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   by swimfar 12y ago

   It was an honest question, and that's the kind of answer I was looking for. So maybe once it's been sold nothing can be done about it(unlike stolen goods, which is obviously a different case). edit: According to a professor at th
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   How is this much different from what is done with other counterfeit goods[1-4]? Is it because they aren't going through legal channels to do it? But these all are counterfeit, so the end result is the same, right? When counterfeit g
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   I always thought this was the most logical explanation. Look at how high people can ollie,[1]. This wouldn't be possible if it they were just changing the axis of rotation. And this video here shows the skaters clearly pulling the b
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   The original French version: http://www.bouletcorp.com/blog/2009/03/01/homo-technologicus... Some people here (including Americans ;) ) do speak other languages. :)
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   YQ : fuel surcharge (which is apparently not related to fuel costs) 3X : method to eliminate this additional cost by adding an extra leg to the trip (which is then not taken).
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   For those curious about the ESP8266, it's a 5$ Chinese wifi module which initially had limited/no English documentation. But now people are working on translating and testing the module[1]. Alternatives based on the TI chip from
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   Another cycling company, Trek bicycles, has a pedaling mannequin that they use for some of their wind tunnel tests([1] page 14). That's an older report (2010), but they have another from 2013 if you're interested in that stuff[2]
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   It is disappointing that there aren't many small high-end smartphones. Obviously it's more difficult to pack the latest technology in a smaller package. But it seems like it's a market much less flooded than the 5+ inch siz
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   by swimfar 12y ago

   Did they share the program with other people? Why did 6+ people all rewrite the same program? Or did they have different specific uses? From the first example of the article, it says that within the time span of one semester there were 80
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    While not a course in the udacity/coursera sense, I found these real analysis lectures by Professor Francis Su extremely good. He breaks down every step of the derivations. And while sometimes the questions he asks, or the things he s
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    That would be 9 hours per day, every single day of those three years. How many people have even had just one day where they spent nine hours on the same thing? That's not including breaks, and periods where you mind wanders or you&#x2
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Short story equivalents of RPG's sound interesting. I still enjoy RPGs, but often can't make the time commitment to play them. Do you know of commercial or polished freeware examples of games like that? At the extreme end of th
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Are you comparing a naturally aspirated engine with a turbo-charged engine? Also, I don't think it's fair to compare truck/utility engines (which generally run on regular gas) with the engines that go into BMW's highest
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Here's a nice introduction/exercise which is part of a python tutorial. http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython014...
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    I found this aspect of the build interesting: "The bare liquid crystal panel was affixed to the base plate, held in direct contact with the first LCD at a fixed lateral offset. As assembled, the front polarizer on the bottom LCD is cro
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Ahh, apparently there is a small town called Middletown right next to the city Middleton.
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    I didn't read "cut the bottom 2-5% of the company for non-excellence" to mean they used a hard limit. It could just be an approximation of the number of "under performers" at the company. And because he said &quot
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Here are some references from "How to read a paper" by S. Keshav [1](found in a comment by tnhh above) Writing Technical Articles http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/etc/writing-style.html Whiteside's G
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Except that it's not that easy even for the French. I'm sure the law wasn't passed for tourists. Even some fancier restaurants were found to have been just warming up pre-made dishes. If a restaurant is not required to dis
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    http://www.amb.org/audio/alpha10/ Here's another arduino-based pre-amp. This one includes relay-based stepped attenuators and input selectors. The pcbs are all available as well as the schematics in case yo
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Yeah, it was posted about a month ago. It doesn't seem to actually be a good strategy, though. How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888215
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Strava, a run/bike tracking app, released something similar with their data. http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#3/-56.00000/50.00000/blue/bo...
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Here's the Bitcoin theft reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233230
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    The movie was "Coming to America" (1988) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchwald_v._Paramount
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    It was actually their invention of the three-point seatbelt in 1959. http://www.wired.com/2009/08/strapping-success-the-3-point-s...
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    That reminds me of the missing mechanical equivalent of the capacitor, the inerter, which McLaren secretly began using on their formula one cars in 2005. But does this mean there's potentially another missing suspension component? ht
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    DRE=Design Responsible Engineer
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Here are two sites which show you the opposite points (antipodes) of the earth of a given location. One is interactive, the other takes an address. http://www.freemaptools.com/tunnel-to-other-side-of-the-eart... http:&#x2
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    Are you still speaking about France or in general? Every guide I've seen to writing a French (and German) CV lists those items as more or less essential. [1][2][3] And even if they are not essential, or not legally required that does
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    by swimfar 12y ago

    However it is customary to include a photo, date of birth, and marital status on your CV.