ScotterC

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by ScotterC 14y ago
Original Speech http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007853
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How an environmental activist came to love GMOs(marklynas.org)
22 points by ScotterC 14y ago|2 comments
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Connecticut Town Will Collect, Destroy Violent Games(ign.com)
3 points by ScotterC 14y ago|0 comments
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by ScotterC 14y ago
I've found this site to be very helpful: http://bootstrapdocs.com/
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by ScotterC 14y ago
I love this part: 'Do you know what happens in art school? There is a lot of big talk about the art you made and the art you are going to make and the historical context and words like “derivative” get thrown out there (everything is deriva
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by ScotterC 14y ago
I switched recently and couldn't be happier. The bottom line is I find that Alfred is much faster. Other then that they're roughly equivalent.
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by ScotterC 14y ago
I always thought it was wonderfully ludicrous :)
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Yes. You're right. Utilities are told by the regulations to pay the engineering firms so that they can operate. I wish they had more choice other then the big ones but no one seems to be able to enter the market.
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Yes. Yes you did. Dubious whether to call it 'modern' however. That term in the art world is super tricky. I might fall to contemporary - but that also brings it's difficulties. If you want to be really wiley, you could call it post-ge
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by ScotterC 14y ago
That is great art! Really makes you think
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by ScotterC 14y ago
One reason also very much overlooked is that the entire nuclear industry makes the majority of its money from fuel fabrication. Making the bundles of fuel rods for PWRs and BWRs is a recurring, reliable source of income for the lifetime of
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by ScotterC 14y ago
But this isn't practical in reality. First of all, you need a core of U-233 to start the process but once you start you're adding thorium at different points in time so the fuel slurry is going to be always a mix of thorium, protactinium, u
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by ScotterC 14y ago
The best way to think of it is since U-233 is so much easier to burn then U-235 is like tinder instead of lumber. It reduces to much less and burns thoroughly.
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History of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor(energyfromthorium.com)
2 points by ScotterC 14y ago|0 comments
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Dank u wel :) All I learned. Wait, also how to order a pancake which I remember as something like ick vil crack un pannecooke. I was very impressed with the Dutch english when I've been over there. They approach it as a practicality and t
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Yup. And we had a running MSR at shippingport PA for awhile.
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Interestingly this has already been done in the U.S. kinda. Back when I was working on Indian Point Units 2 & 3 I found a paper about Unit 1 where - about 30 years ago - they mixed in some of the fuel bundles with Thorium to see how we
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Even the people I don't admire - I'd like to see it. The struggle of course is that your afraid that people will judge you for it. There's a lot of code I haven't pushed openly because of that reason. It's like publishing a blog post or
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by ScotterC 14y ago
This is what I loved about working with Dan in those early days of Artsicle. He cared about shipping more then anything else. He was a rabid hacker who pushed out code even if it was crappy but it got us to the understanding we needed so
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I am a terrible programmer(danshipper.com)
245 points by ScotterC 14y ago|140 comments
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by ScotterC 14y ago
I'm not sure if I fully understood your comment - You've used Zeus in production? If in reference to just improving speeds all across the board - recovery after deploy is the #1 priority for me. Rolling restarts feel like unnecessary compl
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by ScotterC 14y ago
For a really fast Rails environment I highly recommend Zeus https://github.com/burke/zeus which is built in Go. It does a great job of reloading only the dependencies that have changed.
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by ScotterC 14y ago
My favorite part: ' I, an individual with no previous worldwide recognition save for a frontpage Reddit post, managed to alter the behavior of people in Russia, Japan, Uzbekistan, and Italy within the course of 24 hours, all from the comfor
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Reminds me of the advice I sought on my first time firing someone. "Don't make it bitch fest'. Just lay it out and that's it. At this point, only give feedback if they ask for it." It really framed my thinking for management in general a
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Impressive Engineering + Art: It's Raining, but you won't get wet(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by ScotterC 14y ago|0 comments
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by ScotterC 14y ago
'yeah, i can understand that, and i don't think it's so odd - you want to see it and, sometimes, know the artist too. but that doesn't exclude online marketplaces as long as they are local (i didn't explain completely, but the site i used a
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by ScotterC 14y ago
Oddly enough, most people in the states do not buy art online. At the very least, not original art. Art.com has a strong presence in reproductions and posters but most original art is bought in direct contact with the artist or literally o
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by ScotterC 14y ago
The data attributes work great. They can fool you when you're not looking out for specific sitatuons. Like a typical error page will be show create or update action and not edit or new. The killer feature for me is being able to organize
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by ScotterC 14y ago
I've been using this technique with great success. http://viget.com/inspire/extending-paul-irishs-comprehensive... You still have to load in all your js but at least you can execute exactly what you want per controller and action and have
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The Real Cost of Google Fiber(ign.com)
1 points by ScotterC 14y ago|0 comments

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