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by jpindar 9y ago
"Your trip is very important to us. Please hold."
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If you don't think any factory has processes that can be improved, I'd like to know which factories you've worked at, and are they hiring?
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by jpindar 9y ago
However, you can hear (which is a form of observation) it for events that are not independent. If a rifle is fired toward you (hopefully you are safe behind a berm) you hear the bullet impact first, then you hear the shot because the bullet
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by jpindar 9y ago
I too have mostly stopped answering calls from numbers I don't recognize. What I get are not spam calls, but silent calls. When I answer them there is no sound at all from the other end. If I let calls go to voice mail they leave long
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by jpindar 9y ago
You can probably buy a breakfast sandwich anywhere. But unfortunately, you can't buy a buttered roll in New England.
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by jpindar 9y ago
People are live-tweeting from Syria right now. If you think Twitter is all people swooning over pop stars, maybe you're following the wrong people.
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by jpindar 9y ago
Nowadays, in some circles, the word technology has been redefined to mean "websites". And maaaaybe other software, but that's borderline. So electronics, rockets, robots, lasers, medicine, skyscrapers etc. etc. are no longer
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by jpindar 9y ago
>I never quite understand how companies think they can completely outsource the whole workings of a product they intend to offer, without even having someone on their own team who understands that product. Happens all the time with embed
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by jpindar 9y ago
Closed for using the D word! Stack Overflow is not for discussion! </SO mod>
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USB ports and battery packs are used to power things that have nothing to do with USB.
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If you had a router you could make a nice wooden one.
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by jpindar 9y ago
Twitter doesn't seem much different to me now than it did five years ago except that US politics is getting mentioned more. The idea that some people have fake followers and that makes them look bad isn't new.
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by jpindar 9y ago
> Find a desperate entrepreneur who will pay you the bare minimum cash to support your family, along with some equity. How do you do this? Isn't implying that you'll work for a low salary a big red flag? I see here on HN that s
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by jpindar 9y ago
Are they? For half the year I spend hours every Sunday on an irc channel full of football fans. That connection is important to me, since the level of discussion there is higher, (and more civilized, due to active moderation) than most foru
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That might be the easiest way for a novice to do it, but would it be the fastest for someone who has experience?
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What do you think Buffet does with his money? Do you think he has a warehouse filled with hundred dollar bills?
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by jpindar 9y ago
>NO social media posts whenever there's a accident Sometimes there are - in fact its a running joke that he calls them "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" (or something like that).
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by jpindar 9y ago
That may be true of your grandmother, but what makes you say it's true of grandmothers in general?
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by jpindar 9y ago
What is it about torrents that are specifically difficult for grandmothers? I've used several torrent clients and none of them asked me my age or gender, much less whether I had grandchildren.
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by jpindar 9y ago
In the US, jails and prisons are two different things. Prisons are state and federal facilities for criminals convicted of serious crimes with sentences of more than a year. Jails are local facilities for suspects waiting for trial, and th
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by jpindar 9y ago
Radio Shack should have tried to evolve into maker spaces rather than cell phone stores.
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It's amazing that people have different interests? Why, it's almost as if they were different people.
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by jpindar 9y ago
Why can't you just not use Twitter, and leave it to those of us who like it?
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Teacher who drew computer on chalkboard stars at Microsoft’s Education Exchange(news.microsoft.com)
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by jpindar 9y ago
That reminds me of a story, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Ted Chiang, in which people keep AIs as pets. But they don't dare let them on the internet because when they did, trolls would torture them. So the AIs could
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by jpindar 9y ago
When's the last time you saw someone smoking a cigarette?
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by jpindar 9y ago
That must depend on the neighborhood - I don't see any of that.
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Do you have good mechanical drawings of the housing and switches?
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by jpindar 9y ago
If you have a similar board you might make changes to it, or you might wire together some breakout boards. But in my professional experience, it's rare for anyone to use breadboards or perfboard, especially in the last decade or so si
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by jpindar 9y ago
What makes it difficult for grandmas as opposed to any other demographic group?

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