NathanKP

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by NathanKP 14y ago
I'm curious what it is about Elon Musk in particular you consider to be "off kilter".
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Because hemp and coca can not be grown effectively in Canada without expensive greenhouses because of the climate. Also there are already many drug plantations in Central America. So that explains why Mexico instead of Canada. But I'm not s
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by NathanKP 14y ago
That is ridiculous. A car is a product like any other product that can be sold. Apple sells phones and MacBooks directly to the public. Outlet malls have clothing manufacturers selling directly to the public. The car dealerships is an outda
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by NathanKP 14y ago
No according the website it is written in C++.
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Unless money is diverted from more useful projects to buying balls? Fair enough. If this project siphoned off money that would have been used to provide food or medical aid then it could be seen as a waste. But it sounds like there is a m
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Essentially they do the same thing as One Laptop Per Child. You buy one and a third world child gets one. They didn't go through Kickstarter but I think the model they use is more effective anyway.
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I've never played soccer with a ball made of trash but I'm sure that this ball would be seen as better by any child comparing it to a ball made of trash. Sure first world quality soccer balls aren't necessary for children to have fun, but t
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Exactly. Too often I see posts by idealistic people who haven't actually shipped product who are espousing the idea that your product should be perfect. (Not saying Dustin Curtis is one of these, mind you.)
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by NathanKP 14y ago
A designer does not have total control except in the most ideal of circumstances. In the real world there are deadlines, a budget, the whims of clients to cater to, and investors to impress. It's nice to think that perfection is possible bu
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I have an old 2009 white plastic MacBook, running Mountain Lion. This is definitely an underpowered setup given its age, but I generally feel that it is fast enough for the programs I use, including Sublime Text 2. I've had the typing lag f
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I like the idea of Light Table but what is a deal breaker for me is that it feels like there is an ever so slight lag between pressing a key on my keyboard and the character appearing in the Light Table editing area. I am very picky about t
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I'm really happy that my circle of closest friends all use Path. As a result Path is the social network I use for my best friends, and the other social networks are all the spammy stuff I don't really want to see anyway.
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I personally use Path and love the "neighborhood" alerts which periodically post to Path "Nathan is in Downtown Austin", "Nathan is in Barton Hills, Austin", etc. This system is very elegant and seamless because it posts directly to the soc
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... With regard to the article I agree that it is noble (and probably more profitable) to build new products and ideas rather than clones of existing ideas, just
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I imagine because iPhone is a smaller device it is more expensive to produce.
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Just to offer the opposite opinion, as a frequent user of Hulu I love the new redesign. To me it has less of the useless stuff and more of the useful stuff immediately available. The new front page has helped me discover many new shows that
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by NathanKP 14y ago
You must have got really lucky about how the car ran over the iPod, because I have seen a couple iPod's get run over by cars and in all cases where the tire went directly over the body of the iPod the device was essentially compacted flat b
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I see. I would still recommend JSON schema, though. It is great for debugging and ideal if you plan to open the API up to third party developers, because it makes it easy to ensure that all NoSQL data adheres to a proper schema, and it also
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Ooh yeah that isn't very good. They should really be using a JSON schema validation library to verify that someone isn't storing extra fields in the database, and that all the fields are of the right format and type.
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There is nothing wrong with either of those two lines of code provided that they are not the only layers of security. Checking to see if an ID is of the right length is a good way to filter out miss formated ID's early. And the JSON decodin
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Not only can you install the Textmate theme manually but you can also just use the Package Control app to install this theme automatically with no effort on your part.
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I think it is important for students to be cynical about their schools and recognize that there is a huge difference between academia and real life. Most of schooling is complete crap that you'll never use, or in the case of computer scienc
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by NathanKP 14y ago
Very cool! Is there a way to make the video larger if you want to actually view the video instead of just using the site as a music player? Perhaps make the area below the video player clickable so that it makes the video appear in a larger
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What do your company's ads say about you?(experimentgarden.com)
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If I were him I wouldn't bother with transferring my transcript. College education isn't worth a flip if you already know how to code and can demonstrate it by making a decent app like he did. I dropped out of college because I made my own
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I made something similar a while back, but for books. Essentially it used the Amazon API to create a Pinterest like interface for Amazon. (But this was before Pinterest, so it was called a Masonry interface at the time.) Here is what I came
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by NathanKP 14y ago
I think the type of people who are interested in old records probably aren't the type of people who would consider shoplifting. I'm not saying that there is no possibility of it happening, but if I was running the event I wouldn't be too wo
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I wonder how much money Google can make from a single household that is using Google products on the internet? As long as Google makes more money over time than the internet connection costs them, then it could be a very profitable for Goog
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It's funny but I see a parallel between your line of reasoning about global warming and the reasoning of those who believe in creation, and deny evolution. There are scientists who advocate creation, not evolution and there is no easy way t
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You can't scrape with AJAX because of cross domain security restrictions. One potential solution to obey robots.txt might be to spawn multiple small EC2 instances with different IP's and have them coordinate with each other to share the cra

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