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by wiremine 11y ago
The Air Zoo Museum in Kalamazoo Michigan has a SR-71B on display, and it's even cooler in person than the pictures give it credit for. If you ever get a chance, I recommend you check it out. http://www.airzoo.org/page.p
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by wiremine 11y ago
I'm in the lucky 10,000 who saw this first the first time today. Thx for sharing! Should be required reading for HN, if such a thing existed.
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by wiremine 11y ago
I think the have the opportunity, but they are very late to the game. I used Skype for 6 years for work related stuff, and it wasn't great in terms of chat. Slack is WORLDS better. But Skype works GREAT for my interactions with family.
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by wiremine 11y ago
I second the recommendation Effective Go. It's a fairly quick read and routed me around a lot of poor design decisions: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
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Director of Star Trek II and VI Joins CBS's TV Reboot(startrek.com)
3 points by wiremine 11y ago|1 comments
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by wiremine 11y ago
This was my thought. What is Microsoft's answer to Swift?
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by wiremine 11y ago
I disagree: I'd rather see a well reasoned response than a knee jerk relation. If they had decided _not_ to do anything, I'd prefer to have them think about it first. That said, they set the bar pretty high, and now they need to e
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by wiremine 11y ago
Check out this article, or google around for others. Apple has spent a lot of time making Safari more efficient to extend battery life: http://bgr.com/2015/08/05/google-chrome-vs-safari-battery-li...
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by wiremine 11y ago
> It's certainly snappier than the alternatives. I recently got a new, high-end Macbook Pro (16GB, 1TB SSD, i7 2.8Gz). I've been a long-time Chrome user, but I figured this would be a good time to try Safari: I've heard g
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by wiremine 11y ago
Yeah, I think that's true. But it still alludes to a broken corporate culture. If nobody can call back because they can't take the bull by the horns, that tells you something. (if it is indeed a true story).
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by wiremine 11y ago
My father-in-law works for a Tier 2 auto supplier that works primarily with GM. Elements of this story sounded very similar to how GM operates: no callbacks, lack of empathy, passing the buck, etc. I wonder how deep the similarities go, or
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by wiremine 11y ago
I'm curious how this compares to the browsers that use the same core technology that Atom uses.
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by wiremine 11y ago
I live in Holland, which is 40 minutes from G.R. I second the comments: Grand Rapids is a great city. I recommend visiting in the late Spring or Early Summer: it's heaven. If you do happen to visit in Winter, and you're near Holla
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by wiremine 11y ago
The page was slashdotted for me, here's a copy: "Effective immediately, Linode Manager passwords have been expired. You will be prompted to set a new password on your next login. We regret this inconvenience, however this is a nec
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by wiremine 11y ago
Good point. I wasn't suggesting teachers suck. In my experience, though, this approach is more accessible, but it isn't widely used. I'm not a trained educator, so I'm wondering if there we don't see more of this so
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by wiremine 11y ago
I wonder why more secondary teachers don't use these sorts of examples? Any teachers out there that can give insight?
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by wiremine 11y ago
You say that tongue in cheek, but as a non-scientist, I've always wondered how much "mouse science" ultimately translates to humans. My guess is it's very low, but knowing a percentage would help me better understand how
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by wiremine 11y ago
These two paragraphs highlight the findings the the hypothesis explaining the 50%+ change: "During the 2000s, highly educated women had higher fertility rates than women with intermediate levels of education. Importantly, this is a res
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by wiremine 11y ago
Is there any precedent for this sort of merger/split? First time I've heard of this sort of arrangement, short of a government-mandated break up.
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Adele and Taylor Swift may come back to Spotify, but only for paying subscribers(arstechnica.com)
2 points by wiremine 11y ago|0 comments
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by wiremine 11y ago
Honest question: what has been Yahoo's core business for the last 15 years?
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America’s secret arsenal: The most powerful cyberweapons(politico.com)
3 points by wiremine 11y ago|0 comments
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by wiremine 11y ago
People will think you're joking, but it's the first thing I thought, too. My parents live in Chicago, and they just roll their eyes about all the way people seem to steal from the city.
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by wiremine 11y ago
Is anyone actually surprised by this announcement? It feels like Mozilla tries a lot of things, but rarely gets traction on any of them. Mean while, Firefox isn't getting that much better and seems to be loosing marketshare. What'
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by wiremine 11y ago
> I'm afraid this is a glimpse into the not so distant future where software developers are next in line after taxi and truck drivers - uncertain if their skills will be required in a decade from now. That might be true, but I don&#
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by wiremine 11y ago
It's open source now... seems like a reasonable project for the community to pick up. (Not to say Apple shouldn't do it, but I don't see them doing it with Xcode being their default IDE)
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by wiremine 11y ago
If you find the article interesting, I encourage you to check out Chris Rock's "Good Hair" film. As a white guy from the midwest I learned a lot: Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-4qxz08So
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by wiremine 11y ago
Title reminded me of "Cool Site of the Day". Surprised to see it's still going strong, 21 years later. Extra points for using a perl script via CGI. Now that's cool. It's a bit disappointing to see how many websites
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by wiremine 11y ago
True, although Virgin Galactic haven't commercialized it either, correct?
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by wiremine 11y ago
From what the website says, one of their main goals is a commercial "astronaut experience". In that case, they're only aiming for 100km. [1] This flight confirms they have achieved that goal, correct? [1] https://w

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