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by wgj 9y ago
This is a pretty good demonstration on acoustic guitar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV8jYTfxJTI
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by wgj 9y ago
This is going to be for people (companies, startups) that want to build on top of it. It's going to accelerate development and/or create opportunities in specific verticals.
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by wgj 9y ago
Maybe I just tried it at the wrong time, but several years ago I tried IFTTT for a few weeks. Events frequently fired late or not at all. It seemed useless in a situation where you needed some confidence in the timeliness or consistency of
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by wgj 9y ago
The 'print' link on the page is broken, but for those who still want to read the descriptions in one go, this one works: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1332763&print=ye...
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DuPont, Washington Fought to Keep Amtrak Out Before Killer Crash(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by wgj 9y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 9y ago
I benefited from the Apple IIe program in schools back in the early 80s. (Mentioned in the full article.) Still programming today, and have no idea what I'd be doing now if not for that pivotal situation. It gave me the idea, the motiv
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by wgj 9y ago
If the out of business scenario includes the possibility of acquisition or asset sale, code escrow is a significant factor lessening the value of assets or killing the deal entirely. Stated differently, it's not what a buyer wants to f
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by wgj 9y ago
FPGAs are usually a better situational substitute for an ASIC than a CPU. Relative strengths of FPGAs: * Complete control over pin assignments. * Complete control over PLLs and clocks. * Complete control over transitioning clock domains, an
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by wgj 9y ago
I worked at a UPS sort facility in the 1980s. Everyone there was definitely a human robot. Up to 130F temperatures were legal in the feeder trucks. All sorters and loaders were monitored by supervisors with stopwatches and clipboards. I can
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by wgj 9y ago
Only drawback is association with a card that says "Uber" on it. Their brand is terrible. For any online purchases, I suppose that's less of an issue.
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by wgj 9y ago
It's not just standard of living. There's a lot of safety net you forego. In the US, you won't qualify for employer health insurance, and in most states you won't qualify for unemployment. You won't be eligible for
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by wgj 9y ago
Rodney Jerkins is only one of five writers on the song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Long_as_You_Love_Me_(Justin... Bieber also has songwriting credit. If the royalty was divided evenly, Bieber would also get 20%.
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by wgj 9y ago
Read the article. The Buzzfeed reporter was calling out Google's error putting 4chan in the news section of results. The error is Google's.
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by wgj 9y ago
There are many smaller hotels inside SF for $140/night or less. (That's the price the writer quotes for a nap station and shower at the airport.) But it's a false premise, and no one would do that long term. $1500/month
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by wgj 9y ago
I'm 50 and have been wearing glasses for about 6 years now. Your neurology adjusts pretty quickly. The first few days, your field of view feels limited. After that it feels normal. It was a delight to adjust my font sizes down on all m
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by wgj 9y ago
previous conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11081575
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by wgj 9y ago
What is GA? The only place I see it in the article is the title, and a google search turned up nothing for me.
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by wgj 9y ago
The C&D indicates you had a developer account with Smarterer. That seems significantly different from Mark Zuckerberg having a MySpace account.
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by wgj 10y ago
The quality estimate for 'toothbrush' is 70%. https://research.google.com/audioset/dataset/index.html
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Recent WordPress vulnerability used to deface 1.5M pages(pcworld.com)
4 points by wgj 10y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 10y ago
For me, vim mode has been less buggy.
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by wgj 10y ago
Here is the real problem. Incandescent bulb tech has been capable of being far more long-lasting, and therefore cheaper, since nearly the beginning. [1] The entire industry has been based on a kind of lie. We are very fortunate that the LED
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by wgj 10y ago
WSJ uses a dismissable ad overlay that looks like a paywall, even when linked from Google. Just click the x to remove it.
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by wgj 10y ago
+1 I've lived in Seattle since 1991. I've lived without a car since 2005. It was harder then than now. These days we have Zipcar, Car2Go, Uber, Light Rail, marginally better Metro. Walking and biking are always options. It's
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by wgj 10y ago
Good point, yet the remainder is still significantly more than 0.3%. It seems fraud is much worse in the US. That could be a factor too. https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+card+fraud+us+vs+euro...
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by wgj 10y ago
It shouldn't matter to the customer, but at its best, serverless can reduce ops and reduce cost. Lambda doesn't make it easier to use SES. It does make it easier to not rely on ec2 for the same workload.
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Moz is doubling down on search (and lays off 60)(moz.com)
2 points by wgj 10y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 10y ago
The team at CERN has made big improvements to KiCad, including the push and shove router: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCG4daPvuVI Another good reason to think about KiCad is if you care about open formats (vs. Altium fo
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Ending the mass assignment party(techno-weenie.net)
3 points by wgj 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgj 15y ago
The actual quote this is based on roughly said 99% of applicants, which is hardly the same as 99% of programmers. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer... My own opinion is that if the ratio is this bad by the time

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