srveit

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How many gallons of gasoline would it take to charge an iPhone?(exxonmobilperspectives.com)
45 points by srveit 15y ago|65 comments
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by srveit 15y ago
I found "Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith to be an excellent book. He explains things very well. You can tell he has done extensive analyses to back up his conclusions. Free on Gutenberg ( http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300 ). I actually
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LED images on an RC helicopter blade(rcgroups.com)
3 points by srveit 15y ago|1 comments
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by srveit 15y ago
Thanks for the info. I added my npm module ( https://github.com/srveit/mechanize-js ) to Travis
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by srveit 16y ago
The War on Poverty is the name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty
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by srveit 16y ago
Why?
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by srveit 16y ago
Here is an article and HN discussion thread that was posted two months ago that describes how one man retained his rights upon re-entering the US: http://nomadlaw.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-feds-for-not-an... http://news.ycombinator.co
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by srveit 16y ago
That reminds me of my old boss expecting email to be the same as an answered phone call. There was a problem in our system that he wanted me and a co-worker to solve by working late and he sent us a both an email. The was close to the end o
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by srveit 16y ago
It looks like at least one company is trying this: https://www.banksimple.net/about/
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by srveit 16y ago
I don't use a case for my 3GS. I always keep it in my pocket (not the one with my keys). However, I bought my wife a rubber case for hers, since she keeps it in her purse with her keys, lipstick, pens, pencils, etc.
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by srveit 16y ago
I think the "Little yellow guy" is the Street View icon.
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by srveit 16y ago
It uses Google's open source V8 JavaScript engine. ( http://code.google.com/p/v8/ ) It doesn't support multiple cores AFAIK. To use multiple cores, the server would need to spawn subprocesses or run multiple servers behind nginx.
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by srveit 16y ago
Node uses a thread pool also. From Ryan's JSConf slides: "Blocking (or possibly blocking) system calls are executed in the thread pool. Signal handlers and thread pool callbacks are marshaled back into the main thread via a pipe."
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by srveit 16y ago
The "slant" in this book is that he is pro-free market and anti-central planning. He states that the free market is the most efficient way to allocate scarce resources. The book explains why this is so with many varied examples.
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by srveit 16y ago
By allowing the price of water to go up, it would encourage more people from outside to fulfill the increased demand. By limiting prices, the government is not just telling sellers they can't sell a product at a higher price, they are telli
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by srveit 17y ago
The changes described in the article look good. However, were they A/B tested? While Amazon.com may look cluttered, they used A/B testing to evolve the site to what it is now.
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by srveit 17y ago
I live in St. Louis, although I did not attend WUSTL. I did some web development for two graduates from there. You may be interested in these two local groups of which I am a member: St. Louis Ruby Users Group ( http://groups.google.com/gro
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by srveit 17y ago
For really accurate measurements check out http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/apollo.html By bouncing a laser off several reflectors that were left on the moon, they are able to get accuracies of one millimeter.
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by srveit 17y ago
I got a call from this service on behalf of one of my neighbors who lost his dog. I went to look at the service and though that this was a great idea. It appears to be a fully automated service that combines a request form, a GEO database,
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Lost My Doggie - Service Helps Find Lost Pets(lostmydoggie.com)
18 points by srveit 17y ago|18 comments
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by srveit 17y ago
Also see the HN comments here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740524
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by srveit 17y ago
I didn't work with these, but did work on the Symbolics 3600 circa 1985. It introduced me to a lot of new technology. I learned Lisp, of course, on it. I learned Zmacs and the "Meta" key. Emacs is still my favorite editor/IDE. We had a Cano
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by srveit 17y ago
Steve Blank writes about his learning of this phenonemon while working on electronic warfare systems in this post: http://steveblank.com/2009/03/23/if-i-told-you-i%E2%80%99d-h...
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The 8 Laws of Pain(chrisoleary.com)
25 points by srveit 17y ago|1 comments
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by srveit 17y ago
Are there other multi-implementation languages that have an executable language spec like this?
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What is RubySpec?(engineyard.com)
17 points by srveit 17y ago|2 comments