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by smeyer 12y ago
I didn't ask why he purchased a 64 gig, but what he actually uses the space on (especially without spotify offline playlists.) He said he's pushing up against the limit and I'm just curious what he's storing.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use that 64 gigs for? Music? Photos? App data?
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by smeyer 12y ago
I do plenty of googling, but this reminds me of the time I spent one summer working at a defense laboratory. Many of the coworkers in my group spent most of their time in zones for doing classified work without access to the internet, and t
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by smeyer 12y ago
1) This got quite a few upvotes in the hour it's been up. 2) Shouldn't this be in the September "who's hiring?" post rather than a standalone post? I'm relatively new here but that was my understanding of the e
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Sodium and chlorine are very active chemical elements How active are the sodium and chlorine ions, which I assume is what you actually get since the salt is dissolved. Do they still have a major effect on most of the chemical reactions
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Programmers typically swap capslock for ctrl I don't think typically is the right word here. I've certainly done it before, but I'd wager that under (and possibly well under) a quarter of programmers actually have this re
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by smeyer 12y ago
Really? I didn't get that sort of idea at all. For example, the top book, the Harry Potter series, is something that tons of people have read. I don't think I've ever encountered someone who only pretended to have read the Ha
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by smeyer 12y ago
So did they take the ability away and then bring it back or was it persistently available?
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by smeyer 12y ago
Is this still possible from gchat? That used to be (and possibly still is) an option if I recall correctly.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I recall seeing somewhere that a problem with the website was that it was declining. The average numbers were on the lower end of the acceptable range, but that was averaging high early activity with low late activity, which is not a good p
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by smeyer 12y ago
Your copy could use some proof-reading: >Forget about looking for a file or a link, in Staply the are always ar your fingertips.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Why shouldn't "being first to post confers no privilege..." not extend to "being the only one to post confers no privilege..."?
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by smeyer 12y ago
1) Just to note, I said hundreds or thousands, not hundreds of thousands. 2) I've got no idea. I opened the thread to see if anyone else did.
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by smeyer 12y ago
When you all-capped the LOT I was expecting you to be looking to buy hundreds or thousands of pounds of lego. I was a bit disappointed to see that you were just looking for a few tubs. But it looks like you got some good answers so have fun
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by smeyer 12y ago
I only managed to click continue two or three times before I gave up in frustration.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I studied physics at Harvard. It was incredibly easy to interact with top shelf professors. It was one of my favorite parts of my education.
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by smeyer 12y ago
The charity doesn't get the same amount of money though. Even setting aside the reduced value of getting money in the future instead of now, you're not going to get 100% payments and you have no interest or penalties to make up fo
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by smeyer 12y ago
I had a friend with a few offers from top places (of the google, facebook, microsoft sort of variety) who ended up taking one for about 100k a year base plus about 500k stock vesting over five years. That was definitely atypical, though, pa
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by smeyer 12y ago
Fair enough. Although the low pay thing is all relative. I went to a top school with heavy recruiting, so pretty much all of my friends going into tech took salaries in the 80k-200k range (or knowingly took a paycut to work somewhere partic
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by smeyer 12y ago
Wow, I'm just a recent college grad, but you're experience seems vastly different than mine. That's a much more negative view than the one my friends and I developed going through job searches. I wonder what the most importan
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think a big challenge would be that it would be much harder to grind the mirror. Round mirrors have the advantage of being somewhat close to a parabola, so you can spin them and use gravity and then just refine from there. The optics also
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by smeyer 12y ago
But then you only get to use this with people who make substantial open source contributions. There are lots and lots of good developers who don't spend time on open source work.
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by smeyer 12y ago
When I look at my profile, there's the following text. I think it's actually from an HN extension I use and not HN itself but I don't remember for sure: Average karma is calculated by averaging the scores of your last 50 comm
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't think the problem is the SAT/ACT. That's a problem with cellphones, but lots of calculators are allowed on those tests, including the Casios[1]. The bigger challenge seems to be that teachers default to assigning TIs
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by smeyer 12y ago
That makes more sense. I don't think that's unique to Tesla. If I'm not mistaken, people already occasionally test drive, say, a Chevy Malibu then decide to have the dealer order another Malibu with a specific option set, col
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by smeyer 12y ago
>A reputation for quality and a good warranty should be able to overcome that with time I'm not so sure about that. Regardless of the reputation of a brand, people have different tastes when it comes to cars. It's hard to know
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by smeyer 12y ago
Do you mean building a 5 meter wide oblong mirror instead of a 5 meter wide circle? That might be easier but wold be a far inferior telescope. The amount of light collected goes as the area of the mirror. If you're suggesting keeping t
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by smeyer 12y ago
Why would that be easier to build? Edit: I'm asking because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I've toured several observatories in Chile (and had a blast doing so.) That being said, I studied astrophysics and spent a few months doing astronomy research in Chile, so I wasn't really taking public tours or anything.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm a bit confused by some parts of this. At some points, they seem to imply that at some point a team gets worse by adding more talent. For example, the title seems to be pointing in this direction. But at another point they say >i

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