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by jweir 8y ago
Good point, it would fare better in an earthquake. > Some 1,400 years ago, tall wood-framed pagodas in Japan were built to 19 stories tall. In spite of the area’s high seismic activity – including the 6.8 magnitude Hyogo-ken Nambu earthq
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by jweir 8y ago
> He’s s still evaluating bottom-line costs. Four days to assemble, how many days did it take to build, in China? What about the energy loss in transport? How much carbon was generated by this project versus if it had been built with mo
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by jweir 8y ago
Introductory video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-yoLxnm95A&index=7&list=PL-...
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Literate Visualization: Theory, software and examples(github.com)
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I am naive on the language and have not used it. At first I thought you could get around using `old` by assigning the new balance to a property `new_balance`, but that won't work since this is an object's property so of course it
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by jweir 8y ago
I posted this after reading the discussion "Why not program right?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17466277 I'm not familiar with Eiffel and this AutoProof give a clear example of of its syntax, and met
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AutoProof – A Program Verifier for Eiffel (2015)(comcom.csail.mit.edu)
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But getting imprisoned, certainly https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/30/cia-whistleblo...
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by jweir 8y ago
As I have gotten older, I have made more money and gotten wealthier. My skills have increased, my knowledge has increased, and I am more valuable. Did the authors look at wealth as something that is static and to be distributed? Or did th
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by jweir 8y ago
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf Fuzzy Finder for files, history and more. Integrates with Vim (and maybe other editors). It is wicked fast.
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AstroNavigation – A free course(my.vanderbilt.edu)
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A mistake about manufacturing costing Americans millions of jobs(qz.com)
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This won't make the language any better. It will make the language more approachable for new comers. The Go website is _almost_ as bare bones as it gets. It functions fine and we are familiar with it. But compared to say Python, the s
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by jweir 8y ago
Terraform just released support for the unlimited flag via the 'credit_specification' field https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-aw...
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by jweir 9y ago
The legality or the morality of this aside, I doubt this is being used as a metric for directly hiring those taking the SAT. My gut is telling me this is a metric to evaluate the education system for families to move there (or remain there)
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by jweir 9y ago
Apple does have a good record of moving their OS and software from different architectures. 68XXX to PPC to Intel was not a horrible experience. Having gone through three transitions I don't remember a lot of pain - but maybe I am re
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by jweir 9y ago
I disagree on Go. Go is well designed and takes upgrading into consideration. Upgrades very rarely break anything. You should just be able to recompile that 1.3 code on 1.8, etc.
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by jweir 9y ago
One take away from this list is that no software firms have survived. I would recommend hotels or booze if you want a business to last.
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by jweir 9y ago
Perfect! I will train one of these to watch my pained facial expressions when Alexa is triggered without using a keyword. Then it will fire a speech script "Bad Alexa."
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by jweir 9y ago
This is not just the sale. There is a whole industry behind pot. I know lawyers, architects, energy managers, etc working now in the weed industry. It is big business. This transcendes simply sales. And NJ would be regional leader. And perh
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by jweir 9y ago
How disposable is this product? Many products create a waste burden that is an after thought. Clothing has a good disposal path - reuse, recycle or just throw out. But what about wearable clothing? Since it is fashion it will have a short l
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by jweir 9y ago
If posting the document is fine - which you didn't read - then posting a link to his corporate bio is fine. It is in the effing document. It is already public record.
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by jweir 9y ago
This reminds me of this article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287 How in WWII a statistician noticed there are no average sized humans and the dangers of building for a mythical average.
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by jweir 9y ago
This is just one node in CAISO (California's energy market). A better metric would be a hub price, but I don't have ready access to those (our software doesn't capture them since we aren't involved much in CAISO) For ref
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California electricity prices up during eclipse(twitter.com)
4 points by jweir 9y ago|1 comments
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by jweir 9y ago
If you are developing with Vagrant boxes -- Vagrant's built in share (and tmux) working pretty well for pairing or reviewing. https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/share/
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by jweir 9y ago
Are the brain studies in this article subject to buggy and flawed fMRI research? http://www.sciencealert.com/a-bug-in-fmri-software-could-inv... edit: further reading https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sci
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by jweir 9y ago
A lot of hyrdro plants have exactly that ability. Buy low sell high.
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It is a signal to ramp down or if you have a storage facility store. If the prices remain negative or low for long periods it is a indicator to build transmission to where prices are high. Or if yours are a consumer build you factor or data
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by jweir 9y ago
Reflections. How many self driving cars can see these? Every day that is what I have to look for when leaving a garage - the reflections, or shadows, of people and pets, as I come out of a parking garage. The edge cases for self driving car

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