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by rdoherty 7y ago
I agree that electric trucks are important to combat climate change, but wow. If their goal is to sell to the market that buys pickup trucks, I think the styling is way off the mark. Huge, beastly trucks are a status symbol and signalling t
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Tesla Disrupts – BMW Boss Throws in the Towel(cleantechnica.com)
13 points by rdoherty 7y ago|3 comments
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by rdoherty 7y ago
This is a great overview. I would also recommend Dekker's book The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error [1]. It's a bit easier to read than Drift Into Failure, which I found to be very dense. 1: https://www.amazon
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by rdoherty 8y ago
I've had an X1 Carbon for a few months, coming from a 2015 MBP. Track pad is pretty bad compared to a MacBook. Everything else is very good. I got the high res screen too and it is comparable to a retina display IMHO. I've install
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by rdoherty 8y ago
>I closely watched the financial news during the last two economic expansions and contractions, and for the last 3 months I’ve seen the same indicators I saw at the top of those two expansions. Anyone know what those signals are? A lot o
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by rdoherty 8y ago
The Birth & Death of JavaScript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... A talk from the 'future' about how everything became 'YavaScript'.
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Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch(petapixel.com)
218 points by rdoherty 9y ago|60 comments
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by rdoherty 9y ago
This is extremely common, check out the book "How Buildings Learn", which has a few chapters on this phenomenon. The type of buildings you are describing are "Magazine" (buildings that get on the cover of architecture ma
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by rdoherty 9y ago
I agree, this type of solution is 'trendy' and 'innovative', but is not a real solution to the Bay Area's housing problem. We do not have a space or money problem, we have a legislative one. Building height limits,
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by rdoherty 9y ago
IIRC the Miata/MX-5 was based upon the idea of the classic British sports car :)
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by rdoherty 9y ago
I agree, they never are the fastest, but they know how to make a perfectly balanced in all factors, enjoyable driver's car. Source: I race cars and have driven a Miata on the track.
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by rdoherty 9y ago
Not only is he the father of Mazda's rotary engine, he also recommended as president that Mazda build the Miata, arguably the best two seater sports car ever made. The Miata probably also kept Mazda in the spotlight and alive through t
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by rdoherty 9y ago
My last job we were 100% hosted on Heroku and coming from managing hundreds of EC2 instances and databases via autoscaling, CF, Puppet and home-grown scripts, it was a dream to use Heroku. We simply didn't need any operations staff t
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by rdoherty 9y ago
Been using this for a few weeks to practice for interviews, it's a slick setup. Unit tests setup to test all input and output, plus since you download the exercises you can use your editor of choice. While there isn't much reviewi
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Why do people keep giving Magic Leap money?(theverge.com)
62 points by rdoherty 9y ago|59 comments
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by rdoherty 9y ago
Related video about why people think CGI sucks or is still in the uncanny valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6hp8BKB24 Basically we consider CGI bad because we only see bad CGI. If it's used properly and the dir
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by rdoherty 9y ago
Reminds me of a 'future' talk about how JavaScript took over the world as a language even though no one actually programmed in. This was because as long as you could transpile to ASM, you could get native performance via JS. http
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Facebook village? Social media giant to build 'social housing'(theguardian.com)
2 points by rdoherty 9y ago|0 comments
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by rdoherty 9y ago
Good point! That's why posting on HN is so great, even if you're 99.9% correct, someone will always reply to tell you precisely how you are 0.1% wrong . Thanks for the link, I tried to find official sources online and had trouble.
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by rdoherty 9y ago
I'm 99% sure that any boiling will kill nearly all germs in water. I don't have facts on hand, but I do remember that once you get above ~160F, nearly all germs are dead. So boiling water will definitely kill everything.
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by rdoherty 10y ago
Sounds like you have some good tips for using Lambda, got any links or posts on them?
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by rdoherty 10y ago
Interesting! This type of infrastructure and coding fascinates me, thanks for sharing!
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by rdoherty 10y ago
I'm curious, how does Cronitor actually monitor that the URLs were pinged at the correct times or at all? Part of me thinks they are using cron to check statuses?
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by rdoherty 10y ago
Data Engineers/Data Scientists/Engineers | Mountain View, San Francisco, and Philadelphia | Full-time | Onsite | RealScout, Inc. * REALSCOUT * RealScout’s goal is to provide better transparency between real estate agents, home sel
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by rdoherty 10y ago
I believe sugar is a preservative because it's hygroscopic. http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/how-does-sugar-act-preservati...
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by rdoherty 10y ago
Mythical Man-Month is widely considered the #1 software engineering management book out there. I'd buy that one before anything else.
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by rdoherty 10y ago
I would love to read those questions, any chance you could publish them somewhere?
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by rdoherty 10y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while. I think it would involve asking a highly focused set of questions to at least 3 different employees and see how much they correlate. I don't know what those questions are though :) One qu
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by rdoherty 10y ago
Here's what I would ask (in addition to the ones already listed) - What is your current runway and burn rate? - How much funding has been raised at what evaluation and type(s) of equity? - What % of the company are my shares? - What is
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The 10 most ridiculous startups at TechCrunch’s Disrupt technology conference(geekwire.com)
1 points by rdoherty 10y ago|1 comments

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