BrianEatWorld

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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
What did you end up finding? I was given advice when shopping for a new screen to find the highest model range, as in the highest leading numbers, and then get the lowest number within that range as that usually trims out the "features
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I think part of that resistance is that by giving in to urbanization, they are subsidizing SF's resistance to the same thing. If SF relaxed their laws and allowed for more density, San Jose could go back to being a suburb. As your post
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I find it odd that the baseline used is after the holiday sales period, in the doldrums of retail.Couldn't the lower price after the holiday season be explained by excess stocks due to insufficient demand relative to forecasts during t
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
In your example, aren't you implying that landlords and other wealthy individuals aren't simply not spending, but actually hoarding cash? Most wealthy individuals aren't holding cash, they put the money in a savings account o
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Oakland is almost just as bad. I managed to make do with 50K a year, but I lived in San Jose and didn't have the expenses of car ownership. Living in SJ required a 20 minute walk to CalTrain and then a 45 minute ride to the city by Cal
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I wonder if a solution would be a payment to extend copyright. I think the strongest argument in the article is about the disappearance of works, but, as pointed out, this doesn't really apply to Mickey Mouse. Instead of having a unive
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Not to downplay the seriousness, but that site is quite surprising. I grew up about an hour outside of DC and according to that site, greatly overestimated the danger of a nuclear blast in the nation's capital.
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I used it for a solid year when it first came out and have recently switched to Android, so that I can use Project Fi. I found the systems to be pretty comparable. Google Now still creeps me out a bit because it assumes I want it to do many
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I think Scott addresses that critique in the article: HHIPP: “Radical candor is humble, it’s helpful, it’s immediate, it’s in person — in private if it’s criticism and in public if it’s praise — and it doesn’t personalize.” That last P make
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I don't think they're going for that market directly. The housing market is connected though, so interest in these, which may be limited to singles or couples without children, will remove some of the demand on larger units, such
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Watch out when shopping for this model. This specific model is tough to find reasonably priced and the current iteration doesn't have a built in USB cord. Instead, it connects via a USB mini-5 that is pretty weak mechanically. I was us
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I think the more typical behaviour is to buy on contract and thus upgrade on the one year or two year interval that coincides with the contract. A quick Google suggests that even two years might be a bit long for Americans: http:/&#x2
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
If you are in downtown Austin, this is actually playing at Alamo Drafthouse tonight(9/15).
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I think some college campuses try to walk the line with under age drinking. A quick search shows Purdue has a policy that grants students amnesty in the event of alcohol poisonings [1]. I don't know if anyone has run numbers to see the
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I noticed the same thing. According to Wikipedia: On May 30, Stimson asked Groves to remove Kyoto from the target list, but Groves pointed to its military and industrial significance.[73] Stimson then approached President Harry S. Truman ab
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
This is why I switched to Wealthfront. I inherited an actively managed Morgan Stanley portfolio which has fees around 2-3% annually. I initially looked at managing everything myself, but didn't want to have to worry about all the finer
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Poland is an even more interesting story as Windows Phone has close to 20% market share. http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-is-windows-phone-outselling...
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
The UI was what got me hooked. I was coming off of an iPhone and loved the Windows Phone home screen. Once you get hooked on live tiles, its hard to go back.
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Could you go more in-depth on your experiences here? Your opinion seems to differ with the review, which refers to it as seamless. It is the main feature I am interested in as I get anywhere from two to zero bars in my apartment complex but
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I agree with the point about the benefits of physicals notes, but I still don't understand what is so special about Moleskines. Maybe it was just because I was an early hire and not a founder, but I actually preferred Mead's line
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
You can still get access to the QR feature/Bing Vision, you just have to look under Lenses. I was also bummed about this change, but used it infrequently enough that I don't mind it being located under Lenses. If you check the Sto
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I initially read this as returning to work for Microsoft. I actually never left their tech realm. Even though both my work and home machine run flavours of Linux, I fell in love with Windows Phone back on WP7 and haven't been able to g
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Local H has always been a duo and so Scott Lucas has had some really cool setups in the past. At one point, he had replaced the two strings on his guitar with two strings of a bass and then ran different sets of pickups to different amps so
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I don't know if its the same in all cities, but in Austin I have actually had taxi services refuse to pick me up if I give an address that is a bar, regardless of my level of inebriation. Uber may not be a model corporate citizen, but
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
Almonds originally came out of countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy. All of which are members of the EU, which in most cases has stricter environmental policies than just about anywhere else in the world. The problem with your s
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
My first experience with an open source project was just a small github repo for a library I wanted to use. I noticed some TODOs in the code and fleshed them out. Even now, the repo only has four contributors, but the others were quite help
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by BrianEatWorld 11y ago
I would recommend reading "Curse of the Gifted" [0]. Its a quick post, not a book, but during the teenage years where even children who are not gifted tend to think they know everything, it can help them make the most out of their
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by BrianEatWorld 12y ago
Thanks for the reference. I will check out that and SICP[1] as mentioned by one of your replies. It was the Austin Meetup. The name of the presenter escapes me, but it was great overview. The topic wasn't meant to be CLOS, it was just
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by BrianEatWorld 12y ago
I went in expecting to see a write up on Common Lisp's CLOS[1], because at a recent Clojure Meetup, the speaker put forth the claim that CLOS is the most powerful OO system out there. He didn't have time to validate the claim, but
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by BrianEatWorld 12y ago
I am only familiar with Ubuntu and Windows, how does OSX handle the issue? Is it just bigger controls on the site or are you saying the actual resolution of the "hit-box" for these buttons isn't specific enough?

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