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by rplst8 10y ago
Same reason I went with the Droid Turbo over other choices.
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by rplst8 10y ago
I'm not a parent, but for me the scary thing is not how important is it to be your very best. Rather, it is the question - can any (otherwise healthy) child really become an olympian, nobel prize winning scientist, grammy winning musi
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by rplst8 10y ago
I wonder if that's a per capita statistic or population average. None-the-less, there is an upper bound of how far one can drive in a day. Somewhere an equilibrium would be met.
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by rplst8 10y ago
The same is true of the Washington DC metro area... However, in both cases, I would bet that the distance involved is about 50-60 miles. If that traffic were moving at speed, it would be an hour commute - and I would submit very few peopl
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by rplst8 10y ago
While it's true that distributing the load over more hours will improve things in the short term, the fact is, with continuous growth, eventually the roads/routes need some improving. The simple fact is that in most cities, the ro
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by rplst8 10y ago
Yes, but eventually, if the roads are big enough, time itself is the deterrent to commuting a long distance. We've never gotten to that point since highway traffic never moves at speed during rush hour. The other driving factor would
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by rplst8 10y ago
It was actually earlier than that. Regular Athlon vs. Pentium III. The K7 architecture is where they finally came out on top, which was released in 1999. I'm not sure how deep into the Athlon line they kept their lead, but the Penti
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by rplst8 10y ago
My ideal would be a mix. One sprint of code. One sprint of building houses.
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by rplst8 10y ago
Generally, this is an easy stance for young, unmarried, and otherwise unattached people to approach their career. A warning to those that think this will enhance their opportunities later in life. It won't. Sure there are a few grea
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by rplst8 10y ago
The difference is, Hiking is good for you.
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by rplst8 10y ago
This - and the fact that branching out of phones/tablets/computes into cars or space exploration would be a pretty big jump industry wise. Everything they've built to-date has been an extension of either desktop and portable
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by rplst8 10y ago
It's mainly about the fact that the job market is so fluid and what will sell. Tax policy benefits those who own houses. When you invest in a house and you don't know where (geographically) your career will take you, the ability
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by rplst8 10y ago
Wouldn't the technical term for this be "End-to-end congestion control" and transmit window adjustment, instead of "TCP/IP"?
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by rplst8 10y ago
In many cases if it weren't for the medical sciences, we'd already be dead or die from the ailment a physician or surgeon were trying to fix. I think people lose sight of that. If you have any doubt about making it through some
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by rplst8 10y ago
I disagree entirely. People are known to be fallible. Processes prevent things from accidentally happening. In areas where the life of someone or a large organizational failure hangs in the balance of an action, that action should be wra
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by rplst8 11y ago
For 99% of the coding I do, I use an IDE which is usually Eclipse. Though I like IntelliJ more, I just don't have the resources to pay for it where I work. That said, I do drop to vim for many things, mostly editing conf and propertie
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by rplst8 11y ago
Unless they plan to line the streets with electrical outlets that are either free or have some way to associate payment for services, this seems like quite a stretch for a nine year span. Millions of people don't have a garage they pa
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by rplst8 11y ago
> The comparison about the energy transfer speed between gasoline and electricity is misleading. First of all, an electric vehicle is about 3x as effective, so you would need only a third of the energy transfer speed. I stated that in m
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by rplst8 11y ago
> Refueling with an ICE takes no time at all and can be done anywhere. So right. It is truly amazing that more people don't realize the disconnect here between current motor fuels and electricity. The average gallon of gasoline con
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by rplst8 11y ago
I've actually gotten to the point that I think the speed at which software tech moves (and we're all expected to move with it) has become a negative on the industry. No one has time to hone their craft when everyone making the ar
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by rplst8 11y ago
In the aerospace industry (commercial and defense are similar here because the software for commercial has to be written according to government rules, see FAA DO-178B) it's actually verboten. Testing independence is part of the fligh
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We haven't forgotten how to code – JS just needs to become a better language(blog.christoffer.me)
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by rplst8 11y ago
Git is awful?
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by rplst8 11y ago
This is an excellent question. Congressman Darrel Issa had some great questions about this during today's hearing. Basically he hinted at the fact that how far can the government go to ensure they did their job correctly.
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by rplst8 11y ago
In support of this, someone forwarded me a very interesting article written by someone who creates forensic software for a living. The legal requirements surrounding the creation of a software tool for forensic purposes, which this propose
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by rplst8 11y ago
Do you really want that to be the model for American justice? Law enforcement hands your digital electronic records over to a private company who has the power to put anything on that phone? Do you want to entrust your personal legal future
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by rplst8 11y ago
Not everyone feels this way though. I had a fairly rural upbringing in the northeast and I long for a less dense, no traffic, laid back way of life. Unfortunately, our culture has chosen to forget that way of life. However, one aspect of
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by rplst8 11y ago
The "70" in Ultra Panavision 70 mostly refers to the projection system. As projected in the the theater, it uses 70mm film. During the filming process a 65mm stock is used. The extra 5mm was for the optical soundtrack.
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by rplst8 11y ago
Another example of this might be some unreliability in a part once it goes out of warranty.
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by rplst8 11y ago
Car salesmen don't make great livings, and their income is very volatile. However, dealership owners always have the largest house in town. They also like to take advantage of unsuspecting customers. I have no sympathy for car deale

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