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by portman 12y ago
The most under-reported aspect of driving a Tesla is how severely topography impacts range. Under normal conditions, I use 350 Wh/mi (watt-hours per mile). This is 17% more than "rated range" because -- and this is a technica
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by portman 12y ago
Reminds me of Steven Pinker's recently-published book on how to write well, "The Sense of Style" [1] Pinker uses software terms to describe good writing: convert a _web_ of ideas into a _tree_ of syntax into a _string_ of wor
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by portman 12y ago
The quote is actually Terry Pratchet, not Douglas Adams. “Million-to-one chances,” she said, “crop up nine times out of ten.” http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld
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by portman 12y ago
+1 I would contribute. Seriously you should think of how much money you would need to incentive you to really focus, then quintuple it, then post a kickstarter.
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by portman 14y ago
Source? I thought MP3 surpassed CD over a year ago... http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/01/digital-music-...
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by portman 14y ago
I currently buy two copies of books that I really really like -- both the Kindle and the hardback, both from Amazon. Maybe there are enough crazy people like me that the publishers shouldn't offer this 2:1 deal?
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by portman 14y ago
Small nit: auto-discovery doesn't ask for your full name, so outbound emails headers will not include your name, which (in addition to looking woefully unprofessional) also is a spam trigger. Fancy suggestion, related: since firstname.lastn
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by portman 14y ago
Funny, I just posted this: http://willsllc.github.com/blog/books-2012/ Most Thought-Provoking Books of 2012 The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner published March 15, 2012 Over the span of a
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by portman 14y ago
I got my wife to use it for home projects and it actually works really well.
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by portman 14y ago
To all those asking what they are spending the money on: secondary financing means that the money is not going to Evernote. Instead, the new investors are purchasing $85M of shares from existing investors. Evernote's bank account does not
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by portman 14y ago
GetAround
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by portman 14y ago
Anyone know if the PostgreSQL data connection will work for Vertica?
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by portman 14y ago
I don't speak or read Chinese, but my guess is that not all of these sales were online, that for many (most?) the payment occurred in retail stores.
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by portman 14y ago
What always worked for me was inserting a 3x2 Lego piece, oriented vertically, between the cartridge and the top of the NES container. This pushed down the game by about 3-4mm. This trick was common knowledge in the neighborhood where I liv
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by portman 14y ago
Josh's original blog post announcing the fund: http://redeye.firstround.com/2012/09/the-dorm-room-fund.html
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by portman 14y ago
Public Service Announcement: the poster you are replying to has decorated their personal homepage with swastikas. I wouldn't waste your time.
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by portman 14y ago
>> It uses OpenTalk to essentially let you video chat with those people. What is "OpenTalk"? I've never heard of that protocol/API/software before. And Googling turns up nothing except some abandonware from 2009. http://downloa
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by portman 14y ago
I remember this story flooding the Internet in 1995. I'm confused why the author is doing a "one-man comedic show" 17 years later.
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by portman 14y ago
I currently use a NetGear FVS336G for load-balance and fail-over of two broadband connections (cable modem and FiOS). http://www.netgear.com/business/products/security/wired-VPN-... It's not as sexy as the FOSS solutions on this thread, b
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by portman 14y ago
I would like Paul Graham, Richard Posner, and perhaps Mike Bloomberg to have a long, meandering dinner party wherein they discuss and solve America's most important problems. It worked for Jefferson/Madison/Hamilton 222 years ago. This coul
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by portman 15y ago
Companies must be having success targeting ads to programmers and mathematicians on Facebook, because for the last several years, all 4 of my Facebook ads have always been filled with IT, programming, and math. Here's a screenshot of my
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by portman 15y ago
Clickable link: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/17035/software-enginee...
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by portman 15y ago
I was surprised at a family gathering recently how many of my in-laws reach the paywall and then clear their cookies. Even non-techies can work around the paywall.
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by portman 15y ago
Bain Capital Ventures . Venture Capital, not Private Equity.
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by portman 15y ago
Agreed. And Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" conference is $1600 for two days, and Microsoft's PDCs were $2200 for 3 days. This is about 1/2 of the market rate for major multi-day tech conferences.
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by portman 15y ago
Paul, Now that you're a parent, I'm curious if your opinion has changed (or will change in the coming years). For example, do you think you could have built ViaWeb if you had had children at that time? Is it possible to "neglect everything
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by portman 15y ago
Thank you for sharing your story. I tend to do this (attempt to transfer my failed dreams onto my kids), and it's helpful to have such a powerful reminder of how selfish and unfair that is. Thank you.
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by portman 15y ago
EDGAR keeps timing out for me, anyone know of a mirror?
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by portman 15y ago
Larry Lessig (the same guy who single-handedly designed Creative Commons) has spent the last 4 years investigating how to "stop this racket", and summarizes his thoughts in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Cong
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by portman 15y ago
>> doing statistical analysis of YC applications What an awesome idea. You must have over 25,000 applications to-date, correct? That's enough to tease out some interesting, statistically significant correlations. Looking forward to

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