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by showerst 14y ago
Hopefully they bring back the name for the 3rd Gerald Ford class carrier (CVN-80). It's scheduled for service in 2025 so presumably they'll name it in the next 5-7 years.
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by showerst 14y ago
That depends on your user base. If it's just the wider internet that's accurate, but if you're aiming at government or big corporate clients, you'd better check your analytics first.
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by showerst 14y ago
Your point stands but it's a little higher than that in recent elections; low 50s to low 60s depending on the election. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php (historical figures) http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2012/1
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by showerst 14y ago
It's worth adding that Nate is on the record as saying he'd have voted for either Romney or Gary Johnson, if he would have voted. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/150042
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by showerst 14y ago
It's worth noting that the current crop of NoSQL databases isn't _that_ old, and many of these sites were designed and built years before mongo or riak were really production ready. I'd bet that in 3-5 years this list will have more nontrad
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by showerst 14y ago
I've seen this map on the web a number of times, so the designer may have found it there instead of the from the print magazine. Cool touch though!
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by showerst 14y ago
That depends on how much you play them =). I own about 100 bucks in Ticket to Ride Europe + 2 map packs, but we've probably played it for 100+ hours now... On the other hand Battlelore sits unused because my friends don't dig it, so I'm at
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by showerst 14y ago
Senior Developers: "Most use backbone.js" Junior Developers: "Learning their way around Javascript and Rails of Python" ... is this a joke? edit - Written before superKinz explanation below. It makes sense when placed in the proper contex
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by showerst 14y ago
Two obvious reasons come to mind (unsure if these guys solve either) - 1 - Scalability. It's nice to have instant scale up/down 2 - Complex deployment - Heroku has proven that if you can make it dead simple to use git and spin up tons of da
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by showerst 14y ago
I think he was using 'expert' in the sense of 'go-to guy', and maybe a bit ironically.
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by showerst 14y ago
"Every year, one in every five children and one in every four adults has a diagnosable mental illness. A quarter of all mental illnesses are considered serious." 1/16 adults having a serious mental illness seemed awfully high to me, but I w
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by showerst 14y ago
Can someone who knows a bit more about this idea chime in on if it's really plausible? A multi-story building in NYC with an elevator for 1.5MM? Do they already own the land or something? It sounds like at least one of the partners already
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by showerst 14y ago
Ah, that makes sense to me. I hadn't thought about the multiple people access problem since I've never needed more than one set of guest keys at a time, and the offices I've worked in were all big enough to use keycards. Come to think of it
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by showerst 14y ago
Neat idea, but what makes this worth 150 bucks?
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by showerst 14y ago
The 'allow getusermedia' policy is handled by the browser, not javascript. It's possible that some day there will be a browser bug for bypassing it, but you can't just write javascript code that says "don't ask for permission". Nowadays the
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by showerst 14y ago
They're high compared to historic US prices: http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Gasoline_I...
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by showerst 14y ago
Great looking product, can't wait for the invite. I see you guys are associated with Intridea; any chance we can claim this as another DC startup? DC needs all the buzz we can get =)
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by showerst 14y ago
I have a kindle touch with ads, and honestly I sort of prefer them over the ad-less version. Those same 10 screensavers on the ad-less one get old fast, and I even buy an advertised product on rare occasions. They really need to hook it up
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by showerst 14y ago
I think that the kind of Millenials this article is trying to describe (DC/NY/SF types) don't live in places where housing is affordable. I'm pretty much a spot on example of what this article's describing; I live in DC where the average pe
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by showerst 14y ago
I'm curious about what you dislike about LF. I could also explain our choices a bit, but I'd rather offline that. tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
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by showerst 14y ago
I think a fair bit of it depends on your needs for moderation, and what you're comparing to. When you say you're not seeing a lot of engagement with FB/Livefyre, were those sites seeing engagement before with a worse commenting system? We s
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What makes Paris look like Paris?(graphics.cs.cmu.edu)
86 points by showerst 14y ago|18 comments
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by showerst 14y ago
Looks like http://80legs.com/_images/the-most-powerful-web-crawler-ever... uses slightly different gradient stops than http://80legs.com/_images/bg-home.jpg
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by showerst 14y ago
If you were to 'color' these like a four color map problem, are they all trivially colorable with just two colors? It looks that way from the pictures, but I lack the math intuition to prove it.
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by showerst 14y ago
It probably _was_ noticed, but once it started you can't just pull all of the plugs since that you make you lose even more...
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by showerst 14y ago
Sort of, but I think that it's actually more like competition for Craigslist/Ebay. I think the idea is to grab people who aren't at the Shopify level of sophistication yet.
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by showerst 14y ago
The same way you create any secure login system: Require long-ish complex passwords (numbers, upper, lower, and symbols, 8+ characters). Store those passwords only as slow-to-generate hashes (bcrypt or the like) with a per-user salt. Run ev
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by showerst 14y ago
I believe that it depends on the model, but after some of the early trojans figured out how to do this years ago, the light is now hardware-wired in some webcams. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6758/can-webcams...
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by showerst 14y ago
Here's a bookmarklet: https://github.com/niyazpk/Collapsible-comments-for-Hacker-N...
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by showerst 14y ago
Looks great! But a word to anyone out there creating a jQuery Plugin - Please list your browser support somewhere obvious! Maybe I'm missing it but I can't see it anywhere in the Docs.

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