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   by akamaka 11y ago

   It's a thinly diguised reference to EMC, the storage company.
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   I would add the 1930s Gee Bee Racer. It won many races, but it was essentially like strapping the pilot onto a big engine, with barely any wings and tiny control surfaces, and it frequently crashed. http://www.fiddlersgreen.net&
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   9 times yesterday, according to my browser history. It was a slow day, though.
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   Some commenters are unclear about the role of the F35, so I figured I'd quote Wikipedia: The F-35A is expected to match the F-16 in maneuverability and instantaneous and sustained high-g performance, and outperform it in stealth, payl
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   I don't think it's fair to say recycling is "designed" to be "scam". In my city, the recycling program was designed to meet specific waste diversion goals. There is no empty land for new dumps within city limi
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   Nice find, sytelus. Thanks for posting this!
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   Also, the guy who founded VISA has spent his later years putting forward ideas on how build large organizations that still maintain the anarchic qualities which allow independance from too much central control. https://books.goog
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   I'm sure it's different for everyone, because I sometimes just don't feel like eating much for a couple days. It makes sense to me, because some of our ancestors might have had only an itermittant supply of food, while others
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   by akamaka 11y ago

   Thanks for explaining, I see what you mean now!
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    by akamaka 11y ago

    I have quite strong feelings on the subject of over-engineering. I've had to argue against over-engineering many times in my career. I wasn't about discouraging thinking. I was fighting against actually implementing specific featu
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    by akamaka 11y ago

    There's an explanation of the solution here for those who don't want to play the video in the article: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I've spent time at an organic dairy farm, and I was not upset by anything that I saw there. Although it's not a natural way of life for a cow, the animals were treated very well. There were some processes that cause the animals sh
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    Here's the section of the law that he was charged under: False statements, evasion of duties 153. No person shall (b) to avoid compliance with this Act or the regulations, (i) destroy, alter, mutilate, secrete or dispose of records or
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    There are several mechanisms at play in honey: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609166/
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I wish you hadn't unkilled it, because I ended up clicking on it. I stopped reading and flagged the article after getting to this part: There is, though, one thing these two founders are missing, and it is almost the sine qua non of t
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I've lived this experience, many times over, and the story is true at it's core. Some folks might dismiss this as a fantasy scenario, and sure, it's missing a lot of details. In the real world, the lone programmer doesn'
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    Here's the offending shell script code: # figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit # non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the # specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure o
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I heard that the Drake Well Museum in Pennsylvania operates a replica of a similar system, if you're looking to see one in action: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Well_Museum
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    There are new concerns specifically about the effect of GMOs on biodiversity: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Genetically_modifi...
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I got that it was a joke, but I downvoted you because it's not really funny and a waste of my time to read.
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    It's not working at the moment. All of my searches ended with no results, and it took me a while to notice that the request to the web service is returning a 502. Better error messages would be helpful.
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I think that threshold was chosen because every route longer than 400 miles is losing money. The longest route with an operating profit is 381 miles.
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I think the authors of the study are in agreement with you. They've specifically structured their analysis to point out that despite the growing passenger traffic, it is only a small handful of short routes that don't lose money.
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I totally disagree. I've spent the last year working on a complex and widely-used site that is built with Angular. It is maintainable, performant, has a smooth UX, and is mobile-friendly. I'm usually extremely cautious about rely
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    If the claims that they ignored warnings are correct, I would indeed lay most of the blame on Apple: http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/25/researcher-... It may be the case that celebrities ch
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    Seeing as the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company is 40-50 years[1], it's not unreasonable to consider a 6-year-old company to still be in the "starting up" phase of its existance. [1] http://www.busin
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I disagree. I frequently hear people complaining about cyclists breaking rules, but when Toronto did a major study of accidents between cars and bikes, it was found that cyclists are at fault in less than 10% of accidents. Compelling driver
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    I'm not usually interested in reading idle musings about what the commenter was doing today, and I tend to downvote those. I feel like HN users increasingly treat the comments as a place to just spit out whatever is on their mind. Tha
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    Thanks for posting this! I've been looking for the same thing, but my most recent attempt failed. I was asked to come back to a company that I used to work for, and I insisted that I would only come back if I could do a 3 day work wee
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    by akamaka 12y ago

    The 10x improvement that Apple claims is presumably rooted in Mantle's design. The Mantle docs also claim an order of magnitude improvement in draw calls. See the "Small Batch Problem" section in this PDF: http://w