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by sown 16y ago
I moved from the remote desert southwest to the south bay area/Silicon Valley area and was very surprised to see that making U-turns at major intersections was not only permitted but were announced with signs indicating such. I still don't
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Misconceptions About The Golden Ratio(underpaintings.blogspot.com)
62 points by sown 16y ago|7 comments
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by sown 16y ago
Neat! I wonder how they handle shipping and warehouse...
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Incorrectly Rounded Conversions in GCC and GLIBC(exploringbinary.com)
2 points by sown 16y ago|0 comments
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More Videos of the Kno(gizmowatch.com)
1 points by sown 16y ago|0 comments
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by sown 16y ago
Most 9 year olds don't know about chiaroscuro in the same way most 9 year old programmers don't know about compiler theory. I think at the undergraduate level a lot of what they teach won't get you hired if you know it but will get you fire
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Peak Wood: Nature does impose limits(miller-mccune.com)
3 points by sown 16y ago|0 comments
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by sown 16y ago
> Isn't Foxconn interest to keep their workers happy ? No. As the saying goes, "Work hard today or work harder tomorrow looking for a new job".
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Lasersaur: The Open Source Laser Cutter(kickstarter.com)
53 points by sown 16y ago|8 comments
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by sown 16y ago
It's not perfect on my imac+ff system. There are always easter eggs in these strong bad emails. At the end, after the line printer sheet comes down, click on the lower light switch and the easter egg appears. To make it go away, you're supp
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by sown 16y ago
This is all reasonable. The day before google went IPO and created new millionares, they brought in John Bogle to advise them to stay away from mutual funds or whatever and at the riskiest, stick to index funds if they were comfortable with
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Google creates a Charts Tools API(code.google.com)
9 points by sown 16y ago|1 comments
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by sown 16y ago
I think that Hemmingway worked like this, typed out in the first half at a desk typing and stood the last half with a legal pad writing notes down.
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Agner Fog's Optimization Manuals(agner.org)
1 points by sown 16y ago|0 comments
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by sown 16y ago
Banning it in one country simply guarantees that another country achieves supremacy first, leaving the UK behind.
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by sown 16y ago
Going from 1 ATM to 0 doesn't kill you but going from 9 ATM to 1 will http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_acci...
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by sown 16y ago
To be fair, they'll say the same thing in most parts of the US but they will be more supportive. :)
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Was the Google Nexus One a flop? Not even close.(csmonitor.com)
1 points by sown 16y ago|1 comments
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by sown 16y ago
My favorite was the unsalted ketchup. it tasted kinda sweet
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3000 Airforce communications officers are now cyberspace officers(airforcetimes.com)
1 points by sown 16y ago|0 comments
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by sown 16y ago
Neat! How do you handle shipping right now?
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by sown 16y ago
OK, I see what you mean, but if what I understand is correct about the 2008 situation, we just narrowly avoided a crash and there's not enough real change to prevent it from happening again, at least here in the US.
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by sown 16y ago
These enormous debt relief loans wouldn't feel so bad if they'd just stop doing it over and over again. When a plane crashes or any other engineered system fails, analysis is (supposed to be) carried out and we try to make it so that it doe
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by sown 16y ago
I was wondering that same thing myself. As the technology gets better the chances of being able to "download" a gun and print it out become higher.
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by sown 16y ago
Wow. When I asked this question I wish I had been as through and thinking critically as this guy. It's so hard to guess what this means but I wonder if I should start writing a memristor VM just to see what could been done. Even if they are
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by sown 16y ago
This is proof: You can do anything if you put your mind to it. I'm serious. Everyone is sneering at this startup and her idea but maybe it'll work out. I dunno. I've worked at shadier companies (probably) that somehow produced worthwhile so
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China May ‘Crash’ in Next 9 to 12 Months, Faber Says(businessweek.com)
10 points by sown 16y ago|0 comments
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by sown 16y ago
I wonder what they look for in hiring? I guess experience is a big plus and general smarts. I'm getting bored at my current job. I think if I could port our enterprise solution to cassandra it would help in an interview?
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by sown 17y ago
I originally wanted to move there but there doesn't seem to be many jobs. :( Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Ingenious Chinese Army shovel (video)(tudou.com)
59 points by sown 17y ago|42 comments

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