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by garrettlarson 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuIheGaiFLM&t=1m18s
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by garrettlarson 7y ago
> As a contrast, none of the Top 10 most valuable Y Combinator companies use Java; largely considered the battle tested enterprise language. I’m not sure what this is based on, but Airbnb uses Java pretty extensively.
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by garrettlarson 8y ago
> Hoping to highlight the elusive order in the distribution of the primes, he and his student Ge Zhang had modeled them as a one-dimensional sequence of particles — essentially, little spheres that can scatter light. In computer experime
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by garrettlarson 9y ago
> There was a substantially greater increase in bicycle commuting in the bike-share cities, yet the total number of injuries decreased in bike-share (but not control) cities, again showing that more cycling means safer cycling [7]. ... o
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by garrettlarson 12y ago
He means "should equal or exceed": > If you are doing better than the 40% rule, that’s awesome.
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by garrettlarson 12y ago
You can click the time of each comment to get a permalink: http://workingwithwords.blogspot.com/2004/08/gee-i-wonder-if... Wikipedia articles have the same functionality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by garrettlarson 12y ago
A number of Bitcoin services have gone under after being hacked. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/18/history-of...
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by garrettlarson 12y ago
National Geographic picked up on it as well: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/06/02/why-have-...
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by garrettlarson 12y ago
Is there an advantage to method swizzling instead of just subclassing UIApplication?
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
Does anyone know why stash names are so ugly? I've always found typing "git stash apply stash@{3}" to be pretty painful (not to mention redundant).
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
The number of "married" teens is inflated by people jokingly reporting themselves as married to their friends.
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
The site says it uses Bluetooth and attaches to a standard deadbolt (that panel is presumably only on the inside of the door).
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
Quest bars are the best I've found: http://www.questproteinbar.com/
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
> Michigan Central Station stopped serving trains in 1988 with multiple plans to redevelop the building falling through since. The Morouns have owned the building since 2001. FTA
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
> Facebook also failed to implement some sort of craigslist, which is something that would really serve a big purpose for people in general (advertise for any sort of stuff, jobs, dating, help needed, local announcements...). I don't un
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
That's good for most cases, but I don't think it works for groups of prime cardinality. In addition, the problem often allows each participant to have a different value function (e.g., one person wants lots of pepperoni but the others prefe
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by garrettlarson 13y ago
Xdrive was around: http://web.archive.org/web/20001017113816/http://www.xdrive....
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
If you find yourself in a similar predicament next year, SF Beer Week has a searchable schedule that will get you pretty close: http://www.sfbeerweek.org/schedule/#q=pliny
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
"Rendering and the Javascript engine are provided by iOS through UIWebView." - https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/faq
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
> Apple has transitioned from a small company with a narrow focus to a really big company with a much broader focus... Amazon, it seems, is more true to their brand. Exactly. Amazon has always been regarded as a focused webhosting/video
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
He encountered problems typing at a reasonable speed, saving a Word document, videoconferencing, and opening the mail client. They sound like issues that can be corrected with a software update, but I don't think they're specific to his wor
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
While the filesystem is not directly accessible by either users or apps for security reasons, it is possible for apps to communicate and/or exchange files. Your app can register the ability to open certain filetypes with the OS (e.g., so us
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
It takes two hands to hold a device and a stylus.
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
Does anyone else find the article title grating? How does one leap into the high end of a pool? Product videos are a pretty significant upgrade, though.
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
There have been academic papers inspired by the Wikipedia gender gap, but this isn't one of them. This study examines differences among different Wikipedia localizations and only mentions male dominance in passing as a suggestion for future
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by garrettlarson 14y ago
I had to change the IFS=' ' declaration to get this to work on my system (ls appears to use newline as a delimiter). Cool script.