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721.
by akgerber 16y ago
It confused the SDK for application developers with the hardware dev kit for OEMs, and was thus off-topic.
722.
by akgerber 16y ago
Would installing seat belts actually save those lives? An accident that would be fatal without a seatbelt may well be fatal with one, involving perhaps a fire or train or semi truck. Improving general road, pedestrian, and bicycle safety wo
723.
by akgerber 16y ago
These results are reflective of the strengths & weaknesses of the Samsung system versus the Snapdrapgon, with the Snapdragon having a better FPU & thus winning by far on Linpack. The previous-generation Snapdragon SoC in the Streak
724.
by akgerber 16y ago
The places we currently build are by no means the product of a free market. Automobile-based transportation is heavily subsidized both through direct taxation paying for automobile-optimized roads as well as minimum parking requirements tha
725.
by akgerber 16y ago
You can download a full-length HD film to extant (but not-yet-sold) phones and output it via an HDMI port. The only problem is that doing so will burn probably $40 in bandwidth.
726.
by akgerber 16y ago
Their vector implementation of Maps will making it a lot more usable, if you can cache a whole route's worth of map data beforehand: -no worrying about getting lost right outside data coverage -people without data plans can precache data wh
727.
by akgerber 16y ago
Texas has two of America's six largest cities in addition to all of its agricultural land. North Dakota has a city of less than 100,000. So its hinterland is a little more important.
728.
by akgerber 16y ago
Apple products have very strong resale values. Check your local craigslist.
729.
by akgerber 16y ago
Google Maps bike directions are my killer app.
730.
by akgerber 16y ago
It's pretty much at the level of common knowledge that for most of human history, the primary human occupation was food production.
731.
by akgerber 16y ago
I saw crews of idiots doing wheelies up and down the street when I lived in Harlem on 146th St. and didn't feel particularly threatened.
732.
by akgerber 16y ago
There are plenty of decent-quality state universities that have essentially mechanistic admissions by functions of GPA, class rank, & standardized test scores.
733.
by akgerber 16y ago
Yeah, $75k is what you need for a decent, immediately-habitable house in a happening neighborhood like Lawrenceville. If you're willing to, y'know, take a bus or walk a few more blocks to a neighborhood center, and you can do some work on t
734.
by akgerber 16y ago
Punks have abandoned the South Side & live in Bloomfield and Lawrenceville now. Both are older Italian neighborhoods. The South Side is full of bros at night. You can seriously buy decent houses for well under $100k.
735.
by akgerber 16y ago
"And, yes, me too: I wrote this in vi(1), which is why the article does not have all the fancy Unicode glyphs in the first place."
736.
by akgerber 16y ago
But what characters are homoglyphs are determined by your choice of typeface.
737.
by akgerber 16y ago
Bike to work. I'm fresh out of college, at my first desk job. I'm in the best shape of my life. A commute is an exercise routine that you're not about to skip.
738.
by akgerber 16y ago
San Diego has bike lanes everywhere where they're not needed, but as soon as you get to a narrow section of road or an intersection they disappear. It can easily add several miles onto a trip if you are unable to take the freeway. Many dest
739.
by akgerber 16y ago
Is that new? I never saw it.
740.
by akgerber 16y ago
Aren't car companies essentially all about wringing huge efficiencies out of mass production? Compare an automotive product to something requiring a similar manufacturing technique with more niche demand and there's usually a huge price dif
741.
by akgerber 16y ago
Google is good at hard computer-science problems, which this is. It also has an obvious market application. Even if they don't market this themselves, it'd be easy to spin it off or sell it for lots of money.
742.
by akgerber 16y ago
That experience probably also has to do with context. I'm willing to bet the female-male ratio at a community college generates difference experiences & expectations as opposed to the experiences a lot of us nerds live in heavily-male t
743.
by akgerber 16y ago
WIC is different from SNAP (food stamps).
744.
by akgerber 16y ago
Agreed. The median CMU CS undergrad started at $80k/year last year: http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/students_alumni/pos... Add on bonuses & that puts smart but not necessarily rock-star kids at close to $100k/yr straight out
745.
by akgerber 16y ago
I get the impression that there are a lot of unnecessarily expensive kitchen knives out there. Professional cooks spend all day using a knife & most of them use some knife that cost maybe $25 at the restaurant supply store.
746.
by akgerber 16y ago
No, on "7.0.503.0 dev" on the Mac.
747.
by akgerber 16y ago
And these guys had well-established competitors! But one competitor was a lot less functional, and another had a business model of "provide a free version with incredibly aggravating ads so that users buy a premium version." Instead I immed
748.
by akgerber 16y ago
I wonder what was behind the decision to put a background on this website that just makes it look like your monitor is dirty.
749.
by akgerber 16y ago
I would guess: -China didn't allow the Gallup survey. -Hinduism is predominantly practiced in just a few countries, and India has a lot of non-Hindus. -Because it was responsible for a lot of historical conflict & indicates a significan
750.
by akgerber 16y ago
Many private-university students receive nontrivial scholarships. And if you study a technical field at CMU you're unlikely to have trouble paying back the loans. I graduated CMU in May. I have quite a bit of debt, but got a good job straig

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