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by sgerenser 7y ago
Chrome on Google’s flagship Pixel 4 is not as fast as Safari on a 3 year old iPhone 7: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15068/the-google-pixel-4-xl-r... (See the Speedometer, Jetstream and WebXPRT benchmarks. Admitt
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by sgerenser 7y ago
Maybe he was thinking of Halo? Originally shown at a MacWorld Expo as a Mac exclusive then very shortly thereafter Bungie was bought out by Microsoft (obviously turning it into an XBox exclusive), leading to much outcry among the Mac faithf
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by sgerenser 7y ago
Yup. NC recently got rid of the automatic pay bump for having a masters degree while simultaneously increasing base teacher pay and there was a huge uproar over it. Nobody wants to lose their boondoggle.
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by sgerenser 7y ago
If the grid connection fee is only €10/mo, then that doesn’t sound like it is really covering the full cost. Most US utilities have a monthly fixed fee around that amount. Just checked and mine is $15.05/mo. That fee is basically
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by sgerenser 7y ago
Wow, hope the Powerwall was worth it. Recently got a quote for $16.5K for a 6KW grid-tie system installed (North Carolina, US). No batteries, but I’m pretty sure I’d come out way ahead just over sizing the array by 30-40% vs installing any
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by sgerenser 7y ago
I already had a $5 DigitalOcean droplet running for experimentation and stuff but really wasn't doing much with. When my wife wanted a e-commerce store for her craft/jewelry business, I figured why pay $20+ per month for Shopify o
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by sgerenser 7y ago
$700K+ is not a "discount option" in Apex. It's at the high end of the market. Average new construction (let alone existing home sales) in the area is probably around $400K for a 2500 sf house. The house in question is probab
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by sgerenser 7y ago
I live in the same neighborhood as the individuals profiled in the article and my house (new construction, 2500 sf) cost less than half of that price, purchased around the same time. Even though Apex is growing quickly $782K is still very h
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by sgerenser 7y ago
Very unusual in the United States outside of Director/Executive level roles. While there’s a “tradition” of giving two weeks notice before leaving it is almost never required. Leaving without notice might get you placed on a no-rehire
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by sgerenser 8y ago
Probably thinking about the Melissa Virus: http://archive.arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/2q99/melissa-1.htm...
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by sgerenser 8y ago
Technically I'm not supposed to reveal the exact questions they ask because they have candidates sign an NDA that covers the questions they ask during an interview. But it really shouldn't be too surprising the type of questions t
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by sgerenser 8y ago
In my experience with technical interviews, the majority of time is spent on algorithm questions. This was especially bad at a recent interview I had at Google... all 5 interview rounds were almost entirely focused on one or two algorithm q
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by sgerenser 8y ago
In very cold climates, you're better off with just burning fuel (natural gas is available in most of the U.S. very cheaply, although this is probably not the case outside the U.S.). But it turns out that GSHPs have a lot of losses rela
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by sgerenser 8y ago
Actually, it turns out modern inverter-driven air-source heat pumps (either mini-splits or the highest-end ducted systems) are almost as efficient as ground-source heat pumps, at a much lower installed cost. Basically, GSHPs are now sort of
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by sgerenser 8y ago
Tesla has lost several billion dollars since its IPO in 2010, and that hasn't seemed to have slowed the stock down at all.
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by sgerenser 8y ago
Can't imagine there are still many mostly empty office parks left in RTP. I'm not a commercial real estate expert, but I'd expect if that were the case you wouldn't see so many brand new office-park type buildings going