ggruschow

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by ggruschow 2y ago
I think you're reading the "SAMPLE LEGAL APPRAISAL" which is an appraisal for a different item. I think it's just to give you an idea of the form of appraisal they'd provide for insurance purposes.
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by ggruschow 4y ago
Impressive paint & decal restoration. I've spent a little time trying to restore some of these finished before and given up. This gives me hope. Maybe I'll try again.
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by ggruschow 4y ago
Not as of 2 months ago. It took days of crashing or hanging programs to get the photos off my wife's iPhone. I tried everything mentioned including Image Capture on a new MacBook, and the problems were at least as bad for me. I had to
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by ggruschow 15y ago
Geez. You'd think that the letter N, being at the very center of both GNU and Linux, would warrant a space on a Linux user's keyboard.
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by ggruschow 15y ago
Some things to think about: - 50mb is >> total cache on most systems you'll use. - This is far from the only function you need to optimize. --> The best performing algorithm in a micro-benchmark can be sub-optimal in rea
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by ggruschow 15y ago
People have to be more satisfied with their jobs to work from home.
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by ggruschow 15y ago
Panning would work fine since the objects in this projection don't change anything but position with panning. Spinning would only work in 90 degree increments, but that's fine for many, maybe most cases you'd be doing this. Most isometric-i
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by ggruschow 15y ago
What did I say that called for downvoting?
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by ggruschow 15y ago
You could skip all the CSS transformation stuff and just serve the browser the images in the orientation you want them. In this projection and buildings-of-cubes, there's only 2 perspectives for a wall and 1 for ground/roofs.
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by ggruschow 15y ago
Smartphones are replacing standalone cameras, but the analysis in the article is busted. Popular camera models are constantly being replaced with newer shinier models, so of course every model trends down a little while after release. It'd
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I like his approach - get others to help him create content to drive traffic and pay them with ebooks.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
He just taught me that I'm supposed to uses two spaces after a period when doing most of my writing.. in programs.. which are still usually viewed with fixed width fonts.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
It's easy to be wrong when it's so hard to make out what's right. Algorithmic traders are unusually secretive about their modes of operation. The primary knowledge dissemination mechanism is via employees moving.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
There were tablets on the market before Macs.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
Perhaps they'll just use voice recognition to listen to your conversation to improve their ads.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
To be fair, if you've got a budget that supports a multi-developer team and you fundamentally need their solution, you can afford their prices. They're not insane, and if you just ask they're not opaque. On the other hand, did you know you
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I'll pay more with far less onerous terms. Seriously. I'll happily sponsor grammar aid work too. Get in touch: http://gruschow.org
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by ggruschow 16y ago
HFT provides liquidity which reduces everyone else's cost and/or exposure to short term risk. Low-latency trading though costs everyone. Nobody actually needs anything faster than a fill in a blink of an eye. The only people who think they
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I didn't say it was just a webcam. I said it should cost in the ballpark of 2x of them. Adding a $1 LED with hundreds of little holes in front of it doesn't change that. Note: I'm not making any statement about the possible awesomeness or l
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by ggruschow 16y ago
How can 2x low-res low-framerate webcams cost $150 when I can buy as many as I want new, shipped for $6 apiece?
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I wasn't arguing it was more secure. It could be made equivalent, but that misses the point. You don't always need a deadbolt in addition to a lock in the door knob.
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by ggruschow 16y ago
You could just make min(len(secret_username)) = 1 + min(len(username)) + min(len(password))... if that's what you wanted. Not all systems need to have the same level of security though, nor do they all need to assume their users are ignoran
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by ggruschow 16y ago
Alternative : There's no reason for my username to be public on the vast majority of sites/apps/crap that I use, so I'd rather just have a username, no password. The secret username can be associated with a display name, real name, physi
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by ggruschow 16y ago
Maybe you could run in the background and just pay attention to what the users actually use? It seems like the pattern of use is going to be more indicative of what the rest of us should take a look at than the people-who-bother-to-rate-bia
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by ggruschow 16y ago
From the blog post: These early numbers show up to 60x speed improvement over the current version of Google Chrome. Hm... I don't need my browser to be 60x faster if it can't figure out that (60/1) < (35/.5).
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I use a dell mini 9 for my business. It sits in a closed ventless cabinet and hasn't overheated. It uses <7w with wifi and screen on, but mine are off. Also, there are no moving parts and it's got a built in UPS... I got it new for $199
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by ggruschow 16y ago
I didn't say it was a smart way to go, just that it's my way. Taking the risk before knowing there's a reward is probably the riskiest way to go. For me though, it's fun. To be fair, that was my way 5 years ago. I guess now I try to make su
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by ggruschow 16y ago
Idealist : Explain to the customer that nobody knows how long it'll take, and then sit down with them to work out a deal that balance both of your interests. Odds are they need some portion of the project done, so focus on how to deliver i
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by ggruschow 16y ago
Use it more, and as you're working think of things that could be repeated.. or actions that seem too take too long (finding the definition of a function, moving the cursor to the 2nd parameter of the function call on the next line, etc, ref
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by ggruschow 16y ago
No bother.. Most cutting edge game devs wouldn't jump into Android right away either.

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