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by jzwinck 12y ago
Bike bottle interior coatings are not very durable. They're OK for a while if you only drink water and do not scrub the inside with anything abrasive at all. But one good scrubbing with a stiff brush and a few days drinking juice out
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Why use the Canon 1DX? The photographer has a long-standing and public relationship with Canon. Why not use the Sony A7S? The photographer uses a Canon 200-400mm f/4 lens, and the nearest Sony equivalent is 70-400mm f/4-5.6, whi
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It's an overall larger system. A larger sensor means less noise (assuming fewer pixels per inch, which is true in this case). A larger lens means less distortion (because any imperfections are smaller relative to the entire glass). A
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Here are some people who are not going to like it: https://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?firstName=AMY&lastName=IN... [105 of them as I write this...plus their coworkers.]
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by jzwinck 12y ago
If you click the attribution link for that photo (at the bottom of the article, unfortunately), you will see it was taken in 2007: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aki51/1675246969/ That's just nine months
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by jzwinck 12y ago
The article says this means Ruby hasn't followed Semantic Versioning, but that should be no surprise because Ruby already told us [1]: "MINOR: increased every christmas, may be API incompatible." [1] https://www.ru
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by jzwinck 12y ago
FAST isn't exactly a FIX encoding, it's a key-value encoding that can be translated to/from FIX. Roughly speaking, FAST is to FIX as BSON is to JSON. But starting to use FAST today seems like a bad idea, because the largest
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I forgot who made the first computer I used. It was similar to the BBC Micro (conspicuously absent from this list), but this was in the US. It hooked up to a (black and white) TV and let you program in BASIC (with no permanent storage, mo
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I grew up with another Olivetti model just one year older: the Praxis 48. It's now in the SF MOMA collection: http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/118397 Lovely designs from that firm: http
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Yes, but having signed an agreement in advance won't really help: Person 1 may still feel they were treated improperly and sue. Except now they might be suing for breach of contract on the basis that the company lied to them about the
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Right, but nobody plays a single 9-ball game. For one thing, you can win on the break! But over many games the relative skill of two players will be revealed, just as in straight pool. However, in 9-ball the maximum risk from failing to
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> Before interview, there will be an agreement needs to be signed by interviewee, recruiter, company involved, so that, after interview, recruiters can provide reasons for rejections and as long as the reason is with in the laws of the c
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by jzwinck 12y ago
In Asia there are tons of places with free Wi-Fi, even where there the tap water is not potable. At a bus stop in the middle of nowhere in South Korea. At a roadside cafe in Malaysia. At a cheaper-than-cheap hotel in Indonesia. Even som
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Move so that your home and office are 20 minutes apart by walking. You will walk to and from work, guaranteed, because it's the most efficient of time in that scenario. Maybe even 30 minutes, but beyond that most people will fall ba
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It sounds like part of it was also hiring a trainer. Many people seem to experience something like that: without a social component, like someone to encourage you, you don't bother. But a trainer, or a partner, or an opponent can eas
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by jzwinck 12y ago
You can really see which makers are trying new things and which are just copying someone else. Interesting.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Free idea (worth as much as it costs!): You could franchise in other countries. Candy Korea, Candy Taiwan, that sort of thing. Thanks for the good, clear write-up.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
IDEs win if you need fancy refactoring features or are working on an unfamiliar codebase (or, heaven forbid, one whose build system only works in an IDE). Otherwise, if you like Emacs, enjoy it.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> Worried about a lack of transparency at Beats after the HTC deal, Monster CEO Noel Lee also reduced his 5% stake in Beats to 1.25%. This "lack of transparency" probably has a different meaning than the layman's one. The
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Right, because it goes to https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract/Coeur%20d i.e. it chops off the "apostrophe" and everything after. URL escaping gone wrong, I guess.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
In the US there are generally only two levels: the subsidized price and the full price. If you get a phone with a very cheap contract, you will have to pay full price, just as if you got no contract at all. Such people might therefore pre
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Singapore implemented a system a few years ago called NEWater [1]. It's a little different from the one in this article: NEWater centrally collects waste water and filters it until it is drinkable. No burning, no electricity generati
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by jzwinck 12y ago
One kampung remains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampong_Buangkok That page says rent is $13 per month for each of 28 homes, and the entire thing had a purchase offer of $33 million which was rejected. Interesting pl
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by jzwinck 12y ago
It's not quite that simple, but I think this is a good explanation: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Secti... . (TL;DR: don't worry about it).
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by jzwinck 12y ago
> It would be interesting if someone tried this in one of these larger cities with high rises like Singapore. In Singapore, 80% of people today live in what are called HDB flats. These are government subsidized housing projects (with fe
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Can you explain in more detail what you mean by "limited instruction count execution that is machine independent"? For example: - Is it measuring the count and making sure it doesn't exceed some threshold, or is the client A
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I think it's lost to time, unfortunately.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I took an exam which presented a drawing of a logic chip and a description of its pins and asked us to implement some functionality using this chip plus the minimum number of external gates. I managed to implement it using only wires, with
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by jzwinck 12y ago
I agree. I also suspect we live near each other; you can contact me with this name using the Google stuff and maybe we can leave our smartphones on the table together sometime.
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by jzwinck 12y ago
Wow, thanks for digging that up. It even costs $152 right now (converted from GBP). Apart from the fact that you seemingly have to remove it to charge, looks good.

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