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by amputect 10y ago
Yes, it is, but I think the implementation matters. In my building on the Google Kirkland campus, we have men's and women's bathrooms in a few different places, and also one place where there's 5 single-occupancy unisex bathr
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by amputect 10y ago
Highlight the title, right click, search google for it, and click the wsj result. The wsj website displays articles for people coming in through google. This worked for me at any rate, and I wasn't able to see it by clicking the direct
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by amputect 11y ago
> I remember an epic diff comment thread which only ended after the author defended her solution with a mathematical proof of correctness. Can you share anything more about this anecdote? I feel like there's a really interesting sto
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by amputect 11y ago
The setup / R&D costs for manufacturing alone must have been enormous. Greg Koenig wrote a great piece about the manufacturing process[1]. It's a really interesting read, even if you're not a big fan of Apple products. 1:
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by amputect 11y ago
Yeah, xylitol inhibits bacterial growth in the mouth. I like it in gum, it seems to help me. It seems like different people have different tolerances for xylitol to some extent; I know that my wife, who is much smaller than me, has a higher
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by amputect 11y ago
Sugar alcohols can have some unpleasant side effects, which make them unpopular for general use. They can cause bloating, flatulence, and diarrhea if you consume too much of them. The pop-culture example of this is the review section on ht
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by amputect 12y ago
I think it's better and more useful to ask "Why is my company so dysfunctional that I can't afford to have someone out on vacation?" Remember that the difference between someone taking maternity leave, and someone quitti
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by amputect 12y ago
I think you missed the presence of the word "doesn't" in the sentence about Redbeacon. "Readbeacon DOESN'T require that the contractor who I hire to paint a room show up in Redbeacon attire, only do work through Red
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by amputect 12y ago
From the article, "Every time the sensor blew, the onboard computer would shut the tractor down. It takes a technician at least two days to order the part, get out to the farm, and swap out the sensor." This is just a guess since
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by amputect 12y ago
I agree that it's a silly comparison; you should take that up with the post I replied to, which explicitly mentioned water and power and seemed to imply that my internet service would degrade to the same quality as those utilities (if
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by amputect 12y ago
My tap water is clean and delicious and I have never, ever had a problem with it. I have never experienced an unscheduled service interruption with my water, and scheduled service interruptions are very rare and advertised well in advance.
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by amputect 12y ago
Per a subsequent comment in the github thread: "the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out where that directory lives - and all this in a subshell, so we don't a
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by amputect 12y ago
This is exactly what I thought would happen when they gutted their QA staff and reassigned the surviving testers as developers. Your employees act in accordance with their incentives, and the incentives aren't there for QA. Microsoft m
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by amputect 12y ago
The fire phone (and other failed experiments like the Kin or the various Facebook phones) all seem like they're identifying "locking the buyer into a single corporate ecosystem" as a feature, but consumers are treating it as
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by amputect 12y ago
Could you point out some specific things in this article that you find especially racist against northern eurpoeans?
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by amputect 12y ago
I found this super helpful. Thank you very much for taking the time to write it.
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Amazon is plagued by dangerous currents(sfgate.com)
2 points by amputect 12y ago|0 comments
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by amputect 12y ago
Agreed. Heck, I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription because of SmartPost. I don't do that much shopping online anyway, and the free two-day shipping was consistently actually 3-5 day shipping.
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by amputect 12y ago
> 14. Humiliate people in public. If you have to choose only one item from the list, this one is really, shockingly effective and easy to implement. My wife was in tears the other day because she made two trivial, easily-fixable errors o
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Wall Street Analysts: High Inequality Makes Us Vulnerable to Crashes(billmoyers.com)
3 points by amputect 12y ago|0 comments
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by amputect 12y ago
Thank you so much, this means a lot to both of us.
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by amputect 12y ago
This is a really heartening story both because it's objectively amazing and, to me, for personal reasons. My wife suffers from an unknown congenital myopathy. She, and by extension I, are actually VERY fortunate. It's a very mild
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by amputect 12y ago
Some of the cuts have already come. Unfortunately, two of my friends at MSFT have already been given notice. They're bright, talented people and they'll be fine long run, but it's devastating in the short term since they&#x27
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by amputect 12y ago
If we're being bitchy over definitions, then do you even know what the definition of "industrial action" is? Because it's orthogonal to whether or not the firings were legal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by amputect 12y ago
The problem is that standardized testing doesn't tell you if students are being educated, it tells you if students are passing standardized tests, which is a different problem that, at best, only partially overlaps with the actual ques
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ReservationHop: ticket scalping for restaurant reservations(reservationhop.com)
3 points by amputect 12y ago|0 comments
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by amputect 12y ago
That's not a small correction and it's worth noting, thank you for pointing that out! Yeah that information should be prominently displayed there. "This phone costs $200+contract and comes with $100 worth of Amazon Prime for
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by amputect 12y ago
I agree with you here; I was really surprised by the price tag, considering that over the course of a 2-year contract you're on the hook for another $200 worth of prime membership to get the most out of the features. I'm already o
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by amputect 12y ago
In the interest of total disclosure, this is not my project and I am not in any way involved with Bounden. I just found it interesting and passed it along. I hope that's not bad form; if it is, I'm genuinely sorry for the error.
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Bounden on Android delayed, needs help(gameovenstudios.com)
30 points by amputect 12y ago|19 comments

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