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by ender7 15y ago
Anyone complaining about USPS quality of service should really travel to other countries. From my experience in Europe and elsewhere, USPS knocks it out of the park. One of the reasons that USPS is a national monopoly is that it provides an
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by ender7 15y ago
This is so very German. Can anyone tell how the take-off/landing is handled? It appears that the planes ride on little support struts, but do the struts auto engage/disengage once landing is complete/about to begin? Most of the taxiing appe
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by ender7 15y ago
Fusion really is the answer to the world's energy crisis, for all the reasons laid out in the article (can't melt down, ease of procuring fuel, no pollution, relatively small generation of nuclear waste). It's a shame that it doesn't have b
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by ender7 15y ago
Good things to think about if you work for just about any large company. Staying late is a great opportunity to meet the people who work daily for your benefit. You might be pretty surprised with the conversations you end up having. My 2AM
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by ender7 15y ago
I personally find this article's brand of narcissism-masquerading-as-activism really upsetting. This is not a blog entry about uncovering the seedy side of Google and how they abuse their employees. The only information of this kind to be f
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by ender7 15y ago
Sales taxes are a really inefficient way of raising money. More specifically, you end up extracting most of your income from the poor and the middle-class, rather than the wealthy. We already have a fair way of levying a tax - it's the prop
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by ender7 16y ago
Really amazing site! Finally a way to take advantage of the "I listen to all my music on YouTube" behavior that's becoming so common. One comment: it's too difficult to create new playlists. The front-page suggested lists is great, but I do
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by ender7 16y ago
At the same time, "Programming Language Analysis Tool With Little To No Front-End or Real-Time Interaction" is not terribly representative of the average web application. (what exactly is a "Javascript application" anyway? This seems like a
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by ender7 16y ago
I think even this test fails to capture true JS performance due to it's lack of DOM performance testing. This may not be terribly fair - is the performance of the DOM API still "Javascript"? - but then again, I'd prefer "useful" over "fair.
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by ender7 16y ago
"usually because it isn't a priority or interest for them" is the real sticking point. In order to make a really good UI you have to make sacrifices . A lot of them. All the time. Your time, for one thing. Most of your good ideas, the ones
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by ender7 16y ago
1). Ah, if that's the goal then...great I guess. I personally don't think moving back to a commodity currency is a good idea, but that is perhaps another discussion. 2). I've heard a number of Bitcoin enthusiasts state this as an advantage/
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by ender7 16y ago
Bitcoin is both a really great idea, and a really stupid idea. sage_joch has already pointed out the reasons why it's a really cool idea. It's also flawed in a number of ways. First, the limited supply means that you've essentially just cre
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by ender7 16y ago
It makes me wonder why Google doesn't create a registrar service. Not to make money - perhaps they'd even run at a loss - but to offer a service that doesn't make you hate yourself every time you have to interact with them. Considering the
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by ender7 16y ago
Incentives in academia can get pretty complex, however. In terms of bragging rights, salary tends to factor in way below publications, tenure, chaired position, etc. Plenty of academics are still lured away to other institutions with the pr
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by ender7 16y ago
I think this is a valid complaint. Sure, it looks "clean" and has some incredibly simplistic examples, but beyond that it's very much an alpha release. Of course, once we get to the aforementioned 1.0 release with a stable API, things will
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by ender7 16y ago
Yes. Ask questions. Asking questions gets you rep (and quite quickly too, if your questions are voted up).