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by sfeng 11y ago
There's a big advantage in the bags, in that you can grab one when you're heading out for the day or a handful when you're gonna be gone for the weekend. It's hard to do that with a giant week-sized card.
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by sfeng 12y ago
For one, developing reliable rocket engines takes a long time, you can't just whip up a new one. The current Merlin has a very large throttling range already when compared to existing engines. The size of the engines they use now is
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by sfeng 12y ago
The RCS thrusters are powered by compressed nitrogen, not the rocket fuel that powers the main engines.
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by sfeng 12y ago
It burns three times after the second stage detaches. The first is to get the landing zone closer to the takeoff, the second slows it down from 1300 m/s to about 250 m/s, the third slows it to (hopefully) 0 m/s on the landin
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by sfeng 12y ago
They could also have used a real encryption method like AES.
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by sfeng 12y ago
Take a look at Magic of CSS: http://adamschwartz.co/magic-of-css/
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by sfeng 12y ago
I'm neither an immigrant nor an employer, but I care. In the comments I learned a fair bit about issues with my countries immigration policies which I did not already know.
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by sfeng 12y ago
Just out of curiosity, how did you end up with options (not straight equity) if you founded the company?
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by sfeng 12y ago
You can detect lightening using ground based detectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective_storm_detection#Ligh... This specific delay though was caused by convective clouds being too close to the launch. This wa
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by sfeng 12y ago
The limitation is effective communication to/from the organic parts of your brain.
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You Can Now Buy (and Sell) Apps on Eager(eager.io)
3 points by sfeng 12y ago|0 comments
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by sfeng 12y ago
Take a look at the code if you haven't: https://github.com/fogleman/nes/tree/master/nes I don't know if it's a statement about fogleman or Go, but it seems so much more clean than other em
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by sfeng 12y ago
I built a JavaScript library which automatically applies this optimization to all the images on any site it's placed on (using a MutationObserver): https://github.com/EagerApps/FireSize
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by sfeng 12y ago
This is actually also an OS project it appears: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize
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by sfeng 12y ago
Not enough people hang out in /newest for the cream to always rise to the frontpage. Sometimes things have to be posted a few times to get attention.
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by sfeng 12y ago
That would cost money.
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by sfeng 12y ago
The economics change when the water runs out. California almonds might get a whole lot more expensive in a year.
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by sfeng 12y ago
80% of the water use in California is agricultural.
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by sfeng 12y ago
Why do you interpret this as spam?
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by sfeng 12y ago
The post ends with: "It actually was a once-in-a-century winter, which is good news for Boston, because it means we probably won't see another winter like this in our lifetime." This may or may not be true, depending on how m
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by sfeng 12y ago
Google runs page javascript now.
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by sfeng 12y ago
The great irony is you can now go read a very similar rant about what you, in turn, did wrong: http://eager.io/blog/build-static-websites
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by sfeng 12y ago
The addition of the json type to databases like Postgres has significantly limited the usefulness of JSON-datastores like MongoDB for me. It used to be that if you had to store truly schema-less information, and wanted to be able to query
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by sfeng 12y ago
This is always so interesting to me, because as a person without dogs or children, the magsafe adapter has only ever been annoying. It seems like the world is divided into people with small creatures who love the magsafe, and people withou
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by sfeng 12y ago
If they use the current 45 watt charger power, at the maximum 20V allowed by USB-C, you're looking at about 2.6 amps.
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by sfeng 12y ago
There is a fundamental nature to aviation which I experience as a pilot, but is also very true for controllers. Planes can't just stop. If you decide you're in a bad situation, or overloaded, or just can't cope, there is no
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by sfeng 12y ago
This. The best reason to work at a startup is because for some people it's a more rewarding job than not working at a startup. If that isn't true for you, don't work at one.
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by sfeng 12y ago
But all you need to defend against bad actors is for archive.org to hang on to a SHA256 or 512 for every chunk. Much simpler than a distributed blockchain.
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by sfeng 12y ago
> you stupid :-) Obviously he was making the exact same point you are, but because he makes it with some subtlety, he's the dumb one? In any case, there's no real evidence that Americans are significantly less smart than member
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by sfeng 12y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, it's actually the higher your maximum heart rate is, when compared to your age estimate. If your percentage is over 100, it would give you a higher score, even as your number gets less 'close&#x2

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