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by foxfired 9y ago
By the way, I enjoyed reading your posts. Keep on writing.
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by foxfired 9y ago
For now, they created a single pixel by trapping one particle (not sure what it's made of) and beaming different colors on it. Depending on when they managed to trap two particles, we can start applying Moore's law and double it e
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by foxfired 9y ago
What I find funny is how mild his opinion about google was. I read his post on medium and it's true that he showed some of the problems google have but it wasn't as poignant. He mostly focused on his new venture Now CNBC takes it
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by foxfired 9y ago
> The people I once called sheep, aren't that. They just didn't have the means to roll the dice. One thing I see often and often (I've done it too) is that when you quit your job to pursue your dream, everybody else workin
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by foxfired 9y ago
You have a typing error under from closure: -he goal for Macchiato is... should be: The goal for Macchiato is...
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MekaMon from Apple(apple.com)
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by foxfired 9y ago
Everything is wonderful when the kids are not in chaos mode. When you are with children and they are behaving it is easy to take them seriously. But find yourself in a situation that you don't even know how everything started and kids
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by foxfired 9y ago
Science is not a belief system like religion. It's not whether you believe or not. In fact, you can completely disbelieve it and it changes nothing about science. One of the reason I am disappointed every time I hear the climate change
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Becoming a Professional Programmer(idiallo.com)
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by foxfired 9y ago
OK. That's fine. I have friends that will spend a month committing code on github everyday for the sole purpose to having greens on the page. It does help to get an interview because most often then not, all the employer sees is the gr
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by foxfired 9y ago
The problem is, the alternative to dropped techs were better to some extent: - CD-ROM -> Bigger hard drives, faster internet connections. - Floppy -> CD-ROMs And BIOS upgrade - Flash -> Better browser security, and faster javascrip
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Ask HN: What steps do you take to plan a new project?
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Invoke with Cortana(harmankardon.com)
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by foxfired 9y ago
#not related but: Maybe nobody else cares, but the name does matter. Edward, Stan, Cassandra. Have we run out of computer (or programming) sounding names? This is Computatrum Antropomorphicus.
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by foxfired 9y ago
I know many mention facebook or google being hacked will be an even bigger deal. But I wonder, with all the online spaces google/facebook has under control (ads, analytics, cdns, dns, crawlers, your phone, etc.) if they suspect a breac
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by foxfired 9y ago
Maybe it has something to do with the word Territory as in a U.S. Territory. I still don't know what it is, but it implies that it is not a state, not a city. If Hawaii can be half way around the world and be called a state, why can&#x
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by foxfired 9y ago
They are embracing it now, that's mostly because Tesla has been testing the grounds for the rest. Don't forget that GM had not only terminated all leases then went out of their way to crush all their EV1s[1]. Like a public executi
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by foxfired 9y ago
I think HHVM was equivalent to what jQuery was to JavaScript. jQuery forced JavaScript to be better, and the better JavaScript becomes, the less jQuery is needed. So if we get to a point where HHVM is completely irrelevant, it simply means
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Equifax and the Apostrophe(linkedin.com)
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by foxfired 9y ago
Here is a perspective I read that I thought was interesting[1]: "There are a billion active accounts on facebook and other than the 208 that are set to private, I can communicate with every single one of them. I don't know what ot
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by foxfired 9y ago
VR is very nice, when it's in the booth, and they already set it up, and they have a working game already, and there is only one person a head of me in line, and I can only experience it for a couple minutes because someone else is beh
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by foxfired 9y ago
This is a direct testament to: > Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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by foxfired 9y ago
I am surprised this claim is buried in the article with no highlight whatsoever.
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by foxfired 9y ago
2 fun things I learned. 1. In kirundi (a common language in Burundi) there is one word for both yesterday and tomorrow. They don't confuse the meaning because of the context of the sentence. But when my friend speaking Kirundi spoke fr
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by foxfired 9y ago
> The original art app isn’t going anywhere – except to the Windows Store for free! Does it mean that from now on we would have to download it?
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by foxfired 9y ago
This reminds me a startup that was at techcrunch disrupt a few years ago. Cota[1] The tech seems to be the same whereas it tracks the position of the device then beams the power. Note however that Cota only sends one WATT of power per devic
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by foxfired 10y ago
This is from 3 days ago. I wish the camera could capture what my eyes could see. http://imgur.com/a/yJ6oD
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by foxfired 10y ago
When I used to see all schools turning to iPads I was one of the naysayers. I saw my nephew working(playing) on his school iPad and I thought this was the worst decision the school system ever took. But now looking back, I am glad they went
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by foxfired 10y ago
Here is how I see it. I rely on those rides to go to work every single day and here what it (would) costs me. Uber: $250 a month.(Majority) Lyft: $500 a month (Whenever Uber is too expensive) Bus : $100 a month (1h:15 for 6 miles and 3 buse
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Given the circumstances can I park after 4?(stackoverflow.com)
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