greggman

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by greggman 10y ago
I'd be really curious to hear from engineers that were made to play a musical instrument in childhood. I know some people believe there's a correlation between good engineers and musical study (no idea if that's true, only th
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by greggman 10y ago
The sugar = hyper kids myth has long been debunked. Instead what studies have found is if the parents believe their kids ate sugar they'll believe their kids are hyper even when the kids were actually given a placebo. https:/&#x2
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by greggman 10y ago
is it beyond facebook's capability? no. Is it beyond their will? Yes. I was once naive, I joined Google to make a game engine. My belief at the time was like yours. It's Google, they're a giant company with infinite resources
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by greggman 10y ago
Sure you made an engine, I doubt it has 1/50th of the real feature of the top engines. Can it import layers for photoshop or do you have to save as .PNGs. Can you import Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, and others or only some exported format l
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by greggman 10y ago
Sony has done some interesting e-ink things, of course they were able to partner with e-ink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW9nB6SlsFU
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by greggman 10y ago
I love that japanese medical care is mostly inexpensive compared to the USA but at least 1/2 the doctors and dentists I've visited here over the last 20 years were complete quacks and would not be qualified to practice in he USA.
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by greggman 10y ago
France supposedly has some of the the highest tax rates in the world which seems to kind of fit some of the objections. that believe that making it easier means it will raise to France levels
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by greggman 10y ago
it's a matter of perspective . making taxes more invisible to some people, myself included, makes them easier to raise. so, the argument would be to first make taxes more painful. the best would be to remove auto withholding. if the av
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by greggman 10y ago
this might be the most amazing book ever and I might even buy it and I know I'll get down votes because so many of you love books but.... part of me feels like , especially for a topic like this, I want webpages with interactive diagra
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by greggman 10y ago
Thats like saying living in the tenderloin is a kind of bad place to live but noe valley is not. Both are in SF just like both Santa Monica and downtown LA are considered part of the same "greater LA"
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by greggman 10y ago
According to this doco that's not true, or rather they died for other reasons. From 1929 until the last one closed they never made a profit. Partly because they had signed contracts to maintain the roads the tracks went down. As cars g
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by greggman 10y ago
how do you get a cert for each device? let's encrypt limits the number of certs per domain (that includes sub domains). so unless you expect users to get their own domains for their IoT devices they can't get a free cert based on
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by greggman 10y ago
here's a Frontline about how nearly all "forensic science" is not actually backed by science http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/real-csi/
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by greggman 10y ago
afaict you can't use HTTPS in any reasonable way with IoT. There are no solutions that don't cost $$$$$$$+ note: I know you were not suggesting HTTPS as a solution only as an example of a standard used other places. I'm only
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by greggman 10y ago
it most definitely is still that case. plenty of GPUs can not run plain C. looking at the metal language I'm not sure I'd personally call that C++ given all the restrictions https://developer.apple.com/metal/m
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by greggman 10y ago
Just thinking out loud but the car one seems solvable by moving the responsibility for accidents. It starts with the manufacture and transfers to the modifer. Although like above the issue gets complicated quickly since modifying one thing
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by greggman 10y ago
Coffee doesn't taste terrible to me, even as a kid I liked coffee's flavor but more as an ingredient. Pure chocolate is similar. Too much for me but mixed with other things both are delicious. Lots of things in their pure form alo
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by greggman 10y ago
Wow, to each their own. I prefer Japanese milk to anything I got at whole foods in SF and I prefer it to the UHT milk I had in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and Barcelona. It seems richer to me. On the other hand I think I might have become lact
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by greggman 10y ago
I find there's just in general a huge tragedy of the commons issue. Not just trolls but bad incentives in general One example is people actively mis-tagging things. Go on soundcloud.com, look at the charts. Pick Techno, notice at least
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by greggman 10y ago
My first (and I suppose selfish thought) is "where will I ever get to use VR if I keep living in small apartments". My current apartment is about 50sq meters. Unless I removed my sofa and TV or slept in the living room and got rid
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by greggman 10y ago
I hope you get restitution from AirBNB. I'd be really curious to see what if any action they take against the guests. Unless the guests somehow used fake names it seems like it would be easy for AirBnB to go after them?
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by greggman 10y ago
I went to Disneyworld a month ago. My first thought when they scanned my finger prints was "bet that was forwarded to the government so they can easily unlock my phone" As for why they do it, it's to make sure you don't
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by greggman 10y ago
My two cents; there's a ton of space for productivity improvement in editors. Projects that allow more and newer features is what I'm interested in. I don't like the fact that Atom and VSCode are slow and memory hogs. I do li
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by greggman 10y ago
All evidence points to the opposite. Browser usage has expanded every single day since they were introduced ~26 something years ago. All that time there was no DRM in the browser. Proprietary plugins have been the source of the majority of
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by greggman 10y ago
Seriously? I see SOOO many people making AMAZING things gluing stuff together. Maybe they're gluing together three.js with WebVR. Maybe they're gluing together the JS Magic Leap support with a Kintec and an arduino. I see artists
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by greggman 10y ago
My mom uses her's constantly (mostly as a Kindle). I use mine about once ever 2 months. I keep thinking I should give it away or sell it but I keep it around just in case there's some app I have to check out. I also wonder if I&#x
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by greggman 10y ago
When I was at google they said "we have a standard contract we'll most of the time be happy to sign that says we claim no interest in your outside project. Submit your project here and we'll get back to you ASAP". They o
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by greggman 10y ago
Why is every time I see this law referred to people seem to have only read the first clause, not the following clauses > a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of
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by greggman 10y ago
If.you have another metric please offer it. I have no reason to believe the metrics are biased. A similar number of issues appear for all browsers . The difference is the type of issue. Of course you're free to just take it on faith th
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by greggman 10y ago
Counters exist in English. "5 head of cattle" is exactly analogous to "ushi go tou" (牛五頭) Most English counters have left common usage but the concept exists. Similar but not the same many people enjoy learning all the n

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