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by idreyn 7y ago
header photo: blindingly bright tree, woe betide those who look directly upon it first paragraph: trees will someday light our highways halfway down the article: okay, a book being lit by a plant, cool near the end: "The light generate
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by idreyn 7y ago
Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten if we look close enough?
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by idreyn 8y ago
Nothing but a suitcase, centuries of slavery-generated wealth, and a swathe of the world's most resource-rich land ripped from its inhabitants by genocide and forced migration.
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by idreyn 8y ago
Since no one else has answered this I, a lowly developer IC, will give it a shot. Start by writing up a detailed employee handbook and code of conduct. Have a conversation with new reports about how these inevitably jargon-laden documents t
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by idreyn 9y ago
> Over 60% of text iMessages are composed using voice This seems dubious and I'd love to see a source for this claim.
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by idreyn 9y ago
This leads to some perverse incentives, though...I have started to see like-farming "tag your friends" pages will post a video of a static image, overlaid with a subtle movement effect like falling snow, undoubtedly because someon
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by idreyn 9y ago
> I'm 100% against new tracks being laid or any more capital expenditures...the current system needs better maintenance, first. Maintenance of the current system requires capital expenditures. It becomes expensive to run old train
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by idreyn 9y ago
It actually will happen, eventually, as a result of the California HSR project: http://caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/2012/12/grade-separation-de...
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by idreyn 9y ago
This should be solved with CSS media queries, e.g. @media print { ... }
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by idreyn 9y ago
Do you have a working prototype?
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by idreyn 9y ago
As part of a reorganization of the undergraduate EECS curriculum last year the intro class is now two half-semester classes, 6.0001 and 6.0002. It's 0's all the way down!
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by idreyn 9y ago
I believe https://workflow.is/ was prototyped at a hackathon and was recently acquired by Apple.
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by idreyn 10y ago
It would be interesting to see an analysis of how WMD technology would develop in the absence of a major conflict. It did take a Manhattan Project to get the atom bomb, after all. It's also a mind-bending exercise to try imagining the
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by idreyn 10y ago
I would just like to share a different perspective on your point about multitouch — I have several friends who have tried to make Ubuntu their first foray into Linux on a modern "convertible"/ultrabook/whatever with a mu
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by idreyn 10y ago
Why not link to the author's website? http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3947
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by idreyn 10y ago
The author is also ignoring Boston's 70-odd Green Line light rail stations, many of which are not accessible according to the agency's map: http://mbta.com/uploadedimages/Smart_Forms/News,_Events_and_...
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by idreyn 10y ago
The problem with this lovely wheat-from-chaff heuristic is that "failure" results in the introduction of a new human life into a world that may not be prepared for it and will be strained ecologically for its existence. I would mu
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by idreyn 10y ago
There's a set of libraries like Aphrodite, Glitter, jsx-style, and JSS that help you do this. I'd look at some benchmarks [1] and do some comparison before you make a decision yourself. I've worked extensively with Aphrodite
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by idreyn 10y ago
Bookmarked as my new fastest way to generate a small LaTeX graphic when I need one — though actually having the ability to input LaTeX might be useful as well for edge cases.
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by idreyn 10y ago
The diagrams on the pages shown basically serve as a proof.
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by idreyn 10y ago
Not a disagreement, but AFAIK NumPy and Cython are not mutually exclusive, as Cython supports NumPy type annotations and can index into its arrays quickly.
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by idreyn 10y ago
Do current self-driving systems use vision as ground truth about the presence of things like stop signs? I would hope that the cameras would be used to augment and perhaps feed back into a street map with this information, and that cars wou
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by idreyn 10y ago
From a layman's perspective, it sounds like they shot themselves in the foot somewhat by taking modularity to a logical extreme — building a highly generalizable bus system that would support connections of any kind of component on any
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by idreyn 10y ago
That's great to hear, thanks!
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by idreyn 10y ago
I love this so much — I got into programming with AS2 in the Flash MX days and although it's great that HTML5 replaced Flash as a platform , the lack of a replacement tool has left a bit of a hole in my creative life. Is there a roa
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by idreyn 10y ago
YMMV, but I've heard both TWO-pull and TUP-pull in academic and professional contexts. From a quick google search it looks like both pronunciations are generall accepted. I prefer TWO-pull myself! [1] http://english.stackexc
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by idreyn 10y ago
In private browsing mode the site won't have access to the cookies stored in the browser that it's been using to keep track of the number of "free" articles you've read. In addition, some news sites will selectively
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by idreyn 10y ago
Well Google might, if they serve those bytes a trillion times per year.
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by idreyn 11y ago
Feels like they missed a prime opportunity for Keep integration here.
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by idreyn 11y ago
To your second point, I have grown up with smartphones around me for close to half my life and in my peer group it isn't considered rude to occasionally check your phone and maybe peck out a quick response. By contrast, I've found

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