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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Honestly, it depends on what you mean by 'look up' - Coffee Meets Bagel (another dating app) includes a feature that will show you mutual Facebook friends (if such a thing exists). That's a really interesting indicator how&#x
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
Yeah, this merger (for whatever reason) reminds me a lot of the US Air/American Airlines merger of a few years ago. On the one hand, going from 4 to 3 'major' players seems an obvious loss for consumers. On the other hand, un
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
It's a bit awkwardly worded, but I get their point (I think) - take your example and swap it, for instance: if you were to exchange all the employees at Facebook for employees at Exxon, the company structurally and culturally would sti
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by sjm-lbm 8y ago
FWIW, the concept here isn't exactly new - at least the Xbox 360 and a few other devices have had similar functionality[1]. [1] http://www.tested.com/tech/585-how-efuses-work-and-why-theyr...
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
All of these analyses also ignore the fact that most people generally want to have some parts of their lives where they aren't working, and people still want a place to live even then. My parents may have made (by the article's
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Honestly, this is so tone deaf as to be a little amusing. (though I'll admit the sibling's comment about satire is probably right)
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
In college, I had an account at Wells Fargo, and my parents would occasionally deposit money into it as a way of sending me money for free. One day, my mom tried to do this and got sucked into a 20 minute sales pitch to switch my parents&#x
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
I don't know if this was just an experience that I had, but peak MySpace happened right as I was hitting a point in my life where I really wanted to seek out new music. I found a lot of interesting/local/terrible/excelle
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
A better real life example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965 Basically, distracted/lost pilots accidentally used an autopilot/flight management system to program a flight path that t
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Eh, even if what they are promising is only economically viable as a proof of concept, it's probabally still better than the "overengineer a system that nobody ever actually uses" situation that's pretty much the norm no
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to be pedantic in that way - more like I'm just gleefully geeking out about Cyan being in the news a bit. Your overall point above was completely correct.
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Well, you are correct - there's a lot of reasons - but I still think art is one of the primary ones. If you'll allow me to drop into a specific example: during Riven's development, Cyan hired a guy named Richard Vander Wende,
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
I also think Riven killed adventure games for a bit - regardless of what you think of it from a gameplay perspective, it's really pretty graphically, and the slideshow-style presentation honestly doesn't hamper what you can allo
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
They also started, if I'm doing my arithmetic right, in 1996. Honestly, I could see C++ having been their best choice back then. Every language I would rather do a large project in is either newer than that or would have been pretty im
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
I don't know if you are joking or not, but the point you are making is very legitimate. Over the past few years, there has been reason to be unusually concerned with Allegiant’s maintenance practices. (see here: https://www.
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Dallas also has a sizable amount of really unsexy business process automation-type development jobs - it's the original home if both EDS and Perot Systems, for instance, and DXC and NTT DATA still have sizable facilities there. Dallas
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
I thought it was generally accepted that one of the problems with GM in the 1980s is that they spent too much on automation, whereas Toyota and other competitors spent more on just building better cars. For instance: http://www.a
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Yeah, I guess I understand that, it just seems like most things that aren't a design failure are unlikely to affect more than one orbiting telescope. In other words, to return to your example, it seems unlikely to me that a collision w
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
How would having the backup in orbit reduce the amount of coverage that an HST-type device could provide? It seems like having another telescope in orbit could basically be a "hot-spare" for the highest priority tasks while contin
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
I read it as definition #4 on your link. Basically, it's saying that SV likes to keep both it's very very good things (new life-changing tech) and it's very very bad things (these Superfund sides) under wraps.
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
The Mac version was in Hypercard, all of the other versions were different engines written from scratch for Myst. They actually had to use the same color palette for each age to ensure there wasn't any strangeness as they flipped betwe
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Agenda to come. Later : oh, sorry, I forgot.
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
The 2k/month in this example is after rent.
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
It means the driver is never part of a conductive path between the car and the ground.
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
To be fair, the F1 teams pay to win by paying for some stunning engineering. The way the F1 rules are set up means that F1 is basically an engineering contest first and a racing series second. It's part of the reason that it is so grea
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
If a city waves taxes for Amazon, they'll still have increased costs - say, increased road maintenance around HQ2 as those roads get used much more. Those costs still need to be paid for, and the burden will then move to smaller compan
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
One of the problems is that almost all A380 carriers are, as you say, "premium carrier[s] that that [are] known for consistently maintaining a young fleet" - but you need to be a pretty sophisticated operator to run an A380 safely
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
For sure, the original intent of the 787 was to enable flights that skip hubs[1], but for whatever reason, in practice that hasn't really happened[2]. Also, it's totally possible that there's a better example of a rote enable
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
Yes. But that's a slightly different problem, and one that could potentially be solved in other ways (an extra runway at LHR, going to a different airport in another European capital if London is unwilling to make the changes needed to
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by sjm-lbm 9y ago
.. just to piggy back on this and add a "why": the smaller long range planes are allowing airlines to connect smaller cities with direct flights while still making money. This is easier for customers, and is insanely popular. An e

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