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by showerst 15y ago
Don't most large power plants in the Western world have 'scrubbers' and other measures that limit the amount of carbon/other pollutants that they actually release into the air? If not now, is that a technology that's moving forward fast eno
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by showerst 15y ago
OP had a 3% _per month_ rate.
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by showerst 15y ago
There's been a little interesting work that suggests that there are different archetypes among the extremely creative that roughly correspond to 'early peakers' and 'late peakers'. I just skimmed this wired article but it seems like a good
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by showerst 15y ago
Really minor UI things - How about making the price slider 'snap' to $10 increments? I couldn't intuitively get it to $150 (kept going 147 or 153) which was a tad annoying. Maybe start it at a lower number too, so there's no chance of a use
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by showerst 15y ago
Because they may have millions of dollars of custom web applications that break when you don't use IE6, and explaining to management why you need to spend tons of money to fix something that isn't (to their eyes) broken is difficult.
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by showerst 15y ago
Well, we've increased average lifespans significantly, which matters to a great many people more than if .001% lived to age 200. That said, is there any way to know if we've increased the maximum lifespan? It seems that accurate birth-date
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by showerst 15y ago
Perhaps two sets, one that's just a few hundred kilobytes that contains a few sample .arc files to test against the format, and then one larger 'training' set that's small enough to test against offline (maybe like 100MB?) but large enough
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by showerst 15y ago
I wonder if there's enough demand for someone to start a service that provides those visual-style captchas "Click the two puppies in this 3x3 grid of kitten pictures", but with a large enough sample size / solid enough presentation to make
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by showerst 15y ago
I think that depends on the value of the service that they're blocking. I have a trivially breakable CAPTCHA on my web blog, but it cut automated contact form/reply spam down from dozens per day to zero. They definitely have a place, just n
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by showerst 15y ago
What you're talking about are _much_ higher level books. They'll make you a better programmer for sure. This book (probably) won't do that, but it will give you a more intuitive sense of how the machine actually _works_ at its core. This is
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by showerst 15y ago
I don't have showdead on and i see your comment just fine.
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A large scale academic survey of Venture Capital research(papers.ssrn.com)
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by showerst 15y ago
Because the job is rarely just manipulating the Dom in some simple way. Sure, if you just want to add the current date to <div id="rightNow"> then use basic browser builtins, but it's usually more like "I need every other child of e
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by showerst 15y ago
If your salt is something like rkD'O:$|tW:kU}SPuuLZ/X(iwtQzVG" then you've kicked up the size of the necessary rainbow table exponentially, or forced them to compute a custom rainbow table for _just_ your salt. It's still better to be using
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by showerst 15y ago
Ohh yeah. Driving in DC is a nightmare in general. Thank goodness we have great mass transit in a fair portion of the city. The craziest thing is that we have lanes and even whole streets that change DIRECTION depending on the time of day/d
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by showerst 15y ago
Make sure to bring it if you ever visit Washington DC, there are four of every numbered street =). (Quadrants centered on the capitol.) On the plus side they're all marked NW/NE/SW/SE, but it's an occasional tourist mistake that can land a
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by showerst 15y ago
I'm not so sure about the origin, but it's commonly used in design/UX to showcase one primary or "Hero" product, and refers to a large space front-and-center above the fold on a page. Think apple's site putting up a huge iPhone image on rel
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by showerst 15y ago
This is sort of random, but my single biggest gripe with many of the tech events that I've been to in DC is the lack of preparedness around the AV setup. Have two AV inputs, one for the live presenter, and one 'standby' that's just hooked u
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by showerst 15y ago
Mirror at the Washington Post since original seems to be down: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/is-printin...
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by showerst 15y ago
Conjecture Warning There was a post about this not so long ago, it's likely that these third party sellers use a pricing algorithm that automatically looks at competitors' prices and then prices items some nominal amount (like .01) more.
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by showerst 15y ago
I don't think anyone here would disagree with you that we shouldn't solely trust one source, but that's nothing to build an intelligent discussion around. "I don't believe the story this reporter wrote because I don't trust the source(s)" i
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by showerst 15y ago
Warning: HN Meta commentary follows I'm one of the original downvotes, and I also (rather rudely) replied to one of your comments. I think the reason for the squelching of most of the discussion was because the tone of the questioning comme
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by showerst 15y ago
I live in DC and that's what every summer intern says, it avoids the "Oh did you just finish sophomore to become a junior in 3 months, or just finish freshman to become a sophomore?" follow-up question. It's a useful expression when you dea
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by showerst 15y ago
The downed helicopter is certainly evidence that _something_ happened involving a US operation in Pakistan. There was a statement mourning his death that has been accepted as originating with Al Qaeda (by the US Govt, organizations that mon
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by showerst 15y ago
philwelch is right on, but to give a less technical explanation, it's a signal to pronounce the world (co)(operating) instead of (coop)(erating). The New Yorker does it for all doubled vowels that aren't pronounced as long vowels.
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by showerst 15y ago
My reading of this is that the 'socially' optimal equilibrium (that is to say, the equilibrium for customers) is to build stations in a way that minimizes people's effort to get to them (assuming an even distribution, it would be at .3~ and
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by showerst 15y ago
One interesting quirk of the US is that the two main parties have strongly differing strategies with respect to turnout at the state/national level. The Republicans have a stronger 'base' that is more likely to turn out, while Democrats tra
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by showerst 15y ago
They did do the journalism with respect to the jurisdiction issue. The Secret Service has jurisdiction in 'computer crimes' and 'access device fraud' via USC 18 S. 3056. http://www.secretservice.gov/criminal.shtml http://www.law.cornell.
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by showerst 15y ago
US Federal agents, particularly those deployed in the field, are generally not 'Fat and Slow' cops.
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by showerst 15y ago
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend the book Networks, Crowds, and Markets [1]. It's an awesome (undergrad-level) introduction to graph theory, and has a ton of practical information on how it applies to modelling networks of p

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