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by pcurve 4y ago
"When you’re reading your prose right after writing it down, you’re hearing what you wanted to say, not what the text actually spells out. It helps to add a bit of time between writing, proofreading, and hitting “send”. Seems like the
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by pcurve 4y ago
"located at a depth of about 1,350 feet (411 meters) and was captured in sonar imagery...The imagery revealed the ship measured 33 feet (10 meters) long." That's a pretty deep lake..
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by pcurve 4y ago
It's one thing to paint in front of canvas into 80s and 90s, but it's truly remarkable to built large spider sculptures like Louise Bourgeois did at the same ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maman_(sculptur
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by pcurve 4y ago
Until recently, they've been able to keep expenses relatively low, but selling cars has always been low margin business. Their sales is still pretty strong, so I hope they're able to restructure their debt with creditors.
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by pcurve 4y ago
I'm guessing impact to most users will be minimal because vast majority of them don't even come close to current limit... I'm thinking he'll probably charge extra for this feature though.
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by pcurve 4y ago
The price difference between the two products is all over the place depending on the country. For example, in the U.S., ipad pro is quite a bit cheaper than MBP. However, opposite is true for Japan, even more so than UK. UK > 12.9&quot
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by pcurve 4y ago
their tagline seems to indicate so "The Elastic UI framework (EUI) is a design library in use at Elastic to build internal products that need to share our aesthetics."
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by pcurve 4y ago
This is just about the best ui library I've seen. Are there ones that are in the same league? blueprintjs is a great one too.
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by pcurve 4y ago
"The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has several investigations open, including a probe into why Teslas seem to disproportionately crash into emergency vehicles parked on the roadside. The agency has set no public timeli
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by pcurve 4y ago
"Google says that no layoffs are planned after the transition, and Waze will continue to exist as a standalone app... However, Waze CEO Neha Parikh is expected to leave the role after the transition, and the move is expected to reduce
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by pcurve 4y ago
That is shockingly good. It almost seems too good to be true.
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by pcurve 4y ago
It sounds like he is speaking on behalf of his own industry. But for almost everything else, there is still plenty of labor arbitrage opportunities for lower cost production in developing countries in Asia and Africa.
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by pcurve 4y ago
$399. 22k battery, 66w fast charging, IR, weather proof, rugged shell... I mean, looks like a perfect 2nd phone for outdoor folks
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by pcurve 4y ago
depends on the airlines too. https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-10-27/the-airlines-w...
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by pcurve 4y ago
can you believe only 1500+ units have been made?
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by pcurve 4y ago
My vote for travel as well. International if you haven’t done one. I’m always surprised to see how many of my fellow American coworkers haven’t don’t oversea trips but the ones that do do it for the first time are happy and can’t wait to d
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by pcurve 4y ago
Gotta start somewhere. No one is laughing at Chinese cars any anymore
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by pcurve 4y ago
I don't think sunk cost is the main reasons why CEOs are asking workers back. Outside the usa working at least 3 days at the office is the norm. It's yet to be seen what the long term consequences of the us swimming against the th
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by pcurve 4y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. It’s very nostalgic.
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by pcurve 4y ago
L can’t speak for others but you can’t get away with this for too long at my company which is a large healthcare entity. I’ve fired four contractors over this but that don’t keep them from keep trying.
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by pcurve 4y ago
I don’t know how common it is for entire project to be bullshit. But there are plenty of projects that have bullshit steps and processes in them. Like unnecessary user research for political reasons. Dumb unit test for code coverage. Br
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by pcurve 4y ago
It’s probably part cultural as well because We teach the opposite. We encourage students to be verbose. Longer term papers are rewarded. Your graduate thesis? How about 100 pages. We also encourage bullshitting in everyday communications.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Is it me or is it a bit embarrassing to use voice commands? Not just echo but also my phone and car.
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by pcurve 4y ago
“The CNIL recommends that institutions use collaborative suites offered by service providers exclusively subject to European law and "that host data within the European Union and do not transfer it to the United States". The centr
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by pcurve 4y ago
I agree. I’m curious for those who are still there, what percentage is looking for new job. It’s like he is deliberately sabotaging
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by pcurve 4y ago
Rip Hanjin Shipping
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Musk plans to end free lunch at Twitter HQ, claims meals cost $13M a year(nypost.com)
5 points by pcurve 4y ago|4 comments
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by pcurve 4y ago
New-ish video of actual BeBox running in HD video quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkM9WbB8cWM I didn't know it had functional LED light meter in front of the case. very cool. Obligatory demo from the 90s https
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by pcurve 4y ago
Even JIRA would be 10x better if it were faster.
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by pcurve 4y ago
Not perfect, but in addition to contact management, Google Contacts has many of the functions you are looking for, including birthday, Custom fields (so you can add likes / dislikes), freeform notes, related people, Custom events (so y

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