mcooley

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by mcooley 1y ago
I worked on a global consumer mapping app once. Among that team, the idea that address schemes were too inconsistent to be useful was also conventional wisdom.
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by mcooley 3y ago
Tracking flights works better than tracking trains mainly because airlines have global technical standards (coordinated through global bodies like IATA) and rail operators don't. Most of the technical capability to track any flight, an
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by mcooley 9y ago
Bing has one: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt814921.aspx
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by mcooley 10y ago
Before I moved away recently, I had dinner pretty regularly with the guys at Dismas House Nashville (dismas.org), which provides transitional housing for former offenders. They do a great job helping people get back on their feet with housi
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by mcooley 11y ago
> Microsoft implemented it back in their glory days (irony intended) by changing the file formats in new versions of the Office suite so that documents created by newer versions of Office could not be read by older versions, thus forcing
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by mcooley 11y ago
Windows 10 now has a built-in "Skype video" app which is much more bare-bones. Once I confirmed it worked for calling the few people I need to video chat with, I uninstalled the desktop app right away.
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by mcooley 11y ago
> It isn't flexible That part may be a feature. A bus stop next to your apartment building might be gone next week, but a light rail station is staying put and developers can more confidently build "transit-oriented" neigh
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by mcooley 11y ago
Earlier versions (or fragments of earlier versions) exist for most parts of the New Testament. I believe the interesting thing about this work is that it's "complete". The original texts are in Greek, and the King James versi
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by mcooley 12y ago
CM = Contract Manufacturer CNC = Computer Numerical Control (an automated mill) BOM = Bill of Materials (a parts list) It is jargon, but it's jargon that someone who would be concerned about "not showing ejector pin marks" wo
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by mcooley 12y ago
That chart is misleading because it shows consumption of all sources of energy, not just electricity. We don't use 28% of our electricity for transportation (yet!). Listings of electricity consumption by sector [1] show that the reside
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by mcooley 13y ago
I think it has something to do with the power relationship: they can see you, but you can't see them. You might be able to see a camera pointed at you, but the phone locator operates over a passive mechanism that you can't see. No
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by mcooley 14y ago
Perhaps they've gotten their cost issues under control now, but this 2010 report from the Philly comptroller points out a whole bunch of problems: http://www.philadelphiacontroller.org/publications/other%20r... The report shows all sorts