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by bbarn 10y ago
http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=0 Used these for some simple automation needs in the past. Simple .net library available on the site. Not nearly as cheap as the one in the post (which I did have to google 3
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by bbarn 10y ago
Drivers are not Uber's life blood. Passengers ignorant of the company's treatment of their drivers, and other shady tactics are.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I'm the opposite. Have lived in high rises, small buildings, medium buildings, rented houses... the 6-9 size is the sweet spot for city living. Intimate enough where things like bringing in packages, giving a neighbor a spare key, et
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by bbarn 10y ago
Except, you could build out said algorithm, in theory, put it into use, and an election cycle later the community is polarized in some new direction and everything changes. Urban planning is as much prediction as it is response to changing
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by bbarn 10y ago
No metro area is slowed down by bicycles. The longest a commute can be practical by bicycle (by practical I mean for the average, street/work clothes wearing person riding nearly every day) is under ten miles. You're still in th
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by bbarn 10y ago
Though just 20 years comes up over a million, signs point to taking the million and investing it being the smart move: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/the-million-dollar-retirement...
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by bbarn 10y ago
I remember being so excited as a kid when I started getting drawn into the computing age. I remember when the internet seemed like mankind's next step forward. I remember being excited about so many new trends, social media, the age
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by bbarn 10y ago
The "slide belt". Only thing I've ever seen an ad for and realized I wanted it. So, in 25 ish years of being connected to the world on my computer, I've impulse bought one thing.
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by bbarn 10y ago
There's a picture of me as a teen on my outbound "laptop" struggling to get one hooked up somewhere. That roller-bar mouse thing though, that's what stands out :)
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by bbarn 10y ago
These are the same bikes we have in Chicago as Divvy, right? I can't imagine trying to ride one in S.F. The things weigh upwards of 40 pounds. I think the Capital bike share data in DC might be highly skewed because A. DC is super sm
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by bbarn 10y ago
They are in fact just that. They are slow, heavy, and bullet proof.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I'm an average looking, run of the mill white software developer in my late 30's. I still get massive anxiety about taking air trips because of the hassle and harassment I've received in the past from TSA agents. I have a ho
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by bbarn 10y ago
All this love of microprose games and no mention of Silent Service? This was the first "choose your own path" kind of game I ever really got into.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Excellent article. I've always loved watches, but not as much as tech. I've got several beautiful watches, and one of them I'll wear at my wedding probably. Every other day of my life it's currently the Garmin Vivoact
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by bbarn 10y ago
I'm of a similar opinion. I grew up watching my mother have surgery on both of her wrists for what used to be called carpal-tunnel syndrome and now is just called repetitive strain injury. I've spent probably triple the time by
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by bbarn 10y ago
This is his cousin, Sam, the CFO. "Eddie" himself got convicted by testimony from Sam.
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by bbarn 10y ago
The better question is would the rest of the world allow the remaining US to do a damn thing about it? The US itself has a history of supporting states that leave other states in civil wars.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Well, the thing about laws, is if a state decides it isn't bound by them and secedes, who enforces them? I can't see any soldier being willing to go to war with California. We've been taught the horror of civil war since we
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by bbarn 10y ago
The original inventor also went on to found Duolingo, which uses teaching someone a language as a way to translate web pages as a service. I like that model a lot more, as at least you get something in exchange (the language learning)
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by bbarn 10y ago
It was never hard for me. I'm naturally a late night person, and my daughter slept from 9pm to 5-6am pretty much weeks after coming home, and just got lazier until she hit 18 :) All that said, 9pm to midnight was always plenty of time
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by bbarn 10y ago
Tolls do not reduce traffic. Chicago's (and when I say Chicago, I mean it in the same vein that the author uses "LA", a massive metro area) installation of toll systems in my life here have caused the infrastructure to perpe
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by bbarn 10y ago
Is, not was. We're starting to see patent trolls migrating to the much greener government agency sue-able territory of section 508 law suits instead. Only this time, there's practically a for the children argument behind it.
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by bbarn 10y ago
HR Departments have also groomed hiring managers not to ever give a reason why they say no. Every reason you provide is grounds for speculation and potential law suits.
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by bbarn 10y ago
You're probably on to something there. Sadly, the opposite of this is true too - it's incredibly hard to find competent QA Engineers (not testers) because they all realize very quickly they can make more money as rank and file so
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by bbarn 10y ago
Only ~500 for me, but same deal. Fradulent buyers flat out lying and no amount of evidence on my side stopped them from trying to go to collections over it.
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by bbarn 10y ago
> Also, I found out that my behavior on fb is extremely similar to an addiction behavior. That includes finding it not useful but keep coming back, repeatedly checking it for new stuff, coming back after deactivating. It's also just
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by bbarn 10y ago
Sadly, I came to say this too. Looks more like a kickstarter gauging interest (with the crappy google form for "pre order") than an actual existing product.
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by bbarn 10y ago
> I know it's a cliche that bullies are always deeply insecure. I think that is the case for workplace bullies too. The brash, over-confident, aggressive act that these people put on works to help them find out who they can victimiz
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by bbarn 10y ago
> * The internet was supposed to democratize this stuff. We have people like Balaji Srinivasan saying the FDA should be replaced with Yelp for drugs. Why isn't Glassdoor more effective? Why wasn't Uber's toxic work culture
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by bbarn 10y ago
I've said this elsewhere in comments, but people really need to let it sink in that HR is not there to help them, they are there to help the company. It is never in their interest to say "You're right, let's go get that

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