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by athenot 8y ago
I do the same thing. It's how the thought process works that's interesting, not the result. There is no problem or teaser whose answer is both short enough to be devised during an interview AND is representative of how a candida
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by athenot 8y ago
It makes me sad that over a decade later, we still fall for that trap. My rule of thumb to explain things is "follow the money". Several industries have handsomly profited over this situation, but don't believe anybody else g
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by athenot 8y ago
What's infuriating is the claim from those companies to be secure when they aren't. If, as you suggest, they should be given a pass on data safety, then they should be barred from making promotional statements about data safety. T
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by athenot 8y ago
> > "You will have some sort of docking station in your garage and when you park short-term the car flips the batteries for you with a loaded one" > Are you serious? Tesla did this and presented a tech demo in 2013 Tesla
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by athenot 8y ago
Unfortunately it's near useless since the bulk of the sound is directed towards the back of the bike; and it's the front that would make the most use of it (left turn in front of you, run-over merge, etc). I ride and don't li
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by athenot 8y ago
If you're on septic, the resources required to process used water amounts to a tank pump once every 3-5 years.
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by athenot 8y ago
Specifically, it's proteins that set and harden with heat. Oils come off trivially in the dishwasher (unless they became polymerized through heat, a common process on pots and pans). The other variable is the time the dishes sit dirty
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by athenot 8y ago
> I'm not a religious person but for me paper books are sacred. I would never mark in a book(…) You might be surprised by how many religious people profusely annotate their sacred texts. :) But I see your point: to keep the book und
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by athenot 8y ago
It's pretty funny considering I work on one of those meeting products. It's also an excellent reminder for me of all the UX pain points involved in distributed meetings. Tech can be great but if UI has any friction, the overall UX
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by athenot 8y ago
The conclusion of the article is spot-on. Our current large platforms are only marginally better than the walled-gardens of online systems in the 1990's.
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by athenot 8y ago
> I also delete anything I tweet after a few days. Interesting. An automated way to enforce my own retention policy on these platforms would surely be a good thing. More so for facebook than for twitter I feel (but that's just a per
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by athenot 8y ago
What kind of incredible uses? I'm genuinely curious as I've delayed introducing tablets and computers to my kids until they can do something creative with them.
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by athenot 8y ago
> You can't thermondynamically make an AC work if it's purely in the room. If you do keep it in the same room, it's called a dehumidifier. :) (And yes, that's why air put out by a dehumidifier is warmer.)
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by athenot 8y ago
Thanks for the link, I learned something! But that doesn't fit because it was in winter and in the dead middle of the night, somewhere between Canada and Iceland.
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by athenot 8y ago
Scratches and dents are 2 different things. All modern cars have paint which is then covered in clear coat (which is then covered in wax). The wax layer can easily be scratched but it also easily buffs out. The clear coat layer is VERY stro
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by athenot 8y ago
I remember seeing one of those on a night flight from the US to Europe. The pilot pointed it out on the PA and was puzzled as to what it was. It looked like a thin line of clouds illuminated by a super bright moon… except there was no moon
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by athenot 8y ago
> So, we reasoned, when we see ourselves engaging in a ritual, we code that behavior as a sign that we are people with self-control. And thanks to that self-control, we choose the apple (or carrot) over the chocolate and thus reduce our
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by athenot 8y ago
For me the praying before a meal instills not only a sense of gratitude (disclaimer: Catholic here) but also appreciation and respect of the food itself. Even if it's something bland or otherwise uninteresting, I try to appreciate it f
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by athenot 8y ago
That is actually a great idea. The best way to build a bridge between peoples is through culture, and food is an important part of culture. The next step in bridge building is sharing meals with people of other cultures. Starting or strengt
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by athenot 8y ago
It's also similar to how the pope & bishops refers to themselves during liturgy. All Masses include a prayer for the bishop(s) and pope; when the bishop is the celebrant, he refers to himself as God's "unworthy servant&q
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by athenot 8y ago
Unfortunately, this simplistic behavior modeling ends up being incompatible with autofill and password managers.
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by athenot 8y ago
Why would reverse-engineering not be "the area for kids to be playing in"? That's a great way to learn. And doing it on a real-world system is even better than some mockup. As for the intent of the conference, it appears it&#
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by athenot 8y ago
> “It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,” the [National Association of Secretaries of State] said. This so
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by athenot 8y ago
I've been looking at Simple.com as it seems to check off some of those features. If anyone has any feedback about their service, I'd love to hear about it. From what I understand they don't support checks; only debit cards. B
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by athenot 8y ago
> Your camera's cell phone barely manages to hold approximately eight stops of latitude That's precisely what makes it a decent tool for detecting lighting imbalance. Just because our eyes mask the issue with high perceptual dy
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by athenot 8y ago
The article starts out about hypocognition but ends up being about availability of vocabulary to express certain concepts. I would argue that many people can still fluidly intuit a concept even if they don't have a convenient shortcut
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by athenot 8y ago
The same happens with computer screens. Most offices are under-lit (or over-lit but only if ALL your UI has a dark background). To get a feel for this, point your cell phone at your desk area and take a picture (without HDR enabled). If y
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by athenot 8y ago
I'm in the same boat. It would apprear they realized that they are loosing advertizing eyeballs. Just checked, this also affects Buffer¹. Well, if they are making a push to lock people into their platform, this might make me back off f
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by athenot 8y ago
As an outsider, I'd like to see somewhere near the home page a few short snippets of code to get a feel for Julia and hopefully show the kind of uses for which it is a natural choice. Nim's home page¹ shows a piece of sample code
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by athenot 8y ago
> 1) let you out (drop charges) and expose the public purse to wrongful imprisonment damages, > 2) take it to trial and lose, also exposing the public purse to the same damages, If a doctor makes a mistake, he or she is liable (in add

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