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by joshwa 14y ago
Poster here-- I came across this as a link in a previous HN article [1] and thought it would be interesting to folks here. I live in China and it truly is a parallel universe when it comes to computing. Local clones of everything, from iPho
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How Qihoo 360 Won the Browser War in China(digital-dd.com)
49 points by joshwa 14y ago|29 comments
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Where Arduinos are Born: Touring a PCB Factory « bunnie's blog(bunniestudios.com)
14 points by joshwa 14y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 14y ago
That is the first time I've seen a real-life useful computer display actually look like something they dream up in the movies. (counterexamples welcome!)
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by joshwa 14y ago
The usefulness of the Architect role may also depend on the size and topology of the organization. I work in a Very Large Enterprise Company, and our group's architecture team has to make sure not only that our group's systems/projects are
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by joshwa 14y ago
You want ITA Matrix: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ They have an incredibly powerful query language called QPX. Your search would be as follows: LHR VS,AA ORD (nonstop) LHR VS,AA+ ORD (zero or more stops) LHR VS,AA NYC,IAD ORD (wi
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by joshwa 14y ago
Here's an idea-- why doesn't Craigslist just buy padmapper? They certainly have enough cash to do so.
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by joshwa 14y ago
You're right that the hipmunk UI may be overkill for your use-case of simple point-to-point flights, but I wonder how much of the market that represents? That said, reducing the complexity of the UI for that usecase might be a way to increa
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by joshwa 14y ago
Social media strikes me as inappropriate for the vast majority of B2B businesses. In the course of some freelance work I came across a dental supply company where you could "share" or "like" every single product. I have yet to see business
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by joshwa 14y ago
It would be better if the IAB et al used uniques + time-on-site, rather than raw pageviews/impressions. Most medium-to-high-traffic sites have effectively infinite inventory, and some portion of that almost always gets sold as remainder. Fo
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by joshwa 14y ago
No, that's the command for when your toilet needs to be replaced. If the tub is too big, you do "git rebase --squash" a few times, followed by "git clean -df".
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by joshwa 14y ago
I've discovered a new FB setting in the app permissions dialog: when it asks you to grant post permission, you can set the visibility to "Only Me".
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by joshwa 15y ago
Another idea: start high and ratchet down with each subsequent word list?
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X-Plane flightsim developer creates emergency auto-land for real aircraft(x-plane.com)
8 points by joshwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 15y ago
As a potential expert/buyer, I'd love to see what the results look like (and the comments on the entries as well), but it looks like those can only be viewed by the contest owner. Any way to post some examples? (and who is this MrHyde fello
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by joshwa 15y ago
Am I the only one who initially read this as "Agile Waterfall"? sigh I guess I've been in the Enterprise too long...
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by joshwa 15y ago
I live and die by the "advanced routing codes" on Matrix... see my previous post here: SFO,LAX CX,AA,KE F HKG,ICN,NRT ~CZ+ KMG http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3090362
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Rise of the Independents (Response to DHH's startup culture post)(bryce.vc)
2 points by joshwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 15y ago
I'm actually in the middle of designing a Workflow-as-a-service for my current employer (based on jBPM 5). However, this isn't Workflow-with-a-capital-W. It's not even a state machine. SWF is actually a distributed-processing task queue wit
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The Performance Golden Rule: 80-90% of the end-user response time is frontend(stevesouders.com)
5 points by joshwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 15y ago
Slightly-OT nerf hack: The best nerf sniper weapon is 18 inches of 1/2" PVC tube and your lungs. ~30 yard range, and super-accurate.
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by joshwa 15y ago
Rant: Github and Google Plus are not blog platforms! Here, even when I have the userscript[0] to show the full domain names so I know when something is being posted by a user of a company instead of the company itself, it still just shows "
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by joshwa 15y ago
Go read the AF 447 accident report and you'll see why humans are both the weakest link and still completely necessary. Sensors fail.
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by joshwa 15y ago
I really thought I'd be relatively safe at 8am on day 8 of the holiday... clearly not the case :)
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by joshwa 15y ago
I've been dialing into conference calls all week from China, where it's still Lunar New Year. This means fireworks and firecrackers, from 8am til midnight. Sounds just like shells and machine guns. "No, I don't live in a war zone, it's just
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The tale of a family of inertial navigators (OSS autopilot in Python)(timtrueman.com)
1 points by joshwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshwa 15y ago
I should rephrase that to "the organization doesn't care about quality". The customer (you) might care, but since you're only consuming the end-product your decision has a lot less influence. This is definitely an organizational behavior, a
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by joshwa 15y ago
The comparative advantage the professional assignment or stock photographer brings to the table isn't just creating a "good enough" photograph, it's about creating the RIGHT photograph for the client. This is why microstock and craigslist h
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by joshwa 15y ago
s/companies/companies that use google apps/
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by joshwa 15y ago
I like the ritual of a manual grinder: http://www.amazon.com/Hario-MSS-1B-Mini-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B0... It only takes 20 seconds or so for a single cup, and it gets your blood moving a little bit first.

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