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by ruddct 8y ago
The great thing about NYC (and a thing that is lost on most people visiting the city, including myself before I moved here), is how many options you have for your living situation. Want the crowds, the city life and the noise? Live downtown
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by ruddct 8y ago
Interesting read, up until this point. “[As a cyclist], look at the head of the driver that is approaching or has stopped. The head of the driver will naturally stop and centre upon you if you have been seen.“ Please, please do not rely on
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by ruddct 8y ago
> You could distill my whole piece to: This is a single purpose device that's been designed like a multi-purpose device. That just feels a little sideways. Then we're in agreement! There are a TON of features/complexity in
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by ruddct 8y ago
Totally understand where the author is coming from, but the notion that text should be a 'first class' object to interact with does not match the reality of how people interact with long form text. Very few people interact with
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by ruddct 9y ago
And the captain "did not recall how they managed to land or taxi the aircraft" after being incapacitated.
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by ruddct 9y ago
I suspect it's more of a cultural/political problem than a density problem. NYC has a considerably higher population density than Tokyo and has an abysmally expensive/inefficient rail system. American public transportation sy
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by ruddct 9y ago
One theory: Instagram and Facebook have hacked iOS to bypass the built-in bright red flashing 'recording' status bar and are recording your conversations constantly for their own benefit. Another theory: At some point you looked a
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by ruddct 9y ago
I've been reading the Economist since I was a kid cutting charts out of it for school projects. I pay for their product happily, and they're a shining example of what I'd love to see more newspapers and magazines become. They
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by ruddct 9y ago
An advertising company wants mainline access to my brain and vital signs. What could go wrong? (Note: You know you're getting old when you start to get concerned about the privacy of these things. If you'd told me when I started i
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by ruddct 10y ago
We are agreed that the government's response to opioids has been both awful, from a humanitarian perspective, and ineffective, from an engineering perspective. But regulation must not be viewed as a monolith. Especially in the realm of
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by ruddct 10y ago
That's fair criticism. My intent was to give an example of a hugely addictive product that shaped the course of history. Facebook is, obviously, not physically addictive like an opioid. But it is addictive. Dopamine-hit addictive (than
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by ruddct 10y ago
Great question. Stratechery, as always, has an interesting read with some possibilities https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/
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by ruddct 10y ago
Facebook is: * One of the most addictive products the world has ever seen (Opioids, another such product, were used to overthrow countries) * The single most important media company in the world * Controlled by one person Threat to free soc
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by ruddct 10y ago
Refugees come here legally. The travel ban explicitly tries to stop them from doing so.
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by ruddct 10y ago
Fun, old school massive data transfer as a service. For those of you too lazy to do the math, filling up one of these trucks to capacity (100PB) would run your 500,000 USD per month, ~17k per day (purely for transit). Edit: I assume that yo
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by ruddct 10y ago
Huh, interesting. I (and my wife) have contacted Amazon a number of times about shipping estimates being off/wrong and have only ever received the same form response (even when we respond to the form response, CS reps just mail back th
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by ruddct 10y ago
Great, but doesn't come close to solving the actual problem: Amazon's retail catalog is flooded with fakes, drop shippers, bots and low quality products with fake reviews. I almost entirely avoid using them for purchasing home goo
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by ruddct 10y ago
Having flashbacks to the 'bad old days' of similar things happening to Windows machines (PCs, ATMs, etc). Microsoft, the gigantic, near-monopoly company in the space with a jillion very smart people working for it, struggled with
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by ruddct 10y ago
IS is already using commercially available drones as weapons http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/12/world/middleeast/iraq-dron...
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by ruddct 10y ago
Great. Great great great. A thousand times great. We've been slowly converting our iOS projects over to Swift over the past year and the results have been tremendous (a ~40% drop in LOC from ObjC, among many other benefits). Really the
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by ruddct 10y ago
Yes, it is worse. It's far worse. Clinton has been in politics for almost her entire career as a prominent, high profile figure. She also has an affiliated, massively successful charity organization. If you imagine peoples' social
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by ruddct 10y ago
Ah, Soundcloud. One of the companies I should love the most given my usage of it, but hate with a strong passion due to their product and technical bungles. Let's take it from the top: Product (applicable to iOS and web): * Their mobil
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by ruddct 10y ago
Food waste = Energy. Someone is going to make a nice chunk of change on this if they can solve the logistics problems associated with waste food. WISErg ( https://wiserg.com ) is a promising candidate.
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by ruddct 10y ago
A fun read, but to me it ultimately speaks to why blockchains are best suited to internal use by large enterprises (not consumer, small businesses, etc). The web flourished due to its lightweight, comparatively easy-to-implement protocols.
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by ruddct 10y ago
Ex-Amazonian here, this is indeed the answer to this question.
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by ruddct 10y ago
"Web". It's literally right next to the article link. Don't think biz-dev is needed here.
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by ruddct 10y ago
1) NYC is the biggest metro system in the world (in terms of number of stations) by a fairly large margin. 2) The MTA is a perpetually underfunded, poorly governed monstrosity whose construction projects cost many times more than any other
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by ruddct 10y ago
Not to go too off-topic, but Sequelize is worth a look if you haven't played with it already.
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by ruddct 10y ago
Been a WW member for a while, through their recent growth period. From what I can tell this is part of 'the strategy'. Start a new office, make it incredibly shiny/nice/very fully staffed, fill it up, then start cutting
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by ruddct 10y ago
This jumped out at me too, very clever. I imagine that localhost isn't treated any differently to any other domain which might have CORS enabled. Unclear what the correct solution is, though. EDIT: Gaming this out a little bit, another

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