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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I'd argue it's to keep developers locked in to Objective-C and iOS. Facebook tried going the HTML5 route in the native iOS app, but everything was too slow (it was comical how much faster facebook.com was in Safari vs running the app) until
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One Muni ticket vending machine costs $150k (2007)(sfcta.org)
1 points by juiceandjuice 14y ago|0 comments
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Did anyone even bother checking the author's numbers or methods? My biggest problem with this series of articles is that it's largely based on the "No commitment" answer to a questionnaire given to postdoctoral students. His "Nothing" secti
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
This is the same concept.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
AKA RPython for Javascript
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I grew up next to Shiprock, the actual city, in New Mexico, in addition to other places around New Mexico. The interesting thing is that the "state" of Shiprock would likely be the poorest and most nuclear capable state on this map, contain
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
They actually use mmap internally.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Hi, do you actually do the bookkeeping for the processing inside graph? How do you do this? I work on a stream processing/workflow engine used by a few large physics experiments. It's declarative in nature too, but we use XML and let users
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
The male/female ratio of sexting is interesting.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
A map is a hash table. I'm confused as to why you don't use either a custom hashing function or your own custom datatype that organizes your data according to the sequence order of your key. While a generic hashing function that can operate
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
If you've ever traveled across the country, you'd realize people in Seattle are much different than people in Phoenix who are much different than people in St Louis who are much different than people in Boston who are much different than pe
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I'd argue your brothers approach is just as valid as yours for either industry. You both hire for "cultural fit", just your ideas of what "culture" is differs.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
So basically facebook is what facebook was 7 years ago when you could click on a word in a profile and find out everyone else in your (college) network that also had that listed. I'm glad they brought back functionality they removed forever
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
No, but it's reasonable to assume those details, while secret, were plausible in a system that has time and again proved itself irrational and unfair. You are asking people to not jump to conclusions about people who jumped to conclusions.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Objectified is okay. The Eames documentary is much more interesting in terms of the design process, as is the Milton Glaser one.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Disclaimer - I'm out of my element as far as the science goes, but privy to relevant info. Here are a few relevant publications from Fermi: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5922/1688.full http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
There seems to be a power substation here: 39.580234, 76.058357 And one large tower connecting it to a grid extending south here: 39.579052, 76.060278
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
The buildings/structures out there are in interesting ratios. One of the U buildings is ~64m on 3 sides. Another one is 125% bigger on the smaller size, and then in a ratio of 1:2:1 per side. A couple more buildings are about 108m, then the
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Or, you know, you could try not reinventing the wheel and use emacs.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Sort of off topic, but there are physical examples of "flat" design applied to objects. One notable example could be the Quad 33 preamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Quad_33_Front.jpg
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
I like how they used twitter to complain about a social media application having ads.
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
The first real library I had to learn to use was GSL. The first framework I ever learned to use was ROOT. I also had to learn how to use FFTW and all sorts of other math libraries. I've had to hack fortran a bit, but mostly just know how to
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Except that somewhere isn't implicitly in the vicinity of the new development. That somewhere could be in the suburbs, another city, a dorm room, a room in a parent's house, or any other options which doesn't have any real impact in the ava
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Ask HN: Cheaply and legally filling 40 mp3 players for good cause
1 points by juiceandjuice 14y ago|5 comments
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
The categories are a little confusing. If you go into scientific research, say at a publicly funded institution, where does that put you? College Education? Technology? Engineering? Government? or just Other?
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Hah, yes. I don't know if the comment before yours was intended to be advice to me, but I'm one of those python astrophysics people (professionally). I deal much more on the data and distributed systems side much more than the analysis side
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
You can't just say something is an antiquated institution, and reference a wikipedia article just because a very similar system, successful or not, has existed for a very long time. By that logic: Democracy is an antiquated institution [1]
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
As someone who has taken engineering courses and holds a BS in applied physics and a minor in math, while working as a developer (for physics experiments), I'd have to say that physics, more than any other major, teaches you how to learn. I
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Yeah, I don't mind doing QFP and SMD resistors (actually QFP is pretty quick when you get used to it), but individual resistors take forever. Also, I forgot to mention most processors are BGA packages AFAIK, so impossible to actually solder
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by juiceandjuice 14y ago
Actually it's likely that most(all) of the resistors and LEDs are SMDs soldered using reflow or wave soldering. Your electronics from before the 80s (and often the 90s) was soldered by a human though.

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