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by blackaspen 11y ago
This has been writing on the wall for a while. While both companies have their pitfalls, it's certainly interesting to continue to watch e-commerce's rise.
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by blackaspen 11y ago
I immediately thought it was Boulder when I read this, based on what I know of the Bing office here(Boulder). Seattle would make more sense if there's a mapping team AND Uber already there though.
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by blackaspen 11y ago
True, however Pants right now does not have support with Git to only checkout dependencies it actually needs for the build. I agree that it should take effectively zero time for me to download and apply 50MB of updates, but poor quality int
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by blackaspen 11y ago
The speed is a serious downside. Go on vacation for two weeks? You get to go on another vacation while you wait for your monorepo to update. Similarly, good luck ever trying to work from a coffee shop -- at the very least you probably have
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Patents aren't everything though: From ToyoDIY: December 6, 2009 The diagrams are no longer available on this site per demands of Toyota Motor Sales Inc. Yes, they still have part number listings/search (which is awesome), but the
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by blackaspen 12y ago
We tried them where I work. Our office is probably a 75 person open office. No one liked them (I believe we tried two vendors, not sure which). I felt that they were a little too intrusive -- when it was quiet you still wanted to put your h
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by blackaspen 12y ago
I would like to think that 1100 people isn't enough of a critical mass for other companies in Boulder to start "requesting" the devotion of 80 hour weeks. As long as it's only one(Google) then employees who move to Googl
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Really happy to have seen this pop up. I'm a huge DFW fan. This is a stellar listen.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Makes me think of "These new laws will fundamentally change how we get around them".
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Very true. 36 is 101 levels of bad at times. Thankfully for me I walk to work right now.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Map: http://gisweb.ci.boulder.co.us/agswebsites/osmp/OSMPTrails/ Everything green is open space.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Heh, yes. I live in Boulder. I am not quite sure where others get the 40 miles to Denver number. To South Denver, sure, but it's about 23 miles to Downtown. I don't consider (nor do any of my friends) consider Boulder to be a subu
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by blackaspen 12y ago
This is what the modern "software driven company that happens to make hardware looks like". And I'm glad it's Microsoft. This looks awesome.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
This should be all corporations.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
I think it's simple: Developers who are on-call write better code. As soon as you take the view of "This is crappy, but keeping it running is someone else's problem" then everything suffers (product quality, engineering
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Best comment I've seen in a while.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Supposing the word 'censorship' isn't censored... Really happy to see more companies doing this though!
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by blackaspen 12y ago
The Director of the FBI James B. Comey says: "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law." See, that's funny. Because what concerns me is that the
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by blackaspen 12y ago
I remember looking through the RadioShack catalogs all the time... Sad to see it now, but I recall an Onion article with the headline to the effect of "RadioShack CEO can't figure out how stores make money". I think it may be
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Twitter offers 2 factor authentication for account logins (SMS a code every time you login).
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by blackaspen 12y ago
One of my old math teachers won a top of the line NSpire. She showed her students, everyone poked at it for a bit, and then it was never used again. It didn't provide much additional educational use.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
I still use my TI-83+ pretty often. All the years of using it with physics homework and statistics homework and whatnot has wired its usage into my brain. Sure, I could use R or Python, but when all I need to do is some simple math the calc
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by blackaspen 12y ago
"Twitter encourages and amplifies bad behavior while inhibiting intelligent and thoughtful conversation." Ok. So, how is Twitter unique here? How often do you read an intelligent and thoughtful article in your local newspaper? Doe
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by blackaspen 12y ago
"I have found that my greatest frustrations with Twitter come not from people who are being nasty — though there are far too many of them — but from people who just misunderstand." This is not different from life outside of Twitte
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Fair... I don't yell at rivers. But by your same logic the number one thing isn't banning drivers and replacing them with self driving cars (have you ever written perfectly, 1000% bug-free code?), it's banning all movement fa
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by blackaspen 12y ago
I don't think that braking slower, or accelerating less (or even limiting turning g-forces) is really an indicator of "Safe Driving". Yes, it is definitely a signal, and obviously a good one otherwise insurance companies woul
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by blackaspen 12y ago
Sigh... I'd still like to see real graphics on the 13".
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by blackaspen 12y ago
"Do something that has nothing to do with any of this." This is actually some of the best advice I've heard in a while. Never thought it would come from HN. Thanks.
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by blackaspen 12y ago
This. This is it. I've actually written my resume in markup for a while just so that I could put it on a nice dynamically driven site. Sort of a fun weekend project (no, it's not hosted anywhere). While I strongly doubt that this
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by blackaspen 12y ago
There is a separate line to Arvada, I believe it's the Gold line. That's still on track.

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