Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Do they have a Saturn V at Marshall Space Flight Center? I remember visiting there with my Cub Scout den in the 80's and just standing next to the cones of one of the rockets, staring in awe at just.how.big it was.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
If it blows up on launch, losing a Roadster is less painful than what that scientist poured years of his/her life into.
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Ask HN: Would an Open Source Projects Revolt Restore Net Neutrality?
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
We used to have a bread maker and I would agree with your assessment. Not to mention; is it really that hard to make bread by hand? Genuine question since I've never made a loaf by hand. But I do make biscuits (American) fairly ofte
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
We read that this is a common problem when we bought our Instant Pot so we went ahead and bought a couple of extra rings. One thing I've noticed though is that the black ring tends to not seal as well as the semi-clear ring that comes
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
That's what those are? Wow, thanks for the explanation! I always thought that was some weird quirk of the mushroom cloud.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Just because a lot of countries have done it doesn't make it any less shameful.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
As the article noted, VR and SL aren't compatible so from that perspective, there's nothing of value to buy. The real value in buying Linden Lab used to be, in my opinion, the in-world currency called the Linden (or L$). For a lo
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Apparently, the Navy SEAL's have a similar philosophy during BUD/S, and particularly during Hell Week where they go five days of gruelling physical challenges with a total of about 3-4 hours sleep.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I think he means that given enough people looking at a particular code base, even the most obscure (deep) bugs will be found (made shallow).
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
To put a finer point on his argument; I'm working on an Angular project at the moment. Every time I refresh the page I have to wait 10 seconds before I see any of my changes while Angular compiles everything. I calculated that, given
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I heard a guy say once in a talk, "There are only two groups that call their customers 'users': Drug Dealers and Software Developers."
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
You hit the nail on the head that Zuckerberg idolizing hacker culture rather than embracing the hacker ethos. They make me think of a guy my friend worked with who was in love with his monitors (seriously, all the pictures on his social
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Charter schools seem to be quite misunderstood in our country for reasons I have yet to understand. My kids are in a charter school (not in MI) and we love it. In talking about it with a co-worker once her comment was, "Oh, they take
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
The thing I find amusing about posts like these is that they come about once every 18 months. Just substitute the left framework for last years shiny and the right for the latest shiny. We developers are nothing if not consistent in our a
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
You keep saying users "love the experience". Can you provide data to back that up?
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Applies to most web sites these days, sadly.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Apologies for going off topic but, this trend of hiding the content until you scroll down is getting ridiculous. I stared at that stupid animation for 15 seconds thinking the content was to appear at some point, before realizing I was supp
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
How much you can learn, and how fast you can learn when debugging. Now, whenever I start with a new company, I make it known during the interview process that I expect to spend at least the first 2-3 weeks (preferably more) doing nothing
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Copperfield has since admitted using slight of hand to save his wallet at gunpoint was dumb. But it's really cool to know he did that. :) I agree that learning magic can take away some of the mystique but having practiced it off and o
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
I'm guessing the real reason is that this app is apparently interrupting the function of other apps. Can't blame Apple for wanting to prevent that.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Seems like one solution would've been to legally change her name to "Lisa Xhkuwbiyt" (pronounced "Lisa Davis") since the legal records system in NY is so dumb.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
I encourage you to read up on The Fair Tax. There are no brackets. There would be a single sales tax rate on all retail purchases. Nothing else. No deductions, no loopholes.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
One of the aspects of The Fair Tax, which is basically a flat tax, is the idea of a "prebate" - a sum of money (between $4-7K if I recall) that is paid to each taxpayer every year to help cover the basics like bread and milk.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
These days I've noticed they're getting even lazier than repackaging stories. They just put a few lines of text before and after pictures of tweets.
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
I had this happen a lot when I first started out but not so much anymore for some reason. One thing I remember that has always amused me is how I would dream about this amazing code. It was so amazing that I would simply have to wake up so
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
I'll add some anecdotal evidence as to why I don't think Walmart isn't capable of giving Amazon any hard times. When I got my first iPhone I was recommended a Zagg screen protector. I found that Walmart online had the best d
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Were there negative things said about the keyboard? I was playing around with the new MBP's in the Apple Store last week and I found the keyboards to be fantastic. I was actually surprised because I bought the family an iMac for Chri
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
Everyone is complaining about the confusing direction of Apple with regards to the Mac but when I look around, I often wonder if they're just not reacting to what is really happening. For example; my wife's 10 year old MacBook di
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by Zelphyr 10y ago
> Digg (remember them?) with the "Digg bar" which added a toolbar linking back to Digg for all of the internet, and well, what happened to them? At the risk of getting off topic, the reincarnated Digg is actually pretty good.

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