joshwa

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541.
by joshwa 17y ago
IMHO Metafilter shows the way here (as usual)-- putting meta-discussion in its own little silo keeps it from annoying the people who don't care.
542.
by joshwa 17y ago
Like when your phone is off or not in a cell service area.
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by joshwa 17y ago
Virtualization: it's not about performance, it's about provisioning.
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by joshwa 17y ago
+1 for nihilism!
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by joshwa 17y ago
Situations when you need all 8 bits of color resolution: -- performing color matching against a sample - fabric, print, etc -- soft-proofing for print output (spot colors) -- when performing any color/contrast adjustments on photographs or
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Marvel At the Ingenuity of the Chinese iPhoney(cultofmac.com)
19 points by joshwa 17y ago|9 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
I think the term you're looking for is 'trolling'.
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by joshwa 17y ago
This graph is more illustrative: http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear
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by joshwa 17y ago
Video games have reached a technological milestone/inflection point similar to those reached in other mediums in the past-- the transition from painting to photography, or from expensive digital photography to inexpensive digital photograph
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by joshwa 17y ago
a) that's assuming the a/c you're stealing isn't in class B airspace b) atc will probably notice when your 1200 blip is doing 250kts and climbing at 2000'/min. c) this also assumes you can figure out how to turn off xponder mode S (transmit
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by joshwa 17y ago
E-bikes are everywhere in (urban) China and are a certain kind of status symbol--you graduate from a bike to an e-bike to a scooter to finally a car as you move up the economic ladder. If my office actually had proper secure bike parking, I
552.
by joshwa 17y ago
From the very last paragraph of the same article (which originates from CNN, incidentally): > Although none of the other flights are known to have reported weather problems en route, aviation experts said weather can change suddenly and
553.
by joshwa 17y ago
A study of the use of porcine whipworm eggs to treat Crohn's resulted in my all-time favorite headline: "Diet of worms can cure bowel disease" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4852-diet-of-worms-can... (for those who don't remember
554.
by joshwa 17y ago
Because those huge corporations with their broken cultures are the ones handing out all the money! There are not enough interesting mid-scale jobs out there to support all those talented designers/coders/etc to all do great/interesting thin
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by joshwa 17y ago
Nope, the market is going to forgive AA because it didn't spend money on a new site and passed that $2.50 in savings per ticket on to the customer, which puts them $2.50 cheaper than the other guys, which nets them far more incremental sale
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by joshwa 17y ago
those comments are very well hidden! Why not just display them by default they way the other 99% of blogs do? Or if you're going to hide them, at least put the view comments link at the bottom of the post where I'd expect the comments to
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by joshwa 17y ago
the MBAs who don't know any better (aka C people with money/power)
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MonaTweeta II: Trying to encode images in Twitter's 140 character limit(flickr.com)
25 points by joshwa 17y ago|11 comments
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by joshwa 17y ago
Incidentally, I don't think the conveyor system is to reduce theft-- it's due to the lack of space. 35k ft^2 is only enough to keep display models of most items out on the sales floor (I'm guessing their total product line is >300k SKUs
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by joshwa 17y ago
While the majority of the salespeople and staff are jews, there are also plenty who are not. All walks of life-- anyone you'd normally see on Ninth Avenue is represented on the B&H staff. (including that snotty bastard in the studio lig
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Brazilian truck drivers take advantage of US Military Satellites - An Open Relay in Space(wired.com)
2 points by joshwa 18y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 18y ago
c.f. http://spreadtweets.elliottkember.com/
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by joshwa 18y ago
> There's no DRM on a JPG from Getty or Corbis Yes there are... all those jpegs are watermarked. And people STILL steal them ALL THE TIME: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/search/label/watermar...
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by joshwa 18y ago
blogspam: original is here: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/fun/msiview/#Feynman
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by joshwa 18y ago
yowza-- check out the photos/screenshots at the sniper software firm's site: http://www.knightarmco.com/bulletflight/
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by joshwa 18y ago
c.f. http://www.dailymugshot.com/
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by joshwa 18y ago
Using my own search organization tool called FlowThing: http://i44.tinypic.com/erei4g.jpg Email me for an invite code... in a very private alpha right now.
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by joshwa 18y ago
The good news is that a single registration fee can cover an entire collection of unpublished works, as long as they are by the same author: http://www.copyright.gov/eco/faq.html#eCO_2.3
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by joshwa 18y ago
In case anyone is interested in trying it, here's a good single-player simulator: http://www.atc-sim.com/ If you want to try it live with other humans: http://www.vatsim.net/ Not easy. Try memorizing all of this: http://www.laartcc.o
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by joshwa 18y ago
park slope here also: http://hackrtrackr.com/

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