jdlegg

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by jdlegg 6y ago
Tell the people who are still waiting for their federal stimulus checks that things are "functioning normally."
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by jdlegg 11y ago
360fly | Pittsburgh, PA | ONSITE Hiring Android and iOS engineers. Possibly others too. We make panoramic 360 degree video cameras. Our apps act as primary experience for camera hardware. Our product is in national retail stores now. Blueto
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by jdlegg 12y ago
Fair enough.
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by jdlegg 12y ago
I'm thinking boldly here. The French are able to peak at 200-230mph on operating trains running on conventional track. The Japanese and Chinese can push Maglevs up to 360+ mph. As a "disruptive" technology, 300 mph seems like
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by jdlegg 12y ago
Of course Amtrak would issue such a report...
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by jdlegg 12y ago
Unattributed, but per Wikipedia: "In mid-2011, scheduled TGV trains operated at the highest speeds in conventional train service in the world,[citation needed] regularly reaching 320 km/h (200 mph) on the LGV Est, LGV Rhin-Rhône a
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by jdlegg 12y ago
I disagree with this assessment. The distance from Chicago to Houston is roughly 1100 miles. Non-stop flights from O'Hare to Houston Hobby are listed on Kayak.com at 2 hours and 45 minutes. Add approx. 1 hour for pre-flight check-in, s
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by jdlegg 13y ago
The built-in Reminders app on the iPhone is great for list-crossing-offing.
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by jdlegg 13y ago
This strikes me as one of those (many) pieces where TechCrunch (and the Silicon Valley elite) are too far removed to make an accurate assessment. Like colonial explorers, amazed by the "crude" methods of the peoples they encounter
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by jdlegg 13y ago
I think the most concrete example of what you're describing is the "pattern" we saw with tobacco. Science suggested for a long time that cigarette smoking might be bad for you. As the evidence grew stronger, tobacco compani
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by jdlegg 14y ago
Verizon FIOS has the same sort of behavior.
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by jdlegg 14y ago
In the grand scheme of things, going paperless is not really a significant tactic to mitigate climate change or other environmental impacts. The paper industry has one of the best environmental track records and paper is one of the only tru
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by jdlegg 14y ago
"It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
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by jdlegg 14y ago
Temperatures have not been rising for 150 years or more. You need to check your facts. Direct instrumental measurements only go back ~150 years, but another direct mechanism exists: borehole measurements [1]. This gives us a very good measu
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by jdlegg 14y ago
You are wrong. My dictionary defines consensus as "general agreement" and this is clearly the case when it comes to climate science. No one in the climate science arena disagrees that the changes in CO2 levels are 1) created by burning foss
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by jdlegg 15y ago
This is almost the definition of false analogy.
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by jdlegg 15y ago
Actually, it's working great for China (in the short-term at least). Though they probably wouldn't call their system "communist" anymore, in preference for the new description: "state capitalism."
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by jdlegg 15y ago
There's another way to "raise" the average and it's already beginning to happen. It is the organization of workers into unions and other democratic labor organizations. It parallels the movements that occurred in the United States in the ea
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by jdlegg 15y ago
I think the use cases you are describing are accomplished as follows: 1. Starting at the "root" directory. You can control what the finder window initially opens with on the General pane of the Finder Preferences. By default it should be yo
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Interface's Ray Anderson knows sustainability leads to bigger profits(blog.airdye.com)
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by jdlegg 16y ago
I think S-Q-L gets clunky with names like Microsoft SQL Server.
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by jdlegg 16y ago
"Lud must have been here." This reminds me of an essay by Thomas Pynchon: "Is it OK to be a Luddite." Possibly posted to HN recently. http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.... Pynchon's point seems to be that the Lud
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by jdlegg 16y ago
As Mark Twain said: "Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
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by jdlegg 16y ago
Show business, being primarily driven by the profit motive, tends to focus on ideas to which an audience can relate and enjoy. The story of the RMS Titanic, being one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history, is generally antago
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by jdlegg 17y ago
"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy "What to Listen For in Music" by Aaron Copland
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by jdlegg 17y ago
I often see startups and software development referred to as "creative professions." But the industry is lousy at practicing habits based on knowledge of creativity from psychology. Take the four stages of creativity, for example: preparati
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by jdlegg 17y ago
I've spent a lot of time thinking and learning about this. Speed reading doesn't seem to be a "myth" exactly, but you are making a big tradeoff between speed and comprehension. There isn't a magic technique that can enhance your ability to
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by jdlegg 17y ago
Is this a Zen thing? By gratuitously recapping the top 1% of humanity's absurd privilege through a litany of self-congratulating narcissism disguised as advice are we supposed to reach some sort of nirvana?
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by jdlegg 17y ago
In addition to Douglas Crockford's book, which is excellent, I'd also recommend the 2nd edition of "Professional Javascript for Web Developers" by Nicholas Zakas.
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by jdlegg 17y ago
I would say at most 8. I don't necessarily believe in working less than 8 hours per day has a particular benefit, but I don't really have evidence, even anecdotally, for that belief. 10 or 12 hour days are OK as one-offs, once-in-a-blue-moo

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