mlwarren

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by mlwarren 14y ago
One of the major reasons pumped storage isn't used more is because the energy loss associated with pumping and storing the water. I can't find the exact amount right now but from a lecture I watched some time back[1], pumped storage is a fe
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by mlwarren 14y ago
It's certainly not curing cancer or inventing the next generation of transportation. I guess this might be part of the "start small" realization? It seems like a lot of the college dropouts opting for startups are ultimately limiting themse
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by mlwarren 14y ago
For the specific examples you're asking about, I'd suggest the Web Application Architecture book.( http://www.amazon.com/Web-Application-Architecture-Principle... )
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by mlwarren 14y ago
I've had similar experiences. A lot of simple things in OSX just don't feel natural or when done give me a result that I didn't expect. I've been using the OS for almost a year now and still feel that way.
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by mlwarren 15y ago
Maybe some broad-sweeping entry level books or literature reviews would be good. For me (and possibly many others on hn), the extent of my knowledge in the field as a whole is pretty small so I think some introductory resources geared towar
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by mlwarren 15y ago
Maybe some of the people contributing answers to this comment thread could also suggest some literature on bioinformatics? (specifically for Software Engineers with limited biology backgrounds)
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by mlwarren 15y ago
The DDG !Bang feature is the reason I like to use DDG. I have it as my default search engine in Chrome and I can search just about anything without having to first load a site, enter my query, and click search. I just pop open a tab and wri
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by mlwarren 15y ago
"We are going to have failures. There are going to be sacrifices made in the program; we've been lucky so far. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay
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by mlwarren 15y ago
Not necessarily. There are plenty of things we "don't need" but many of those succeed because they're part of what the developer community "wants". People can profit from these wants, making things developers don't necessarily need and "re
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by mlwarren 15y ago
I suppose that depends on the individual, their life situation (single, married, college student, full time job, etc), and how long they can stay excited about their idea. I'm curious about how long the OP specifically has been pulling thes
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by mlwarren 15y ago
Also, OSX has mission control. You don't necessarily have to "go back to the single desktop paradigm of Mac or Windows". There are solutions for that, and on OSX it's even built in. It's a great feature in Ubuntu but it's definitely not exc
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by mlwarren 15y ago
Interesting list but the notion that "ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen" can only go so far. If you have a bad idea that you make happen it doesn't automatically become valuable. This story might prove t