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The Science Behind “The Martian” – Staying Warm on Mars(energy.gov)
1 points by bmpafa 6y ago|0 comments
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Building products you can measure(medium.com)
1 points by bmpafa 7y ago|0 comments
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by bmpafa 7y ago
Also from FAQ : > A programming font with cursive italics and ligatures is the worst idea in the world. This is absolutely horrible. BTW, I am really angry. > [Answer:] Not really a question, but anyway: People actually like different
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by bmpafa 7y ago
From the OP's section titled "Why?" : > When it comes to programming fonts, I prefer something strict, readable and relatively condensed for the code proper, complemented with a more informal, flowing and human style for t
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by bmpafa 7y ago
I think it's a fashion thing with a thin veneer of eye strain reduction (since, AFAIK, there's little conclusive evidence dark mode matters here)
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by bmpafa 7y ago
This is one of my favorite features of Soylent and the like. If I drink 2-3 bottles a day, I know I can have one avg sized meal and/or snack and still be under a reasonable daily calorie ceiling. though it definitely doesn't solve
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How Hasura Saved Us $50k(medium.com)
2 points by bmpafa 7y ago|0 comments
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by bmpafa 7y ago
For non-technical: I've always thought Buffer[0] and Hubspot[1] were fantastic resources for SEO, marketing, etc. Hubspot even writes extensively on how to write content for SEO/SEM, which is sort of meta. For technical: Stripe[2]
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by bmpafa 8y ago
To clarify, my calcs included the lost salary (by far the biggest cost for most ppl)
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by bmpafa 8y ago
got my MBA, _then_ learned to code while trying to build a startup, so became 'technical' and 'managerial' at about the same time. I think my MBA taught me how to view the business at a systems level. When you consider t
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I run an MBA admissions site on the side and did some analysis on this. tl;dr if you are confident an MBA can create a step increase in annual comp of even $10k, the cost is more than covered over the remainder of your career.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Isn't that most of opinion journalism, period, since forever?
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by bmpafa 8y ago
The best example of this imo is the "USA PATRIOT" act, or: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"
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by bmpafa 8y ago
title is a little clickbait-y. Firefox didn't "axe add-ons" (ie, the add-ons isn't going away): > Mozilla has wiped 23 extensions from its directory of Firefox browser add-ons after finding what it says were inappropr
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Auto bill pay is a boon. Hire a tax preparer. It costs more than doing it yourself, but I find we often discount the cognitive cost of just doing a thing when considering whether to outsource stuff. In other words, build / use systems
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by bmpafa 8y ago
AF vet, and frequently frustrated by this taboo. It's so contrary to the interests of everyone except the employer, but folks become visibly uncomfortable whenever talk of comp comes up. Well, the American folks anyway. I work with a l
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Bringing small business insurance online(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bmpafa 8y ago|0 comments
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Saying a curtailment of federal authority is necessarily a good thing makes you sound like an ideologue. Government isn't intrinsically good or bad, and there is no ideal amount of it. Case by case we should decide when the public&#x27
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I find this "personal responsibility" narrative interesting (and, full disclosure: also bullshit), since it reminds me of sports discussions--everyone has a strong opinions, they're nearly all un-falsifiable, and they almost
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by bmpafa 8y ago
The highest roi I ever found for critical thinking enhancement was LSAT prep. Specifically, the logical reasoning section has you evaluate a series of arguments and answer (often tricky) questions about the argument--analogizing, finding fl
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New Asus 'gaming' phone has more USB ports than 13“ Macbook Pro(arstechnica.com)
24 points by bmpafa 8y ago|17 comments
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by bmpafa 8y ago
head(less)s up: the links in the footer of your docs are busted. it looks like they all point to an `/en/` route but the actual URLs include no such tier.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
He is the leader of the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan My guess is he's being singled out because many (esp. on the left) view him as intellectually disingenuous. He ca
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by bmpafa 8y ago
Any takes on what FL's incentive is here? With no state income tax, and with the relatively modest # of people employed by funds, why target investment funds?
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Fund Managers Are Ditching Wall Street for Florida(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bmpafa 8y ago|2 comments
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by bmpafa 8y ago
I view the absence of JSX as a liability. I like flutter, but I find a lot of the syntax to feel 'different for the sake of different.'
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by bmpafa 8y ago
As I understand it, this was the rationale behind the courts' decision to prohibit LinkedIn from banning people from scraping public profiles. Basically it was anti competitive to grant certain privileges to major players around '
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by bmpafa 8y ago
(I use FF developer edition and chrome, but not chromium) I find Firefox Dev tools to be a bit nicer,esp. the network tab. Firefox also has a few experimental features that are okay, but the fact that they're experimenting is worth som
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by bmpafa 8y ago
The reader view is really something. One of those things I necer thought about til I used it, now I miss it whenever I'm in chrome.
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by bmpafa 8y ago
This reminds me of something I read once about pain reliever marketing. 'no other pain reliever acts faster' == 'they all act exactly the same speed' Lies, damn lies, damn damn lies, and marketing.

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