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by dublin 8y ago
Let me know how that works out for you...
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by dublin 8y ago
I don't have time to jump down that rabbit-hole, but it seems to me, the best way would be for each voter to have two votes available to use for each candidate - one positive, as normal, the other negative, meaning, basically, "
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by dublin 8y ago
I know at quite a few people that have not upgraded their iPhone 6-vintage phones simply because they found 3D/force Touch to be a really significantly negative feature, and just flat don't want it.
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by dublin 8y ago
Apple hides tons of stuff - often so well that they go missing for years. I hate to admit this (I'm an 8-time tech CTO), but I thought that Apple had made the bonehead decision to completely remove the iOS search feature after swipi
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by dublin 8y ago
And if you think people are terrified of messing up the iPhone itself, they cower in mortal fear at trying to do anything in iTunes, which is still, a decade on, inexplicably the only way to do many things with an iPhone (like, for instan
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by dublin 8y ago
Apple's design of Settings has clearly evolved via accretion rather than any thoughtful and considered design. The fact that something is possible in a UI/UX has no bearing on the fact that it's fundamental design can still
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by dublin 8y ago
It was good enough for UNIX... Heck, it was a big deal when early uucp and Internet links were finally 8-bit clean! (Only 7 bits are needed for plain old English ASCII, and when you were paying many thousands of dollars a month for a T1 (1
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by dublin 8y ago
Maybe, but I can say without reservation that the times I find my personal technologies the most frustrating are when they're "trying to help me". 99% of the time, this is the WRONG thing to do - for instance if my phone &qu
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by dublin 8y ago
Sorry, but I've been a iPhone user for many years, and will turn on iCloud about the 12th of Never. You totally give up all privacy for contacts, photos, appointments, etc. the moment you turn it on, and you can never undo that. Appl
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by dublin 8y ago
"How a computer works" is both a moving target, and largely irrelevant, as shown by the number of ignorant (not stupid) replies in this very topic. RISC and ARM changed the game in the 90s, just as GP-GPUs did in the 00s and neur
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by dublin 8y ago
Well, the answer depends to some degree on the kind of co-founder you're looking for, but I'd strongly suggest starting with LinkedIn and looking for people with previous startup experience, particularly in your area. Previous st
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by dublin 8y ago
Interesting, but I don't think I'll be giving up 4 years worth of OneNote web clips that do the same thing, but with more flexibility and compatability...
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by dublin 8y ago
Multi-device sync in OneNote works pretty solidly, although I suspect the sync mechanism backend could use a lot of TLC...
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by dublin 8y ago
Oh, and FWIW, MS has put a LOT of effort into improving the OneNote apps for iOS and Android, too - they are approaching full first-class citizen status, which makes them really handy. (Funny, I used to bash MS, but they're really doi
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by dublin 8y ago
If you use a Surface, or other modern, non-caveman computer with excellent pen support, then there is nothing better than OneNote for note-taking. Interestingly, MS has been slowly deprecating the legacy desktop version of OneNote in Offic
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by dublin 8y ago
Or you could realize that natural gas is a far superior energy storage mechanism, and the cleanest fuel available. Fracking, and the consequent reduction in natural gas prices, is directly responsible for the US dropping its CO2 production
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by dublin 8y ago
Get a clue and do the math. (Seriously, this is a one-to-two hour google for info and apply third-grade arithmetic back-of-an-envelope project.) Batteries are NOT the answer - the quantity of batteries required is astronomically beyond the
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by dublin 8y ago
Your face may be dry, but it will be in the dark. There is quite simply NO KNOWN TECHNOLOGY that can cost effectively meet peak demands other than fossil fuel plants. The people that build the natural gas peaker plants that California wil
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by dublin 8y ago
No but due to the horrendous grid instability this policy must induce, CAISO will have to bring in a lot of power from other regions at pretty premium prices if they don't want all CA customers to find out the hard way that the only th
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by dublin 8y ago
That's a really good question. I grew up in Austin, and while Stubb's isn't bad, I wouldn't consider it a top-tier Texas BBQ sauce. It's popular primarily because it's associated with a popular tourist music
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by dublin 8y ago
And FWIW, I haven't used anything but Internet PCB shops for prototypes since 2001 - that's the point at which I needed surface mount, so I made the change, and never looked back. If you're really in a hurry, you can pay a b
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by dublin 8y ago
Unless you're building a stupid-simple board w/old-style through-hole components, give up on milling and just use an internet board house. (FWIW, Sunstone/PCBExpress has done great boards for me.) Why? 1) Layers & plate
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by dublin 8y ago
This isn't exactly new, and not only for the reason in the article - Check out NetNotary from back around that time, too: They published their checksums daily in the WSJ, IIRC. Could be wrong, but I seem to recall NetNotary was a Mars
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by dublin 8y ago
That's called a Credit Union. Not a new idea....
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by dublin 8y ago
Yes, but the quality of the community and interaction is falling. The days when you could easily mix it up with guys like Russ Nelson and Eric Raymond in /. comments are gone. Although I still occasionally find news/links to inte
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by dublin 8y ago
"Doing some good for the planet" really must take into account the toxic metals leaching from the cheap Chinese panels that took over the market in the past decade. (There are no significant US/EU PV panel mfrs left.) I&#x27
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by dublin 8y ago
Of course. Islands are one of the only places where solar truly makes economic sense - having to ship your fuel in changes the economics equation a LOT...
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by dublin 8y ago
A huge amount of the info on solar PV power on the net is absolute garbage. (I spent 5 years working on the most advanced solar performance optimization and monitoring system developed to date.) I haven't read all of this article, but
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by dublin 8y ago
Yep - the real world bows to no one's preconceived notions...

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