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by paddy_m 18y ago
From what I remember, when I was 14 I also worked for a large landscaping company (35-70 employees) they would have been happy to let me run the big mowers, however they weren't legally allowed to. I spent as much time mowing lawns as most
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Look at heavy equipment LeTourneau loved electric wheel motors. He built huge scrapers, tractors, and offroad trucks with them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.G._LeTourneau One big disadvantage of wheel motors is greater unsprung weight.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I did a report on that in an economics class. I explained how there are extra legal businesses that exist in all of these countries, they are extra legal because becoming legal is impossible if not overly expensive. Then I asked the class,
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'd be really interested to see that presentation. link?
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Another problem is consumers, and investment in general has been made on frivolous things that don't increase are productivity. I guess the easiest way to explain this is by looking at how people invest their time. We would be better of if
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by paddy_m 18y ago
nope, I wasn't flagged for abuse. Search wiki just reappeared.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I was really glad this article didn't focus on how we need to allow more immigration. I think immigration is good, and helpful for our economy, but it isn't the primary driving factor for making us an innovative nation. We should look at w
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I added about 6 things to search wiki, 3 related to sites that I own, 3 that were generally helpful. Google can figure out that I own the sites because of google analytics. When searchwiki disapeared I thought it was because I was flagged f
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what about F1. F1 is the most expensive form of motorsport, yet every year, every team builds a completely new chassis, and models to compete in the next season. F1 cars have to go through destructive cra
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by paddy_m 18y ago
By radiator motor did you mean electric radiator fan. Were you the engineer who designed radiator shrouds, fans, and motors?
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Sport pilots are allowed to fly Light Sport planes. Light Sport planes can weigh up to 1320 lbs. If you are interested in flying read some of Phillip Greenspun's stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-sport_aircraft http://en.wikiped
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I would imagine that this is primarily helpful for facebook because they don't want the market to figure out what they are really worth. People still half believe the $15B figure, or even the $4B market cap that facebook has acheived. I t
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by paddy_m 18y ago
which law? the original one, or the one that facebook got an exemption from?
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Does it learn what you like as you add in more of your preferences? This seems useful to people who don't use their bookmarks (I don't) and just use google.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I remember when I was about 11 or 12 discovering Byte at my local public library. I checked out every back issue, going back to maybe 89/90. What a wonderfully exciting time in computing. At the time '93/'94 PC magazine would make vague
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Thanks
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I would probably do a Google Code/Google Group
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I have a friend who has always been a fan of SubEthaEdit, I like the idea but not the implementation. Is there a similar plugin available for emacs? Normally when I'm actively editting code that two people are sharing remotely, we just com
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'm going to copy the text that I posted to my blog here. Not sure about all the etiquette of this. http://paddymullen.com/2008/11/19/open-sourcing-chartwidget/ In 2007 I wrote a javascript charting package named <a href="http:/demo.
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I'm thinking of open sourcing an old project(demo.chartwidget.com)
15 points by paddy_m 18y ago|9 comments
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I know that Goldman Sachs was regularly on best places to work lists'. They are mentioned in the article.
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Did I find a security hole in OS X(paddymullen.com)
2 points by paddy_m 18y ago|0 comments
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Maybe I'm in a part of the lisp echo chamber, but I have to wonder why on lisp hasn't been reprinted. pg any comments?
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I think the most accurate description of Farmer Smith's intention would be to maximize the amount of productivity he received per dollar paid. production/cost = x Solve for x, maximizing x. His objective was to maximize x, not minimize
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Well if everyone followed your path, they would find themselves making minimum wage. You could chose to work at the minimum wage farm, or the productive farm where you would be making more than minimum wage. You would also find that the m
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by paddy_m 18y ago
No. There are many reasons why it isn't free to just fly the airplanes slower, all have to do with the opportunity cost of time. If an airline now flies passengers 20,000,000 miles a day (100 flights x 200 passengers a plane x 1000 miles
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'll be there, wearing an F1 hat
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Live in Brooklyn, work in Brooklyn. I'm happy to travel to Manhattan. The title of this post isn't immediately clear, I'd hate to miss out on meeting fellow NYC hackers
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Bryan Caplan was my adviser at Mason. Interesting guy. He thinks we inefficiently overeducate.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I grew up in DC, now I live in NYC. DC has a couple of messages "You should be a lawyer" is the one I felt the most, that seemed to be the thing to aspire to, most politicians and lobbyists are lawyers. As a programmer I heard "you should

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