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by waivej 14y ago
I don't agree... Planning is only guessing if you don't use it to think through decisions ahead of time. You can also use it to test assumptions and make plans based on the outcomes.
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by waivej 14y ago
I'm very excited about your idea. I've worked with some of their APIs and they are definitely lacking.
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by waivej 14y ago
I was chatting with my dad about this today. (He teaches classes that use graphing calculators.). It's cheap to buy a calculator emulator app so they must allow it soon. Though students sometimes use the camera and email to cheat.
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by waivej 14y ago
Keep in mind that it's a 10-12% difference in mpg. It's like saying the 30mpg car is "inefficient" compared to the 33mpg one.
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by waivej 14y ago
Had trouble in US (near Sandy damage) until I dumped my DNS cache and reopened browsers.
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by waivej 14y ago
I am pleasantly surprised by how much I agree with this article and it applies to other technology like cars, tools, etc. A good corollary is a proficient user is well served by spares. Ex: our router is acting up so I'll swap it with one
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by waivej 14y ago
One of these crawled out of our compost bucket through the foam filter and onto the ground. It took about three days and the slime trail would dry over time so it really moved. I was fascinated and a little unnerved by it. It looked inte
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by waivej 14y ago
I saw a load of about 200-250 simultaneous visitors when one of my sites got posted from ycombinator to the reddit. After 12 hours it tapered off.
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by waivej 14y ago
That is downright awesome! I love that it created a page for me right away so I didn't have to register.
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by waivej 14y ago
That's a great article! I learned to really program on Turbo Pascal, and if I remember correctly, the small executable made it easier to store programs on the "program disk". Though by the time I built my own computer, it had dual floppie
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by waivej 14y ago
How about one for Photoshop users looking to switch?
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by waivej 14y ago
I got into the science of brewing pretty seriously for a year and then stopped drinking entirely. It was a great experience.
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by waivej 14y ago
I am with you on this one. Late summer until now has been particularly busy...to the level of increasing my blood pressure and making it tough to sleep. Two things have made a difference so far. Identifying exactly what I am stressed abou
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by waivej 14y ago
Electric sports car
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by waivej 14y ago
Absolutely, when I had my Fiat, I drove all year round and almost never with the top up. Winter is so much fun with sun and warm heater on your face. A thick hat and blanket keeps it cozy.
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by waivej 14y ago
You reminded me of a developer complaining about the XML bloat in our product. He said "Do you know how much overhead XML adds to your page loads?". I responded "Yes, roughly 60ms on uncached page loads.". Later he proudly explained that h
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by waivej 14y ago
RPI is actually in Troy, but the distance is correct.
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by waivej 14y ago
This is so cool, and I'm wondering if I can do something similar. It reminds me of "bug seeding" where you purposely insert bugs into your product and count how many are found through testing. (Of course, you track them so you can take th
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by waivej 14y ago
Use a javascript function to poll the server for something.
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by waivej 14y ago
It seems like an excellent project to work on. Hybrids do well on gasoline because they have efficient undersized engines combined with light weight and excellent aerodynamics. This retrofit wouldn't change any of those things so I doubt i
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by waivej 14y ago
I would read about Buckminster Fuller. He had the same goal. For example, "Critical Path" is a good start. Another book to consider is "How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life" by Alan Lankin. Invest time to understand yourself. Th
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by waivej 14y ago
After learning several instruments, I am using this approach to learn piano: -play 10+ minutes daily -work through a book that interests me (boogie woogie) -get the fingering right early - there are numbers in the book, hard to unlearn mist
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by waivej 14y ago
Try this for the video: http://vimeo.com/45485034
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by waivej 14y ago
Me too. Though the author has a picture of coconuts on his "what I eat" page.
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by waivej 14y ago
Summary: bad science led to low fat diet craze. Reduce carbohydrates instead.
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by waivej 14y ago
Cool! That's how I spent the past 20 years... Try to take classes, but just launch full speed into new goals. For example, to learn photography I bought a nice camera and darkroom and $1000 worth of film. To learn car repair, I bought a
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by waivej 14y ago
"Vast insights" was a joke because I caught my ego looking for a chance to prove how smart it is. When I started meditating (10 years ago?), I wanted to make a wildly successful business to show how smart and precocious I was. Though thin
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by waivej 14y ago
I read the original study and came away thinking that it was skewed strongly to errors that an OS could detect. For example, CPU errors were far worse than DRAM errors, and both were much worse than hard drive errors. Regardless, in my lif
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by waivej 14y ago
"Meditation For Dummies" is actually a good starting point. I am not sure what you mean about a scientific point of view. Though, I come at it from a non-dogmatic point of view and am methodical about many things. I don't read scientific
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by waivej 14y ago
Interesting article. I approached it wanting to share the vast insights I've gained after meditating for years. Though I left with a new perspective. Thank you.

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