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by kcorbitt 11y ago
The central line can get quite toasty in the summer, especially at peak travel times. I'd be interested in an estimate of how much of that heat is a direct result of the current friction braking system. Will the stations get noticeably
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Totally. I really recommend watching the video under the "Progressive and lossless" heading. With just 20% of the file downloaded the image quality was already subjectively quite good. I didn't even know progressive loading w
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Well given that they're all lossless formats, the image should appear identical with any of the codecs, with only the file size (and encoding style) being different. More practically, since browsers won't have an flif decoder ther
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
So I don't blame anyone for taking this seriously (it took me 5 minutes of reading their blog before I finally convinced myself it was a joke), but this is definitely a parody. I mean, just look at this from their YC application: >
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
As a Seattle resident born and raised, and having spent a fair amount of time in other parts of the world, I take issue with your characterization of the people as "way meaner." ;) The traffic is terrible though; I wouldn't
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I don't agree with everything you've said, but I do feel like otto is in danger of being another teetering piece on top of the base-os/virtualbox-os/vagrant(+ansible/chef/puppet)/guest-application tower,
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
> This comes about because the distribution of friends on social networks follows a power law. So while most people will have a small number of friends, a few individuals have huge numbers of friends. And these people skew the average. &
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
What if you required everyone to punch in their destination on a companion app, Uber-style, before even approaching the platform? Then all you have to do is wait until the app gives you the green light to approach the platform (your car is
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Not the OP, but I use flow because (1) it's easy to integrate into an existing project without having to define and rewrite everything with types and (2) I've found myself using other Facebook tools anyway (mostly in the React eco
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
This was probably a valid observation two years ago, when the React story on state management was "bring your own solution." But these days, although it's technically a separate project, Flux is the de-facto state management
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I totally agree with what you're saying. But remember that they got to 900M users with this approach. Obviously users liked something about what Whatsapp's philosophy produces.
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
From the article: "There are limitations this system. Potvin says certain highly sensitive code—stuff akin to the Google’s PageRank search algorithm—resides in separate repositories only available to specific employees."
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One Day with React Native for Android(corbt.com)
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
It was counting down from 6 months. I think it had got down to about 3 weeks before this announcement came. The countdown was originally set based on a comment that vjeux made in a blog post when React Native for iOS was released, where he
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I have a fair amount of experience developing native Android apps in Java, and have an app for work that I'm developing/maintaining right now. I've also used React in a couple of medium-sized web apps. I'm extremely exci
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Totally. Scientists typically aren't given Nobel prizes until decades after the fact. And while I don't have any numbers to back it up, I suspect that more mostly-retired 70-year-olds have time to pick up a hobby on the side than
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
You're right that the probability that there is a crash on 3 August is unaffected by a potential crash on the 2 of August, but the chance that the crash on the 3 of August is the next crash (after the 1st of August) is affected.
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Yeah, I'm getting "This page isn't available offline. Connect to the Internet and refresh to view it online." Obviously, I'm online.
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
When my friends ask me what language they should get started in when they want to learn to program without a specific application in mind, I usually suggest Python for all the reasons the article so convincingly presents. So certainly in on
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I don't claim to be the most socially clued-in person in the world, but as an American I hear people say things other than "fine, thanks" in response to "how are you?" all the time and think it's pretty normal.
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I've been using Kotlin for about three months to develop an Android application that is now in production. To be honest, I love it. Here's a comment I wrote a few days ago about my experience with it for Android development, from
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Unfortunately, most of the people who they're targeting for this round probably don't have the training to evaluate that type of information even if they had it. Are there any reliable third party experts who have given their opin
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Seconding Kotlin coming from Java. It takes maybe 2 days to learn everything in the language if you already know Java, and it fixes pretty much all the warts that bother me about Java (the big ones for me are immutable references, first-cla
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
I was intrigued and just tried this. It doesn't work (at least in the chrome console) -- "undefined" is a reserved keyword and while the interpreter doesn't complain about attempting to assign it the value of "raspb
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
The Space Needle's spinning top level is powered by a 1.5hp motor[1] at a gear ratio of 360,000:1 [2]. It makes one complete rotation every 47 minutes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Needle [2] https:&#x
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
Nope. I did get a 50% pay raise though for the limited contracting work I did with them after the summer was over though, which turned out to be a lot of money for a student.
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
At a startup I worked for several months as a university intern, I ended up (because of my location) working out of the office with the inside sales team instead of engineering. At first it felt like I was in the wrong place, but as I got i
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
On the balance, having one connector and hand-waving everything else as "it's all software" is probably better than the bewildering combination of ports and protocols we have now. But it will come with its own new and interes
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by kcorbitt 11y ago
> Global investors are not buying into the mania: the shares of companies listed in both Hong Kong and Shanghai are now 30% more expensive in the latter. I'm quite confused by this statement -- if the shares on both exchanges are eq
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by kcorbitt 12y ago
I really wish that articles like this would give more context for all the numbers that inevitably get thrown around. > China Huaneng Group Corp.’s 845-megawatt power plant What percent of the city's electricity is that? > Beijing

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