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by chaz 14y ago
> I think there is a plausible, if imperfect, argument for doing so; Many players are involved and system resources are scarce relative to simulation complexity. Game reviewers like Polygon knowingly played prerelease code on private de
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by chaz 14y ago
We just saw an article yesterday. "Bitcoin rises from $14 to $40 in two months" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323867 83 votes
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by chaz 14y ago
> But if you quit early The problem is we never know when "early" is. It could be past our patience, financial means, career window, or lifetime.
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by chaz 14y ago
> Programming for the sake of programming has no meaning, just like we are being taught Math for the sake of Math. Education needs to be way more tangible and down-to-earth, at least for younger children. I think we're agreeing. I don't
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by chaz 14y ago
> I'm now glad no one ever introduced me to coding when I was a kid. I wouldn't throw out the "learn to code" baby with the "poor rote education" bathwater. Clearly that's a bad approach and is pervasive throughout schools around the wo
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by chaz 14y ago
I'm still all for it. Coding is a lot more than just filling jobs. It opens the door to critical thinking, breaking down complex problems into simple ones, separating correlation and causality, and differentiating between data vs anecdotes.
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by chaz 14y ago
Both. It's a marketplace for real-time information, and any marketplace always has both buyers and sellers. This is especially important for Twitter, as each person can frequently swap roles.
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by chaz 14y ago
> So you concede there's lots of stuff that many of us won't use? That's pretty much the definition of bloat. Hiding it doesn't make it go away. I define bloat differently. It needs to a) unnecessarily add complexity to the core functio
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Google's Goals with Chromebook Pixel(chaz.me)
30 points by chaz 14y ago|23 comments
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by chaz 14y ago
Print version: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/97042-a-chinese... Web version (3 pgs): http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/a-chinese-ha... OT sidenote: why are so many mobile versions so unreadable on web?
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by chaz 14y ago
I've always top posted because it details the entire history of who said what and when to people that may be added to the discussion later or forwarded to another party as an FYI. They don't have previous context without the whole thread av
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by chaz 14y ago
But that's how PR works. A company or their PR agency pitches a story to the journalist, who is constantly in search of good content in exchange for publicity. While the journalist and the publication get the final say, there's an agreement
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by chaz 14y ago
> Did the NYT reporter add a little journalistic embellish to the story? Probably. Agree that it's not a total work of fiction and there are clearly issues that EV shoppers should consider. But how much embellishment should we expect an
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by chaz 14y ago
> I'd want to know what happens if you push it for a little bit more. Well, that should be obvious: the car stops. But even if that's what he wanted to do, he should have acknowledged it. At the end of the day, there's lots of reasons t
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by chaz 14y ago
> Third party statistics sites like Alexa and Compete are horribly untrustworthy indicators of reality. Alexa and Compete are bad sources. Other third party sources like Quantcast, comScore, Nielsen, etc, do a better job of measurement,
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by chaz 14y ago
This is a fair point, but based on this photo [1] of the Supercharger station, and the layout of the service area, it seems unlikely he would have missed it. Google Maps even has the spot marked [2], but the photography has not been updated
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by chaz 14y ago
> EVs that have to be charged in real time at arbitrary leaf nodes on the power grid are a really, really stupid idea. Maybe. But Tesla has proven that they can build a product that people will buy. Isn't that what matters?
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by chaz 14y ago
Broder actually had an ok story to begin with, with a number of facts that are review-worthy. The cold weather energy loss is certainly one of them. Also, the Supercharger stations are not close enough together, admitted by Musk. Their cust
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by chaz 14y ago
He tried in 2008, which included federal money. It didn't get enough Democrat support. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/congestion-pric...
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by chaz 14y ago
There was an interesting story on NPR Planet Money that indicates that private cars are actually not the issue in Manhattan, and adding more taxi cabs will actually slow traffic down. The context is that NYC is looking at adding 2,000 cab l
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by chaz 14y ago
Also a good time to remind people to subscribe to the security mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rubyonrails-security
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by chaz 14y ago
People are already abusing your logos. At least this would reduce some of the poor attempts to extract a logo off of your website's navigation.
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by chaz 14y ago
Hard to fault him for publishing where his constituency goes to every day. Almost no one would go to his website.
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by chaz 14y ago
It's about as good as Coca Cola (1.6%), and better than Nike (0.9%), Justin Bieber (1.0%) and Lady Gaga (0.9%). That number is never really that high except for the most viral stuff that people like because it's funny, like George Takei's p
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by chaz 14y ago
Except Apple's own iTunes. I know it's a mess of an app to start with, but for iTunes 10 or earlier, the green button used to throw it into mini player mode. Now, it maximizes/restores the window, ignoring the content dimensions. And not to
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by chaz 14y ago
This was my change agent, too. I could finally stop diagnosing install issues and focus on development. Cygwin was great for me from ~2003-2006, but with Intel chips + VMware or Parallels, I could get the right development and not give up W
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by chaz 14y ago
I'm pretty happy with Chrome on my Nexus 4. Only on this phone do I feel like performance is close to where it needs to be. Nexus One, S, and Galaxy have all been a little sluggish for their contemporary OS. iOS has always been tweaked for
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Why Range Rover Owners Will Love the Microsoft Surface Pro(chaz.me)
1 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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Résumés are Marketing, Not Documentation(chaz.me)
2 points by chaz 14y ago|0 comments
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Dell in $24 Billion Deal to Go Private(dealbook.nytimes.com)
146 points by chaz 14y ago|134 comments

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