mncolinlee

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by mncolinlee 8y ago
I think with most startups, even if they're successful, they don't deliver on the ownership and ROI you would expect for the time you invest. Several years ago, I joined a Midwestern startup just before the Series A as one of the
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
Wouldn't it be likely that the greater than percentage of free CO2, the cheaper removing CO2 will get per ton? Trump's intransigence could make this technology viable.
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
I'm not arguing for government intervention, but it wasn't hypothetical. Microsoft explicitly detected DR-DOS and pretended that the DOS crashed instead of starting Windows, which worked just fine on DR-DOS before then. This was r
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
KotlinScript is yet another option that handles that worry nicely. https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
This. I noticed that I have gone for over fifteen years through some pretty tough jobs, but never needed to write any Leetcode binary tree problem from scratch in thirty minutes in my work while being questioned. I normally freeze up becaus
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I agree that there needs to be a better proxy for understanding this for average users. It certainly is odd to have the container format as the primary bit of information we convey, but it reflects the information gap between users and deve
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Hopefully, it doesn't ever become the file extension. Current containers for AV1 include Matroska (.mkv), WebM (.webm), ISO base media file format (.3gpp), and WebRTC.
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Having run a US political campaign, this isn't showing confidence that you understand the issue. You're blurring two, different definitions of donation: the IRS and FEC meanings. In the past, I've had to count website or tech
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
This made me dig up my twenty years ago college attempt at a humorous web zine in 1998. It still lives on in Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20010422120204/http://www.afn.or...
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I'm imaging a Probability Zero or Black Mirror short where Facebook insists some scammer is using your face and attempts to shut them down. They are unable to log into services because they used Facebook login for convenience. In the e
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I haven't really noticed much of anything in recent years. That should be surprising, since many of our sites are in states that have legal weed. However, there's a decent amount of coffee use and many of us drink a microbrew beer
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I totally understand. When I was a freelancer, I found that working on project work forty or more legit billing hours a week is a lot harder than advertised. When I'd been full-time or working for a consulting house, a lot of my forty
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
When I taught AP CS, I got around that rigidly logical issue by performing a very simple exercise on the first day of class to build an appreciation for algorithms. The students were asked to write out instructions to build a paper airplane
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
This is absolutely true. I've claimed for years that programming is easy and it's not hard to teach to children, but I started when I was six. For older people, the field is hard to break into due to a cognitive barrier I've
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
You can watch the KotlinConf session video by Tor Norbye. It was what you said and more. To clarify, I meant they dropped Java internally for their own lint rules, not that they dropped support. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
It's worth noting that one of the great features of Kotlin is how it simplifies deprecating code and writing quick fixes. This is why Google scrapped Java for writing Lint rules entirely. I expect a simple Option-Enter may resolve thes
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I heard the Android data binding compiler was written in Kotlin. At KotlinConf, they announced that Google had dropped Java altogether for writing Lint rules because of Kotlin's much greater capabilities for handling deprecated code an
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Kotlin Android Extensions is a tad more than that. It's also a View cache that grabs all view references in a single pass. I routinely have to explain to other senior Android developers that findViewById() traverses the entire view hie
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
So by this reasoning, you're saying virtually every other country on Earth that spends less than half as much per capita as the U.S., has no such concept as medical bankruptcies, and covers a greater percentage of citizens must be LESS
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
This sounds like BS on several levels. #1 Electricity delivers far more energy per dollar, especially off-peak. Local EV owners are complaining on social media that they're averaging five cents per mile in the below zero temps we'
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Those limits didn't matter when Mayo called in 2013[1]. There's one reason Amazon didn't get any worthwhile tax breaks. The governor's sons own a bunch of Target shares. Amazon was offered $100 per employee. The total pa
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
The governor's father co-founded Target and his sons still own a large share. The subsidy per Amazon employee in the Minneapolis HQ2 bid was $100 compared to $12,000 when the Best Buy HQ was built and $150,000 when the new Vikings stad
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
I had the same problem happen years ago with video using a song that's way out of copyright and already adjudicated in courts as being in the commons. I think most use automated systems to attempt to claim copyrights over your video. A
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Given that we discover new elements[1] from time to time, it's not impossible that we'd discover a new alloy. However, something about this story is fishy and is likely being blown out of proportion. It's a common trope that
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Bits will pour over #NetNeutrality(medium.com)
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Paper Summary: The Case for Learned Index Structures(muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
There once was a coder from Texas Who browsed websites on his Nexus. He used Dev Console Exploited a loophole And found a bevy of XSS.
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
Near-field communication (NFC). It came out in 2010 for Android and Microsoft phones, but has been hamstrung by Apple for most of its development. I had several startup ideas which required NFC market penetration on phones, but which even t
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
It's bizarre that the Semi has way less attention than the Roadster on HN. The Roadster is a $250k car for people with money to burn. It doesn't seem to drastically change the equation from a Rimac Concept One with six-year newer
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by mncolinlee 9y ago
For small icons and images, this is fine and actually pretty cool. However, the rasterization cost of SVG into large images can be significant on mobile device CPUs. It won't speed things up much if the device is rasterizing a lot. Tha

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