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by cbhl 9y ago
I'm sure the tech companies would be happy to hire 10x the buses they do today, if it wasn't for local residents clamoring for the SFMTA to regulate the number of buses in the city and where they can stop.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Okay, but making that assumption is maybe marginally better than driving drunk?
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by cbhl 9y ago
How are our experiences so different? I just got back from a trip to New York, and at least half of the retailers I visited didn't have (or use) a chip card reader.
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by cbhl 9y ago
America really needs to get its retail infrastructure upgraded, but it's not clear who is going to pay for it. A lot of companies have old computers that use magstripe readers for their point-of-sale systems. A lot of businesses have n
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by cbhl 9y ago
I highly recommend reading the light-novel translations of "In Another World With My Smartphone" as well! You can buy them on Amazon Kindle, or you can subscribe to read the pre-prints at http://j-novel.club/ .
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by cbhl 9y ago
Does this mean that the *BSDs can adopt CUPS now?
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by cbhl 9y ago
I recall that Kik co-founder Ted Livingston tried to take a step toward changing this. He said he never would have been able to start his company without CAD$25,000 from his grandfather, so he donated CAD$1M to a local university, so they c
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by cbhl 9y ago
I felt like this chart shows that retail store closures are a lagging indicator for employment. Stores are up in NY, WA, TX -- all states where people migrate to to work in tech companies. (Not sure about ND and UT, though.)
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New Tech Startup Bubble(youtube.com)
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by cbhl 9y ago
On HiDPI mobile devices, pixels aren't real pixels. They're actually treated like points -- a pixel in CSS ends up being something like 3-ish real device pixels, plus or minus, depending on the device.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Charles Schwab checking is only available to US residents though -- if you're in a foreign country, you're out of luck.
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by cbhl 9y ago
Suppose that audio captchas could be solved with 100% accuracy. Then what? How do we make sure that visually impaired users can still access the internet / solve captchas, but robots cannot?
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by cbhl 9y ago
One of the biggest challenges with self-driving cars in snow is the snow in the environment -- for example, how do you see the lane markers so that you stay in your lane?
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by cbhl 9y ago
Companies should really adopt shadow interviewing more. Go into an interview and watch someone experienced do it, so you can learn more about how to make interviews pleasant (even for a candidate that doesn't know what they're doi
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by cbhl 9y ago
Getting tech employees off cars doesn't need self-driving cars. Google is perfectly happy to have shuttle buses, and pay for them, provided that housing is sufficiently dense, and there is a place where the buses can legally pick up an
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by cbhl 9y ago
I feel like there's definitely an art to mocking. Rather than mocking out the module being called (A calls B, A_test mocks B), you want to mock out its dependencies (A calls B calls C, A_test mocks C). But if you swap out said dependen
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by cbhl 9y ago
Wasn't the Kinect technology acquired by Apple? My impression is the top sensor bar in the iPhone X is essentially a miniaturized Kinect, so we should see more Kinect-like applications now that it fits in your pocket.
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by cbhl 9y ago
+1 -- I will admit to being one of the early skeptics. Looking forward to seeing Canny grow.
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by cbhl 9y ago
The iPhone X goes on sale on Friday, though, right?
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by cbhl 9y ago
> It's not only the quality of the products that compete, it's living standards, health laws, worker protection, environmental protection, social welfare, healthcare, educations and human rights that compete. Canada has single-
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by cbhl 9y ago
Salmon sushi is actually a modern invention; the result of the Norway government having too much fish in the 80s and needing someone to buy it. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/16/440951873&
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by cbhl 9y ago
Anyone can teach. Just look at the Khan Academy -- Sal started by just posting YouTube videos of his voice over Microsoft Paint. The thing that is held behind a barrier is issuing a credential. And it seems reasonable that someone generatin
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by cbhl 9y ago
When I went to a university, they got around this by making the syllabi as vague as humanly possible. They even would have a spare course code in each department which was just "whatever the professor feels like teaching, and if it&#x2
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by cbhl 9y ago
Ubuntu still provides zsync of its installation media: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/17.04/release/ That said, I'm not sure I know of any other major users of it -- most people just use
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by cbhl 9y ago
Really? Loud/disruptive/unpleasant homeless people have reduced mass transit use in SF and LA. Delaying bus rapid transit by six years[0] because environmental impact is measured by car travel times reduces mass transit usage. B
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by cbhl 9y ago
You left the name of MEGABANK in your second paragraph
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by cbhl 9y ago
Oh, in those days, computers would fry themselves -- literally -- from overheating. CPU vendors raced to break the 1 GHz barrier, but thermal throttling wasn't as mature. If I pushed my computer too hard for too long (say, with a real
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by cbhl 9y ago
USB-A had all of these compatibility concerns too, when it first came out. I remember having a Gateway All-in-One with only two USB-A ports in '98. You had to worry about USB 1 versus USB 2, and some devices wouldn't get enough po
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by cbhl 9y ago
I suspect that concept 1 is much faster than the baseline because the user is getting used to the app -- if you add another instance of existing right after concept 1, I hypothesize that you will find that the user does even better than con
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by cbhl 9y ago
This is tricky because there are lots of people who "ask questions" just to avoid admitting that they are a bigot. If you are genuinely seeking new information, great! But you should do your homework first, which includes findin

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