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by codex 13y ago
The cost differential is about right given that Indian labor, skilled and unskilled, is about 1/10 the cost of the US. This mission employed 2500--not exactly Spartan.
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by codex 13y ago
This particular design doesn't take a lot of skill to create, and I'm not sure the author knows what problem to solve. The triviality of the redesign should be embarrassing to the creator.
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by codex 13y ago
- The photo is the most important feature of the badge; for security reasons, it should be as large as possible. - First and last names are not as important as one's email address - The logo is a security risk; should a badge go missin
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Audi guns for Tesla with Q8 e-tron SUV(autocar.co.uk)
2 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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Nissan LEAF Battery is Better by Design(priusblack.blogspot.com)
2 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
Hiring #1 is tricky: you need to find someone good, but also naive. In this era of the ray startup, it makes little sense for a great engineer to work for someone else: the first employees work almost as hard as the founders, but receive 1
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by codex 13y ago
Because there was other intelligence to be gleaned which was not the result of spying on Americans. Only the law firm was American; the rest of the parties were not. It's possible (likely?) that the NSA said, "give us everythi
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by codex 13y ago
If students didn't do this, it's unlikely their works would be read by more than a handful of people in their lifetime.
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by codex 13y ago
Most bit rot isn't due to cosmic rays, but rather to decay on the disk itself.
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by codex 13y ago
This has been done dozens of times. Not sure why it hasn't taken off. I think some people crush everyone then claim they were joking, thereby burning the other side. There should be a limit on the number of crushes allowed.
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by codex 13y ago
This could be more accurately titled, "why entrepreneurs thought they failed." Personally, I'm not sure failed entrepreneurs are qualified to make that diagnosis.
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by codex 13y ago
TL;DR Title is misleading, possibly false. The Aussies spied on a trade negotiation and offered to share the intel with America. It is not known whether or not the Americans accepted any information which was the result of spying on Ameri
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by codex 13y ago
Hotels are a form of progressive taxation: rich out of town travelers pay more for housing than permanent residents. Generally travelers are richer than non travelers because traveling is usually a discretionary expense or paid for by a co
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by codex 13y ago
This is a great example of the the danger of consuming "raw" corporate propaganda. Without professional journalists to fact-check, look for other perspectives, and filter corporate self-interest, many readers will come out misinf
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by codex 13y ago
Not necessarily. Snowden took mainly metadata: PowerPoint presentations and the like. I have not heard tell that he took any actual intercepts or personally identifiable cell phone data. I suspect the latter is what is audited.
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by codex 13y ago
Any chance of Linux support? How does it compare with Coverity, Clang Analyzer, PREfast, Klocwork et al?
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by codex 13y ago
Expected value only enters the picture if you can play many, many times. It's more realistic to look at the median outcome, yet every entrepreneur is transfixed by the big exits. If that's not optimism I don't know what is.
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by codex 13y ago
A banner impression is not the same thing as watching a video; not at all. A banner impression has very little value. It's more accurate to look at page views.
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by codex 13y ago
"I'm a fifth generation San Franciscan" sums it up pretty well.
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by codex 13y ago
In other words, this campaign had the viewership of about one moderately popular YouTube video.
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by codex 13y ago
Apple is also selling into the living room. The Apple TV sells 6-7 million of them a year.
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Another Tesla Caught On Fire While Sitting In A Toronto Garage This Month(businessinsider.com)
2 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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by codex 13y ago
The high failure rates of startups suggest otherwise.
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by codex 13y ago
White rice contains very little fructose. Bananas have more but not compared to, say, an orange.
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by codex 13y ago
Yes. They can be the unhealthy minority in an otherwise healthy diet.
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by codex 13y ago
If you have a system made up of small and simple tools, it can only so small and simple things. Imagine designing an airplane this way. It would never get off the ground.
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by codex 13y ago
This is what all organizations do when they don't really care about something.
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by codex 13y ago
Ultimately, uses of technology reflect a society's values. Unfortunately, mass surveillance will be a mainstream value until the fear of terrorism fades. As frustrating as it may be, all the protests in the world won't make thes
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Tesla Model S Owner Blames New Car Smell For Deadly Accident With Bicyclist(insideevs.com)
1 points by codex 13y ago|1 comments
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by codex 13y ago
For large code bases, I suspect Java parsing will not be performant enough. I love Jetbrains but I wish they'd just use clang rather than write a Java parser.

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