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by largote 10y ago
That is good to know.
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by largote 10y ago
I think that's because 4C is the point where water is the densest, whereas 20C is a comfortable room temperature.
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by largote 10y ago
To be honest, the Nomad was fairly decent too, though the Creative brand couldn't command the premium price as well as Apple.
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by largote 10y ago
Couldn't the Kilogram be derived from the Liter, which in turn can be derived from the Meter? From what I recall: - 1 Liter of pure water at 4 Celsius is 1 Kg. - 1 Liter is a cube with 10 cm on each side.
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by largote 10y ago
Hipmunk's UI is amazing if you know what you're looking at.
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by largote 10y ago
Active noise cancelling is far better at drowning out constant background noise than changing sounds like conversations.
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by largote 10y ago
Escalate to your manager, he should have a chat with her manager.
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by largote 10y ago
But you can still be nagged if someone finds your phone number.
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by largote 10y ago
The gap in base-pay+bonus is usually like 20-30%, plus there's the fact that you're getting stock you can actually sell on top of that.
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by largote 10y ago
Where in 101?
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by largote 10y ago
Working at a startup "for the money" is like playing the lottery, you may hit it big, but a lot of startups just crash and burn. In the meantime you're making a lot less than someone working at a large company. You could take
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by largote 10y ago
The issue is not the capital investment on hardware. You can get an equally powerful modern server to replace your old AS/400 machine for a few thousand dollars. The issue is the risk to move away from that is not worth it.
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by largote 10y ago
The rest of the phone is "good enough" so that people don't take the risk to jump to a different OS environment on the next iteration. Plus, Apple always promises the new iPhone will fix everything you didn't like abou
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by largote 10y ago
Tell that to all the COBOL programmers making serious money.
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by largote 10y ago
The DAC is, but the amplifier that's after it certainly isn't. And there's no line-out, so you're effectively dual-amping any signal if you use an amplifier on the built-in 3.5mm jack. In any case, I think they should ha
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by largote 10y ago
The millimeter matters when people are buying the phone, the battery life and other complaints only matter once the person has already paid for the phone, so Apple doesn't care. People say they want lots of battery life, but slimmer
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by largote 10y ago
Except a Tesla S is more comparable to an A6/5 series/E class in regards to size and interior quality.
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by largote 10y ago
A lot of these cities have renting laws that basically give the renter more rights over the property than the owner. This causes it to make more sense to not rent it out.
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by largote 10y ago
More importantly, you can Follow him and explicitly unfollow his "Music" Collection.
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by largote 10y ago
Who honestly believes this company is worth anywhere near $35B?
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by largote 10y ago
Except that Google has tried several times to replace those old building with denser development only to be blocked by the city.
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by largote 10y ago
Microsoft should buy out Nintendo, make its games and franchises available for Xbox & PC, and sell the specialty Nintendo hardware like the WiiMote or that TabletController as accessories. It could also roll Kinect under the Nintendo ad
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by largote 10y ago
Yeah, the clubbing in SF has nothing on other places.
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by largote 10y ago
It's generally considered to be where San Mateo county ends and Santa Clara county begins, in other words, between Palo Alto and Mountain View.
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by largote 10y ago
But if you label it, why wouldn't you start labeling all other sorts of ridiculous things? GMO vs not-GMO is irrelevant information for the consumer outside of marketing and ignorance-based paranoia.
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by largote 10y ago
But if you label it, why wouldn't you start labeling all other sorts of things? GMO vs not-GMO is irrelevant information for the consumer outside of marketing and ignorance-based paranoia.
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by largote 10y ago
That sounds illegal as fuck.
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by largote 10y ago
Setting such a precedent would be terrible for the EU though. Before too long every country will threaten to "leave".
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by largote 10y ago
For very long flights, it usually is.
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by largote 10y ago
These days, WWDC keynotes have the general public and media as their target audience.

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