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by nwatson 8y ago
FTA: "His orange exists only to brighten up tawny, a dark brown." Almost like orange-is-to-brown as pink-is-to-red. This is more apparent when looking at http://colorizer.org/ and choosing HSV colorspace with H=
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by nwatson 8y ago
I'm an engineer and love Confluence + Gliffy. Writing fully interlinked documentation with illustrations and tables and styling is much easier than with any other tool.
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Why English will still be important to Europe in a post-Brexit world(europeanceo.com)
1 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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The future demand for English in Europe: 2025 and beyond(britishcouncil.org)
1 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
FTA : Confessionalists would sympathize with these ideals since many of them believe American democracy grew out of the Reformation as much as it did the Enlightenment. American democracy grew more so out of the pragmatic commercialist nego
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by nwatson 8y ago
Winston-Salem, NC has a great downtown scene with affordable living close by. I've started to commute the 10 miles to my co-working space (I don't live near downtown) some of the time by bicycle and drivers are surprisingly respe
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by nwatson 8y ago
Use a GUI like SourceTree from Atlassian, makes dealing with "git" so much easier.
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by nwatson 8y ago
(7 miles square == 49 square miles)
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by nwatson 8y ago
Lifestyles, philosophies, religions can optimize for happiness or truth ... pick one. The HT theorem.
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by nwatson 8y ago
I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment. One glitched audio example I found quite beautiful is the audio art p
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by nwatson 8y ago
Obligatory Penn & Teller recycling-is-bullshit episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0771119/ As long as plastic disposables actually are disposed of we're in no danger of running out of landfill room.
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by nwatson 8y ago
Aptly numbered podcast episode #666 of Planet Money named "Episode 666: The Hoverboard Life" explores the discovery of the "hoverboard" phenomenon from a couple of years back -- "The hottest toy this holiday season
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Trump’s North Korea Policy Just Collapsed(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by nwatson 8y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
The article is long and I don't have time to read this, but the article seems to imply that "neutral" mutations aren't driving the split between species. I would have thought though that for a given species in a given t
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by nwatson 8y ago
... with water balloons.
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by nwatson 8y ago
There probably was no notion that domain names would become valuable and scarce.
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by nwatson 8y ago
From TFA: "But there are still no known turquoise deposits in Mesoamerica. The explanation, say Thibodeau and her colleagues, is that turquoise deposits tend to be shallow, and they can be mined to depletion in short order. And there
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by nwatson 8y ago
For me it's been Adidas Samba basic white stripes on black model, with occasional forays into suede color related models. They've always held up well, wash well, feel good. I'll have a new pair on hand, an older one or two
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by nwatson 8y ago
Thank you for this insight ... could you guess or know how many of these CCP functionaries, in spite of their insecurity, pursue their duty in good faith, versus engaging in self-dealing etc.?
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by nwatson 8y ago
Starting a business isn't an obvious proposition, and an entrepreneur takes a lot of risk and puts a lot of startup money (their own or OPM / investors' money) on the line. I've never been that business person / VC
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by nwatson 8y ago
A tale about "saving money" on transportation (and parking) ... I used to live in San Mateo, CA near 92 / Hillsdale (up in the hills between US-101 and I-280). My wife, daughter, and I would fly out of SFO Airport to Arizona
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by nwatson 8y ago
Automation's payoffs aren't necessarily in time saved. Quality can be a more important consideration. "Did I forget a step?" "Did I forget to verify this aspect of the configuration?" "Oh ... am I sure
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by nwatson 8y ago
The "limitations" link in the posted page has a section on "Reflection", [1]. It says: "Support Status: Mostly supported ... Individual classes, methods, and fields that should be accessible via reflection must b
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by nwatson 8y ago
Lasers. Might incapacitate, kill, or blind crows, would need to avoid collateral damage. Maybe with remote human intervention on the kill switch, one person per bank of 50 drones. Nathan Myhrvold supposedly displayed a mosquito-killing la
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by nwatson 8y ago
Dealing with these crows seems like it would be a good computer-vision/ML/AI/data/drone/"weapons" problem. Killing baby crows in the nest in Tokyo a la [1] would necessarily remain human work, but open-ai
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Honda Aircraft Launches HondaJet Elite(flyingmag.com)
64 points by nwatson 8y ago|84 comments
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How Wired Lost $100,000 in Bitcoin(wired.com)
5 points by nwatson 8y ago|0 comments
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by nwatson 8y ago
It's probably a follow-on posted in reaction to this other recent HN story that got a lot of points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17140039 ... "Computing Partial Differential Equations with Water".
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by nwatson 8y ago
Maybe I missed it, but I don't see a comparison with PyCharm's built-in code formatter. Why would I integrate this code-formatter, "black", into PyCharm when PyCharm already does this for me and the whole team?
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by nwatson 8y ago
A recent "The Indicator from Planet Money" podcast episode "Rising Rates Vs. The Housing Market" explains how housing price declines don't necessarily follow from rising mortgage interest rates.

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