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by dmckeon 12y ago
A carpenter in the US is unlikely to measure wood in 10ths of an inch. I make 120cm to be about 47.2441 inches - or almost 3 feet, 11 1/4 inches. Before we quibble over decimal precision, how wide is the saw blade? Anyone in need of se
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Cox> Our policy has never been to require everyone on Facebook to use their legal name. The spirit of our policy is that everyone on Facebook uses the authentic name they use in real life. The current problem is Facebook's assumptio
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Use && there, not ; - consider the result if either of the cd commands fails.
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by dmckeon 12y ago
IIRC, Intel shopped for a location for a chip fab back in the 1990s - Pentium F00F bug timeframe - and narrowed the possible sites down to 12 or 15, then to 8 or 10, etc. and finally to 3 states, and basically asked them to bid with tax c
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by dmckeon 12y ago
I could not find language supporting a "private restroom" requirement after about 30 minutes of Googling, but it appears that FDA meat processing regs may require full-time on-site inspectors. Considering that slaughterhouses proc
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Google's $600 million real estate shopping spree in Mountain View(contracostatimes.com)
6 points by dmckeon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Mention your planned commute endpoints and times for better responses. Mention urban driving experience locations for comparisons. Traffic over the Bay Bridge (I-80W) and its northern approaches (I-80W & I-580E) is quite heavy at typi
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Airbus: Pilots don't really need windows(seattlepi.com)
1 points by dmckeon 12y ago|0 comments
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Rents In San Francisco And Conflicting Values(forbes.com)
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Also consider the cost of day care, for families of a single parent, or where both parents work. Plenty of numbers in: http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p70-135.pdf
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Language, labor costs, and location seem to be the prime drivers. Access to the EU labor pool probably contributes. Start-ups that are not yet profitable do not benefit from the low corporate tax rate.
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Silicon Valley tech startups find a second home in Ireland(mercurynews.com)
2 points by dmckeon 12y ago|1 comments
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Previous discussions at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7863264 [~June 7, 2014] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7514156 [~April 1, 2014] recap: Bluetooth+WiFi; closed source, apparently
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Previous discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702659
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SF cracks down on ‘Monkey Parking’ mobile app(blog.sfgate.com)
51 points by dmckeon 12y ago|57 comments
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Here's a set of questions that anyone in IT who thinks they might ever be the focus of a similar frenzy might want to consider: http://sharylattkisson.com/lois-lerners-lost-emails-question... (basically, it is a long l
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Agree about the inconsistency, but > if you're on another OS... try: http://www.smartmontools.org http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
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by dmckeon 12y ago
As a Perl and Modern/PBP fan, I have to suggest that CPAN has become a poorer resource over time: > In the olden days, you could expect to find a Perl module for most anything you wanted to do but also: Having 57 modules all calle
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Error message: > Our apologies. Your results didn't transfer correctly to this page. Don't worry -- your data was saved. If you've forgotten what your results were, you can email gameswithwords@gmail.com and tell us your
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Citation?: 25 Food Things Only A New Mexican Would Understand http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/new-mexican-food_n_... A: It was yellow when I drove through it.
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Point your NNTP client at: nntp.olduse.net or one of those new-fangled "Web" browser things at: http://olduse.net/ olduse.net is not an archive, as such, but more of a repeat performance - " updated in real t
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FAA to streamline drone permit process(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dmckeon 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Note that the cost of each device includes "the rights to all the books loaded on it," so this is more like a civilian e-reader with a lot of content on it than just an empty $3k Kindle or equivalent. Still, I wonder how many of t
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by dmckeon 12y ago
The auto/manual difference seems related to: "debugging is twice as hard as coding" and argues for a self-driving car model that is fully automatic, and would pull over and stop if it cannot cope, rather than an assisted&#x2
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Fair point - I'd edit, but the edit window time has passed. I was trying to summarize the previous discussions, but yes, this is contentious, and the outcome is not yet clear.
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by dmckeon 12y ago
It appears to be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Ca%C3%B1ada_de_Verde_y_... There are some other clues on this .tiff (fair warning, it bogged down my Shotwell viewer and swap space): http://gi
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Previous discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135206 Property rights recap at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917815 tl;dr: The property was granted to the original owner by the gover
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by dmckeon 12y ago
Considering that SF is piloting " demand-responsive pricing " http://sfpark.org/how-it-works/pricing/ this seems like a natural evolution. Alpha-test in Rome, beta in SF, then try to expand to Boston &a
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Good point. The FAA has long made strong distinctions between private (amateur/sport) and commercial operations, and I would expect that the risk/reward balance is at the heart of their initial rationale. That said, does their c
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by dmckeon 13y ago
" Critics say one problem with the FAA's current policy – that amateurs can fly drones below 400 feet but commercial operators cannot – is that it doesn't seem to address any specific safety concerns. " The critics may n

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