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by bhousel 13y ago
My 2 year old has learned to do this. It can be pretty amusing at times. Recently I overheard her tell Siri "I want to see pictures of Pooh, not pictures of poop".
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by bhousel 13y ago
Why not just push your work to a private GitHub repo? That would establish priority and ownership in a much clearer way than inserting a hash into a bank transfer. I really think hashing the work causes more problems than it solves.
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by bhousel 13y ago
I usually hate April Fools jokes, but this openstreetmap one made me smile: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dcloud
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by bhousel 13y ago
> Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this YC cycle... Wait, what?
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by bhousel 13y ago
I'm curious what you think about his statement was wrong. Don't dumb it down, I'm an electrical engineer too :) Deaths do happen at low voltage. They aren't very common, but they are possible, and faulty test equipment
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by bhousel 13y ago
> So we really only have two options, ship them back or have them destroyed. Having them destroyed costs $150 per hour with no indication of how much time it will take to destroy 2,000 units. Aside: I can think of plenty of fun ways to
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by bhousel 13y ago
I don't see a problem with this. Fluke is a respected brand with a unique appearance. These multimeters really do look like Fluke ripoffs.
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by bhousel 13y ago
To be honest, I don't know much about how this works in NYC government. I think DCAS is the agency that manages all of the city properties. So individual agencies might not have much control over their own space. DCAS might need to b
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by bhousel 13y ago
Financial incentives could be set up between agencies. Say for example DOT has extra office space in one building and they can rent it out to DSNY for cheap. Then DOT gets money they wouldn't otherwise, and DSNY can pay less than the
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by bhousel 13y ago
That's a tricky problem to solve. I work with the NYC government on some projects, and they actually do seem to keep pretty decent track of all of the city's properties (at least, my experience with this is with the tax and finan
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by bhousel 13y ago
Of course. But I can say with confidence that loading JavaScript libraries from a CDN will drop your pagespeed score.
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by bhousel 13y ago
And to throw another cargo-culty idea into the mix: If you load resources from multiple domains it will lower your Google pagespeed (and YSlow) score. Which can negatively affect your pagerank. So they say. Another point for the "c
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by bhousel 13y ago
I can't speak to the legality of the building codes where you live, but I don't see any technical reason why you couldn't have an outlet installed near the street to charge a car. It's pretty common for electricians to
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by bhousel 13y ago
Save all correspondence. Wait until they are about to do a billion dollar exit, then get a lawyer and threaten to tank their deal. Settle with them for FU money.
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by bhousel 13y ago
No I don't think it's necessary. I think changing 200 ft of road across from where I live to "closed" while construction happens for the next year is a minor enough edit that it should be accepted no questions asked. I
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by bhousel 13y ago
I tried to edit Google Maps once and had someone ask me for supporting documentation to prove that the road across the street from where I live really was closed. Total nonsense. This heavy-handed moderation was what pushed me to Openstree
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by bhousel 13y ago
Yeah, I was working at a VRML startup at the time and we used Floops to test our code. I probably watched those animations thousands of times...
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by bhousel 13y ago
Was it Floops?
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by bhousel 13y ago
Yes absolutely. I never said AC wasn't dangerous.
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by bhousel 13y ago
Yes, this please. My entire CrossFit box would start using this tomorrow if it were available on iOS. I don't know anyone with an Android.
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by bhousel 13y ago
Good question! AC voltage is relatively safer because it crosses the zero point 120 times a second. If it passes through your body, your muscles will spasm but you will have an opportunity to pull away. Also, AC voltage will probably not
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by bhousel 13y ago
Doing any kind of utility work in NYC is a nightmare. There's lots of stuff underground (power, telecom, water, steam, sewer) that has been built up over the years and is in various states of obsolescence and disrepair, and in many ca
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by bhousel 13y ago
Seriously, please don't waste your time this way. If you are really bored, create something lasting by editing Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap instead.
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by bhousel 13y ago
Yeah I was impressed, I dug into the code a little to see how they accomplish this. They store a sqlite database in ~/.config/massren that contains the rename history and other configuration options. Pretty slick! The app is wr
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by bhousel 13y ago
I was wondering about this too. The Guardian can't possibly run their site on Wordpress, or can they?
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by bhousel 13y ago
holy crap, it has an --undo switch! Why don't more commands have this?
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by bhousel 13y ago
Can someone in the wall street secret society plz send me an invite? Email is in my HN profile, kthx.
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by bhousel 13y ago
Yes, this is good! Also try it with some cardamom and vanilla.
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by bhousel 13y ago
True but plenty of other foods are Vitamin D fortified. Most cereals and other dairy items like butter or margarine or yogurt.
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by bhousel 13y ago
This is actually interesting. The American Association of Pediatrics recommends transitioning kids over to skim milk at age 2. This is because they are trying to fight the obesity epidemic. See recent publications on their HALF inititiv

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