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by smackfu 11y ago
Eh, projects that finish on time don't exactly get a lot of press. Just as an example, the NJ Turnpike recently finished a project widening it from 6 to 12 lanes for a 35 mile stretch, and came in on schedule and $200M under budget: h
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by smackfu 11y ago
I can think of a few reasons: 1) You can tailor the wireless protocol to exactly your needs, rather than using something general purpose. That can help things like battery life and latency. 2) You don't have to work with buggy Bluetoo
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by smackfu 11y ago
They are pretty up there, but no, not the top, which is Facebook as you would expect. http://qz.com/481245/these-are-the-25-most-popular-2015-mobi...
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's interesting to think about how a period piece can be very accurate at a micro-level, which takes a ton of effort by a lot of craftspeople, but inaccurate at a macro-level due to a poor screenplay.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The problem is that if the MLS that covers your area didn't make a deal with Zillow, the overall stats don't really matter. Zillow will be useless for house shopping.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Apple isn't exactly who I would point to as a good comparison. They have plenty of overdesigned pages: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
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by smackfu 11y ago
They have the IBM logo on the back. You would expect Thinkpad-style keyboards manufactured in 2014 to have only Lenovo logos.
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by smackfu 11y ago
>portion sizes are enormous Portion sizes at restaurants are enormous. Tourists eat out way more than locals.
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by smackfu 11y ago
You work with the vector map of the world that you got.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Reminds me of the time we cleaned out a back storage room at an old job, and there were binders full of mainframe PL/I source code from the early 80's that had gone through paper code reviews, with the reviewers signature on every
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by smackfu 11y ago
The trick is telling the difference between that and: "Device requests - Law enforcement seeking a device they claim is stolen."
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by smackfu 11y ago
Main complaint is when the person lies about delivering it if they can't make the promised date. Then they drop it off the next day with little repercussions. I've also had problems with companies using alternative shippers for c
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by smackfu 11y ago
It would give a sense of how far they still have to go.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's mainly a poor summary of those agreements, of which the Key West Agreement was only the first. A better way to put it would be that the Army is not allowed to have fixed-wing aircraft, and the Air Force is not allowed to have hel
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by smackfu 11y ago
The problem with making something out of public domain maps using technology is that it's very easy for someone else to copy it pretty effortlessly.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The Withings Activite does a much better job of mimicking an old watch, but it's also much simpler (just an activity tracker) and doesn't have an LCD screen. http://www2.withings.com/us/en/products/a
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yeah, the filter config for GMail is very full-featured. Like there are a dozen actions you can take on a mail, all listed on a single popup. Makes sense to provide an easier path.
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by smackfu 11y ago
I didn't realize that Puerto Rico had its own top level domain: http://www.groupon.com.pr/pages/home Apparently the site is shut-down already.
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by smackfu 11y ago
One tricky bit with a one-way train journey like this is that the train travels all night. So roughly 1/3 of the scenery you go through, you won't be able to see at all. If you have something in particular to see, like the badla
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by smackfu 11y ago
Not quite, GM was fined $35 million in 2014 by the NHTSA for the ignition defect, which was the maximum fine allowed. They recently settled a federal criminal complaint for $900 million. They also had a thousand civil suits which are estim
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by smackfu 11y ago
Or it could be: Apple: "We will feature Wired in the WWDC keynote, and give it a prominent place in the News app when people are choosing sources. In exchange, we want a few exclusive articles." Wired: "OK"
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by smackfu 11y ago
There have been quite a few of these exploits over the years, where you can trick a program running in locked mode into thinking it's in unlocked mode. It seems like they really need to have completely separate programs to run in lock
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by smackfu 11y ago
An ad blocker on iOS 9 is basically just an app wrapper around a JSON file. I'm not surprised a decent iOS developer would figure they could whip one out in a day or two of coding just as a proof of concept, and then release it to see
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by smackfu 11y ago
Kernel-Based Virtual Machine If you were thinking of the other KVM.
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by smackfu 11y ago
For reference, the very common Honeywell thermostats that seem to be in every US house built in the last 20 minutes just have an unmarked button that cycles between Auto, Off, Heat, and Cool. (Auto means Heat/Cool.) It does have the ad
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's one of those borrowed words where the English pronunciation is different than the original Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Tgrk6dLuw
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by smackfu 11y ago
There's been some reports of code-signing issues, where apps from the app store can't be installed on watches that have been upgrade to watchOS 2. That couldn't be tested before today because the watch apps weren't avail
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by smackfu 11y ago
HealthKit was one of the major features of iOS 8, but there was a last minute bug and they didn't allow the release of any apps that used HealthKit until a week later when iOS 8.0.1 was released.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Depends on the technology. If you use AIX or DB2, you can often only find answers on other sites, because most of the posters are using more popular open-source / free tech like Linux or MySQL.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's more a matter of originals vs. copies. The original may take 10x the time to make as the copy, but most of society doesn't value the original at 10x the copy.

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