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by w0mbat 8y ago
Startups always claim the project will only take 2 hours, but doing a half-decent job takes more like 2 days, and in real-life you'd spend 2 weeks or more on it to do it properly (tests, localization, documentation, performance tuning,
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by w0mbat 8y ago
That's fueled by onboard hydrogen, not onboard electrical charge, so it's not an EV.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
The post title does not correctly spell his surname. It's "Nilsson" with one "L" and a double "S".
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by w0mbat 8y ago
Well yeah, it’s a few Core Graphics calls, just like it has been from Objective C since OS X was born. This is something CG has built-in, not a feature of Swift.
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New elite coffee shops ban milk and sugar(bbc.com)
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by w0mbat 8y ago
4G is very patchy in some urban areas and doesn't give quite the speed needed to make it so you don't need Wi-Fi/broadband at home. 5G has a hierarchy of connections at different frequencies to give better coverage.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
It looks like there are a couple of disinformation campaigns against cellphone infrastructure and particularly 5G right now. One is aimed at retargeting environmentalists to fight harmless cell towers instead of bothering industry by fighti
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by w0mbat 8y ago
I’m curious what deals were given to Eero engineers who survived the transition to Amazon, if any did. Did they get a better Amazon package than a random new-hire with their experience? I know of cases elsewhere where aqui-hires have gotten
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Toyota opens up 24,000 hybrid car patents(theverge.com)
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How one product can spawn hundreds of knock-offs(theverge.com)
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Prosecutors Investigate Company That Put Malware on Google Play Store(motherboard.vice.com)
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Autistic Woman Finds Therapy in Stripping(narratively.com)
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by w0mbat 8y ago
I don't think any intelligence was involved.
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Why Some Asian Accents Swap Ls and Rs in English(youtube.com)
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British Airways flight mistakenly lands in Scotland instead of Germany(cnn.com)
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Gates-backed Lumotive upends Lidar conventions using metamaterials(techcrunch.com)
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by w0mbat 8y ago
Yes, that jumped off the page at me too, and distracted me from the rest of the article.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
The anti-vaxx delusion is a contagious viral illness of the brain that enables the spread of biological viruses that do physical harm. This is not a free speech issue, it's a public health issue.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
I must have done half my Xmas shopping in the local 4 Star store, so I'm glad they are sticking with that concept. A well curated set of good gifts you can see IRL is a valuable thing.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
I assume this is the technology Apple is already using in their custom silicon, and why there was that fairly recent story of a hospital where Apple devices failed in the presence of helium leaked from their MRI installation.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
The real experience is living in the south bay in a giant apartment complex with a pool, driving everywhere, working on a tech campus, shopping at Fry's and Valley Fair. I may move back.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
Never criticize the company or their products during the interview. Whatever company it is. Have some common sense.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
Facebook is known for over-paying, which alone accounts for its continuing popularity with engineers. I worked my ass off trying to get through the multi screen hiring process there and despite being ex-Google still fucked it up at the end.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
Eval has been evil since medireview times. https://revealingerrors.com/medireview
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by w0mbat 8y ago
I read the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I see no ban on jokes.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
> New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers Good. I hate it when my food has human workers in it.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
> The only square consumer oriented cameras > I can think of are twin-lens reflex cameras > like the Rolleiflex, which are delightful > but somewhat uncommon. The Kodak Brownie, a cheap consumer camera that sold in the millions,
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by w0mbat 8y ago
The slightly ambiguous headline might make some think that no woman has won ANY Nobel prize in the last 55 years. That only applies to the Physics prize, many women have won Nobels in other categories.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
You people are no fun.
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by w0mbat 8y ago
In Belgium they've got Jean-Claude Sand Dams.

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