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   by batbomb 12y ago

   While it's not conspicuous consumption, it is conspicuous. I'd argue it falls in a broader category of conspicuous lifestyles. Is there bad about owning a Ferrari?
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   Physical fitness itself isn't a status symbol, per se. How people conduct their personal physical fitness is what has elevated it to a status symbol. Things like when, where, how often, how public, what activities/exercises, and e
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   >> The focus in Silicon Valley on long-term compensation is also important. Nearly everyone wants to get rich but they’re willing to wait to do so. Conspicuous consumption isn’t that cool; not too many people drive Ferraris or talk ab
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   Don't forget about Presto
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   farm to toilet
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   This is anecdotal still unless you control for other parts of the diet, such as total carb intake, total sodium intake, and/or dietary fiber intake. When many people stop eating gluten, they often just stop eating so much bread, usuall
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   No, you can only get cleaner data and maximize the pixels you have, not more effective pixels. The way you could get "more" data is to simulate, say, a 28mm equivalent lens with, say, multiple shots from an 135mm equivalent lens
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   by batbomb 12y ago

   Chris Kemp mentioned that Google runs one VM per machine and all of the containers in that VM for security reasons. Any googlers out there that can expand on this?
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   Show HN: Python script to backup your iOS sms/mms to html and json(gist.github.com)

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    by batbomb 12y ago

    Businesses can already communicate with a deaf person the same way using humans instead of servers, it's called VPS.
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    Dave Arnold and Harold McGee are awesome. Anybody who is interested in food, cooking, and science should listen to the Cooking Issues podcast and read 'On Food and Cooking'.
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    Martin Perl, Nobel Laureate for discovery of the τ particle, has passed away(en.wikipedia.org)

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    by batbomb 12y ago

    After years of dealing with Graduate student missteps and ROOT->Java interoperability, to me, ROOT will always mean: blown stacks (i.e. double hist_data[1000000];), poor documentation on TTree/TBranch, NPEs, exceptions, the horrible
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    If your are in San Francisco, Bernal Cutlery offers knife classes, as well as the San Francisco Cooking School.
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    The Joy of Cooking
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    5. Things that have helped me be more interested in cooking and be a good cook: Buy "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee. Listen to Cooking Issues podcast by Dave Arnold (check out blog too) Watch any cooking show with Julia Chil
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    I usually just spoof mac addresses of people who already paid in most of those cases, the caveat usually being somebody had to pay.
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    check out bbcp if you are interested as well.
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    that's called a semantic file system
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    looks like .5 mg/L from Wikipedia
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    We just barely have some solid ground protecting phones you have on-person from unwarranted search, and, AFAIK, there's no real laws protecting your rights when you have data residing on third party servers in foreign countries. I&#x27
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    If you majored in physics, you'd probably come to find out this isn't specific to CalTech, but it's typically specific to hard sciences and engineering disciplines. Probably 80% of the physics courses I've taken (and peo
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    You can put answers in your physical wallet or in a safe. I don't know about you, but I've never had my wallet compromised.
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    I'm not sure, but from the post it's actually ~=. The =~ variant is used in Perl and Bash as a regex matching operator.
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    Let's see if I got this right: GML -> SGML -> HTML -> XML Gruber takes the word markup, takes a (slight) new spin on the name markup and and calls it the opposite of markup (markdown). He now owns. Gruber gets mad when someone
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    Ditto on the Darwin builds. Since Apple ditched the Xserve forever ago and the legal issues of Mac OSX on non-apple hardware, builds on mac are a pain in the ass for everyone. You get to buy your Mac Pro, deal with VMware when you want to b
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    I started a pretty involved REST implementation (but borrowing a few things fron contrib/rest), complete with heartbeating and a RESTful events resource, which has since stalled as I got busy with other things. I hope to return to it s
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    One thing that was the "killer app" for graphing calculators, at least through college in the last decade (even with wifi), was the fact that there were apps. Graphing calculators were the first mass market mobile computers under
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    For CCD technologies, I work peripherally with the LSST camera group developing and testing the shutter and sensor. The sensor is going to be 3.2GP. Also, the K foundations together (Keck and Kavli) are pretty amazing foundations as far as
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    by batbomb 12y ago

    You can check out the following SVG to see a comparison of telescope sizes: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Compariso...