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by steffan 10y ago
The duct tape is made to look decorative, but it's standard practice in Film / TV / Advertising to obscure brand names.
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by steffan 10y ago
I can't say enough good things about http://arpnetworks.com They're a great provider and I relieve they offer a managed service as well as their standard unmanaged offerings.
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by steffan 10y ago
While we're issuing corrections... > Hot water can leech lead from solder joints, It's leach
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by steffan 10y ago
> ”If you look at the state of the world, with brexit & trump driven in a large part by overt racism“ I think it mischaracterizes both Brexit and Trump's popularity to attribute it to ”overt racism“. 'Overt nationalism&#x2
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by steffan 10y ago
I suspect it is less about the “foreign billionaire” and more about the single-digit millionaires worldwide looking for an ostensibly safe place to park some money and be assured of a healthy return (or at least not a loss). It's a sel
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by steffan 10y ago
> I don't care about my phone being paper thin. I'd guess most people don't either. Sales seem to prove otherwise > Can you imagine what an annoying hassle it would be to have to pair and unpair the same bluetooth headp
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by steffan 10y ago
You're not considering that it's not just the current 2 billion lines of code - it's the history of the repo, branches, forks, possibly binaries thrown in.
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by steffan 10y ago
> IMO self-driving trucks won't displace humans behind the wheel. Trucks on public roads will be self-driving in the same way that planes are self-flying. Not this year. Not next year. But they will.
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by steffan 10y ago
I'm pretty sure similar numbers thought they needed a 'smarter phone' in early 2007.
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by steffan 10y ago
That used to be true in the case of a high school diploma as well. As a society, we've diluted the value of that to the extent that you need to see a 4-year degree to determine those things. Even a four-year degree seems to be diluted
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by steffan 10y ago
In fact, the quote in the article says exactly the opposite.
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by steffan 10y ago
> a hyperloop to be created with no tube, only a track Don't we call that a “train?”
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by steffan 10y ago
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. This article talks about housing in Japan depreciating rapidly: http://www.archdaily.com/450212/why-japan-is-crazy-about-hou... , a contrast to the U.S., where to
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by steffan 10y ago
> SF has a million dollars in its annual budget... A million? If only. Try $241M http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record...
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by steffan 10y ago
I have really enjoyed Scala. The more depth I gain in the language, the more I appreciate it. It has the ability to be compact without being overly terse, and is very readable if you don't get too crazy with using symbol overloading
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by steffan 10y ago
While a long time, five years doesn't sound excessively long to develop an entire new model, distinct from an upgrade to one of the existing lineups. As an example, look at the amount of time the Tesla Model 3 was in development and s
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by steffan 10y ago
Yes. In the US, originally you could be a First Officer without holding the ATP (Airline Transport Pilot) certificate. The ATP requires 1500 hours of flight time. Prior to the rule change, you would see regional airlines recruiting pilot
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by steffan 11y ago
>> A popular criticism of Silicon Valley, usually levied by people not building anything at all themselves > Why can or should criticism only come from [1] people that are building things themselves? What about the press (as only o
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by steffan 11y ago
Why not Heathrow? I just flew there last month and it didn't seem particularly bad. Was I lucky?
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by steffan 11y ago
If you see my other comment regarding this, that's exactly what I'm saying. It may never happen—I think Oculus may be closer to their core business—but if you're building on someone else's platform, you should be prepa
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by steffan 11y ago
The acquisition happened nearly 3 years ago. To their credit, they kept running it for longer than a lot of other companies would have. Anyone in the situation of seeing their platform provider acquired should see the writing on the wall.
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by steffan 11y ago
Providing developer services is not Facebook's core business.
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by steffan 11y ago
I think you mean other burglaries.
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by steffan 11y ago
It throttles the CPU to a lower energy state when using the chassis as a heat sink becomes insufficient to maintain the temperature within some thermal operating envelope.
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by steffan 11y ago
> Someone stepping on the pedal and being where a pedestrian is in 2 seconds could be very fatal for inexperienced drivers. Probably far more likely to be fatal for the pedestrian
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by steffan 11y ago
I don't consider them to be much of an influence. If you can gain something from the course, take it for the knowledge. Don't expect it to make much difference with most employers. Some legacy businesses may place more weight on
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by steffan 12y ago
Thank you for doing this. You've improved my impression of humanity today, and inspired me to do the same. (And you also, papercruncher)
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by steffan 12y ago
> Developers have faith in Github in the same manner that they once had faith in Google and Google Code. That's a good point, but Google Code was never a core business of Google. Github would have to undergo a serious shift before h
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by steffan 12y ago
Do you mean if you already have a paid Mac / iOS developer account? That's the only way I've seen that provides the ability to sign an app.
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by steffan 12y ago
The convergence with power supplies for lower wattage devices is impressive. My iPad charger is 10W and just slightly smaller than this. This thing charges (and powers) an entire laptop). I expect in a generation or so of iPhone & iPa

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