bullfightonmars

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by bullfightonmars 10y ago
PARC may have pushed out innovative tech every 2.5 years but didn't it take much longer for most of those technologies to change the shape of or come to be foundational to tech?
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by bullfightonmars 10y ago
I interpreted this as design critique. The author doesn't seem to have anything against large houses and uses lots of them as counter-examples for good architectural design.
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by bullfightonmars 10y ago
Obama and the Democrats had a filibuster proof majority of the Senate for something like 60 days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress#S...
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by bullfightonmars 10y ago
> keyboards produced in the 1970s–80s, which are generally much nicer than anything on the market today. If you haven't picked up on it there has been a resurgence in engineering/design around mechanical keyboards. From switch
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by bullfightonmars 11y ago
You are referring to the extent of sea ice[1] much of which is formed and melts on an annual or slightly longer cycle. Sea ice is incredibly sensitive to warming. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center the Maximum winter extent
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by bullfightonmars 11y ago
These are NOx[1] species not N2O. They do not get into the upper atmosphere, like the ozone layer in the Stratosphere. They are instead constrained to the Troposphere, where we live. NOx emissions are highly reactive and in the presence o
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by bullfightonmars 11y ago
Wow. This sounds like a terrible user experience. Transactions in the US banking system aren't instant, so they fake the transactions and pretend like you actually received them. Then when the actual transaction fails, oops you'
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
A fantastic band called Tree Wave [1], from Austin, used a dot matrix printer as a synth [2] in a bunch of their music [3] around 10 years ago. It's pretty fantastic stuff. Paul Slocum whom lead the group did some amazing work hackin
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
The Earthsea trilogy had such a big influence on me as a child. They were my first true introduction to scifi and sparked a real love of reading fiction. I can't wait to introduce my son to these books when he is old enough.
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
Whose evidence? According to this list[1] with data from the World Bank, Netherlands is 35th has 45.05 small businesses per 1000 people. Do you have a stationary shop on your corner or in your neighborhood? I certainly had access to many s
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
Walking and biking infrastructure and livable/walkable cities/neighborhoods are key pieces to health from youth into old age. Just because it doesn't now exist in the United States doesn't it mean it can't or should
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
Those "antifragile" solutions have been used to great effect in Netherlands where they have built a massive cycling, walking, and transit infrastructure. They were able to build this infrastructure due to a popular protest movemen
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
There was an article on NPR Morning Edition, this morning about the Hygiene Hypothesis. A study in Sweden found that children in homes without dishwashers had 50% fewer cases of allergies including hay fever. The assertion being that expos
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate that most of the houses are pretty hideous. Each has 4-5 different clashing facades in varying shades of beige. Angles, jutting edges, and warts sprout out all over the place. There are some nice looking units t
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
Exactly! This is an exercise in design research. Well composed, well documented, and well presented. The point of this isn't necessarily to solve pole design it is to explore designing for a specific problem generatively with some dom
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
rking's ag.vim provides a UI to Silver Searcher in vim, it is effectively similar to this, plus it's right in your next editor! https://github.com/rking/ag.vim That said Hound looks like a nice tool. I'm
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
Landsat images aren't taken with the primary intention of showing human level detail. The imaging sensors are designed to image groundcover. In fact landsat doesn't strictly image visible light, it's imaging bands are in vi
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by bullfightonmars 12y ago
I think the proposed value here is in the quality and quantity of protein provided Boiled Lentils are around 9% protein - http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/4783?qlookup=16070&ma... Where according to
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by bullfightonmars 13y ago
Hrm... It looks like these talks are pretty recent. It seems like he is still exploring interaction and visualization and is creating some pretty fantastic work. That doesn't mean he is ready to or has something to sell.
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by bullfightonmars 13y ago
Check out the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5... ! They show the whole stand spins around on a center axis for the signature.
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by bullfightonmars 13y ago
> I didn't know if it was some composition style, or focus effect, or anything else It's all of that and more. Her technique in exposure, action. composition is wonderful. However as I am browsing her portfolio I keep finding myself
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
I've been really happy with Grande, they provide the best cable internet I've ever had (65/5 mb/s) for $70. Great uptime, with very consistent service. That said google fiber at 1gb/s, yes plz.
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
No. A million times no. As you said traffic lights in Europe are on the leading edge of an intersection. This may in fact be the simplest and most foundational bit of usability and user experience innovation the US could learn from Europe
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
> The street signs are in weird spots, or are non existent. Often times they were located after an intersection. Traffic lights were conflicting, there would be a red light on top and a green arrow pointing forward on bottom. We didn’t
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
it's back up!
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
Frankly not every team has the time money or talent for sysadmin. I work for a tiny 4 man company, and we each build apps mostly on our own. We just don't have the bandwidth for sysadmin work. Heroku relieves us of that. Sure if I was wo
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
a.k.a Why our app crashes from an hour on hacker news. </sarcasm> P.S. It was back up ~5 min after I posted this.
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by bullfightonmars 14y ago
Wow. I didn't know what to expect, but was a little blown away by this. Watching this I experienced both an attraction and revulsion to the use of integration of technology into vision. This deep integration of vision computer interface