wheels

48 ms·

481.
by wheels 8y ago
Odd. I've been waiting for a Macbook Pro that has something that excites me for a while (as my present one is 7 years old) and kind of gave up when the most recent Macbooks were announced. I threw some more RAM and a 4 core CPU in a d
482.
by wheels 8y ago
I believe the goal is explicitly not to skew things towards YC companies. The one special bonus that YC companies get is the ability to post job openings. The two posts from YC founders on the front page now aren't about startups a
483.
by wheels 8y ago
All that's highlighted for YC founders are the nicknames of other founders. So we can see which posts and comments are from other YC founders, but there's no special annotation just for posts at YC-funded domains (in this case,
484.
by wheels 8y ago
It still boggles my mind that CMake was the thing that won for the next generation of build systems. Its syntax is probably even worse than bash (except that it didn't have decades of compatibility to blame that on), making it the sin
485.
by wheels 8y ago
It's interesting -- I wholeheartedly agree with the phenomenon, but I'd frame it completely differently. There's a scary cliff there, but I feel like launching is when a project first becomes real . It's the actual sta
486.
by wheels 8y ago
http://www.weingut-klostermuehle.de/weingut/
487.
by wheels 8y ago
If you're new at this, it'd be better to get a range of stuff that's not super expensive and compare them. In addition to the couple I mentioned above, these are some good low-end Scotches: Laguvulin 16, Talisker 10, Glenmor
488.
by wheels 8y ago
There are loads of whiskies I like, but I need more context to recommend something. Are you just starting to drink whisky? What do you like? Are you looking for budget or exotic stuff? I've tasted some great Japanese whiskies, but I
489.
by wheels 8y ago
You can also put marbles into them to restore the volume, but I don't bother. I've only once had a bottle that went far off (meaning too much of the alcohol evaporated out), and I'd kept it with only 2-ish shots in it for pr
490.
by wheels 8y ago
Bruichladdich is good stuff, but for the stuff I've tasted, it's never been best-of-class. They've been great with marketing, and helped expand the market for Scotch, but at least, of the stuff I've tasted (I've ha
491.
by wheels 8y ago
I got into drinking wine at all because I happened to live in the southern German white wine region (marvelously underrated -- I believe southern Germany produces some of the world's best white wines). I lived across the street from a
492.
by wheels 8y ago
Laguvulin is honestly kind of middle of the pack for "iodine-ish" (like the original poster, I can relate to some skepticism with these labels) smokey whiskies. If that put you off, and you like Highland Park, I'd say that y
493.
by wheels 8y ago
To amplify that -- often whisky doesn't get better with age, or at least, not significantly enough to justify the price hike. I've tried (at the local whisky festival) most of the Talisker range, including distiller's editio
494.
by wheels 8y ago
That's mostly, but not completely, true. Connemara Irish whiskey is also peated. It's also a respectable whiskey, but I think you can do better for cheaper with Scotch island whiskies. For all-out smokey power, the (Texas-made) B
495.
by wheels 8y ago
There's really no reason to ever buy anything from Johnie Walker. If you want to drink whisky on a budget in the US, don't buy Scotch. You'll do much better in the US with a Rittenhouse Rye, or Buffalo Trace bourbon. Hell,
496.
by wheels 8y ago
One of the two that I mentioned there, the Laphroiag Quarter Cask, is, in my opinion, the best bang-for-your-buck whisky on the market these days. It's super peaty. It's apparently now about €35 (for better or worse, whisky has
497.
by wheels 8y ago
Being the sort of person who enjoys a regular tipple, when starting a startup (and conserving cash whereever possible), I got in the habit of blind testing wines and beers to find my favorite of the cheap ones. For beer, especially, the mai
498.
by wheels 9y ago
Yes, I've considered such. Unfortunately real-time audio processing is one of those areas where virtual machines are still very finicky.
499.
by wheels 9y ago
This is particularly heinous for those of us that do music production. A lot of plugins are orphaned at some point (meaning the developers no longer update them), and if you created a piece of music with those plugins (instruments, effects
500.
by wheels 9y ago
As an American that moved to Europe before I was old enough to ever buy an expensive mattress, what Americans spend on mattresses is always incredibly baffling. New, king sized (1.8 x 2.0 m), mattresses go for €200-1500 (about $250-1800) in
501.
MateBook X Pro: Huawei Attempts to Out-Pro Apple's MacBook Pro(theguardian.com)
13 points by wheels 9y ago|1 comments
502.
by wheels 9y ago
This is specifically for "heavy drinking". In case folks are wondering how that's defined (per the study, computed based on volume of 60 g of ethanol), it's: - 1.5 L of beer (at 5% ABV) - 0.5 L of wine (at 14% ABV)
503.
by wheels 9y ago
In Germany the bottles are reused, not just recycled. Specifically beer, soda and juice bottle shapes and sizes are standardized for reuse.
504.
by wheels 9y ago
It's true that if you have 30 days of vacation that that comes from your contract, but that's a pretty standard perk with large-ish companies. The legal minimum is 24 days though [1], so that's as low as it can go. Usually
505.
by wheels 9y ago
Not to be callous, but dying climbing Mt. Everest isn't random. Climbing Mt. Everest has a lower survival rate than stage 1 cancer. Chance of death is about 10%.
506.
by wheels 9y ago
Much of that can be mitigated in product design. The amount of labor needed to replace something is a function of the extent to which being serviceable is a design goal.
507.
by wheels 9y ago
The Live file format is gzipped XML. It very much lends itself to text-based version control. (I've even played around with adding such as a third party.)
508.
by wheels 10y ago
They're discussing the VC industry, not the ride-sharing industry.
509.
Saving the Planet, One Burger at a Time: This Juicy Patty Is Meat-Free(npr.org)
1 points by wheels 10y ago|0 comments
510.
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life(publicdomainreview.org)
2 points by wheels 10y ago|0 comments

More ›