MrFoof

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by MrFoof 14y ago
Looks to be around 93%. http://pubs.sciepub.com/materials/1/1/2/#.UXmcu5VcJnI
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>If we call it just three million people Which would be ludicrously inflated. Belmont, Waltham, Newton, Cambridge, Watertown and the Allston/Brighton neighborhoods of Boston -- which was the original cities/neighborhoods suggested to
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by MrFoof 14y ago
What I was most pleased with is Colonel Timothy Alben. He would get in front of the podium, say only what he wanted the police to say, then refused questions and immediately ended the conference. With as much misinformation that the media
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>I can already see the glee in intelligence / law enforcement agencys' eyes as they think how they can use this latest incident as reasoning for more over-arching powers. I think this is my biggest concern. Once in a while at the Back B
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by MrFoof 14y ago
I live in Charlestown, which is Boston's northeasternmost neighborhood, which is actually across the Charles River. For the past hour I've nothing but ambulances going down 99 or along 93.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
In the case of China and Korea, most PC gamers aren't playing at home. The monetization model for computer games in east Asia is the polar opposite of the US and Western Europe. you definitely might care about this market because it's ver
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by MrFoof 14y ago
China - and South Korea actually (and other countries in SE Asia) - are primarily on pirated versions of Windows. If computer adoption is up, it's up on the versions that are readily accessible to people. It's been a while (so someone coul
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by MrFoof 14y ago
In all honesty, my guess is the "flat" design for iOS is going to be no different than the evolution of OS X. Compare 10.2 to 10.8. Gone are the pinstripes, much of the jewel-like gleams and candy coating, as well as many gradients and bru
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Technically this is one of the same. In 1993, Fiat acquired Maserati from De Tomaso, but a 50% stake was sold to Ferrari in 1997 -- however, at the time, Ferrari had already been under Fiat's umbrella as a sister brand (since 1969).
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Being a car nut, I thought the exact same thing. "The same residual value percentage as the iconic Mercedes S Class, one of the finest premium sedans in the world" initially hit me as an inside joke, considering how easy it is to buy a 1
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>For one, Windows Azure is a pretty big deal. Windows Azure is a big enough deal, and working well enough, that Brent Simmons of Black Pixel (and well known indie Mac developer) has been recruited to do tutorials on the Mobile Data Serv
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by MrFoof 14y ago
I use my iPad for when I don't want to work. It's that simple. I don't find using it to be terribly productive for work purposes (especially as a data warehouse consultant). I realize that some people have, and that's great, but for me it
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by MrFoof 14y ago
There are a good number of people which aren't fiscally responsible, only taking action when it reaches a level of crisis. BankRate.com did a survey a while back... http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-25/business/chi-2... ... that
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by MrFoof 14y ago
For car nuts living in the city, it's a bit of a thing you do. I live in Boston, and I'm fairly certain that the local Porsche dealership is catering to potential customers with very early morning test drives on Storrow Drive with demo cars
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>These three points affect anyone who lives near heavy automobile traffic. Just because it's an externality doesn't mean it doesn't exist! However, it occurs over such a timespan that the immediate effects are a non-issue, just long-ter
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by MrFoof 14y ago
If this is real, it certainly answers the "how could this app get someone laid" question rather well.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
The Dwarf Fortress community is an incredible anomaly. It is donation-ware, yet, Tarn brings in enough money to live on (albeit, not comfortably) and to pay his brother for some help. Aside from perhaps Richard Stallman, are there any oth
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Actually, there is. They have larger solid state drives (or, ugh, hard disks). They have far more memory. They have fans. They have FAR more expensive CPUs and chipsets. They have ports and other connectors. They are physically larger,
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Boston's MBTA has had similar services available for years. About 3 years ago they rolled out tracking for the Orange, Red and Blue lines. Less than 2 years ago, they rolled out GPS tracking for buses. Recently, they started adding arriv
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by MrFoof 14y ago
> It took off, raising vastly more money than they anticipated -- and obliterating the original production plans and timeline I wonder if Kickstarter allowed projects to set a maximum number of backers (or a funding cap), if projects wo
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>Never burn your bridges. I disagree. There absolutely exists not only a time to burn bridges, but to nuke them from orbit -- just to make sure . Sorry, but I've seen people go through some toxic employment situations (i.e. breach of
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>If you get into McKinsey/Bain/Boston... Fun fact: If you are a college dropout and apply to these places, they will at best politely rebuff you. However, if they need you, and you run your own consultancy, they have no problems bein
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>How many people do you know who have an iPad but not a PC (or a Mac)? Here's an edge case -- my parents' apartment community. This is a 2-building apartment complex (with about a dozen condo units in the front) with about 500ish total
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by MrFoof 14y ago
When I was 6 years old, my goal in life was to move to Japan and work for Nintendo. Possibly the idea of marrying Princess Toadstool was somewhere in there, but that was the idea. When I was 20, I actually had a chance to work on MechWarri
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>I'm dealing with clients that insist on writing custom applications to do complex ETL instead of using SSIS or decent third party tool. I have some beefs with SSIS (which I bring up to the SSIS team lead, Matt Masson, every time we mee
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Massachusetts has the "Massachusetts Health Connector" for MA residents which lets you choose from a large number of providers and dozens of plans: https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector I wouldn't of struck out on my ow
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Apple puts Apple first above all else, after which are customers and then developers.
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Hey now, I'd have a Toto toilet if my apartment would let me install one. Problem is, they won't, because they don't want to deal with it when I move out.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
The US is a notoriously price-sensitive market. For a lot of folks, they wouldn't consider paying $1000+ for a toilet when the most basic American Standard can be found for about $125. A lot of people would find it hard to justify an orde
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by MrFoof 14y ago
For those of you who will participate in a future platform with a day 1 launch... consider card games. There's a massive audience for them, which is a great reason why he's seeing such exceptional performance. Of course, being free also h

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