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by bhousel 16y ago
Maybe "extreme over-architectured OOP" should be the new Goto.
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by bhousel 16y ago
I just checked Sensorly, and looks like no (unless you count some spots on the border).
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by bhousel 16y ago
I like the chart, but it's a pet peeve of mine to see one-time, daily, monthly, yearly doses all mixed together on the same infographic. Getting 3.6 mSv in 2 days is very much not the same as getting getting 3.6 mSv in one year.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Hehe, actually yes. Don't get me started on Quora. :)
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by bhousel 16y ago
> would you put something on your resume as a job if you had built it over the weekend and had only worked on it for a few days Absolutely! When I interview people, I love finding out what they work on in their spare time. I don't car
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by bhousel 16y ago
Right, that's how I'm pointing out that Sprint's approach is different. They just charge all smartphone users an extra $10/month and don't care whether you tether or not. Andriod phones come with the mobile hotspot app preinstalled. Sprint
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by bhousel 16y ago
But you can't tether with those, right?
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by bhousel 16y ago
> Any pointers or suggestions that you can offer will be appreciated. Take a break from trying to start things. You said that you've been in your Python job for a year and it's "not as exciting" as before and now you want to jump into
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Laser beam uses graphics chip to identify and zap mosquitoes(venturebeat.com)
1 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
You really find it "offensive?" Your account was created 9 days ago, and this is your only comment thus far.
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by bhousel 16y ago
This page has a lot of interesting info about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency tl;dr: Nowadays there are no real advantages/disadvantages to prefer 50Hz vs 60Hz. The distinction is mostly just because of historical ven
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by bhousel 16y ago
> AT&T can raise their data rates for everybody and attrit customers to other providers (or to less lucrative featurephone packages). Or, they can find ways to charge higher rates to less price-sensitive customers. Sprint seems to
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by bhousel 16y ago
They did say in their original post-mortem that spreading the load among multiple availability zones has been on their todo list for a while. It has just taken longer than they expected with their limited engineering staff.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Wouldn't the overhead involved in ssh tunneling your tethered traffic just help you to hit the bandwidth cap sooner? You're certainly not hiding anything from the carrier, who can easily see that your smartphone is pulling down way more dat
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by bhousel 16y ago
I dunno. People love Angry Birds. I kinda believe in this team. Somewhat related recent discovery: If you ever find yourself in the position of needing to entertain a 3 year old who doesn't speak your language, Angry Birds works wonder
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by bhousel 16y ago
jsmoov, I like what you are trying to do. Ignore the naysayers, there is definitely plenty of space for more HN-like communities.. Focus on building the community, not the site.
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NASA Probe Enters Mercury Orbit(space.com)
1 points by bhousel 16y ago|0 comments
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by bhousel 16y ago
Why not just set up a fake facebook profile?
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by bhousel 16y ago
$10k/month is nowhere close to being "fuck you money".
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by bhousel 16y ago
I'm going to just tell myself that this is someone either doing a sociological study on cyber-bullying or else demonstrating an uncannily sophisticated natural language generator built upon the extensive corpus of previous Ask HN posts. It'
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by bhousel 16y ago
Well yeah, it would seem to violate the 13th amendment.. Edit: I believe it's a form of debt bondage (peonage) that is prohibited by international law too. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
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by bhousel 16y ago
People don't work that way.
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by bhousel 16y ago
This is just silly. If time travel were possible, it would have been invented already in the future and our world would be a very different place.
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by bhousel 16y ago
There are some situations where risk may be acceptable. Would I accept a car that blows up when it runs out of gas? No, but things like airplanes can, and have, killed passengers when they run out of gas. The risk of that happening is off
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by bhousel 16y ago
I agree with you -- actually go a step further and replace "weird" with "irresponsible" and that's how I feel about the whole situation. There are newer generations of nuclear reactors that don't suffer from this design flaw, but convincing
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by bhousel 16y ago
At least that code is indented properly.. Much of the code that I need to fix seems to be written by people who learned on day one of programming that "whitespace doesn't matter to a computer" and never looked back.
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by bhousel 16y ago
He did explain why.
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by bhousel 16y ago
Cool, thanks for that! I wasn't thinking that a sub could completely replace all of the power lost by the nuclear power plant, just that one could provide enough for emergency services. It's really just a thought experiment. And this is th
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by bhousel 16y ago
Yeah, once the reactors are doused with seawater they're done. But there are plenty of other facilities that need emergency power now - hospitals, water treatment plants, the other reactors that aren't yet ruined. It would be useful and awe
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by bhousel 16y ago
It's not a technology problem, it's a people problem. The technology works incredibly well. And in Japan, the people are well trained and prepared, and I have every confidence that they'll be able to cool the reactors down without releasing

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