ecopoesis

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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Modern software engineering has a much to do with software engineering as putting decals on you car has to to do with engine fabrication. If you want to engineer software you should start by making transistors ands putting them together int
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JavaScript Classes 1.1(github.com)
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
I really like Apache’s explanation linked from that page of the Apache license as a “universal donor” and GPL as a “universal recipient”. It’s the cleanest analogy about open-source licenses I’ve seen.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
I had an Alpha Multia back in ‘98. I remember having to scour eBay for the appropriate SCSI adapters since DEC used something proprietary. And even with the adapter, I never got the Linuxes of the time to recognize the HDs. The key to runni
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
I think (hope) North Carolina's history with the 'Bathroom Law' and the general lack of democracy at the state level makes Raleigh a hard sell.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Boston and Cambridge, MA have passed truck side rail laws. "Trucks over x height prohibited" and "Trucks over x weight prohibited" are common. States and cities can do a lot, and in fact can do a lot more then the federa
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Domestic adoption costs a lot too. Source: I adopted a baby from Virginia and it cost over $50,000. It is a very broken system.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Adoptions in the US cost ~$40k, a lot more then the 10-15k for pregnancy.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
And if they aren't the miners will just fork Bitcoin to a version without the coin limit. The real question is what future do the miner's choose? I see three options: 1) The new Bitcoin supply is tightly managed and the miners mai
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
There are hashes that represent the content of photos, the Microsoft’s PhotoDNA and Cloudinary’s pHash. I’m pretty sure Facebook’s engineers are smart enough to that they can’t just run photos through MD5 and have everything work.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Infrastructure can change quickly. In Boston it looks like it took us about 40 years to move from a streetcar dominated system to an auto dominated one. And that was with two intervening world wars.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Because it costs a lot of money to to move, and poor people (service employees) don’t have that money.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
That's because Tesla has the room to properly cool the battery. Phones use batteries as heat sinks for their processors, and heat kills lithium batteries.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Vermont cleaned up its street names as part of the E911 rollout while I was growing up. The dirt road we lived on got a name for the first time. The towns also deduped street names, so if one town had a Green St, Green Ave and Green Rd, onl
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
It's an artifact of ad blocking.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
> (I am very smart) Citation needed.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
In the late nineties when I was in college working at the helpdesk we had a problem during freshmen orientation where all of NE2000 clones in the desktops from HP or Packard Bell (definitely had Packard in the name) had the same MAC set. It
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
OLED and x86 aren't covered by FRAND, LTE is. When you push to make your patented tech part of a standard, you also agree to license it reasonably.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Not really. They once owned a big chunk of Expedia, and TripAdvisor when it was part of Expedia.
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by ecopoesis 9y ago
Except: early AI has already succeeded. Things like Siri and Alexa work everyday for millions of people. Then there's also the hidden AIs we so ingrained in our life we don't notice like Google's searching or even credit card
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
They look a lot like Sunpower's all black panels. I wonder how efficient they are? In Sunpower's case, the all-black ones are lower wattage and less efficient then their traditional looking ones, but also cheaper.
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
Why did you expect it was threadsafe? I can find nothing in its javadoc that would lead me to believe it was. Most of the Java standard library isn't threadsafe, that why there are concurrent objects in addition to their non-threadsafe
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
When Bloomberg was founded, Michael Bloomberg was a politician yet. He was a man trying to make money.
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
FUD means fear, uncertainty, doubt. I don't think the point of the article was any of those: like most media I'm sure Bloomberg's interest was ad impressions. Which they got from me, and will probably continue to get from me
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
The ABUS 83 series. Depending in size, the can be keyed to match your house key, do you'll also have one less key to carry.
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
Modern appliances are crap because that's all consumers will pay for. For example, if you want a washer that could double as a main battle tank, get a Speed Queen. The only problem is it costs twice what a name brand one does at a big
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
I don't think the unlimited plans will last. I think the only reason they've appeared is because we're past the build out phase of 4G/LTE. I expect that when 5G comes around, unlimited plans will disappear as the carrier
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
There is no technical solution to this. If you want there to be no searches of your phone when crossing the border, speak to your representative in Congress and your Senator. If they don't listen, then vote for someone else or even bet
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by ecopoesis 10y ago
Not true. http://www.snopes.com/google-manipulate-hillary-clinton/ Maybe Hacker News needs fact checking integration also.
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He says he invented email. Dispute him at your own risk(bostonglobe.com)
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