tomfakes

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by tomfakes 15y ago
Hey Todd, you should try buying something in each store. The actual purchase experience is so different that it's shocking (at least it was for me) The Microsoft store has the look worked out, but the actual purchase process is horrible co
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3.3B - less than half the current 7B
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I am willing to stand up to be a customer of Fisker, but not of Tesla. I have places I go that are > 200 miles from home. I want to drive my fun car to these places. The Tesla can't do this. I can never be a customer of Tesla's with
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If this is successful, the US government gets taxpayers and people out of unemployment lines. There is an upside, but not directly from the payback of the loan.
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This headline could be changed to be: Car maker builds cars in Finland, gets US loan guarantee to build cars in US and create US jobs Maybe it's a bit long for a headline This news is also 2 years old!
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I would talk to a copyright lawyer to see what can be done there too. Many of the recent table games in casinos are copyrighted, e.g Let It Ride, 3 card poker etc. You may be able to copyright enough of the game to help fend off the big gu
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Steve owned at least 1 BMW in the last 10 years that I know of specifically.
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Add Einstein to this list, and three of them have the same biographer. Walter Isaacson did a great job with Franklin and Einstein. Hopefully, it isn't too soon for Steve's biography (a bunch of Einstein's letters didn't get released until
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The big thing that sticks out here, and makes all the science hard to prove or disprove, is that no-one actually sticks to the diet they are assigned in a trial! Almost everyone agrees that you shouldn't eat the processed crap - but after t
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One interesting point that the Archevore points out is that the reason Very Low Carb works is because the lack of insulin spikes causes the cravings to go away, and you tend to eat fewer calories. If these calories have a lot of saturated
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This guy is an interesting read, he's a medical doctor and there's a lot of technical stuff that you may need to lookup to see if hs's actually BSing or not - http://www.archevore.com/ There's a lot in there about why the Common Wisdom is
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In my recent research into nutrition, there is good evidence that saturated fat isn't the enemy. The science for nutrition in humans is very difficult to pin down - there are just too many external variables, and the human body does a fanta
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by tomfakes 15y ago
There's a cool site here http://www.bundlewatcher.com/ that can read your bundle definition and provides a RSS feed of updates to all your gems. I have all my gems locked on specific versions to avoid surprises, and this site shows me whe
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Unrelated to the discussion, but KEXP is hiring a software engineer if anyone's interested http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/sof/2609125268.html
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In 1985 I was diagnosed with 'crohn's disease' and spent most of that summer in and out of hospital - I watched Live Aid on a hospital TV! After a bunch of stuff failed, they eventually opened me up and whipped out 2 feet of intestine that
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I have been diagnosed with an auto-immune issue that has a single obvious symptom and a bunch of long term, harder to track ones. Several months ago, I was on a very low carb diet to lose some weight (which worked!) and my obvious symptom w
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This person could also be counting the cards, and adjusting their play according to the cards remaining in the deck, i.e. they're a better player than you!
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I left London in 1994, and at that time I was earning 25K GBP, being 4 years out of university. 20K now sounds very low, being the US equivalent of quite a bit under $40K.
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Based on the context of the article, he was a QA person in a triple A game company. It seems to be standard practice to let most of the QA teams go once the game has shipped, as most of these guys are contract, not full time.
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Here's another link for 150 if that one runs out - I don't know if this adds me to a circle for you to start you off: https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3F...
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by tomfakes 15y ago
http://www.evolvingexcellence.com/blog/2011/08/the-fed-disho... These guys call BS on the Fed's numbers, and then ask why the Fed deliberately made this complex calculation in a way to deceive what is really happening
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Its acting funky for me, but not down. Facebook is so distributed that very few need be inconvenienced by a few failed servers
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Almost no-one uses Linux as their desktop. A lot of the UI tools don't work as well on Linux, or have no Linux versions at all.
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I think there are a few reasons 1. Mac UI looks good, browser fonts look good there too 2. A lot of open source stack developers use OSX as their dev machines, so the code has already been tested there 3. Since OSX is BSD, a lot of the sam
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I'd prefer eastside, all of the cool kids meetups tend to be downtown and traffic sucks to get from here to there on weekday evenings.
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Here's the money quote: I'm officially quitting that job on national TV The use of the word 'job' there implies The Job, not 'the job on the project', hence the overall confusion - people taking the words as said, not as meant Note:
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Blogger comments suck! Here's the money quote: I'm officially quitting that job on national TV The use of the word 'job' there implies The Job, not 'the job on the project', hence the overall confusion - people taking the words as sa
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The Bite of Seattle is running this weekend - good food, entertainment etc http://www.comcastbiteofseattle.com/
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Unfuddle charges by space used, not per-repo. For Git projects, the per-repo pricing of Github is insane. They don't even have a public pricing plan for the number of repos I'd need for my personal (and private) coding. I use Unfuddle for
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Yup - I'm going to need a 'build for production' system - I've used Hudson for this in the past - that does this and sets up the production push.

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