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by jowiar 13y ago
I'm curious what the optimal PPV price is for the NFL. I'd easily pay $10-15 PPV, any game. For now, they seem to actively make their product impossible to consume for fans of non-local teams.
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by jowiar 13y ago
I agree. What I'm trying to determine is whether or not it's a rabbit hole going down. Am I using a very powerful tool that's user interface is fine, but takes a little bit of time to learn. Or am I using a very powerful tool
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by jowiar 13y ago
Angular, when it feels right, makes me incredibly productive, but I feel like I spend 90% of my time banging my head against a brick wall. One of the single biggest usability features of anything is giving things appropriate names. The &quo
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by jowiar 13y ago
I think you may have this flipped. Inflation is, more than anything else, a tax on cash (and last time I checked, your average person didn't have a whole lot of cash on hand). Practically speaking, it helps debtors at the expense of cr
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by jowiar 13y ago
Because the real world isn't like that. Facebook treats friendship as something binary. You're friends or you're not. Friendships don't work that way, though. You don't usually wake up and suddenly become "not
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by jowiar 13y ago
HN is (largely) composed of web developers. HN dislikes Microsoft by default the same way Americans dislike government by default. Americans views of government are shaped by their experience with their local DMV, which leads to a conclusio
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by jowiar 13y ago
The magic quote: One major problem slowing repairs, people close to the program say, is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency in charge of the exchange, is responsible for making sure t
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by jowiar 13y ago
To Paoli (25 miles) they have twice-hourly coverage during commute times. Stretch it out to Exton (30-something miles) and you're down to hourly coverage peak.
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by jowiar 13y ago
San Jose to SF is, by East Coast standards, a pretty long ways. Newark to New York is about 10 miles. SF to San Jose is about 50 - more comparable to New York to New Brunswick or Trenton or Stamford. Find me a 50-ish-mile distance in the US
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by jowiar 13y ago
As a brief addendum... The point of a log scale is to be able to visually compare the relative percent rates of change - last quarter we had 50% growth. This quarter it's less... Dots and lines are useful for this... Not bars.
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by jowiar 13y ago
That's being too generous. NEVER clip off the bottom of your bar graph. Use something that isn't anchored to the axis - dots instead of bars which then put the focus on relative position. A bar draws the reader to comparing the re
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by jowiar 13y ago
Much of Australia is reasonably temperate. July in Sydney or Melbourne is in the 40s-50s Fahrenheit, which, while chilly, is both comparable to the climate for a large portion of the club season in Europe and vastly better than 100-ish for
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by jowiar 13y ago
Does it matter? Progress sometimes requiring taking a couple steps backward if we've reached a local maximum. An unwillingness to compromise backward compatibility - a perennial commitment towards designing for the lowest common denomi
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by jowiar 13y ago
I agree. I'm saying this is a bug. The fact that we need to care about this is a bug. If I'm working with code on my phone, I'm going to have different preferences than on my tablet, or my laptop, or doing side-by-side compar
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by jowiar 13y ago
Poor word choice on my part. The intention was that machines don't need to jump through any hoops to be able to figure out what code means - it's a language designed such that it can be parsed mechanically without ambiguity. Comp
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by jowiar 13y ago
The default wrapping in most tools disrupts the visual structure of the code, making it more difficult to understand. It's 2013. Let's fix the tools. You think we would have gotten past the point of having to manuall
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by jowiar 13y ago
Sometimes the journey is the product. Walk around a good gallery. There are a pretty good number of pieces entitled "Study #3", or something of that sort. An artist is playing around with a tool, or a technique, trying to figure o
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by jowiar 13y ago
It's funny that you mention testing. TDD/BDD/whatever IS declarative programming, except you're doing the declarative-to-imperative translation yourself. TDD has always felt sort of wrong to me because it really felt lik
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by jowiar 13y ago
I wasn't replying to the article. I saw a handful of posts in the discussion blaming lazy, incompetent, or malicious government employees, and didn't want to post the same thing multiple times within the thread.
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by jowiar 13y ago
Based on my experience, agreed entirely. I've worked with stellar people at multiple large and small government contractors. The structure of the contract just doesn't lead to a mentality of "let's make something great&q
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by jowiar 13y ago
> Most government employees are unemployable in the marketplace, so it's in their interest to follow orders, at whatever cost, to keep their jobs. Citation needed. If you actually have evidence, I'll bite, but my anecdotal evid
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by jowiar 13y ago
I am tired of HN (and the rest of the country) taking shots at government employees. They're talented. They work hard. They take pride in their work. They do a damn good job. If you look at any good technology product that's come
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by jowiar 13y ago
As far as I can figure out NASA's original solution to space food WAS a Soylent-like product. Astronauts responded by smuggling a corned beef sandwich into space. [1] The point of Soylent is to separate the pleasure from eating. Rather
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by jowiar 13y ago
A simple bunch of ingredients mixed together? Isn't that basically a recipe by definition. Or a diet? Getting a bunch of ingredients and turning it into something nutritious just isn't particularly difficult. Finding such a combin
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by jowiar 13y ago
We've made things fly - even all the way to space. We've transplanted organs. We've developed vaccines that eradicated diseases. We are making progress towards deciphering the genome. What once required a library the size of
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by jowiar 13y ago
> The idea that human nutrition can be boiled down to a minimal list of ingredients that are the only things you should eat is nonsense. It's perfectly sensible that there is a mathematically minimum sufficient diet, or mathematical
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by jowiar 13y ago
The world would be a better place if we all embraced Tufte's driving principle of respecting people's intelligence, rather than assuming stupidity. Going forward, Bret Victor's work does an utterly fantastic job of blending T
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by jowiar 13y ago
This is a pretty sweet/different use of D3. If you poke through the source, you end up with this file: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/07/21/silk-ro... In addition, d3's scales a
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by jowiar 13y ago
R + RStudio + Knitr is pretty solid, but more than a bit clunky - write Markdown, intersperse R to your heart's content, and you can execute lines as you see fit. I have very high hopes for an R + LightTable integration.
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by jowiar 13y ago
Be negligent on a bicycle and a vast majority of the life and limb you are risking is your own. Be negligent in a car and you're putting in mortal danger every other driver and cyclist on the road as well as every pedestrian in the vic

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