adpowers

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by adpowers 13y ago
I don't believe they idled their factories. In fact, there was an article about how they had to find parking for all their newly assembled airplanes while they were grounded: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/realestate/commercial/to-b...
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by adpowers 13y ago
The NYT just did an article about how employers will skip over potential hires that have bad credit, especially in a time of high unemployment when they have the option of being choosey. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/business/employers
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by adpowers 13y ago
Parts were shot in Pittsburgh, LA, Manhattan, and London. The Freedom Tower under construction was obviously visible in some skyline shots. In one scene Batman and Bane were fighting on the steps of Wall Street. From one angle the shot was
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by adpowers 14y ago
It was sitting on the ground at the end of the table where you collect your belongings and repack your laptop. I showed it to TSA agent and went on my way.
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by adpowers 14y ago
I flew yesterday and found a rifle bullet+cartridge on the "secure" side of the TSA checkpoint. Yet somehow the gift-wrapped paperbacks in my checked luggage were deemed suspicious and unwrapped. Useless fools.
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by adpowers 14y ago
The jobs manufacturing iPhone/iPad/iPod aren't coming back, but I could see Apple bringing the manufacturing of computers (especially desktops) to the US. For one, the computers have a higher BOM and price, so an increase in manufacturing c
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by adpowers 14y ago
Because most users have a relatively fixed base load, and buying reserved instances for that base load lets you save lots of money. The ideal setup would look like: reserved instances for base load, on-demand for natural daily curves, and s
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by adpowers 14y ago
They are doing that with the Bay Bridge: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.h...
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by adpowers 14y ago
Yeah, I used to demonstrate this my typing "Americ" and then touching down directly over the 's'. Even though I pressed the 's', it was the 'a' that appeared. You could clearly see I wasn't even touching 'a'. I think they got rid of this fe
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by adpowers 14y ago
I worked on a project that implemented a task queue using a database table. Workers would SELECT FOR UPDATE a couple of rows, mark themselves as owners, commit the change, and then do the work outside of the transaction. The workers were co
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by adpowers 14y ago
Humans are very easy to train compared to robots, and aren't that expensive. I'd imagine each facility is laid out slightly differently, with different generations of hardware. To make the robot work well you'd either have to program in eac
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by adpowers 15y ago
Uhh, Safari? Safari is the number one browser on one of my (non-technical) websites, primarily because of mobile traffic (iPhone and iPad).
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by adpowers 15y ago
If we are sharing anecdotes: both my condo building and office building have reserved spots for charging electric cars. However, I'm not a fan because they were both installe by government subsidy and currently offer free power. Just why we
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by adpowers 15y ago
A believe many people enjoy movies and don't want to pirate them (I am one of them). They won't pirate and don't want to abstain from movies, so the only option is to provide a credible alternative entertainment that doesn't involve sending
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by adpowers 15y ago
Exactly, compare this to SimpleDB. SimpleDB started out with an advanced query language that let query and filter your results in all sorts of ways. And guess what? SimpleDB is still limited to 10 GB per domain (aka, database). Want to hori
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by adpowers 15y ago
I'm running a bunch of t1.micros for different websites, now I have to pay twice as much to get an ELB for each to use v6? And I still can't SSH over v6. Amazon needs to stop pretending that ELB is the final solution for v6 and give each in
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by adpowers 15y ago
Try searching for [poison control] or [suicide]. Both of those bring up one boxes with phone numbers to call. Those probably help save a couple lives per day. Sure, you could call 911 and have them give you the poison control number, but no
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by adpowers 15y ago
If anyone cares, I found out what the problem was. Chrome updated to a new version of the web socket standard back in version 15 or so. I wasn't aware of the change and so didn't update my version of socket.io which supports the new standar
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by adpowers 15y ago
Heh. Well, mine wasn't completely arbitrary. If I remember correctly I was trying to trade off server CPU usage with memory usage. One chunk at a time is buffered on the server, so I wanted to keep it small enough that I could have a bunch
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by adpowers 15y ago
I made almost exactly the same thing a few months ago: http://www.transfury.com/ The server is written in node.js and it uses socket.io to do the transfers. I think it only works in Chrome because I didn't bother getting the drag-and-drop
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by adpowers 15y ago
That sounds like some of the posts on this blog: http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ Also, related to source control but not Git, a few years ago Google had a tech talk about writing a Mercurial storage system on top of BigTable: http:/
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by adpowers 15y ago
Ha! I love that they are using Hipster Ipsum: http://developer.android.com/design/static/content/ui_overvi... http://hipsteripsum.me/
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by adpowers 15y ago
My major take away from the MG Sieler post was that Rubin deleted a tweeted, which makes it look like he's trying to hide something, regardless of the true reason for deleting it. Why does he need to delete a tweet that whose commands no lo
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by adpowers 15y ago
I was skeptical of the new pricing plan at first, but then I realized it was introducing more accurate price signals to users. This helped a lot of people realize that their apps were doing really stupid things. I argue this here: https://
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by adpowers 15y ago
Sadly no mention of multipart upload. If you use S3's multipart upload feature you can get similar performance for one file by uploading multiple parts of the file at once. I saw a substantial throughput improvement when I implemented some
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by adpowers 15y ago
I'm surprised content aware image resizing didn't make the list. It is a few years old but still pretty neat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadw0BRKeMk
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by adpowers 15y ago
That reminds me of this page in which the author created a large binary tree of pages and watched how various crawlers walked the tree. http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/219
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by adpowers 15y ago
Not all, if you look at the south part of the drawing there is still an above ground parking structure :(
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by adpowers 15y ago
Isn't that Chrome OS? Just enough OS to get your employees on to the websites that they use to do their job. (Only applicable for certain types of jobs, though)
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by adpowers 15y ago
But many of the backend services powering Kindle are based in Seattle.

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