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Startup says they've made an electric motor with 3x more torque(cnet.com)
19 points by barefootford 7y ago|2 comments
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The Next Boosted Vehicle Is Probably this test Scooter(youtube.com)
2 points by barefootford 8y ago|0 comments
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by barefootford 8y ago
I've found that setting a very hard deadline, ideally with some money on the line, is the best way to guarantee something gets done. It seems like this should be the authors next step. To get my last video out, I sent a friend $200 thr
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by barefootford 8y ago
I've got a subscription. When I finally felt on my feet as a programmer I got a subscription to the NY Times and my hometown paper. I think we should support publications that do good work, rather than trying to avoid them/hack ar
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by barefootford 8y ago
Just got the same email. What a bummer. Detour is a great app that I always look forward to using in new cities.
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by barefootford 9y ago
Q: Assuming your new battery tech scales easily and economically for mass production and given the intensifying demand for such tech, when would you expect to see it supplant lithium-ion as the battery technology of choice for manufacturers
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Li-ion battery inventor says new solid state batteries will arrive in 2-3 years(hardware.slashdot.org)
7 points by barefootford 9y ago|1 comments
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Artemis signs deal with Nokia to test pCell networking(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by barefootford 11y ago|0 comments
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by barefootford 11y ago
Because "just coding something" won't cover every method/function idiom you've ever learned. Creating a card with a corresponding challenge can do that. If you just make a Ruby script to practice programming you&#x2
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by barefootford 11y ago
Yep, exactly. The majority of the cards I do are either a problem where I convert a sentence from English to X, or it's create a function that takes in these parameters and returns this. Most cards should be challenges, not just quick
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by barefootford 12y ago
Nope, I don't think that's true. At least that's not what they told employees. They told us stores make almost identical money from the margin of most items (I think it was something like almost everything is marked up 20%) a
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by barefootford 12y ago
When I worked there I was told that the average checkout was something like 7-8 big items, so almost everyone would checkout in the 'express' (10 items or less) lane if they had one.
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How-To Create Rails has_many Macros in Plain Old Ruby(pragmaticstudio.com)
2 points by barefootford 12y ago|0 comments
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by barefootford 12y ago
"The company’s latest self-driving car runs on batteries recharged by electricity." I'm missing something, aren't all batteries recharged by electricity?
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by barefootford 12y ago
I wish he would have taken Apple's lead on having a big launch with a product that ships in a couple weeks rather than a dribble of presentations with a shipping: ??? slide. If pCell works, getting press won't matter. If you can
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by barefootford 13y ago
Learning to code couldn't hurt.
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by barefootford 13y ago
I love this story (and have read his book), but this sure isn't happening in the Valley or San Francisco. As someone who's a similar skill level to Josh and applied to tons of jobs here in the Valley, I've found that this is