ken_railey

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by ken_railey 10y ago
Not the person you're responding to, but I assume that the kickbacks comment was referring to cases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
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by ken_railey 10y ago
That's no DeLorean, it looks like an old Z28, maybe about ~1980
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by ken_railey 11y ago
Sure: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/us/3-businessmen-testify-o...
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by ken_railey 11y ago
Shameless plug: http://flowlab.io
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by ken_railey 12y ago
I'm sorry that someone close to you is dealing with that struggle, but I have two questions: 1) Do you think that your friend was at all dissuaded by current US drug policy? Of course this is impossible to know for sure, but I'm c
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by ken_railey 12y ago
It represents the "line of scrimmage", which is where the ball starts at the beginning of each play.
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by ken_railey 13y ago
Static and "weak" typing are not mutually exclusive.
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by ken_railey 13y ago
Great list, thanks for putting this together! My own project ( http://flowlab.io ) is a visual programming language for 2d games.
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by ken_railey 13y ago
"sweat equity" specifically means doing repairs to a property to increase its value, as opposed to building equity by making payments. A tech worker's income is not sweat equity.
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by ken_railey 13y ago
People often claim that, but it's not a particularly credible argument. Emergency room visits account for less than 2% of total healthcare spending in the US. http://newsroom.acep.org/index.php?s=20301&item=29928
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by ken_railey 13y ago
The brake pedal actuates the master cylinder, which is connected hydraulically to the calipers. Even if stomping on the brakes triggered more throttle problems, they are still plenty strong enough to stop the wheels from turning.
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by ken_railey 13y ago
Also not trying to blame the victim, but it seems the even more obvious/natural approach would be to use the brakes. Those are hydraulic, and plenty powerful enough to counteract any force generated by a Camry's engine.
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by ken_railey 13y ago
I personally really don't care about the money (no lying, I swear). I care, though, about the fact that money brings me time, and as such more freedom to do whatever I like. These two statements are contradictory. The whole point of
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by ken_railey 14y ago
>One could adopt some kind of event-based system in scala or clojure, but Erlang and Go are alike in being the lone runtimes where running millions and millions of very small messaging processes is AOK no problem for the runtime Is that
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by ken_railey 14y ago
> built and maintained a large-scale Flex app I see your problem right there :) Also, I am not aware of any stable platform for game development. Browsers and iOS have both changed a lot in the last 5 years as well.
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by ken_railey 14y ago
Not coming down for or against, but one argument is that it causes less market distortion than a minimum wage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
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by ken_railey 14y ago
Ok, I concede - lets just use punch cards.
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by ken_railey 14y ago
> Let's exaggerate in order to enhance the effect. Let's not, they are entirely irrelevant. Noone is claiming that any specific tool will make your startup succeed, or fix your bugs, or add features to your software for you - I thought
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by ken_railey 14y ago
> In the context of starting, launching, growing, evolving and maintaining a tech business Possibly, but some people are not starting, launching, growing, or evolving anything but software - and a text editor is where 99% of that work h
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by ken_railey 14y ago
Awesome strawman you have there, and the same non-argument could apply to any technology: "I am going to take a month to learn Ruby...". In any case, you can relax - no one is trying to take Notepad away from you.
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by ken_railey 14y ago
So your point is that because you may take breaks during the day, you shouldn't bother taking the time to learn sharp, efficient tools? There are plenty of legitimate gripes to be made about vim, but you really should consider taking the ti
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by ken_railey 14y ago
So tap-tap-tapping on the arrow keys like a chicken is a more efficient way of navigating text documents then?
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by ken_railey 14y ago
Probably because she added that after the articles in question were written.
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by ken_railey 14y ago
As I mentioned, this was added in an edit - but even the A/C doesn't affect range as much as you might think. It is roughly ~8% in your typical ICE, which is less than rolling your windows down at highway speeds. No idea what the effect of
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by ken_railey 14y ago
This is reaching a bit. 1) The nominal amount of electricity used by a heater blower motor is not going to measurably affect the range of your trip (this is most likely the same for the Tesla) 2) The heat from the engine block is waste heat
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by ken_railey 14y ago
This part of the quote was added after I replied
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by ken_railey 14y ago
What? Using the heater does not affect range in a gas powered car.
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by ken_railey 14y ago
Any feedback appreciated, feel free to tell me what you like about it, or why you think it sucks.
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Show HN: I built a web based game construction kit(flowlab.io)
1 points by ken_railey 14y ago|1 comments
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by ken_railey 14y ago
This is a personal project that has taken up quite a few weekends so far. I would appreciate any and all feedback.

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