mbenjaminsmith

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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
> Do you sincerely believe it? Do I believe in myself? Yes. I'm a genius (by I.Q. score) and work hard every day. That's why I own a software company and have a beautiful family, money, a passport full of stamps, etc. Do I thin
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
Yeah, I understand that the trampoline analogy is inadequate but I believe that we don't consider empty regions of space to have any type of "opposite" curvature or to exhibit negative gravity. I believe curvature is thought
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
Maybe a physicist can tell me why I'm wrong here: We often visualize the effect of mass on spacetime by using a trampoline and a bowling ball. The outer edges are flat and the closer you get to the bowling ball the more spacetime is wa
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
I think it's generally agreed upon that the Space Shuttle program was needlessly wasteful and more PR- than science-driven. A heavy space plane has zero advantages over a capsule for most work done in LEO. It's good to see this re
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
> I prefer to teach 3D graphics without matrices because it's really not anything more complicated than a compact notation. From a programming perspective it's much less verbose. Also the 1:1 mapping of "spaces" (came
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
"[T]he obvious solution is to compel Apple to let people shop for applications wherever they want, which would open the market and help lower prices" Is that a joke? I'd love to be able to sell iOS software directly to users.
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
What part of Thailand is that? I get around ~50M/s on my phone. I haven't checked my home cable in a while but I stream HD video (Netflix / YouTube) to several computers / TVs at once w/o issue. > The new preconn
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
You mean variety . A varietal is a wine made from a single variety of grape and labeled as such.
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
I'm working on a project where I'm doing boolean ops on 3D meshes that need a lot of tests. I do a mixture of traditional unit tests w/asserts along with visual feedback. I have a rig set up that will dump final (or intermedi
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
Would this be a viable replacement for a support / community forum? I'm a DO customer but never have questions so I'm not sure what their support setup looks like.
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
"Deconstructed essence of cuisine"? I couldn't agree more. Food is one of the most accessible luxuries. The most expensive meals, with fine wine, cost less than most business class tickets (to wherever). On the other hand, a
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
What's more bothersome: If you withdraw access (after they've already scanned your contacts) they'll disable the app. That's why I deleted the app and won't use it again. If a privacy-focused app makes you nervous a
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
I think that's entirely too apologetic. The innovation was the original protocol. They were premature (as a lot of people warned) setting up anything as massive as the DAO, someone found a way to creatively interpret the rules and make
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
> Doing something about that number would no longer make us human. I really struggle with this. Apart from "evil" countries like China we do very little to try to steer the reproductive outcome / health of our own species
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
> Unfortunately, this kind of "optimizing for all cases" comes at the expense of how good the music can sound in any one environment. Sorry, but that's not the case. The reason music gets mastered poorly today is because o
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
Depressing to see this thread immediately devolve into dismissals from people who obviously didn't take the time to read the article. It's actually pretty interesting -- both because of who it's about (pretty serious classifi
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by mbenjaminsmith 10y ago
God, hearing that team cheer when they make another first -- gives me chills every time.
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
The resulting product is fast, easy to tune (for my particular application) and handles every edge case and language I've thrown at it. Do you have any specific concern you'd like to share or are you just generally dismissive of o
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Trigrams are a very straightforward solution to this but they have one major limitation: They break with misspellings / alternative spellings. For example the words "vodka" and "votka" share no trigrams yet are obvi
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
I think it's surprising / disturbing that the discussion here is centered on the importance of open sourced apps . What security does an open source encryption app offer when it's running inside a closed hardware / soft
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Came here to say the same thing. I've abandoned storyboards and nibs in favor of SnapKit and it hasn't let me down so far. It's one of the better libraries I've used on OS X and iOS.
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Brunch Weasel is great -- and I don't particularly like stout or any alcoholic beverage mixed with coffee. I get it whenever I see it for breakfast or brunch. It's also worth visiting a Mikkeller bar. They have a number of small-r
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
That's correct; IIRC, they were private at the time.
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
> there's nothing to stop a clever company from competing with them I wish I could remember where I read/saw it, but Musk stated that the goal of Tesla was to make the market shift to EVs, not generate profit. My memory is a bi
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
I'm surprised there's no discussion of "Gypsy brewing" in this article. The pioneer of Gpysy brewing, Mikkeller, has brewed beers in collaboration with BrewDog before and Gpysy brewing is counterpart to this "open I
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
I don't think anyone with zero wine experience could tell the difference between a Burgundy and a Bordeaux. At the same time, I don't think there's anyone with a normally functioning nose and tongue that couldn't tell th
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Assuming you're in the US and have a favorable tax environment, you might have some luck with Montepulciano d'Abruzzo. It's generally an earthy wine with relatively low acidity and tannins which means it will be easy going. I
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Good to know. Thanks.
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Where exactly are you located in the city? Also, are you offering US or local-level salaries? I find most companies setting up here are looking for "world class talent" while offering less than what you would make working remotely
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by mbenjaminsmith 11y ago
Top Gun, combined with an improbable series of events, is the reason my older brother was never a fighter pilot. After some time in the Marines followed by a number of years of commercial aviation, my brother decided to become a fighter pil

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