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by ultimoo 13y ago
"Alternatively, you can use it the other way. Connect the gear at left to a tectonic plate. Rest your finger on the gear at right. Voila! You can exert a force great enough to stop the tectonic plate's motion. Plausible?" Nop
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Great arrangement! It will work. Whether it will be financially feasible to construct such a large system of gears, deploy it in extreme weather, keep it well oiled and maintain it, and then transport the generated power to a usable locati
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by ultimoo 13y ago
True this. The office I work in SF has meeting rooms named after dead musicians.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I missed a beat when I read South Bay, because very few of the 'cool' apps like instacart, lift, uber, taskrabbit, or any apps having real-life tangible outcomes ever work in San Jose. I thought finally something is going to wor
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Happy sysadmins day! Splunk is giving out free t-shirts to sysadmins today -- https://twitter.com/splunk/status/360786441749532672
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Back in 1995 when I was about 9 my parents paid a princely sum of Rs. 500 to enroll me for 4 classes of MSPaint spread out over 1 month at a local school that had secured two personal computers with color monitors back in India. So, I guess
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by ultimoo 13y ago
"But preventing third-party implementations of protocols or APIs is so 90s." I think the impending 3Taps (padmapper.com) v/s Craigslist case[1] will shed more light on this. padmapper were using Craigslist data that is '
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by ultimoo 13y ago
This faintly reminded me of the opening few chapter(s) of Gladwell's Outliers that I'd read a few years ago.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
"We decided to charge upfront for Narrato Journal because we wanted to make it clear that we have a business model that doesn’t involve advertising or selling your data. You own all of your data and you have full control over it."
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by ultimoo 13y ago
" and Milos Forman made a decision when he chose to show both Jim Carrey and Jerry Lawler." I'm amazed that Netflix edits the frame to a degree that may actually change the meaning of a scene or a dialog. I know that cropping
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by ultimoo 13y ago
If you think OS X offers better dictation/accessibility support than Ubuntu does you can also virtualize OS X on OS X using VMWare Fusion. I'm sure there are other ways of doing this but I know that VMWare Fusion supports this [1]
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Wow, this is not something I knew about Alaska. I did a simple google image search for 'Alaska mosquitoes' and that is plain scary.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
While I agree with this idealistically and wish that all the code I've come across adhered to published interfaces, unfortunately that hasn't been the case. Published interfaces may also not be possible in certain code bases or fr
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by ultimoo 13y ago
This is a great way of disagreeing with a position. Polite and backed by a concise fact. Thanks.
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Time as a hexadecimal color value(thecolourclock.co.uk)
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I wonder what facebookers who are HNers have to say about this. Do you guys have any opinions about this -- it is by design? Are there ways around it? Will there be ways around this?
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I'm not sure how it works but would having a small recess of water inside the flashlight help maintain the temperature difference? So that when you have used the flashlight enough that its temperature has risen to that of your hand, yo
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by ultimoo 13y ago
James, I'm in no position to help out someone right now, but I do hope things work out for you. I offer you my best wishes and an upvote. Best of luck and keep trying.
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Hadoop hype spawns $8M for DataTorrent, Splunk, Teradata(gigaom.com)
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by ultimoo 13y ago
TL;DR -- iOS 7 will leverage newer iPhone's Retina display and faster GPU for displaying a slick new UI that Android won't be able to copy. I like the progress iOS and Android have made over the last few years. I've tried bot
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I wonder whether the statute of limitations applies to such things. I hope it does.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
Nice. Quite a well written article. I am especially interested in how Tweetbot is going to adapt to the iOS 7 interface. I love to use it on iOS 6 but as the OP points out the interface is very "heavy" -- full of bevels, shadows,
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by ultimoo 13y ago
What is the 'np.reddit.com' subdomain used for? I had never seen it before, and it looks similar to the www subdomain.
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Vintage Tech Ads(mashable.com)
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How we use fogbugz for recruiting(blog.fogcreek.com)
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by ultimoo 13y ago
The US is huge ! My mother back home in India still has a hard time believing that there are 4 time zones between San Francisco and New York.
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I'm yet to come across a developer who claimed that OS X has better hardware support than GNU/Linux. I have however come across plenty stating that they pay top dollar for Apple because they manufacture both -- the hardware and
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> - you wonder how you turned into "the build guy" when you actually signed on to make great products. Being "the build guy" is an important role in delivering great products. In fact, SaaS CI offerings in my experien
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I'm in the exact same situation. I am hoping that they launch the updated 13" rMBP along with OS X 10.9.
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by ultimoo 13y ago
I'm really shy about sharing stuff on facebook. Maybe because of the number of highschool and college folks I have friended there. So basically I'm a 'scroller' (I have a 20yo real life friend who called me this term offline). I do go to fa

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