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by kbouck 7y ago
I think he's a bit like Howard Stern in that his interview style tends to disarm guests. I think there's also something to be said about the long form interview where guests can fully discuss a topic without needing to dilute resp
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by kbouck 7y ago
Living as a (expat) Kevin in The Netherlands for many years and I've never heard this. Might be that my friends are just polite. Interested to know if this is well-known to those who grew up in The Netherlands.
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by kbouck 7y ago
I wonder if this event was the inspiration for the pudding coupons in "Punch Drunk Love" (Barry plans to exploit a promotion loophole by buying massive amounts of pudding in exchange for airline miles) Great movie! https:/&#
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by kbouck 7y ago
On a trip to Tokyo we had challenges locating a restaurant based on the address. Despite handing the address to the taxi driver, we got to the block, but the driver couldn't locate the restaurant. He had to call the restaurant to have
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by kbouck 7y ago
The normal data export only includes summary data for each night in csv: Type (sleep, nap, relax) Start Time Stop Time Sleep Duration Sleep Onset Duration Light Sleep Duration Deep Sleep Duration REM Duration Wake After
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by kbouck 7y ago
Martin Thompson talks about this in several of his talks. The same queuing theory that applies to software should also apply to dev teams - that service response time (or I guess delivery of features) slows down exponentially, not linearly,
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by kbouck 7y ago
I've commuted by bike in both San Francisco and Amsterdam. In Amsterdam it's a lovely (and safe) experience, whereas in San Fransisco it was positively hazardous. The key difference being the thoughtful lane designs in The Netherl
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by kbouck 7y ago
So should be possible to build a usb turbo button (or foot pedal) which just triggers mouse movement events?
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by kbouck 7y ago
> with the other Pis I have bought over the years My wife refers to this as the raspberry pile.
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by kbouck 7y ago
Roger's Profanisaurus: http://viz.co.uk/category/rogers-profanisaurus/
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by kbouck 7y ago
I'm curious to hear others' opinions on using a database as a message queue. One issue I have with most message brokers is that you can not perform adhoc queries or manipulations of the queue. When you've got a backlog situat
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by kbouck 7y ago
> Feeds may be cached. Depending systems can simply poll this. If they go down, they can catch up when they come back. This is how Kafka works. The "feed" of messages is stored as a log. Clients maintain a reference to their
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by kbouck 7y ago
The concern is not the act of reading, but rather the additional exposure to light suppressing melatonin production. Melatonin plays an important role in the sleep/wake cycle. Avoiding unnecessary light for a period of 3 hours prior to
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by kbouck 8y ago
The idea of spending 14 hours a day in a chair reminded me of a particular Homer Simpson invention: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Lazy_Man_Toilet_Seat
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by kbouck 8y ago
I've heard the book Working with Legacy Code [0] recommended for strategies to bring order to these kind of projects. Haven't read it myself yet... [0]: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-
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by kbouck 8y ago
Long article, but main points that I got: - That fat creation is influenced more by how fast sugar enters the system (and the insulin response that follows) than caloric content. - Simple carbs (white bread, pasta) are quickly broken down i
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by kbouck 8y ago
also: - kuusi = six
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by kbouck 8y ago
Gapminder's moving bubble charts seem to be called "moving bubbles" https://www.gapminder.org/tag/moving-bubbles/
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by kbouck 8y ago
In the Netherlands, many of the toilets are pay (€0.50) and regularly cleaned by a full-time attendant. They are generally quite clean, even at train stations. There are also male urinals which literally rise up out of the ground during wee
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by kbouck 8y ago
You can add the rind to minestrone.
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Given enough time, that's about hot enough to cook a piece of beef to rare.
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by kbouck 8y ago
Completely agree. I've had a session where I was attempting to teach programming to my son cut short because it was considered screen time. That's obviously a very different activity than crushing candy.
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by kbouck 8y ago
Here's a good summary of the history of the term and discussion on "programmer" vs "engineer". https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/progr...
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by kbouck 8y ago
> I need to see how the slats interlock, I need to see photos of how the frame works. For comparison, another furniture startup Aalo (YC W18) whose website has nice 3D closeup views of the interlocking components: https://aa
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by kbouck 8y ago
Enterprises, with the best of intentions, routinely opt for what appear on-paper to be lowest-cost developers which end-up being the most expensive option when factoring in the resulting delays, faultiness and complexity of what is built. G
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by kbouck 8y ago
Contrepeneur
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by kbouck 8y ago
I can confirm this. According to my Netherlands immigration lawyer I can acquire Dutch citizenship because my wife is a Dutch citizen, without needing to renounce my US citizenship.
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by kbouck 8y ago
> because I hate leaving a bottle open. I used to share that concern until I discovered that many young full red wines are just as good, if not better, in the day or two after opening. No need for a vacuum plug either. Just plug the or
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by kbouck 8y ago
Great music too. What recent game comes close to Wipeout? I've looked at FastRMX and Redout (both on Switch) but they don't quite do it for me.
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by kbouck 8y ago
Logo evolved into modern-day Scratch, which is included with the pi (raspbian). http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/what_is_logo/history... http://www.elica.net/download/papers/LogoTr

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