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by tricky 17y ago
This is true even with roll cages in race cars. You'd think you want the strongest metal available, but that's not right. They actually use a softer steel so the cage deforms a on impact. The guy who welded mine said the shock from an impac
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by tricky 17y ago
You ever take a physics class? There are extreme forces involved in a collision like this. The acceleration numbers alone are astounding. I'd say this is pretty darn good for 40 years of safety innovation driven by consumers who would rat
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by tricky 17y ago
I do this every time I'm buying things with negotiable prices. My trick is to not use any eye contact until negotiation time. The surprise throws most people off their game enough to give you an advantage. Plus, it is kind of fun watching s
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by tricky 17y ago
I can't find information about the balloon. What kind of balloon did they use and where can I buy one?
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by tricky 17y ago
Yeah, but there are always those women who are "IT" hot. You know, the ones that wouldn't get a second glance out in the bars, but look pretty good in the workplace talking about hardware and whatnot.
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by tricky 17y ago
effing love this. I wonder what the reliability stats on this setup is, though. Is it really cheaper to jam all those drives in one unit without redundant PSU's, MB's, or a boot drive? I'd guess you'd have to build at least 2 of these units
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by tricky 17y ago
Wow. You admit you don't know anything about marine batteries and then you go on about how horrible of an idea this is? Do some research before you pull the trigger there, tiger. Marine batteries work well in this application. I've been u
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by tricky 17y ago
Don't let the 24/7 call center scare you. There are guys out there who run generic call centers that will set up a low-volume 24/7 service for cheap. real cheap...
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by tricky 17y ago
Sure, but you'd have to lea$e $erver $pace on the exchange floor to minimize latency. Your best bet is to come up with algorithms, prove they work and sell them to people who are already there.
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by tricky 17y ago
Wow, I've been kicking around an idea for a DICOM startup but I fear the HIPAA... Maybe I shouldn't. Thank you for that.
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by tricky 17y ago
huh.. do you have to house your servers in locked cages to maintain hipaa compliance?
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by tricky 17y ago
That's awesome... (Bayless High School for me)
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by tricky 17y ago
St. Louis, MO. USA
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by tricky 17y ago
The epiphany about the typewriter cracks me up. I had a similar one a few weeks ago when i found K&R's The C Programming Language for sale at the library.
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by tricky 17y ago
The seinfeld method is amazing. I rarely flossed my teeth but, for some odd reason, really wanted to make it a habit. I used the seinfeld method for 2 months (guess I'm a slow learner) and now I floss every single day no matter what.
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by tricky 17y ago
Maybe you can't decide on which "creative" type of work to do. One day you want to write iPhone apps, the next day you want to play prog guitar, the next you want to learn lisp, ad infinitum. You can't do that. You have to decide on one thi
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by tricky 17y ago
Just last week I started hacking together a tracking app to do this sort of work... but I quit when I found http://your.flowingdata.com/ and http://www.daytum.com/ Does anyone think there is room for multiple players in this space? If
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by tricky 17y ago
Wow... Biology: the ultimate hack... Anyone think that the singularity will be more about biology than computers?
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by tricky 17y ago
I wasn't involved in the real estate side of things so I don't know how we got the space, but I did work for a company that had machines right on the trading floor of almost every exchange in the world. So, I think the answer to your questi
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by tricky 17y ago
Why not simulate a more interconnected architecture by just running really really fast?
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by tricky 17y ago
"psychologist Robert Rosenthal, who has praised Roberts for 'approaching data in an exploratory spirit more than, or at least in addition to, a confirmatory spirit' and for seeing data analysis 'as the opportunity to confront a surprise.'"
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by tricky 17y ago
I would love to implement a graph like this where each node used bayesian inference to act on messages received from connected vertices. My gut says if you could get the system's state to settle to an equilibrium, it could react to changes
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by tricky 17y ago
It doesn't have to be... at first. Prove it works and everyone will bust ass in a space race to design fast hardware.
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by tricky 17y ago
menfacingdivorce.com menseekingdivorce.com womenfacingdivorce.com womenseekingdivorce.com (We were going to call our cheesy 90's cover band "men facing divorce" I got a little register-happy.)
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by tricky 17y ago
You should build that out! I've set up scrapers for my wife to help her stalk sweaters and shoes. she loves that, and i'm guessing there are a lot like her out there who'd use the service.
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by tricky 17y ago
Instead of large sheets of flimsy paper, we are using 4x6 note cards, binder clips, and pencils. At first, the small cards seem like a problem, but they work well because they force you to break your ideas into meaningful chunks. Make a mis
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by tricky 17y ago
I play guitar. I'm always in a band or two. Mostly synth-rock bands. Lately, I've been trying to put together a cuddlecore-twee-grindcore thing with a lot of moog. We'll see how that goes.
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by tricky 17y ago
Same thing happens to me. I just tell everyone I'm "code brained" and sit in a corner until I snap out of it.
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by tricky 17y ago
I thought this was nice and relevant to us hackers: "I don’t think the workshops taught me too much about craft, but they did teach me about the importance of making things, not just reading things. You care about things that you make, and
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by tricky 17y ago
I'd like to hear some advice about this, too. anyone? anyone?!? I've often thought it would be awesome to find a personal assistant/drill-sergeant/project-manager to keep me on track. I can't figure out how to pull that off, though... Ins

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