aspect ratio, and on pc or mobile? It currently just shows the slide that covers the majority of the screen, which could be a bad assumption in certain cases. The videos are large by design, I just wanted them to look a bit better than
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by Jack000 11y ago
I'm planning on refactoring it actually, it's a bit ugly at the moment.
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by Jack000 11y ago
thankfully the Chinese monopoly on rare earth metals has been slipping in the last few years. http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/16/free-markets-smash-chinese...
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Two months in inner Mongolia(jack.ventures)
188 points by Jack000 11y ago|56 comments
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by Jack000 11y ago
shame it's only in Ontario, I might have applied. The site's pretty light on info as well. I guess they want people to contact them.
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by Jack000 11y ago
but they occur only once per page
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by Jack000 11y ago
I've always had problems with presenting in front of a crowd (it's pretty much my #1 fear) and I find the best way to improve is to practice. Presentation is really a form of performance art. It's easy to go down a checklist
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by Jack000 11y ago
any precompiled binaries not hosted on sourceforge? Given recent developments I'd rather not run an exe from them.
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by Jack000 11y ago
real estate speculation can be quite lucrative, but it's all about location. Following that advice in Vancouver for example would have been a great financial move - at least in retrospect.
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by Jack000 11y ago
yes, but this is like saying you'd prefer poorer eyesight just so you can wear glasses as a fashion statement. I have the same problem with beer - people seem to love it, but all I ever taste is sour and bitter. Sure I save money on be
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by Jack000 11y ago
There's always the "get rich slowly" approach: put a large portion of your income in low-risk investments. This is slow but once you hit a critical mass in capital more interesting opportunities become available. Eg. you coul
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by Jack000 11y ago
It feels like natural languages would evolve shortcuts based on the cultural context in which they arise. I would think that a language based on predicate logic would be less efficient at communicating oft-expressed things, like a Huffman c
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by Jack000 11y ago
I think it's probably easier to learn the phonetics of Chinese than reading/writing at first and bootstrap from there. Most of the written information in Latin languages are contained in the first and last characters of each word,
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by Jack000 11y ago
I think the "fail early" advice is applicable here. I left my (quite rewarding) job of 3 years to travel and it was a very difficult decision. In retrospect I should have left much earlier, but instead I waited until I owned sever
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by Jack000 11y ago
pretty excited about digital manufacturing - I think instead of 3d printers in every home we'll be able to eg. Scan your foot, upload, and get a shoe that fits you exactly.
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by Jack000 11y ago
If this was real life I'd take the bike too. I mean, something like that actually happening would seem pretty suspicious. I'd think it was a candid camera thing or a pretext to lure me somewhere to rob me.
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by Jack000 11y ago
hey lateral solutions are the most fun. some other obvious ideas: - only the serial numbers matter not the physical bills, write them down on a ledger with an index - bill reading machine with simple ocr, scans all serial numbers into a db
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by Jack000 11y ago
That's still a lot of bill sorting though. Not sure if you can demand sequential bills from the bank, but getting your bills pre-sorted might have been the best option, then it's just a matter of looking at the first and last bill
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by Jack000 11y ago
The problem with torrents are at the ends - initial seeding and lack of seeders as traffic declines. Both cases benefit from a static web seed. I ran a site a couple of years ago that did this very thing, but it was quickly overwhelmed with
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by Jack000 11y ago
I think the lesson from the success of the iPad is that there is a large market out there that doesn't want an actual computer. Personally I'm waiting for the macbook air with skylake. The macbook haptic click is surprisingly usab
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by Jack000 12y ago
I had planned on making the nomad transition permanently, but now I think 3-6 months is the way to go, like an extended vacation. I thought I needed a complete lifestyle change, but I just needed some time away from everything. some more po
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by Jack000 12y ago
A lot of detailed posts here, I'll try to be brief - It gets tiring after a while, I kind of missed my car/TV/desktop. - Finding a new place to stay every month or week is a bit of a pain. - I think it helps to have something
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by Jack000 12y ago
I think they would have been fine had they shipped a better product. When I was doing research to buy a 3d printer every review I read said that the closed source metal version was every bit as unreliable as the previous plywood laser cut m
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by Jack000 12y ago
It would be more analogous to the story if through a sheer number of improbabilities the antivaxxers are vindicated in the 22nd century.
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by Jack000 12y ago
it's possible that as robots become more commonplace homes would be constructed with robotic/remote repair in mind, I hope that's the case anyways, plumbers and electricians are expensive. Kind of like how mass produced produ
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by Jack000 12y ago
iOS version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smashmash/id912719653?mt=8 First time game-dev experience for me. I was looking at some nvidia object destruction sims and thought it would make a pretty cool game

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