littlewing

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by littlewing 11y ago
It's possible. Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the idea that Eden in the Bible was really not on Earth at all, but Mars or some other location in the universe. The flaming sword that "guarded" Eden could have
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by littlewing 11y ago
That's on the surface, at least. We keep learning how life on our own planet exists places far below sea level, and not just in the ocean. The same could be true for any number of celestial bodies in the known universe.
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by littlewing 11y ago
Paywall free link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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by littlewing 11y ago
Tesla had wireless power transmission working over a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power#Tesla.27s_exper... "At his Colorado Springs laboratory during 1899–1900, by using voltages of the orde
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by littlewing 11y ago
Listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s The modern pronunciation we're familiar with kills much of the rhyme and meaning.
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by littlewing 11y ago
If you only gathered the same data on a regular basis, then you might have a startup on your hands. The name should somehow incorporate Fear and Loathing. You'd also want metrics for addiction, (in)ability to carry on everyday activiti
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Hard-to-read Fonts Easier to Retain (2010)(futurity.org)
2 points by littlewing 11y ago|0 comments
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by littlewing 11y ago
Comic Sans is an awesome font. People act like it is an attack on their eyes, but harder to read fonts make information easier to retain: http://www.futurity.org/hard-to-read-fonts-easier-to-retain/ A quote from that:
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by littlewing 11y ago
Hopefully the military is supporting this research also. Lots of vets with missing limbs that could use this. Maybe one day a soldier could even go back to active duty after losing a limb if they wanted.
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by littlewing 11y ago
Good post, but I think the "don't collect it", "don't store it", "don't keep it" warnings may fall on deaf ears. The reality is that businesses: (1) aren't sure of the value of their data. P
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by littlewing 11y ago
'As Xi Jinping himself said during a visit to Seattle on Tuesday, “There is no such thing as the so-called Thucydides Trap in the world. But should major countries time and again make the mistakes of strategic miscalculation, they migh
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by littlewing 11y ago
When I first read this I was a little pissed at Apple, but what if brew were to install everything to /brew? It doesn't need to install into /usr/local.
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by littlewing 11y ago
> I think the EE team make sense to be created "on demand" and not as a permanent solution For the size and intensity of effort going on at Twitter, I respectfully disagree. Once the team gets large enough, NMP ("Not My Pr
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You're This Close to the Best Sleep of Your Life(blog.casper.com)
2 points by littlewing 11y ago|0 comments
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by littlewing 11y ago
Would be interesting to see a comparison/benchmark similar to: http://www.davidhunt.ie/raspberry-pi-2-benchmarked/
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by littlewing 11y ago
Like what? When considered as a whole of the combination of what is possible with the stdlib and all of the best gems available, Ruby can be written clearly and tersely. Those are the two first and most important things that I look for to d
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by littlewing 11y ago
I'm a long-time Rails developer and unfortunately this release doesn't excite me, though I appreciate all the hard work by the core team/continued support from 37signals. The reason is this: The intent of Rails is to make wri
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The Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by littlewing 11y ago|0 comments
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by littlewing 11y ago
> Note also that this "budding free society" was responsible for horrible atrocities against the native population until fairly recent times. Doesn't excuse it, but I can't think of a first world country that hasn&#x2
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by littlewing 11y ago
I know I'm in the minority but our street has had house parties fairly frequently over the past years since we've lived here. Here's our story: When we first moved in, we went to each home in the area and invited them to come
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by littlewing 11y ago
One of the more successful, though still brutal, experiments in handling crime, in my opinion, was the penal colony in New South Wales, Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_South_Wales From 1788-1792
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by littlewing 11y ago
"The reason is a mixture of widespread ignorance about floating-point arithmetic and the desire to get maximum performance." Hopefully developers don't misinterpret this to mean that it is idiotic or overly obsessive about pe
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Artist Creates ‘Syrian Super Mario’ to Show the Hardship of Being a Refugee(time.com)
1 points by littlewing 11y ago|0 comments
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by littlewing 11y ago
You're worried if they will take care of you. Worry more about the fit. What seems like a large retainer now could be golden handcuffs and a bad attitude a year in, or maybe the benefits are great but the job itself and team are awesom
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by littlewing 11y ago
No, it is not the raison d'etre of Apache. See: http://community.apache.org/newbiefaq.html#NewbieFAQ-Howarep... Some key parts of that: * "How are projects managed in The Apache Software Foundation? ... Apache Pro
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by littlewing 11y ago
> Almost everyone I know has a "liberal" attitude towards drugs. And they're all great, functional, non-addicted people. And that sister I was talking about was thoroughly convinced for years that pot had a beneficial affe
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by littlewing 11y ago
I've know a few addicts. They were brother and sister. The brother was addicted to meth and recreationally used other things (pot, various uppers and downers, etc.). He went to jail for selling, then cleaned up, was eating healthy, got
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by littlewing 11y ago
> I don't see that all with Go. Go is getting a good degree of traction, because it's a really useful language for a lot of people. I agree that Go has the traction and community to stay around for the long haul as a niche lang
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by littlewing 11y ago
I tried Rust about a year ago, and it was pretty horrible. Not intuitive and broken back then. Maybe it's better now, and benchmarks are great, but also show me its community and how practical and easy it would be to use. I like Mozill
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by littlewing 11y ago
This is the number one best startup story I've ever heard. The keys I got out of it: (1) focus on the customer and the product not the culture itself, (2) charge and make money even if it takes bucking the norm, (3) have work-life bala

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