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by frankus 16y ago
It really is like someone tripping over your brain's power cord.
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by frankus 16y ago
I use a variation on pg's laptop-across-the-room-plus-no internet-on-dev-machine trick. I need internet for what I do, but I keep all of my bookmarks (especially RSS feeds) on my laptop in the next room. The laptop is also at bar height, wi
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by frankus 16y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing, I can't recommend Gary Taubes' book Good Calories Bad Calories highly enough. If you're not so interested, he wrote a TL;DR version called Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It. He also has a blo
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by frankus 16y ago
If you happened to have added a ticket in your cart on store.apple.com it might very well still be there (and be able to be purchased) after the conference is sold out. That's how I got in last year after slow management approval nearly rui
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by frankus 16y ago
The man's got a point. And I say that as a homeowner of nine years. The first point I would make is that unless you're independently wealthy, you're either going to be renting housing or renting money. All else equal, thirty years later you
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by frankus 16y ago
Gas turbines have by far the best power-to-weight ratio of anything short of a rocket motor. And large gas turbines can be extremely efficient. But they're expensive and the efficiency advantage largely disappears as they're scaled down to
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Slugging — The People's Transit(miller-mccune.com)
1 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
You can get the (release) iOS SDK for free, but can only run your code in the simulator. When you pony up $99, Apple will sign your code-signing certificate so that your code can run on unmodified devices, and they will also allow you to su
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by frankus 16y ago
My iPhone 4 is updated (via iTunes), but so far there's nothing newer than 4.2 available for my iPad (according to iTunes).
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by frankus 16y ago
I'm guessing the bit about sadism was added by the headline writer, since a lot of what the author describes is textbook Crossfit. Besides, isn't it more strictly speaking masochistic? That said I'm currently taking a break from it due to a
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by frankus 16y ago
Not that it hasn't been possible strictly due to lack of a suitable interconnect technology, but I wonder if this could facilitate using your mobile device as a sort of "personality module" that could plug into a monitor with a built-in gra
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by frankus 16y ago
A which point they'll call it Lightning? Nah, too obvious :)
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by frankus 16y ago
$20 says it was Intel's idea.
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by frankus 16y ago
I've been working at home for two and a half months, and switched jobs to do it. Or more accurately, I work from home as a consequence of switching to a job that was more in-line with my interests. This comic pretty well sums it up how it's
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by frankus 16y ago
Time to flog my half-bakery link once more, this one for a cell phone or handset integrated into something like the Griffin iSlap: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Slap_20Bracelet_20Cell_20Phon... For smartphone use, it probably makes more
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by frankus 16y ago
Not to sound flippant, but there's your first problem. Rails really doesn't want to be layered over an legacy database schema. Doing so would definitely lead to essay-like queries.
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Right-sizing Government(samefacts.com)
1 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
Here's a cool comparison video of Porsche GT3 versus F1 on the same track/corner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex5dhhpSHCw F1 makes some of the fastest street-legal cars look downright slow.
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Goldbugs on Parade(modeledbehavior.com)
3 points by frankus 16y ago|2 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
One thing that at least some rich people will pay for is status symbols (expensive watches, sports cars that will never exceed 100mph, mansions with rooms that are used only a couple of times a year, $500 t-shirts). Status signaling is ulti
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by frankus 16y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the social engineering aspect of it. Refusing to charge someone's dying phone with your computer comes across as kind of a dick move, since it's perceived as costing you nothing and really helping out the other pers
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by frankus 16y ago
You can use the EAAccessory framework to talk to it. Just use the protocol string "com.southernstars.sw9a". What I'm not sure of is what sorts of apps they'll let into the app store that repurpose the cable. EDIT: Here's my test code thus f
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by frankus 16y ago
Also check out the Southern Stars SkyWire. Apparently it's a true RS-232 I/O cable that plugs into the dock connector. They use it to drive telescopes, but apparently it's not limited to that. http://www.southernstars.com/products/skywire/
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by frankus 16y ago
Joel Spolsky has a great piece on doing a self-funded sabbatical: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000076.html If you can swing it financially, that's probably a really good place to start. Get out of California for a while.
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by frankus 16y ago
At the risk of making this a "me too" comment, I want to expand on iloveponies answer. Mobile is special, in that the answer to the question of "would less processor/memory/storage overhead be better?" is probably going to be "yes" for the
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by frankus 16y ago
I think up to the 100th time reading the man page I would forget, until I memorized the following mantra: ln -s target link_name
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The Overconsumption Theory of Recessions Makes No Sense(modeledbehavior.com)
1 points by frankus 16y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 16y ago
If you're interested in whether and how postmodern art/music/architecture has innate and/or learned appeal to people, there's a whole chapter Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate that discusses it. IIRC he argued that while one can acquire
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by frankus 16y ago
If there's anything you don't want as a role model in college, it's the mythical "slacker genius" (I say mythical because pretty much everyone who falls into this category is either a work of fiction or someone who works both hard and effic
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by frankus 16y ago
Don't have sex until you're older.

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