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by joshwa 15y ago
There's actually a fair amount of time spent on the taxiway by arriving planes waiting for gates. Sometimes they'll shutdown and wait, but often they're sitting there idling. That's a lot of fuel savings by reducing time spent waiting for g
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by joshwa 15y ago
Please don't harass the gate agents unless they look really idle. They don't have control over the boarding process, and they are desperately trying to get everyone on board, seat change requests accommodated, standby and upgrade list clear
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by joshwa 15y ago
Smugness isn't the word. It's more about having the whole experience be less stressful. I just made elite status for the first time, and being able to skip the lines, get my choice of seat (even in economy) makes a huge psychological differ
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FAA: LightSquared 4G towers' interference with GPS would cause 794 deaths(ainonline.com)
2 points by joshwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 15y ago
Did you read all the way to the end of TFA?
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by joshwa 15y ago
The interesting part of this article is the "contingent commitment facility"... kind of like Kickstarter for new jobs. Or maybe more like the opposite of mutually-assured destruction?
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What Is Business Waiting For? Start hiring today.(nytimes.com)
7 points by joshwa 15y ago|7 comments
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Blocking the new version of the NYTimes paywall(gist.github.com)
3 points by joshwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 15y ago
I was in this "Apple" Store 2 weeks ago (I live in Kunming). They didn't have the airline magsafe adapter in stock. The thing that gave it away for me (besides it being in Kunming ) was the non-Lucida-Grande typeface everywhere. If anyone
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by joshwa 15y ago
Am I the only one who read that as "Blame Minecraft" ?
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by joshwa 15y ago
Because they're in Canada.
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by joshwa 15y ago
The housing here isn't cheap, either, but neither is it outrageous. 100m2 goes for 2500-4000RMB/月. Coming from NYC and SF, though, it's a steal. :) Ping me if you're in town.
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by joshwa 15y ago
It's starting to sound like we need an HN China meetup... Where's everyone at? I'm in Kunming, I know maxklein was in Shenzhen for a while.
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by joshwa 15y ago
As a foreigner you are not allowed to own a business in China. You must start a special "joint venture" company with a native Chinese partner, with something like $15-20k USD in a chinese bank. Expect to be screwed by your Chinese partner,
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by joshwa 15y ago
What city are you in? You could very easily be describing where I am (Kunming) but I suppose it really applies to pretty much every city in China with >1mm residents.
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by joshwa 15y ago
xerox. (fedex?)
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by joshwa 15y ago
Not to be confused with the very similar http://daytum.com/ made by the guy who does the famous "Personal Annual Reports": http://feltron.com
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by joshwa 15y ago
I'm saying that almost all the tasks you describe above also fall under the responsibilities of a good Product Manager (at least on small teams, which is what we're talking about here). If your "Idea Guy" comes from a Product Management bac
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by joshwa 15y ago
A lot people wants something like this.(Big market) Do they? I know a lot of startups want to tackle this space, but I haven't seen much in the way of demand from anyone besides startup people. For OP to succeed he needs a more compel
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by joshwa 15y ago
Seriously? YALBSN? (Yet Another Location-Based Social Network) The social-network chicken-egg problem (SNCEP?) is even harder when it's location-based... not only do you need to convince people to sign up, but they have to be clustered loca
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by joshwa 15y ago
According to the article, they bid up through $4 billion but eventually "tapped out".
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by joshwa 15y ago
In the industry we call the "Product Managers".
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by joshwa 15y ago
From watching the video, your game actually seems like it has a pretty fun core mechanic. Go play Fruit Ninja, and then go hire the best artist you can afford. (and put fruit ninja in your keywords!)
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by joshwa 15y ago
I always wanted to make a wall-sized version of this with really bright LEDs-- kind of like a light therapy box, but programmed with the full progression of color and brightness of various locations and seasons around the world - summer in
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by joshwa 15y ago
Notice how there's some outrageous and short-lived tones during sunrise and sunset -- that's the white balance jumping around (Possibly an automatic saturation gain too?) The ones at sunrise are weird (blue throws off the white balance) b
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by joshwa 15y ago
> Upgrading an app or parts of an app that have great test coverage is really pretty straightforward. It's only more difficult if you weren't following best practices all along. Like people working with Rails in the the real world wit
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by joshwa 15y ago
The pace of Rails development isn't a problem in and of itself, it's that the pace of change and the overall Rails development culture wrecks the documentation ecosystem. Of the top rails documentation resources: * Rails Guides are still
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by joshwa 15y ago
link?
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by joshwa 15y ago
the shift key could have worked... and frankly if it's Les Paul I think I should at least be able to play a few power chords ;)
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by joshwa 15y ago
Except if you're Google. (to wit: recent API retirement)

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