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by drather19 8y ago
Have to second the recommendation for Jins (and they also have a location at Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose). If you have a prescription, you can be in and out with a new pair of glasses in less than an hour. There's a nice selectio
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by drather19 8y ago
Make that two coffees!
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by drather19 9y ago
I attended the "See, Think, Design, Produce" one-day session that Tufte put on with guest speakers Jonathan Corum, Bret Victor, and Mike Bostock (back in 2014). It was a great set of lectures, but TBH, felt that Tufte's talk
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by drather19 9y ago
WaPo article (with provisional ruling linked as well): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/07/16...
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by drather19 9y ago
When I was considering Tidal vs. Spotify in the past, I ran across the ABX tests here: http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.html Pretty much found the same thing for myself at 256+.
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by drather19 9y ago
I think you have that backwards.. Manchester by the Sea distribution rights were picked up by Amazon (for ~$10M at Sundance last year). I don't believe they were involved at all in the production.
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by drather19 10y ago
I like the point about building systems that take care of themselves and are largely hands-free. I'd say that applies regardless of platform (or "shininess"), though. The author has clearly internalized one of the more import
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by drather19 10y ago
Where's the pain-free device with open source, easily upgradeable firmware, that puts all of our IoT devices in their own private network but lets us tunnel through to them? It needs to be easy enough that our (grand)parents could pick
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by drather19 10y ago
The biggest difference maker for me in terms of alleviating repetitive strain was switching from a mouse to a trackball. Something about not having to tense my arm up and move the mouse all over anymore...
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by drather19 10y ago
I guess where I was going was that there was a fairly high standard to "get in the door" first, after which experience seems to be valued more uniformly (at least more than in software). We don't have the equivalent in softwa
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by drather19 10y ago
Several of those field mentioned also have fairly high barriers of entry in terms of certification. They try to ensure that folks pursuing those careers have a core level of understanding necessary to pursue work in those fields. Whether or
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by drather19 11y ago
The order isn't quite as you put it -- it was only the earlier originals that Netflix couldn't afford to buy out. They aren't looking to license their originals back out at this point (exclusive + global is still the strategy
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by drather19 11y ago
While Netflix as a company is focused at doing one specific thing at large scale, they're heavily vested in microservices and do actually have "thousands of apps that are all doing very different things". Chaos Monkey fits wh
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by drather19 11y ago
Sounds like more Netflix through hotel set top boxes is in the works (e.g., http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2487505,00.asp ).
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by drather19 11y ago
As far as how much control Netflix retains over its internal vision/strategy in the long run, I'm not sure if there is anyone or any group in a position dominant enough to to swing the the company in a direction counter to its int
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by drather19 11y ago
It's interesting that you posit that the ultimate endgame is "corporate-friendly content". I was curious why you think that content is heading that way? If anything, I'd argue that globalizing Netflix combined with stron
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by drather19 12y ago
We use Smalltalk for a good portion of our distributed control system on our semiconductor manufacturing equipment (at least the non-RT critical portions). It's actually sort of awesome to be able to test/rework/enhance the s
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by drather19 13y ago
The standard 1s time resolution on Graphite/Whisper also seemed to be a limiting factor for use with some of these systems, where you want to observe things on the order of milliseconds (or beyond).