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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Pencil has many higher-res stencils now, but I prefer the old ones that actually look like Pencil drawings. I have also given this to clients, to have them draw their own UI concepts (as a starting position / way of communicating) with
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You're saying that achieving 2.7% of the theoretical efficiency is good? Many car engines have an efficiency of around 20% for example, as compared to the maximum theoretical efficiency of 67%. If car engines performed only well enoug
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Yes. It's the same dictionary as the one for non-programmers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale
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It is also interesting to note that the paper cites only 3 "NIH grants", but the lead author works for the "Duke Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, Center for Child and Family Policy," which doesn't soun
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
"absent improvements in microarchitecture they [CPUs] won’t be substantially faster, nor substantially more power efficient, and they will have about the same number of cores at the same price point as prior CPUs. Why would anyone buy
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
For some reason, most of the those who have promoted this piece have failed to notice that the same journal published a pretty scathing refutation of it, a few months later. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/11/
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Maybe you're right. This wasn't clear to me since I clicked the screen shots and it appeared to show a distinct product. I am seeing several things I associate with a project that is thinking about commercializing. If this is th
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Using a competitor's trademark in your marketing slogan, is that wise?
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I hope sci-hub and libgen can stay afloat. sci-hub.ac is also up atm. "to remove all barriers in the way of science" -- be advised it's not necessarily legal.
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Ironically, you have to copy, paste and Google the titles of most of these to find downloadable versions.
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Maybe an interesting time to point out a site I just ran across which is reddit-like, but (as far as I can figure) uses cryptocurrency to fund itself and pay contributors. Steemit "Your voice is worth something" https:/&#x2F
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
The CEO Steve Huffman recently admitted to editing his political opponent's posts. Maybe they can't get anything done because they're redditing all day.
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Good to know, though... thanks.
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By my read, the list of accomplishments for customers is notably short of anything positive that Yahoo did during Mayer's tenure, except for the fantasy sports. Non-rhetorical question: do people really think she did a good job becaus
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
For some reason, people used to think a track record of profits was relevant.
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
What I found helpful was watching videos by Antonio Centano https://www.youtube.com/user/RealMenRealStyle I'm going to presume you are male... not trying to be sexist, it's just a guess. If you are female I
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
>> > The world is a better place with lots of smaller companies. >> [citation needed] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bigger-corporations-are-m...
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'Cripple' is probably an exaggeration, I wasn't there (just got the angry phone call) but I believe it was a combination of two factors. First his machine not having a huge amount of breathing room with HD space. Second, th
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I definitely should have used the subjunctive case there, but I was addressing an HN audience who does get it. A charitable reader might have responded to the gist of the criticism. Are you suggesting that because many of Dropbox's us
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
Did you read the part of the statement where they promised to make changes to the application disclosures? Characterizing typical users as unable to understand rooting sidesteps the point that, when the concept is explained to them, most wi
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I doubt most people are comfortable with deception around root access, in order to have a better user experience. This is evidenced by the fact that Dropbox felt the need to apologize and alter their behavior. Largely through HN activism B
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I recently started moving away from Dropbox after realizing I am not comfortable with how aggressive and anti-user this software is. Last year the story broke about very questionable tactics of Dropbox Mac to gain root access. This year I h
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For small n: http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/jp-trutab.html
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I started working as a programmer the day I turned 16 in the early 90's, at $50/hr. Freelancing is a good idea... I would focus on small organizations, possibly non-profits. Learn about what organizations do and talk to people t
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Another way to reduce meat and animal product consumption, though counter intuitive, may be bone broth / anything with gelatin or glycine. I understand it has a "protein sparing" effect, meaning you can eat less protein tota
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I don't want to take from the gravity of the main topic, but it seemed notable that the online group -- and this is the larger one, not the subset that got in trouble -- identify as "bourgeois". Unless Harvard has really cha
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I'm sorry, the research I reviewed on animal infertility was a long time ago. The studies that were from the first half of the 20th century in which this result was demonstrated on just about every domestic farmed species. I don&#x27
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by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I don't know if they specifically apply to this study, but Stephan Guyenet has pointed out some of the potential problems with what are typically called "high-fat" diets for mice.* For example one research diet that is called
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These are precisely the 3 pizza joints I cannot convince my room mate to order from. I guess he doesn't like the secret billionaire cheese. EDIT: Not sure why this is being downvoted. Analysis of the mass market pizza industry as a r

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