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by sswezey 8y ago
The movie version of Tony Stark was actually modeled on Elon Musk. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/true-story-elon-musk-robert-d...
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by sswezey 8y ago
The article mentions Warby Parker was started to combat these insane prices. NPR's How I Built This talks about the origins of Warby Parker in this podcast: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/26/586048422/w
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by sswezey 8y ago
Have you ever looked into Lua? Lua uses their tables (hash maps) for everything. It is a prototypical language similar to Javascript and everything is a key in the table. The language provides syntactic sugar for certain accessors such as `
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by sswezey 8y ago
Atlantic Station
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by sswezey 8y ago
The app may not have it, but Amazon's retail site has these kinds of filters for bolts: https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=node%3D1729002...
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by sswezey 9y ago
To toot baggers' horn, he has a great video series where he does game development in lisp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82o5NeyZtvw&list=PL2VAYZE_4w...
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by sswezey 9y ago
Looking at the RFP, minus the mass transit, it seems like it was written for Atlanta. And Atlanta has so many urban infill areas available for development.
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by sswezey 9y ago
You can call C and Obj-C. You can't call C++ code directly, it would have to go through a C/Obj-C shim first.
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by sswezey 9y ago
Honestly, when people say they want to learn Chinese, they usually mean Mandarin Chinese. If they don't, they'll probably refer to the specific dialect they'd like to learn. Also, without any Chinese exposure, learning anythi
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by sswezey 9y ago
This, along with recent Kotlin Native news, lends me to believe Google is investigating some alternative platforms for replacing their dependence on Java APIs and removing any possibility of being further hamstrung by Oracle.
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by sswezey 10y ago
I used to live in Seattle and that was a major contributing factor that caused me to move to Atlanta.
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by sswezey 10y ago
Except WebKit and Safari are the first browser (engines) to be 100% ES6 compatible: http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
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by sswezey 10y ago
I really wish Swift releases were not pinned to Apple releases. Swift 3 introduced several regressions and instead of prioritizing some serious regressions, they focused on swift evolution proposals. For example, one accepted proposal renam
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Disney Said to Buy Stake in $3.5B MLB Web Unit(bloomberg.com)
65 points by sswezey 10y ago|51 comments
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by sswezey 10y ago
I doubt it, when I was there Ion was only used by only a handful of Java teams doing backend work. It was also horribly documented and supported at the time (3.5 years ago).
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by sswezey 11y ago
You can fly from California to Russia and back in less than 10.5 hours today, it's not that far from Alaska.
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by sswezey 11y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by sswezey 11y ago
I saw that Symmetry Labs did the Generate music video! I honestly thought that was CGI! Do you have any tips of getting started with the type of LED display work you do, with regards to the control software?
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by sswezey 11y ago
If you think about it historically, calculator would be a more accurate translation - it was something that computed or calculated numbers for you. In German, calculator and computer are also both Rechner.
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by sswezey 11y ago
Nowhere on the page does it show how it does these automatic code reviews. What is it using to determine this 'GPA' score for a repository? Is it configurable?
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by sswezey 11y ago
There is one for German, the Neo layout: http://neo-layout.org/index_en.html
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by sswezey 11y ago
Japanese has the fat enter.
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by sswezey 11y ago
The left shift on an ISO keyboard is the same distance from your left pinky as the right shift is from your right pinky. I don't see how it would be (objectively) harder. Plus with an ISO keyboard you get to move the `~ key down closer
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by sswezey 11y ago
Linux support was listed as a design goal for open sourcing Swift @ WWDC
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by sswezey 11y ago
What is the difference between the USDS and 18F, it seems like a blurred line.
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by sswezey 11y ago
This is already possibly with Google Spreadsheets albeit this is a much nicer interface.
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by sswezey 11y ago
For the Chernobyl quote, it is nowhere near as high as that. That is standing at the plant, but the closest you can get is a 1/4 mile away. And you only stay there for about 15 minutes. Most of the time in the tour is exploring the sur
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by sswezey 11y ago
This article talks about the last world cup final: http://www.espnfc.com/fifa-world-cup/story/1950567/world-cup... The US had 43.8 million people watching the final (in English and Spanish). Germany (who was
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by sswezey 11y ago
The lack of winter sunlight is one of the biggest reasons I moved (back) to Atlanta from Seattle. I can definitely attest to what you've said - it's a much bigger impact on your well-being than people think. And no, SAD lights or
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by sswezey 11y ago
Do you have a blog post or some external site that you could link to for more information about the JVM vs. CLR? It'd be much appreciated

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