corprew

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by corprew 9y ago
It looks like they've got that covered: "If we, what3words ltd, are ever unable to maintain the what3words technology or make arrangements for it to be maintained by a third-party (with that third-party being willing to make this
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by corprew 9y ago
I clicked through this hoping that someone had done a 'Show HN' for a literal plate of meatballs.
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by corprew 9y ago
That's been widely reported in the past.
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by corprew 9y ago
this is the point of that terrible 'threading' strategy, actually, if i guess what they are doing correctly.
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by corprew 10y ago
it would probably also make sense that they made something like this while they were trying to figure out what sort of newton-like object they should make
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by corprew 10y ago
other languages also use things metonymously, so maybe hating human cognition is a safer bet.
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by corprew 11y ago
jack9: you might want to think about how your tone is coming off to people reading your text -- "You're serious and I'm not..." -- if you're surprised by how people react to it.
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by corprew 11y ago
maybe write a `Dear "Dear 'Dear Github'"` letter"?
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by corprew 12y ago
I think you can assume that was his goal (an indirect reference to the cultural revolution that works in the way you say.)
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by corprew 12y ago
Brussel sprouts used to be more bitter than they are; farmers have actively been breeding better tasting brussels sprouts. Lots of people who used to hate them and didn't eat them for a number of years find them more pleasant when try
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by corprew 12y ago
Many objections to ideas around social benefits are not around the practicality of it, but whether non-citizens could 'unjustly' get it. It makes sense from a branding point of view, at least in the American & Western Europea
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by corprew 12y ago
'they'?
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by corprew 13y ago
When I was first started out in programming, someone gave me the advice "never work at a company where you're a cost, always work at a company where your output is [directly tied to] the profit." It seemed like a truism, and
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by corprew 13y ago
you can detect heartbeats in infrared light easily, no fancy processing required -- see http://www.google.com/patents/WO2004078028A2?cl=en and http://www2.ece.ohio-state.edu/~anderson/Outreachfiles/Pulse... for examples.
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by corprew 14y ago
There is an actual vitamin K. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_K
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by corprew 15y ago
I would guess that someone switched NAICS code 33411 "Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing" for NAICS code 334411 "Electron Tube Manufacturing," but that's just a guess.
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by corprew 15y ago
Not a business book, but "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things" by George Lakoff is a great guide to how humans think about categories and other related topics rather than how as computer professionals we're trained to represent those relation
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by corprew 15y ago
Actually, I think lutorn's point is that most people (including him) do not do a full riffle shuffle when they set out to shuffle cards, thus preserving the order of segments of the cards.
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by corprew 15y ago
On the other hand, this is probably precisely why this is being built in Arizona and not in California.
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by corprew 15y ago
If I were to guess, the regulatory burden of putting something up like this in Arizona is probably way lower than putting it up in California. So, not that odd given that both sides are plugged into the grid and California already buys pow
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by corprew 15y ago
This would be a great science fiction story with the hook that he's a sim of an actual person created to participate in social games
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by corprew 15y ago
There's also an difference between the michelin system, where most restaurants get 0 stars and getting even one star is a biggish deal, and rating all restaurants from one to five, which is what the system used in the us seems to do. Like t
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by corprew 15y ago
Yeah, every time I see someone being rude to a waiter, my first thought isn't about the waiter rule, it's whether this person didn't watch fight club.
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by corprew 15y ago
yes, if suddenly they added support for t-mobile and sprint. but it could also be something like upgrading / changing how their point-of-sale systems work to give an improved customer experience. that would make a lot of sense for a store
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by corprew 15y ago
I think part of it is Portland -- Anecdotal, but I know a large number of people in the area who are relatively good at dev and used to work for HP or another local company and are now unemployed or underemployed and have a house that's sev
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by corprew 16y ago
It seems like so many of the other articles about 37 signals go roughly "37S wrote this blog post that proves that they listen to no one other than themselves and are in the process of shooting themselves in the foot," so in that sense, it
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by corprew 16y ago
Or: it's on the list of automatic hack scripts that all the scriptkiddies use and it's being fired off as an attack because its on the list and not because there's something relevant actually happening.
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by corprew 16y ago
is there a reason you can't write a script to make the links rather than zipping it up?
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by corprew 16y ago
Gist has been great for me in keeping track of the business and volunteer contacts. I feel smarter and better informed during business conversations from using it, it finds a lot of things i previously had to research before meetings autom
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by corprew 16y ago
actually, there's huge opportunity in GIS right now where your skills would probably be really handy.

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