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by frankus 10y ago
A compact way of encoding nutrition information so that it can be transmitted via a data URI or 2D barcode. The idea is you could include it in a menu or cookbook or recipe website and scan/click it to add to a food-tracking app.
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by frankus 10y ago
Uganda may not be a great fit for a lot of people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Uganda
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by frankus 10y ago
As far as I know all of Apple's framework code is in Objective-C, and there are two big problems standing in the way of converting it to Swift: AppKit and the like still has to support 32-bit apps (and it's apparently challenging
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by frankus 10y ago
Just realized that "circadian" comes from circa and dia (so "around a day"?).
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by frankus 10y ago
It would be neat if you could enter a tire size (e.g. 165-65R13) and estimate the overall diameter from that. Extra credit: figure out a plausible count of gear teeth for each ratio.
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by frankus 10y ago
Some (maybe all?) bacteria are capable of horizontal gene transfer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer#Proka... ) For example if someone were infected with both antibiotic-resistant gut bacteria (acq
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by frankus 10y ago
Oops, I was off a little ( https://www.electricbike.com/watt-hours/ ), but what's an order of magnitude between friends? That should be ~20 Wh per mile, so 0.2¢ per mile with some of the pricier electricity in the U
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by frankus 10y ago
You would think that less food would make me cold, but I've found the opposite. My hypothesis is that my metabolism switched from consuming carbs (with limited energy storage) to fat (with literally weeks worth of energy) and that that
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by frankus 10y ago
Totally anecdotal, but I want to second the recommendation of a longer fasting period. I switched to a strict-but-not-religious "no food between 7 pm and 11 am" system (with exceptions for weekends and social occasions). Within a
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by frankus 10y ago
Another data point: a light electric vehicle (ebike, boosted board, etc.) is about 1-2¢ per mile (~100-200 Watt-hours per mile at 10¢ per kilowatt-hour).
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by frankus 10y ago
The math on walking, at least, seems little off: 210 calories per hour divided by 2.5 miles per hour is 84 calories per mile, which is about 23.5¢ per mile. Also the cost of driving should really use the average fleet fuel economy of a coun
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by frankus 10y ago
Jarrett Walker has a great rant on this topic: http://humantransit.org/2016/05/the-chinese-straddle-bus-is-... "…If your starting point for urban design is that single-occupant cars, despite their extreme ine
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by frankus 10y ago
It's probably not great for my wrists, but I particularly like the location of the built-in trackpad on my MacBook. So instead of raising the laptop in a stand and getting an external keyboard and mouse, I use an external display (24&q
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by frankus 10y ago
I'm curious if you could use "cycles since power was applied" as a shared secret for pairing lamps to a wall switch.
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by frankus 10y ago
Nice to see first-party transcriptions. http://asciiwwdc.com also has transcripts of past years.
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by frankus 10y ago
Great list, although I prefer the term "thought technology" (as coined by John Roderick) to "mental model".
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by frankus 10y ago
This does smell a bit like a "throw together a lot of high-tech buzzwords" design exercise more than a real product. First, series hybrids are generally a bad idea for road-going vehicles, where a mechanical link is a) pretty stra
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by frankus 10y ago
It may seem like a minor nitpick, but the title should be "How Cheap Can Electric Cars Get?". It's a bit like equating "Digital Camera" with "DSLR", and ignoring camera phones as a source of disruption.
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by frankus 11y ago
The timeline sucks, and there's arguably too much at grade, but the particularly congested part (from Uptown to International District) would be in a new tunnel.
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by frankus 11y ago
The mode share for downtown proper is 45% transit (31% drive alone). https://www.theurbanist.org/2015/02/25/commute-seattle-study...
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by frankus 11y ago
I would expand that to helping people in general. There's definitely a diminishing marginal utility effect to income once you get to a certain point, but you can sidestep that by using your resources to help someone who's on a muc
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by frankus 11y ago
Apptentive | Seattle | Onsite https://www.apptentive.com/about/careers/ Hiring for engineering lead, iOS, backend (rails, etc.), test engineer, sales.
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by frankus 11y ago
One big advantage to composting is that little bits of food clinging to the container are a feature, not a bug. So it saves a lot of water and (if hot water is needed) energy over washing and recycling paper or (with PLA and such) plastic.
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by frankus 11y ago
Uplift will also sell you the legs (~US$500) which you can mate with an inexpensive desk-top (or maybe one that you already have): http://www.upliftdesk.com/uplift-height-adjustable-standing-... We've used these at my
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by frankus 11y ago
Have you considered using NSCoding to persist state?
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by frankus 11y ago
"MINI and HAX will give $60,000 in equity to each startup in the three-month program and tells TechCrunch it could further invest in the strongest ideas." That doesn't sound quite right. I'm assuming this means $60k in e
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by frankus 11y ago
"Businesses would have to raise wages to above the living wage to attract people to what are currently lower-paid jobs – assuming that means they will have to pay living wage + 5%" I could see the opposite happen. Assuming you als
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by frankus 11y ago
Normally higher income would spur housing construction (if the cost of construction is mostly in the cost of the labor/materials), but in areas where land is naturally or artificially scarce (through exclusionary zoning and arduous &qu
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by frankus 11y ago
If they're going to have something called a NERD NOTE, they should at least get their units right: "The entire planet’s electrical consumption is right around 5 terawatt-hours." 5TWh per what? Per second? Per hour (then why n
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by frankus 11y ago
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