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by frankus 17y ago
Michael O'Hare (Berkeley Prof) has an article about why public transit really wants to be subsidized: http://www.samefacts.com/2007/05/energy-and-environment/more... The short version is that the marginal cost for an additional rider is b
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by frankus 17y ago
Am I the only one that read that as "I am not a port number now"?
753.
by frankus 17y ago
It still grates me a little when they talk about "factoring large primes". I realize that what they mean, "factoring the product of two large primes," is a bit long-winded, but why not just "factoring large numbers"?
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Chaining vs. Nesting(frankschmitt.org)
43 points by frankus 17y ago|19 comments
755.
by frankus 17y ago
@ in a BIND zone file refers to the domain defined at the top of the file. It's been awhile since I've written one, so go look at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_file
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by frankus 17y ago
This is a much more complicated issue. Some currently illegal recreational drugs could be legalized for an net reduction in overall harm (e.g. Marijuana). But it's not clear that a significantly more permissive attitude toward, for instance
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Prisoners of Parole(nytimes.com)
45 points by frankus 17y ago|22 comments
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by frankus 17y ago
I've had this problem in the past and continue to have it occasionally. I'm not usually thirsty and/or hungry, but usually my mind will wander and I'll start getting excited about some project I'm working on or (worse) start worrying about
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by frankus 17y ago
It's an interesting area of research, but nothing especially new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_suspension The trouble is almost always with how much energy these systems suck down, typically increasing fuel consumption by 5-10%.
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by frankus 17y ago
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. He starts with a takedown of the dietary fat-heart disease hypothesis, moves on to the dietary fat-obesity link. Finally he makes a convincing argument that neither eating less nor exercising mo
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by frankus 17y ago
I wrote a couple of blog posts on this, but here's the summary: My secret hope is that it has an eInk screen that slides down to reveal an LCD, at which point the eInk acts as a reconfigurable keyboard for netbook-style interaction. I'm als
762.
by frankus 17y ago
Check out the [SIFT Algorithm]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transfo... ). It's not exactly what you describe but might give you some ideas.
763.
by frankus 17y ago
I disagree for two reasons: one, Apple is not raking in huge profits on the app store. After credit card fees, bandwidth, developer/support time, etc., they're probably barely breaking even on their 30% take (although they do sit on your
764.
by frankus 17y ago
This is getting uncomfortably close to the project I'm working on. I'd better hurry.
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What's the Deal with Fish Oil?(nytimes.com)
136 points by frankus 17y ago|65 comments
766.
by frankus 17y ago
HFCS 55 is actually (according to Wikipedia, anyway), about as sweet as sucrose. Even pure fructose "is generally regarded as being 1.73 times sweeter than sucrose," so I'm not sure where they're getting the six times number.
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by frankus 17y ago
In defense of the OP, one of Gruber's favorite pastimes is his so-called "claim chowder". This involves excerpting and/or linking to a columnist's vehement -- and, as it turns out, spectacularly wrong -- past arguments about the existence/s
768.
by frankus 17y ago
I'm working at a fairly established small programming shop, and the boss basically set a budget and let us choose our own desks and chairs. Because I wanted a fairly fancy chair and didn't really give a crap about having an "executive-looki
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by frankus 17y ago
It's hard for me to pin down just what it is about this article that sticks in my caw, because a lot of his points are spot on, either with regard to me or with regard to people I've worked with in the past. If this guy were a programmer, t
770.
by frankus 17y ago
I voted no, but .NET is a large category and some parts of it I would rather not work in. My biggest beef (among the parts I've worked with) would be ASP.NET Web Forms, which is an attempt to make web programming just like desktop programmi
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by frankus 17y ago
I think they're a human tendency to conflate initial ability in a field with enjoyment of that field, but they are really two different things. You're probably never going to get really good at doing something you hate, or at least you'll b
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Wall Outlet (US) with integrated USB charging ports(store.fastmac.com)
1 points by frankus 17y ago|0 comments
773.
by frankus 17y ago
The Straight Dope covered this awhile back: The "two full moons in a month" definition is recent and somewhat bogus, like the bit about the seasons officially starting on the solstices and equinoxes. Originally "once in a blue moon" meant "
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by frankus 17y ago
I'm still a bit of a spring chicken compared to you, but my biggest stumbling block (at least in the relatively tiny technical job market where I live) is that interesting generalist jobs don't pay as well as older (i.e. not just out of col
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by frankus 17y ago
Note that the graph is average drive temperature. It would be interesting to see at what room temperature drives operating in a server have the lowest failure rate.
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by frankus 17y ago
So you generally avoid using IDEs because you don't yet know what's going on under the surface? ;) I've been on both sides of that particular fence. On the one hand, learning to use a fancy development tool effectively takes time and effort
777.
by frankus 17y ago
...but not on the iPhone. Speaking of which, are blocks supported by the iPhone's objC runtime? UPDATE: Unofficial support exists right now: http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/
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by frankus 17y ago
Google cache link, as it's down for me right now: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:http://dilbert.com/blog...
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by frankus 17y ago
I can't find any sort of reference to a Google sponsorship. Am I missing something?
780.
by frankus 17y ago
This is definitely written like a tech review, not a car review. The sort of minor interior refresh Tesla did is not uncommon for larger car companies to do every year or two. The complete redesign that happens every five to eight years is

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