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by paddy_m 8y ago
There are ship shipping ships. Used to haul mega yachts from North America to Europe. https://www.yacht-transport.com/schedules.html . I would imagine with proper cribbing an airplane could be safely shipped.
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SEC Has Questions for LaCroix Parent Company National Beverage(fortune.com)
1 points by paddy_m 8y ago|0 comments
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Not always. I use them to force hash joins. This way you can filter table A on an index, and filter table B on an index, then join them with a hash join. In a straight join postgres would try to use the same index for all of the joins.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
As a service that runs on Heroku I'd pay around $25/month. that'd be $25/month * 2 (stage+prod). At the bootstrapping stage i'm at now, that's what I'd pay. If I were profitable, I'd pay up to $500
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Agree. I was just playing with distances and populations. Also I limited the max distance to 500 mi. Alaska certainly has further zipcodes. It was a fun exercise.
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by paddy_m 8y ago
Here is the full list zip | state | primary_city | substring | cls_st | cls_city | population | pop_50_m | dist_100k -------+-------+-----------------+------------+----------+-----------------+------------+-----------
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I was playing around with PostGIS recently and figured out the most remote city/zip in each state. I was looking at the distance to the nearest city with at least 100k people. For Kansas I came up with Rexford(north west KS) is close
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by paddy_m 8y ago
I would be really interested in a distributed job running system with a scheduler. I want a UI where I can set jobs via a schedule that run on one of many workers. In that same UI I want to be able to look at failed jobs and see all of th
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by paddy_m 9y ago
That stretch is I-70 between Moab, UT and I-15 about 150 miles south of Salt Lake City. It's an absolutely breathtaking segment of road. I truly recommend visiting it.
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by paddy_m 9y ago
One of my first projects at my first job out of college was working on AIMPages, AOL's myspace competitor. This was in 2006 but many many people were still on AIM. AOL never promoted the AIMPages, but I think they might have had a cha
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by paddy_m 9y ago
Could you create a solar panel that generates energy during the day and rejects heat during the night? Would it be efficient at either task?
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by paddy_m 9y ago
I ride dirtbikes and ski regularly. I wear all the protective gear and am satisfied with the risk/adrenaline profile. I am often looked at as an adventurous risk taker, but I think people often underestimate other risky activities wh
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by paddy_m 9y ago
In 97/98 McLaren added the fiddle brake which was quickly outlawed. The fiddle brake was a two brake pedal system so the left side and right side of the car could be controlled separately. This allowed for better braking entering int
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by paddy_m 9y ago
Trucks are very expensive if you buy the same silly trucks that everyone has. The four door short bed truck is a gas guzzling inadequate tool. In large trucks, 3/4 ton and up everyone wants to buy an expensive to maintain diesel engi
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by paddy_m 9y ago
I will check that out. I just ordered Kelly Starret's The Supple Leopard which comes highly recommended.
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by paddy_m 9y ago
I have a Steelcase Airtouch at home that I love, but honestly I don't stand that frequently. I find standing much better for collaboration (but I code alone at home). The Airtouch along with an adjustable monitor arm is a great combi
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by paddy_m 9y ago
I found terminal.app to be incredibly buggy on 10.12. I was experiencing more than one crash per day.
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by paddy_m 9y ago
I thought Tim Ferriss's interview of Honnold was quite an interesting exploration of his thought process. http://tim.blog/2016/05/17/alex-honnold/
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Urban Inequality Is a Crisis, but Don't Blame Techies for It(bloomberg.com)
1 points by paddy_m 10y ago|0 comments
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by paddy_m 10y ago
How many other hn readers dirt bike? I just moved to Utah, one of the big attractions is easy land access.
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I enjoy Doug Demuro on youtube. He reviews cars like the trabant, and buys weird cars like the Nissan S-Cargo.
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I found a video https://youtu.be/5_PjCwMEdSY . It looks like the crane elevates itself before a new concrete floor has forms built and is poured.
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by paddy_m 10y ago
Would you mind linking to some of those blogposts. I used to read the weekly mozilla meeting notes but they seemed to have stopped including content about 2 years ago. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates I just looked
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I have done this many times. I generally wait until after the offer has been made. At that point the company is convinced in my work output. They should want to maximize their investment. My hope is that asking for specific work accommo
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by paddy_m 10y ago
Spring of 2012
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I guess I should actually review the chair. I think the Aeron is ok, but I haven't sat in another chair that I think is notably better. I also haven't ever sat in an office chair that felt 100% right. I have short legs and a lon
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I bought two Aeron chairs, $10 each at separate times. The first chair was being pushed down the street by a guy who looked borderline homeless. He was about to go into the Bowling Green subway station. I said "Are you selling that c
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by paddy_m 10y ago
Perl and python, and c++. Perl especially was influenced by newsgroups, so maybe that doesn't count.
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I hired Sahat as an intern three years ago while he was an undergrad. It was one of the best hiring decisions I have ever made. He was productive immediately and our (small) team felt the loss when he went back to school. This guy is good a
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by paddy_m 10y ago
I hired Sahat as an intern three years ago while he was an undergrad. It was one of the best hiring decisions I have ever made. He was productive immediately and our (small) team felt the loss when he went back to school. This guy is goo

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