designtofly

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by designtofly 7y ago
It has gotten awful. Every single time I've searched for a generic product (or even a specific brand + model), I'm inundated with these nonsense branded listings. I'm very close to canceling my Prime membership. I think the b
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by designtofly 8y ago
I think that humanity is going to look back and see pesticides and herbicides as one of the worst mistakes in history. It's slowly becoming clear just how damaging they are to the world's ecosystem. I urge everyone to stop using t
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by designtofly 8y ago
What bypass ratio are your turbofans? Your argument seems to be that because it's a turbofan (bypass > 0), you've "solved" all of the issues with turbojets. But at this size, you've still got a bypass ratio that&
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by designtofly 8y ago
In addition to most "middle class" wealth being tied up in home equity, I would wager that the vast majority of "investments" is tied up in retirement funds. Very few middle class people have regular income from investme
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by designtofly 8y ago
I'm glad this story has gone viral recently. Hopefully there will be more pressure to stop this practice. I've been using Android for a number of years now and between the handset manufacturers and the wireless providers, there ha
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by designtofly 8y ago
I've noticed that sellers have been gaming this metric as well. I was recently shopping for a phone case and other phone accessories. What I found is that sellers are re-purposing SKUs from other highly rated products. I found a ~4.5+
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by designtofly 10y ago
Although Shalizi has his own biases and is pretty opinionated, his review of "A New Kind of Science" is quite interesting and is worth considering: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
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by designtofly 10y ago
Fair point--you have no idea what happens behind closed doors and what the available budgets are. And you never will. Perhaps the hiring manager decided they are willing to pay 2x the market rate because their pain is quite high. But how li
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by designtofly 10y ago
I don't understand your argument. I never said any value is fixed. Of course a person's value changes from role to role and from company to company. Part of doing your research is understanding the pain points for the company and
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by designtofly 10y ago
I agree with you. I see this advice constantly parroted about, but I just cringe at the amount of work these people go through to avoid naming a number. If you want to deflect the first time the question is asked, fine. But if you have to d
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by designtofly 11y ago
For those that are interested in data science, there is this related challenge: The Tableau Foundation Challenge: From Fog Nets to Neural Nets https://www.drivendata.org/competitions/9/
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by designtofly 11y ago
CCC does serve affiliate links. If you go to any product page on CCC and click the "Buy" button, you'll end up at Amazon and the URL will have the "tag=camelproducts-20" for their affiliate code in the URL. I'm
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by designtofly 11y ago
But those intakes don't work for free. You will encounter huge losses and drag penalties. And military jets aren't designed to fly 3500 miles supersonically the entire way. The vast majority of miltiary jets have a maximum superso
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by designtofly 11y ago
From the Bloomberg article: "Boom’s software can also run millions of computer simulations a day on its designs, so the startup doesn’t have to spend months tweaking things in wind tunnels." Can you elaborate what computer simula
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by designtofly 11y ago
And I absolutely hate that they track which profiles you view and then display that information in the side bar under "people who viewed this profile also viewed". Unless you're looking at high profile person with millions of
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How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans(businessweek.com)
66 points by designtofly 14y ago|24 comments
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Venture capitalists are not your friends(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located(nytimes.com)
2 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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Foursquare Sees Record Signups In Wake of Facebook Places(pcmag.com)
2 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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Charges Announced for Soldier Accused of Leaking Video(nytimes.com)
4 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs(businessweek.com)
1 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple's Startup Culture(businessweek.com)
8 points by designtofly 16y ago|2 comments
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Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty Inc.(businessweek.com)
2 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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Why Amish businesses don't fail(money.cnn.com)
6 points by designtofly 16y ago|0 comments
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by designtofly 16y ago
Corresponding slide show: http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/16/technology-incubators-chang...
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Technology Incubators Changing The World(forbes.com)
2 points by designtofly 16y ago|1 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
For those that prefer the print version: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_14/b41...
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China: Closing for Business?(businessweek.com)
3 points by designtofly 17y ago|1 comments
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by designtofly 17y ago
They are great, but only if the definition of great does not include being effective .
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by designtofly 17y ago
I certainly consider this bad news. I know there's a lot of people on here who poo-poo manned spaceflight as needlessly expensive and unnecessary. But let me say this, manned flight (both air and space) as inspiration is the number one reas

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