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by awongh 12y ago
Could it also be that the structure and intent of the code is ambiguous even to the author? I often feel this way when reading code, and also writing code or explaining it to others....
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by awongh 12y ago
This. Wifi is the #1 reason by far that I ditched my $800 thinkpad to switch to a $3500 MPB. (to still be in a unix environment) On my thinkpad, with one of the known, supported wifi chipsets, wifi would work about 8-9/10 times. But be
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by awongh 12y ago
I understand why the actual quantum effect is hard to observe, but I'm not sure I understand why the output is so hard to verify as being better or worse than a classical computer.... Can someone name the physical effect that this proc
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by awongh 12y ago
yes, and part of the reason this took so long could be that google maps was free/ very cheap for a lot of that 10 years. Once they got more expensive people had more incentive to switch....
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by awongh 13y ago
wow, this is great! I've been trying to find this for a while. Their theory page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab_color_space ) goes into how they do it, it's a pretty interesting approach of pre-calculating
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by awongh 13y ago
IANAL, and , maybe I'm being pedantic, but it's not clear to me what the situation is: Your co-creator says that she wanted "100%"- did you agree to that? Did you have any further discussion with her about it? Without k
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by awongh 13y ago
This was an excellent read. I feel like it's coming from the trenches from someone who's had much experience creating structureless groups.... tldr: the conclusion/action points are: Principles of Democratic Structuring 1) De
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by awongh 13y ago
I never knew about the glide ratio of large jets! And this story is amazing, mostly for the simultaneous levels of stupidity and competence involved.
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by awongh 13y ago
map crunch is awesome. I was totally obsessed with it for a while last year.
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by awongh 13y ago
that's amazing. and for anyone who is curious about what they actually look like: http://www.militarysystems-tech.com/military-gallery/electro...
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Montage Of Kubrick's Symmetrical One-Point Perspective Shots(blogs.indiewire.com)
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3rd Generation Of Photosynth Turns 3D Images Into Video-Like Experiences(techcrunch.com)
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by awongh 13y ago
also just found out about http://meshu.io through this- also a great idea!
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by awongh 13y ago
It might also be that when the deadline is deemed to be more important than the quality of the product, (which, in real life happens sometimes) the tradeoffs are not made clear to all the stakeholders. Quantifying and communicating that lin
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by awongh 13y ago
OTOH it seems like a dumb move by the city to offer these tax breaks to twitter in the first place. Were they really going to up and move to mountain view? To save on payroll tax? I'm not sure what the precedence for something like tha
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by awongh 13y ago
This is what I don't understand about Soylent: assuming that these are similar products and offer similar nutritional profiles, no one would reccomend that you base 90% of your diet on ensure. It sounds crazy. Is this mostly about rebr
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by awongh 13y ago
It seems ridiculous that strava would be liable for someone's injuries in any legal sense- if you ride a bike it should be up to you to ride safely, no matter who or what is emailing you, telling you you should be going faster. OTOH, i
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by awongh 13y ago
It's almost a tin can and string!
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Majority of Aflac's revenue is from japanese cancer insurance(qz.com)
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by awongh 13y ago
also, if you live in the sf bay area, it has a lot of cool location shots from that era.
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Stomach-Churning Images From the Edges of Skyscrapers(gizmodo.com)
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by awongh 13y ago
I also thought that another difference was that vagrant can also manage cpu-level (hypervisor?) VMs (as opposed to just linux containers) - one of the main use cases for vagrant would be running it on your local computer- a laptop running o
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by awongh 13y ago
this is great, I was thinking of building something similar, but it didn't seem like the route finding APIs were there at the time. It seems to side step a lot of the problems I'd imagined... a great way to solve this problem I ha
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by awongh 13y ago
Re. the implementation of weather prediction: the api that powers the dark sky iphone app is free for >1000 requests a day: https://developer.forecast.io/ -in sf this kind of data is doubly useful too (weather that chang
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Japan's Internet Cafes: Home for the Underemployed(businessweek.com)
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by awongh 13y ago
it's funny that this might be Amazon's solution to s similar set of problems that Paul Graham wrote about here: http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html I wonder if the art market can really be disrupted in this way, or
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by awongh 13y ago
twityap?!? you can't make this stuff up. It's sad that this might work to get people to part with their money.
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by awongh 13y ago
wow, that was well made and informative. I had no idea that that's where the 16:9 aspect ratio came from (the mean ratio of the two most disparate ratios in film)
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by awongh 13y ago
you could try vagrant, not sure if its the VDI that you were referring to, but I would say that setup generally seems smoother inside of linux vs. other environments (so it's worth it to deal with the extra complexity of a vm) there ar
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by awongh 13y ago
this is surprising that they don't try to get world class cyclists. I'd like to point out the distinction from professionally paid road racers and olympic-level track (velodrome) riders. Road riders are always travelling, gener

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