trimbo

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Container ship crosses Arctic route for first time in history(independent.co.uk)
5 points by trimbo 8y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 8y ago
I think you mean $500M
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Important context regarding Uber’s pivot into all forms of transit And self-driving cars, flying cars, delivering food, freight, a credit card. Probably more I can't think of.
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Constance Adams, Architect of Space Habitats, Is Dead at 53(nytimes.com)
2 points by trimbo 8y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 8y ago
And smart pointers had been a thing for a while at that point (though not part of the library) https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/libs/smart_ptr/smart_p...
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by trimbo 8y ago
"Print is dead" -- Egon Spengler
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Messages on MacOS can send and receive SMS Assuming you have an iPhone though, right? I am sitting in front of a Mac and don't see any option for this (I use Android).
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Our history books don't say anything about a radical overhaul of the economic system in 1973 They don't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
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by trimbo 8y ago
How could I forget? I spent days trying to get it to work and never got it to work right.
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by trimbo 8y ago
I forget, did Braun ever sue Apple for all of those stolen designs? Anyway, shouldn't this be copyright law and not patent law?
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by trimbo 8y ago
Hm, well the way I think of it is, MacOS X 1.0 is to NeXTStep as Windows XP is to Windows NT. Both were releases on a decade-plus-old codebase, and had features (Carbon, e.g.) aimed at migrating legacy users from DOS and Mac. IIRC, it did h
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by trimbo 8y ago
The NeXTStep years don't count?
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by trimbo 8y ago
Won't this new law actually disincentivize more affordable housing?
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by trimbo 8y ago
This site has employment ads for YC portfolio companies placed into the feed.
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Tesla's Autopilot Chief Keller Steps Down After Two Years(bloomberg.com)
126 points by trimbo 8y ago|115 comments
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by trimbo 9y ago
In dollar amounts: > GE’s pension obligations, nearly $100 billion at the end of 2017, are underfunded by almost $30 billion. Yikes.
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by trimbo 9y ago
Incognito -> search for headline -> click
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by trimbo 9y ago
Wendover Productions has a good video that explains this and many other reasons why trains suck in the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ Spoiler: freight companies own most of the track
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by trimbo 9y ago
The Pixelbook is also 3:2.
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by trimbo 9y ago
> I think somebody needs to do something about this NDA situation, it’s getting out of control in SV Jimmy John's used to have their sandwich-making employees sign non-competes. They buckled on this since then, but this article deta
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by trimbo 9y ago
Thanks to digital, it's substantially cheaper to make a movie today than it was just 10 or 15 years ago. From the film and cameras to the editing process to the effects to the distribution. Distribution is now actually risk-free -- jus
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by trimbo 9y ago
Another nominee is Doug Cutting
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by trimbo 9y ago
> the road engineers should have made sure the lines were painted correctly If this is the intersection, they were painted correctly: https://goo.gl/maps/QuuRiixk6Y42 But in this video, the left solid white line was
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by trimbo 9y ago
Post to your .plan file
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by trimbo 9y ago
As an early riser, PST forever! I vote we do a half hour compromise.
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by trimbo 9y ago
The Vision fund is about half Saudi money http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/technology/saudi-softbank-te...
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by trimbo 9y ago
> Keep in mind that console dev kits of past were devices produced almost manually in very limited numbers You might be thinking of the alpha dev kits. Those were basically gigantic metal wirewraps, and if you were at a large game dev yo
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by trimbo 9y ago
Maybe the pricing is to keep out people who would only buy low volumes of chips later? Sony used to price Playstation 2 dev kits at $thousands. I always figured that pricing was to ensure only rich companies with e.g. marketing budgets were
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by trimbo 9y ago
> I'd still rather not have that line if it were my house. Why? It indicates someone lives in the house. Pretty safe assumption without Strava. The problem created by Strava (and other apps) is that people list their very expensive
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by trimbo 9y ago
As well as stored procs. I heard a few years ago that some government jobs apparently actually still require stored procs for security reasons. The ACL is controlled there.

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