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   by avn2109 13y ago

   And someone once said, "This farmed salmon tastes like cardboard." To which the old fisherman replied, "That is very unfair. There are some palatable cardboards out there."
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   +1 for honest feedback. The world could use more of that.
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   Now seems like as good a time as any to get on my soapbox and proclaim the glories of Betteridge's law [0]. It has tremendous predictive power. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   Probably the best idea would be to go swimming in the ocean with whomever you'd like to contact, since salt water and mechanical agitation probably diminish the reliability and functionality of most listening devices. But there's
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   >>"And that's the stupidest "yo dawg" I've ever seen. If there's anything that's too easy to use, it's online meme generator tools." This "Yo Dawg" meme is a joke about those infu
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   Ugggh---So. Glossy.
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   This is an interesting point. Can you suggest some reading to find out more about this? eg. what got you thinking along these lines?
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   Well, why anyone thinks it's a good idea to base themselves East of the East River is beyond me, but different strokes for different folks, I suppose.
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   by avn2109 13y ago

   I'm a soon-to-be graduated student and am job hunting, so identifying dead ends is presently very relevant to my life. What about a title like this smells fishy to you? I'm not being pedantic, I really want to know how to avoid cr
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    Nope not being pedantic. Actually interested.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    What did you read that gave you these ideas? It seems like a genuinely interesting hypothesis and I'd like to find out more.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    FWIW, I have no idea who moot is, and lacking that context, it's much easier to interpret this as mere self-promotion.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    I foresee a low conversion rate here. HN probably attracts almost the complement of the audience you want to phish in.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    Barring extraordinary circumstances, checking bags while flying is a textbook case of doing it wrong.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    This is really insightful. Why didn't I think of this?
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    >> "I've never used a municipal internet service that was any good." Naperville, Illinois, while being a loathsome, sprawling mess in many respects, has pretty snappy municipal internet. And, in fairness, a semi-charmin
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    The other articles on this site are pretty interesting, too. Especially the one about "Courage and Stupidity."
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    >> "Once is accident. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action." I was hoping that this was a quote from General Patton or something. But it just turned out to be Ian Fleming :(
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    Society outside of NYC/SF/a few other places has never heard of the tech industry or it's exceptionalism. The middle of the country doesn't know that we exist. And in NY, our claims of grandeur are drowned out by the ove
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    I loathe the day when this becomes true. It's an isomorphic situation to the decline in user experience that happened when automobile dashboard interfaces went from hard controls (tactile feedback, easy to grab, simple) to special-purp
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    The IT guy in my building claims "MBP's are the best Windows laptops on the market." I'm probably not in a position to say whether or not it's true, but it seems to be at least a defensible position.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    And Australia is a country with an overwhelmingly higher cost of living than almost everywhere in the US.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    And there are plenty of futures markets, commodities and otherwise, with really low volume.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    One of Yale's peer institutions has an anonymous review site [0] that has been working well for several years now. It doesn't have any YouTube-style vitriol that I can find, though it's possibly aggressively moderated. [0] h
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    Developed capacity equals intent, as they say in our government.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    Wow. This is hilarious and I can't believe I missed it the first time around. Thanks for caring enough to make this. >>"Whether one begot the other is a question I'll leave to the reader." hahahahha
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    But can this see through walls/vehicles like the IR binoculars in that Jackie Chan movie?
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    In North America your GPS probably connects to between five and twelve satellites.
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    While it is true that INS's exist, the cost of a reliable and accurate one is on the same order of magnitude as the CNC Machine itself. Also, errors accumulate [0] over time in an INS (aka "Integration Drift"), such that it b
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    by avn2109 13y ago

    That autonomously phones home so they don't even have to borrow your laptop next time you fly in order to dump the data.