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by frankus 11y ago
I wonder how long it would be before people adjust to this, and start going to bed later, getting up later, and leaving work later.
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by frankus 11y ago
I've found this a really good discussion of how tech leads' responsibilities differ from front-line developers: http://madeofmetaphors.com/shapes
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by frankus 11y ago
It might be effect of people who have to drive for most trips, versus those who can walk or bike (alone or in combination with transit) to at least a few destinations. That sort of access also makes those places more desirable, and thus mor
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by frankus 11y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite transportation-related quips: "You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic."
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by frankus 11y ago
The author doesn't really address one of the most important mechanisms that human ears use to determine direction: the delay between a sound wave reaching the "near" and "far" ear. You can try this with headphones,
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by frankus 11y ago
I suspect the only chemistries that will support that kind of improvement are air-breathing cells (vanadium boride-air has a specific energy that narrowly beats gasoline). Unfortunately they can't be recharged in-situ, so they probably
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by frankus 11y ago
What the article is saying is that the threat of bail (in an amount that a defendant can't pay) makes plea deals more likely, which currently keeps actual trials from clogging up the court system. If someone were to post bail for the
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by frankus 11y ago
A couple of thoughts: It's worth noting that both of the breakfasts in the study were high in high-glycemic carbohydrates. It would be interesting to see if the result holds when eating something like eggs and bacon for breakfast. Seco
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by frankus 11y ago
I'd be super worried riding this in anything other than a smooth indoor environment, as it looks like the smallest chunk of gravel could send you flying. But I think the non-self-balancing but still weight-sensing control scheme has a
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by frankus 11y ago
That would make a neat drinks coaster.
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by frankus 11y ago
But once it's no longer an effective loss leader, they might just stop selling gas, which has the same effect. You can see from land use patterns (at least in the West Coast North American cities I'm familiar with) that at a certa
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by frankus 11y ago
I had the same thought. The waitbutwhy article cites 840 per hour being slightly less than the current traffic for that city pair, but that's assuming quite non-peaky traffic (7+ million if run 24/7). It's also assuming that
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by frankus 11y ago
Apptentive — Data Science + Android — Seattle, WA Our goal is to provide better communication between businesses and their customers through in-app interactions, including messaging, surveys and notes (and, yes, ratings prompts too). We hav
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by frankus 12y ago
Depends on the house, but for the average Tesla owner I suspect you're right. 85 kWh would last me over half a month (I live in a smallish house with big windows, no A/C, LED lighting, and gas for heating/cooking/hot wat
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by frankus 12y ago
Now that I think about it, it was a sequence of integers (looking for sub-sequences), not a set.
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by frankus 12y ago
I did the k = 0 case in an interview once (with nonempty subsets), and there's a neat little trick to do it in O(n).
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by frankus 12y ago
Location: Seattle, WA/Vancouver, BC/Bellingham, WA Remote: Yes, please! Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: iOS/Objective-C/Swift/Cocoa, Javascript/Coffeescript/Node/Express, SQL (MySQL/MSSQL&
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by frankus 12y ago
Assuming this acts only as a glorified replacement for a memorized license number, it seems like a nice convenience. But the nice thing (from a law-enforcement perspective) about plastic IDs is that they can be made expensive to forge/
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Meet TZOA, the World's First Enviro-Tracker(kickstarter.com)
3 points by frankus 12y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 12y ago
The short answer is that they're difficult to seal and the combustion chamber shape is awful (it looks like a flattened figure eight in cross section). It's super tempting as an engine designer to take something that works well as
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by frankus 12y ago
I actually live a few blocks from the Trader Joe's that serves all of Western Canada (Bellingham), but I'm going to stop by next time I'm up there.
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by frankus 12y ago
I remember thinking it was pretty revolutionary when I got a demo back in early 2013 (had an interview there, but got a too-good-to-refuse offer elsewhere). Granted, that was before FaceTime audio and the audio features of iMessage, but at
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Talko(talko.com)
70 points by frankus 12y ago|50 comments
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by frankus 12y ago
My last job began with an out-of-the-blue phone call, a couple of phone interviews, and then a ~8-hour (paid) contract project (adding a couple of features to the codebase I would be working on). I didn't actually meet any of my cowork
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by frankus 12y ago
I was thinking "why not a Hilbert curve?" but (from your link): "As an alternative, the Hilbert curve has been suggested as it has a better order-preserving behaviour, but here the calculations are much more complicated, le
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by frankus 12y ago
But it's not especially in keeping with Radical Self-Reliance or Participation.
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by frankus 12y ago
I once got a bill from the California Franchise Tax Board. I had been working remotely for a California company and barely even set foot in the state, but they decided I owed them state income tax. Ended up being easier to pay up than dispu
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by frankus 12y ago
It seems like newly-allocated spectrum is going to be used for narrowcast applications, so I think the approach used by the Artemis folks ( http://www.artemis.com ) is probably more promising in the long run.
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by frankus 12y ago
It's probably obvious to most, but I recently came to the realization that if you're paying off debt, a high COL works in your favor, whereas if you're living off cash, it works against you. That means that if you're fre
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by frankus 12y ago
FWIW they left O and I out of the list of possible letters for just that reason. One could argue either way about fully-numeric versus alphanumeric codes. They're a bit harder to communicate but more than three times shorter, on averag

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