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by rhplus 8y ago
I'll also say that among people I know I've never run across so many who have left, are leaving, or are thinking of leaving the Bay area as I have over the past year or so. You’ve also never before been the age you are now. Your
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by rhplus 8y ago
On a similar theme, there's a couple of companies that produce cookie-cutter Irish pubs for global markets: https://www.eater.com/2017/3/7/14839472/irish-pub-design
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by rhplus 8y ago
It's real, but if you'd like to emulate it, there's a TTF font floating around out there: http://lucacardelli.name/indexartifacts.html (go to Artifacts > Fonts tab). Or, https://www.google.com&#
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by rhplus 8y ago
AD/BC has a fundamental counting flaw [1] which is accounted for by ISO 8601 [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Years
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by rhplus 8y ago
You start with 12: you can infer that the most your friend can see is 8. Your friend starts with 8: they can infer that the least you can see is 10.
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by rhplus 8y ago
Yes, mountain lakes as batteries was covered in a recent episode of Planet Money. US and China both have dam systems online that can act as giant batteries: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?s
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by rhplus 8y ago
A Bluetooth LE device similar to Tile[1] might be a cheap and reliable signal source in a package small enough to attach to a collar. If you had two Bluetooth receivers on either side of your camera's visual field, you could compare si
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by rhplus 8y ago
You could build a megalithic concrete structure like the Hoover Dam. https://www.quora.com/If-humans-vanished-from-the-earth-how-...
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by rhplus 8y ago
Would more GPS receivers help to build a better consensus? If you’re in an Uber, there are at least two smartphones, often more. The devices could collaborate over a local ad-hoc network, or via the Uber backend, to build a better estimate.
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by rhplus 9y ago
This seems like a tangible way to introduce a young child to programming. It immediately brought back memories of drawing shapes on a grayscale display with Logo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
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by rhplus 9y ago
Many US supermarkets use very thin plastic bags. I'm guessing 0.5 mil [ ]. They're noticeably thinner than the type you (used) to get from UK supermarkets. This site suggests that "reusable" type would be > 2.25 mil
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by rhplus 9y ago
I've been on both sides of a web-based editor[1] for "phone screen" interviews [1] e.g. http://collabedit.com/
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by rhplus 9y ago
...during development of the app to test it Money may not have changed hands, but that sounds a lot like a business related activity.
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by rhplus 9y ago
I was expecting the “banana trick” to be the case where dropping the leading 9 from the item code will ring up organic produce as the cheaper regular version (9nnnn vs nnnn).
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by rhplus 9y ago
Do they actually expect governments and companies to buy a new Office license every 5 years? Nope. They expect them to pay monthly per user with an annual commitment. https://products.office.com/en-US/compare-all-micr
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by rhplus 9y ago
The internal HR tools at some BigCo's may convert your PDF to plain text, so it's possible that a hiring manager will never even see your superior formatting. The interview tracking system at Amazon was doing this at couple of yea
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by rhplus 10y ago
State of the art for dictation was probably Dragon Dictate / Naturally Speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_NaturallySpeaking Windows had an API for basic command recognition, in late 90's giving th
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by rhplus 10y ago
"Including one special case of scareware on Apple devices mistakenly displaying Google Play information on iPhone device :)" This seems to be the same mode of operation as 419 scams. Bad grammar and implausible fake UI do a good
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by rhplus 10y ago
Is it definitely the original? I've heard there are a lot of copies on the market.
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by rhplus 10y ago
There are only II hard problems in royal succession: naming and off-by-I errors
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by rhplus 10y ago
Just one codepoint would do! Basic weather symbols like SUN (U+2600) and RAIN (U+2614) have been in Unicode since 1993. More detailed 'emoji' have been added in recent years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by rhplus 11y ago
I think they're taking a cue from the way car trim levels are marketed. Consumers have learned to associate meaning with concise trim names, e.g. SE (standard, small, sporty), LE/LX/LS (luxury), etc. Names are concise and glo
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by rhplus 11y ago
State + zip? Example: CT06101
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by rhplus 11y ago
I've worked with many systems like this and know that notifications are too easy for individuals to ignore. Your primary action should be to open an issue in a bug tracking system, and let that system trigger the email/instant not
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by rhplus 11y ago
It's not the civil rights act, but the immigration reform act that would be relevant here: "Employers should not ask whether or not a job applicant is a United States citizen before making an offer of employment... the law prohibi
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by rhplus 11y ago
Microsoft spun its wheels a lot with file-syncing in the mid-2000s. Aside from the stuff coming from Office (Groove, etc) and Windows (folder-shadowing, BITS, etc), there was a slew of inter-related products in the consumer space starting w
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by rhplus 12y ago
https://www.office.com gets you to the main landing page.
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by rhplus 12y ago
The linked page appears to be a spammy copy of the original here: http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html It doesn't correctly credit the real author of ping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike
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by rhplus 12y ago
Some other apps that do this: Office Lens: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/officelens... - imports to OneNote and does OCR Post-it: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/
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by rhplus 13y ago
Perhaps, also, Chinese users within China are using VPNs or proxies that surface in South Korea?

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