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by justinph 10y ago
The NYT article this WAPO piece is largely based on is much more in-depth: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/business/at-zappos-selling...
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by justinph 10y ago
You should have filed a complaint either way. Filing a legitimate complaint with the FCC will get their attention ASAP. I've done it before with my ISP (RCN) and all of a sudden I was getting executive support and a much better deal. I
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by justinph 10y ago
Laravel or Slim.
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by justinph 10y ago
NPR (and their member stations) do not have advertising per se. Rather, they call it underwriting and there are very specific rules about what format the underwriting can take. Here are the guidelines: http://www.npr.org/sec
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by justinph 10y ago
Mythbusters tested this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282003_season%29#... You still die: Dropping Buster with an internal accelerometer from a crane led to difficulty because the dummy continually lost
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by justinph 10y ago
Small turbines do exist. One was installed on This Old House recently: http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tv/ask-toh/video/0,,20961006... (jump to about 15:00) But, it does have three blades.
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by justinph 11y ago
This is interesting and it should be paired with a dramatic re-thinking of the way our democracy functions. Namely, we should abolish the Senate's overrepresentation of small, rural states. It made sense that all states got two senator
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by justinph 11y ago
The lack of tail tracks at 8th avenue and the current electrical system are the current limitations. They could do more, but they can't turn the trains around fast enough or give enough power to more densely pack trains.
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by justinph 11y ago
If you had a publicly visible site that you wanted to be crawled, then having a real url would be pretty important. But for something like Highrise, where it's dark to google and crawlers, your solution makes sense.
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by justinph 11y ago
Did anyone else notice that the list of signers on this letter is entirely male?
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by justinph 11y ago
At least with the auto industry, the unions were able to offer some protections for the worker. How many programmers belong to a union?
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by justinph 11y ago
Radiators do not work for cooling. Cooling creates condensation, which will drip on and rot the floor unless you move it out of the building somehow. Cool air also needs to be forced to circulate, whereas hot air will do that on its own.
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by justinph 11y ago
It's about damn time. This makes S3 actually useful when paired with cloudfront. Before, it was a sad joke of steps and workarounds you had to go through if you wanted to to host static assets from S3 and have them be compressed.
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by justinph 11y ago
As someone who's going through a not very fun period of C. Diff, this is pretty relevant. There is still so much we don't know about what makes a healthy and un-healthy biome, it's maddening.
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by justinph 11y ago
Seat belt and safety system defects usually have a very low threshold for necessitating a recall or raising the ire of the NHTSA. Some manufacturers, notably Honda, have a lifetime unconditional warranty on seat belts.
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by justinph 11y ago
The National Geographic Channel has been with FOX for much longer than a few months. I can't seem to find the date when FOX became involved, but it predates this acquisition by many years. This latest acquisition is just a furthering o
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by justinph 11y ago
The National Geographic Channel is a different company than the magazine and is a subsidiary of FOX. So, it's a good example of the kind of schlock that the Murdoch Empire will produce. Despite all the issues that the magazine and non-
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by justinph 11y ago
I'm not a materials scientist, but I bet this has a good deal of vertical strength, but almost no lateral strength. Probably limits its utility quite a bit. But, still really interesting.
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by justinph 11y ago
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by justinph 11y ago
Sounds like a hybrid isn't for you, then. The good thing is other manufacturers make pure gasoline or pure electric cars, so there is choice. For some of us, a plug-in hybrid is a great choice, at least until the range improves on pure
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by justinph 11y ago
Interesting, but it seems like a lot of the lifestyle choices are just pushing the carbon/climate impact to someone else where the author doesn't have to think about it. Getting custom clothes made in china and shipped frequently
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by justinph 11y ago
I have this problem, too. The "Alphabet Game" is something my wife taught me and it works pretty well. The trick is to pick something that is the right level of difficulty: not too hard and not too easy.
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by justinph 11y ago
However, I think it's one of the best examples of phenomenal documentation.
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by justinph 11y ago
Yes. They state this in the abstract: "We maximize the capacity of the battery in generating movement with the electric engine, and we have found that we can also use the system as a hybrid for light aircraft: the pilot can activate i
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by justinph 11y ago
Yes, they do.
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by justinph 11y ago
You're right, Helvetica is and was a poor choice for Yosemite, even if you have a retina screen. It's not a screen font. Lucida Grande was a great screen font, but the boldness of it worked much better on 1x screens. With the adde
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by justinph 11y ago
Yes. They telegraph consistency, reliability, and deeper thought. The clear relationship that the type and all the icons have to each other looks planned and substantial. Typically, these are qualities that brands want to convey.
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by justinph 11y ago
srcset! Finally, responsive images are gaining ground.
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by justinph 11y ago
The mechanics of this are pretty neat. But the photography in the article is incredibly distracting. Does every shot have to be at an off-kilter angle? If this is a story about engineering, how about some head-on shots of the engineered thi
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by justinph 11y ago
Wow, predict the sky looks pretty neat: http://predictthesky.org/ Too bad it doesn't seem to actually work.

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