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961.
by pcl 13y ago
OT, but note that ‰ means "per mille". So 10‰ is equivalent to 1%, not 10%.
962.
by pcl 13y ago
What are the key differences between their internal services and what they provide via AppEngine etc.?
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by pcl 13y ago
I wanted to read this article -- I bike frequently, use Strava, live in the Bay Area, and am in the tech industry. But bicycling.com kept kicking me off their site and auto-launching iOS App Store links! I've never seen that sort of ad
964.
by pcl 13y ago
The pressure at this place (and it's the same at any top-tier place) has been almost too much for me to handle sometimes, and that's without foolish words from foolish people designed to increase it. MIT alum here. I know what y
965.
by pcl 13y ago
Anecdotally, melatonin works wonders for me when traveling. I take 1mg of melatonin between 7 and 9pm in the target time zone's frame, usually starting the day I travel or sometimes the day before. This translates to taking a pill at n
966.
by pcl 13y ago
Was your conclusion that the power costs would outweigh the value of the mined bitcoins, or that the value would be marginal enough that it's not worth the bother?
967.
by pcl 13y ago
I use my thumb with my iPhone all the time. In fact, the main thing that kept me from switching to an Android phone last summer was the discomfort I experienced trying to reach the edges of the screen on the devices I tried out.
968.
by pcl 13y ago
Here's an idea that would improve security in conjunction with the new sensor: Create a random pattern of ridges and, using the technique outlined in the OP, build a latex key. Attach that to your keychain (in some sort of case to impr
969.
by pcl 13y ago
The coolest use I've seen for the iPhone's flash is the Azumio heart rate app¹. It uses the flash to illuminate your finger, which you place over the lens of the camera. And then they do some fantastic image processing (presumably
970.
by pcl 13y ago
An em space is the width of the letter m . IIRC, a normal space in most proportional fonts is closer to the letter n . It has always been my understanding that historically, typographers tended to prefer em spaces between sentences (vs. a
971.
by pcl 13y ago
I've got a few pretty reliable lucid-dream indicators too, but I'm always too afraid to actually take advantage of them, just in case I'm actually not really dreaming. I wish I could fly in my dreams; that'd be a good sa
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by pcl 13y ago
you'll be free-diving like a champion Note that this can be dangerous while free-diving. You are essentially temporarily disabling your body's CO₂ buildup alarm thresholds, which is a proxy for too little O₂. So you need to take
973.
by pcl 13y ago
My read of it was that Leonard was playing devil's advocate. Clearly, he has (or was representing) a dim view of Silicon Valley in general¹, but all the issue he brought up about Watsi are things I could imagine a skeptical reader wond
974.
by pcl 13y ago
I'm a dvorak user, and I've never had a problem with vim navigation. I just use the regular keys for it, and it seems to work out fine.
975.
by pcl 13y ago
The linked article is from May. The latest controversy is about an attack apparently by the Assad regime on the 21st of August.
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by pcl 13y ago
I have a hard time taking this article seriously. All the references to anonymous sources with important-sounding titles just smacks of an argument based on an appeal to authority.
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by pcl 13y ago
I wonder how long the handshake takes. I imagine that the scan looks something like how CRTs work. But the triangulation back to the origin and whatnot seems like it'd take a certain amount of samples, or a pair of sufficiently-displac
978.
by pcl 13y ago
Sounds a bit more like a travel agent exchange, which seems super-valuable, especially as they build enough of a data set to intelligently match the right travelers with the right agents, and to deal with agents who receive poor feedback sc
979.
by pcl 13y ago
I'm a big fan of this approach, and I've used it successfully when hiring at startups. But it hasn't seemed to fit in well with the hiring culture at large companies. We can't use someone's time for free, and initia
980.
by pcl 13y ago
I took "our top people" to mean "our best people, who understand the severity of what they're doing and try hard to keep it from leaking, so don't just save the info in a PPT". Which begs the question: what add
981.
by pcl 13y ago
Cisco's fiscal year starts towards the end of July. So we're already in FY14.
982.
by pcl 13y ago
As someone who has sold software online and seen license cracks for my product: it is hard to know the impact of cracks on your profit. Would the pirates have bought your software if the crack was not available? How many customers used a cr
983.
by pcl 13y ago
I'm looking forward to the black helicopters doing a raid on the building that contains the VPN concentrators at my company.
984.
by pcl 13y ago
Sounds like it doesn't need to be 100% reliable, though -- they have a painful backup system in place. Also, replaying traffic from the old system into the new seems like a viable way to test out this sort of system. Or, they could hav
985.
by pcl 13y ago
If you feel strongly about this, call / email / write your representative and senators. It seems obvious to say, but if you don't, they won't know your opinion. http://www.opencongress.org/people/zip
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by pcl 13y ago
Indeed. The GP's question was about "American employees", which I interpreted as "full-time employees at a company in the USA". Contractors are subject to the health care plans of the company they work for (or whate
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by pcl 13y ago
Long-term disability coverage has been part of all the insurance plans I've had over the years in the US. I assume that it's pretty common across US insurance plans, at least for full-time employees. Such coverage pays some percen
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by pcl 13y ago
7000 miles in 18 days is 16 miles per hour on average. The article mentions that the trains move at 50mph, but doesn't say if that's the max speed. But regardless, even if we assume 40mph average, that's a lot of time sitti
989.
by pcl 13y ago
For full-file queries, sure. But I could imagine asking temporal questions like "show me changes made in the last month that introduces API x ", for example.
990.
by pcl 13y ago
On the other hand, I didn't know anything about forensic linguistics until reading the article. This is exactly the sort of curiosity and follow-through that I want to see in a journalist.

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