wamatt

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by wamatt 14y ago
Honestly - since your profile advertises "Calling out bullshit in your own thinking and everyone else's is a very important skill." Let me help try help you out :). Here are some more of your quotes: 'Everyone is ruled by incentives' '
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Wow, had no idea WinRAR contained a mini-VM. Cool, weird and maybe slightly disconcerting
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'This is hyperbole.' Agreed, but I think the cost, performance, power consumption ratio's are very interesting. Strong possibility the bitcoin miners could be all over this, if it ever makes it out the door.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Very interesting. Can someone who knows about this stuff comment on whether the energy required to extract the H2 from the water, is more than the energy contained in the chemical bonds of the H2 itself? (assume both sides of the compar
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by wamatt 14y ago
"This article seems to not match reality." Perhaps, but personally the article felt authentic to me. Maybe something to do with the number of specific new details revealed in this ongoing IOS6 maps debacle.
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by wamatt 14y ago
"From the size of gravels it carried, we can interpret the water was moving about 3 feet per second, with a depth somewhere between ankle and hip deep," said Curiosity science co-investigator William Dietrich of the University of Californi
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by wamatt 14y ago
Nice :), though I would consider making your $5 tier free, in order to encourage developer adoption. Even though $5 isn't much, it's a bit more friction in the decision making process.
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by wamatt 14y ago
>"I'm simply saying that assumptions need to be challenged and assertions need data to back them up. " I hope you have a study to backup that assertion.. :p (Hint: not all knowledge is empirical)
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Google Trends now merged with Google Insights(google.com)
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by wamatt 14y ago
You might find this useful https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbamfloeabgknfklmg...
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by wamatt 14y ago
Codeacademy is awesome! The industry had to start somewhere and they've done a stellar job, but it could be even simpler. That said, the issue the author appears to be having is specifically the disconnect between the marketing, 'easiest w
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Proposed new HTML tag: IMG (1993)(1997.webhistory.org)
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by wamatt 14y ago
As much as I loathe being the guy defending trolls, the level of judgement expressed in this thread is a bit troubling. Labeling this kid a 'pyschopath' might feel nice, but it's rather inaccurate. [1]. Specifically when he saw the damage h
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by wamatt 14y ago
Spanner appears to raise the bar on globally distributed DB's, in the process making it desirable to a number of application developers. Which raises the question of whether Google will make Spanner available to 3rd parties... (hope so!)
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Not a fan of praise for the sake of it either, but having said that, this is one of the most succinct and focused essays I've read on startups, in a long time, and hard to fault it's fundamental message. As founders it's easy to do things o
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by wamatt 14y ago
>you've got street view like imagery for every major city on the planet in 10 days. It took Google years to get Street View right, with massive amount of engineering talent and financial capital committed along the way. 12 months wo
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Smith.IO, Now and in the Future(c9.io)
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by wamatt 14y ago
This reply is using it. Neat :)
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>Skitch was perfect Really? While I'm somewhat fond of Skitch, some of us find the UX rather confusing. The menu's were cluttered, and for the most part does not operate on common design patterns. For example, nearly all image apps al
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by wamatt 14y ago
I use this, however unfortunately under Chrome, it does not provide all the same functionality as using the command bar directly. For example, type 'github my notifications' in Omnibox. It takes one to the advanced search page, instead of
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by wamatt 14y ago
I was rather fascinated by Myhrvold, and the IV gang a few years back. The promise of a "pure invention" company where hundreds of scientists were toiling away on big ideas, creating a true innovation market, seemed rather exciting. This wa
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by wamatt 14y ago
> Watching the NoSQL "movement" encounter the problems RDBMSs fixed 20 years ago and then hand-wave and kludge them away is frustrating. But but but.... NoSQL is cool ;)
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by wamatt 14y ago
My experience of Facebook code is that it's bloated and convoluted, having been an evolution of hacks built on top of each other. In fact it feels similar to Microsoft and legacy code that where carried into Windows and beyond. Granted cert
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by wamatt 14y ago
I get your point that the studies are limited at such high doses, but Mayo clinic and various others disagree that it's non-toxic. "Taking 50,000 international units (IU) a day of vitamin D for several months has been shown to cause toxici
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by wamatt 14y ago
Thanks :). PS didn't mean to be harsh, I really appreciate it when others take the time to tell me that sort of thing, as it helps one to improve, but maybe you see it differently.
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Well, I wouldn't say it's really hard to OD if one is not paying attention, although it's probably a very uncommon occurrence compared to deficiency rates. I have seen products with 50k IU available OTC and on the web, intended to be take
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by wamatt 14y ago
Yeah it's definitely a good idea to inform yourself before popping a bunch of pills. But, examining your diet is not going to help you make an informed decision in this particular instance. For example, you could have a gene that causes D m
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by wamatt 14y ago
Most Americans are deficient in Vitamin D, programmer or not. [1]. One of the few supplements that are actually is a good idea, but don't overdo it, as it becomes toxic at higher levels. You would not want to take more than 10 000IU per day
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by wamatt 14y ago
Sounds like rather remarkable story, and might have read it all, had the annoyingly small font size, not been forced on Chrome and Safari users. Grandpa's eyes at age 33, can't read your blog comfortably, as a result. :p -webkit-text-siz
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by wamatt 14y ago
I really have no clue how the economy works, but right now there is only one guy I trust, Ray Dalio Self made macro hedge fund manager with a rags to riches story. He's pretty strange and employs an army of financial engineers in some fores

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