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by owyn 11y ago
The liquid oxygen is mixed with liquid hydrogen and burned directly by the rocket as fuel. It's highly reactive and combustible so it makes a pretty good one.
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by owyn 12y ago
If you're actually missing RSS try "the old reader", it's pretty much what Reader was. http://theoldreader.com Although avoiding RSS is probably a good thing for productivity in general. :)
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by owyn 12y ago
Wow, I played 3056 too (and a few of the other servers that were running at the time). I was briefly head of Kurita, but that happened just as I was transitioning out of college and into working so I had to hand it off pretty quickly. Most
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by owyn 12y ago
Interesting question: what is the lifetime value of a person who uses a search engine to a company like Google? Looks like about $180 per year at the moment: http://www.digitalstrategyconsulting.com/intelligence/2014&#x
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by owyn 12y ago
They apparently have a pretty cool garbage collector for the JDK, but it's not part of Zulu, it's part of Zing (their commercial JVM). Also, this has been around for like a year, so it's not even really that new...
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by owyn 12y ago
Maybe I should make a followup question, but if you had $1M in cash right now what's the best possible low risk investment you could make, and what would be the actual rate of return? To ask in another way, is there actually a safe inv
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by owyn 12y ago
I got hired straight out of college to build a credit card processing system. I had NO idea what I was doing. I was copy/pasting code out of the Stevens Unix/Networking books and working 100 hours a week. This security flaw: http
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by owyn 12y ago
Not the original commenter, but I'd say... Imagine you've been given some VC and you are in the Bay Area and you have to compete for hiring with large established/stable companies, and you only have a year or two of runway to
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by owyn 12y ago
Renovo Motors - http://www.renovomotors.com https://twitter.com/renovomotors https://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/five-reasons-why-ren... Renovo is building extremely high performan
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by owyn 12y ago
By the way, if there are any software developers around the south bay who are interested in working on this project, get in touch with me (email in profile).
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by owyn 12y ago
I'd consider that number a vague handwavy number because they haven't had time to do thorough high speed performance testing yet. I know those guys, and they are very thorough and professional...
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by owyn 12y ago
I know a little bit about this project so I can do my best to answer. I think they prefer the Coupe style aesthetically but there's also more room to stash batteries. It is actually a chassis custom built to their specs by Superforman
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by owyn 12y ago
It may be terrible in a lot of other ways, but the mediawiki API does chaining of one api function into another. It's one of the features that I noticed that really should be more prevalent in other API's. An API call should be k
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by owyn 12y ago
Local building policies are creating a huge problem here, but a big part of what's causing prices to skyrocket is not tech workers, it's foreign investment... for the period April 2013 through March 2014, total international sale
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by owyn 12y ago
That sounds amazing. I was just in Edinburgh and the build quality of all the stuff downtown seemed extremely high. "Not really old" is different here in SF, and the quality is terrible. Half the town was built as cheap housing
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by owyn 12y ago
I would LOVE to see that lecture...
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by owyn 12y ago
This kind of metaphor is why object systems go so epically wrong. You just want the minimum set of objects that you need to express the problem. In my experience, any attempt to map that to natural language taxonomies leads to a large nu
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by owyn 12y ago
Dwarf fortress is one of many games that I enjoy following but can't really play... I just like that OTHER people play it. I've grown up on games just like any other form of entertainment (movies, tv etc) and it's great that
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by owyn 12y ago
All of his posts about Jepsen related stuff are prefixed with that phrase. It's a reference to the song "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen... because his testing tool is CALLED Jepson. Some of his other posts also have pr
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by owyn 12y ago
I think that actually refers to the various "car sharing" programs, where someone else is driving your car, which makes sense. The person driving would be covered by their own insurance. Plenty of people are driving for Lyft and
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by owyn 12y ago
Source is available for all the libraries/tools mentioned in the paper: http://lpd.epfl.ch/site/ssync
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by owyn 12y ago
My favorite stories are here -> http://multicians.org/multics-stories.html I used to work with this guy -> http://www.multicians.org/thvv/ He was really fantastic to work with, a great project ma
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by owyn 13y ago
Don't know about Yammer, but Valve has a very flat structure where engineers work directly on projects that they are interested in (and presumably that they think will bring in revenue). Quote from their (definitely must-read) employe
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by owyn 13y ago
"the junk drawer for stuff that doesn't go anywhere else" I really want to know where to put that stuff. Creating an object to put the "filterBlah" function that you only use once is overkill, so it sits there as a
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by owyn 13y ago
It's gotten pretty bad now but it wasn't always that way. I think I've had an account for 10? years. It used to be the professional Facebook, so everyone joined. It wasn't as spammy as it was now and I definitely used
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by owyn 13y ago
Check out http://vexflow.com It's got a lot of interesting features and the code is really usable... it has tab support for the guitarists (like me) who can't read music, it's open source, html/svg rendering,
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by owyn 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire Was just reading about this the other night... During Britain's worst nuclear accident, reactor manager Tom Tuohy climbed on top of the burning reactor to examine it se
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by owyn 13y ago
I'm sure they have no idea how much stock he has or what the valuation is.... Like any other start up, the stock isn't convertable or worth anything except "on paper". Wales is on the board but doesn't actually wor
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by owyn 13y ago
I'm using The Old Reader. I would have recommended it to him but he wants something with iPhone/iPad support too. They aren't charging anything, maybe they should make an app...
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by owyn 13y ago
There is Yeti, an ML style language for the JVM: http://mth.github.io/yeti/ (edit to address questions/comments) I haven't actually used it so I have no idea if it's ready for "real" use (whate

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