golfstrom

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by golfstrom 11y ago
It's not a marketing release, Ember is simply following semantic versioning. Many of the new features that might've slipped into a 2.0 have made it into the last few 1.x releases, since they could be made backwards-compatible; e.
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Konami Is Treating Its Game Developers Like Prisoners(kotaku.com)
3 points by golfstrom 11y ago|0 comments
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Four injury risks young NBA players face (incl. poor sleep from blue light)(espn.go.com)
1 points by golfstrom 11y ago|0 comments
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StubHub files suit against NBA's Warriors and Ticketmaster(espn.go.com)
2 points by golfstrom 12y ago|0 comments
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by golfstrom 12y ago
Great TDD demo by Toran Billups from EmberConf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1vcg_XSR8
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by golfstrom 12y ago
IMO: Menus can change often Good food photography is hard/expensive Hard to present tastefully/there's a stigma Overall, there's no demand from customers for pictures/limited utility over text descriptions
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Lenders Step Up Financing to Subprime Borrowers(wsj.com)
1 points by golfstrom 12y ago|0 comments
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FDA proposal: antibacterial soaps must be more effective than plain soap & water(fda.gov)
1 points by golfstrom 13y ago|0 comments
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Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health(slate.com)
127 points by golfstrom 13y ago|138 comments
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The Best Part of Grand Theft Auto V is the Stock-Trading Platform(nymag.com)
152 points by golfstrom 13y ago|105 comments
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Bloomberg's $20B plan to protect NYC against climate change(nyc.gov)
1 points by golfstrom 13y ago|0 comments
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How Dell Became Entangled in Options(nytimes.com)
1 points by golfstrom 14y ago|0 comments
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Uber NYE surge pricing(blog.uber.com)
1 points by golfstrom 14y ago|0 comments
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by golfstrom 14y ago
This is an interesting side effect of the U.S. carrier cartel. People simply don't know about the alternatives. Americans have accepted that Verizon and AT&T are the only acceptable carriers, and are no longer price-sensitive, just as
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by golfstrom 14y ago
People who are hung up on this and that missing feature, I understand why, but that's missing the point imo. There has never been a phone this good, this high profile, sold directly to consumers from day one, for this price. This is simply
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Rent Bubble of the Day: $2,300 For a 1 Bedroom in North Dakota(theatlanticcities.com)
5 points by golfstrom 14y ago|0 comments
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by golfstrom 15y ago
It's absolutely about transparency though. The origin of the complexity is that insurance companies usually get the bills. And insurance, which has all this machinery to deal with the hospital's machinery (see video), sends you a TL;DR an
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by golfstrom 15y ago
Nintendo is in real trouble, this is only the beginning. The huge decline in 3DS sales should be a warning shot. $200 handhelds w/ $40 games are a joke in 2011. Wii, a novelty that rode the back of a huge economic bubble, was probably th
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by golfstrom 15y ago
HHS operates a really good site to find public and private insurance options: http://finder.healthcare.gov/
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by golfstrom 15y ago
College costs are just like any other bubble: they rose and continue to rise due to the ease of financing. Why we allow 18-year olds to blissfully sign up for a lifetime of crippling six-figure debt is beyond me. At least make them get an
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by golfstrom 15y ago
You have to remember the audience is a college of music. In a venue like this, the primary question is not how to become a commercial success, it's how to become better at your craft as a musician. Mayer is also speaking from the unique pe
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by golfstrom 15y ago
"More and more, Nintendo is looking like a lumbering, hubristic giant overconfident in their brand identity and almost unresponsive to industry trends and changes." Nintendo reminds me a lot of Sony. A Japanese company used to winning by a
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by golfstrom 15y ago
imo Samsung is the one (non-Apple) tech product company that gets it. The 9, GS2, and even new galaxy tab are just plain great, polished products. For too long, product development at all these non-Apple places was basically to mindlessly