nickcoury

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by nickcoury 3mo ago
This reminds me of 3.5 inch floppy drives. They were last manufactured in 2011. You can still buy "new" ones where they pull internal drives from old corporate machines and then wrap them in a new plastic enclosure with USB conver
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by nickcoury 4mo ago
I visited the Tarahumara and ran the race in his book 4 times. I know Chris personally and he's certainly a storyteller and not a scientist to put it simply. I was similarly bothered by these kind of claims and he wasn't the first
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by nickcoury 5mo ago
Yes, that's correct. There's a mistaken belief that it's the major source of performance improvements. It plays a role, but the bigger gains come from the stack height (limb lengthening effect) and the energy return of the fo
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by nickcoury 5mo ago
Quite possible there's a psychological benefit from super shoes, they certainly feel fast. Though there are enough plausible mechanisms it's unlikely to be the major factor.
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by nickcoury 5mo ago
Yes, most of the studies show there is a very large individual variation. The original 4% figure and similar studies were an average of something like 1-7% across runners. Also interestingly, the shoe in this record uses much less carbon th
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by nickcoury 5mo ago
I reference Jakob's Law at least once a week, which says users use not your site most of the time. So if it works like most other sites then users will intuitively understand it. And if you do something different users will struggle to
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by nickcoury 1y ago
A lot of watches now have Bluetooth music playback, both smart watches and sport watches. I can also still manage to fit an iPhone 12 Mini comfortably in many running shorts in the small rear key pockets or back zipper pockets. Some running
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by nickcoury 3y ago
It's just him so far. Built in his spare time over the last several years.
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by nickcoury 3y ago
Plugging my friend's side project: https://quickga.me/ Fully 3D online game engine with multiplayer. Most of the game is made in the interactive click and drag mode, but has modes for extra logic and ultimately a full
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by nickcoury 3y ago
This 4 part series is related and excellent. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/inside-browser-part1/
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by nickcoury 3y ago
The native Web Animations API supports this with setting currentTime relative to the total duration.
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by nickcoury 4y ago
When Web Sockets were still not finalized, I was writing a C# program using them but there wasn't a functional library available. There was however a nice open-source Java implementation. I copied it into Visual Studio, changed all the
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by nickcoury 4y ago
My favorite front end interview did this exact thing. The interview started with an issue taken straight from the Preact GitHub codebase. The interviewer provided the issue text and the commit right before it was fixed to pull down onto m
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by nickcoury 4y ago
Yes, there's at least one option for that now! https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcontainers/
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by nickcoury 5y ago
I've worked at two different FAANG companies, and have a different view than some of the other commenters here. It sounds like you want to grow, learn, and advance, and I don't think you'll be happy kicking back and coasting
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by nickcoury 7y ago
This is in line with the point of the original comment, which wasn’t just about investing money. That comment mentions self-development but it’s the general principle of reinvesting gains in something that is increasing in value. In your ca
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by nickcoury 7y ago
Presumably it comes from a combination of things, e.g. 1. Streaming higher quality video. 2. Using mobile more often instead of needing to find WiFi. 3. Changing behavior to do things that you couldn’t before on a slower connection. 4. F
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by nickcoury 8y ago
I’ve always thought (or have been unaware of) a formal economic way of talking about this. Years ago I came up with my own definitions. “Altruism” can be defined as the part of your utility that increases because someone else’s utility incr
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by nickcoury 8y ago
Yes, I could have been more clear about meaning “current generation”. The implication being the phones that will have a long life of support and relevance. When the SE came out it was using Apple’s latest iPhone processor. You can still buy
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by nickcoury 8y ago
I'll cross my fingers your speculation is correct. There will now be an "apparent absence of good alternatives" in the iPhone camp too. The SE will be nearly EOL hardware soon, and the smallest iPhone is now a 5.8 inch scree
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by nickcoury 8y ago
My reading of it was the opposite: > Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection. If a pedestrian is inside a crosswalk they almost always ha
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by nickcoury 9y ago
Agreed, the subsidized corn is also used as cheap feed for low quality meat. On the flip side fruits and vegetables receive the lowest subsidies. Plus the lower cost of unhealthy foods decreases demand for relatively more expensive healthy
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by nickcoury 9y ago
I just built out an Alexa skill using one of these! Great source for ideas when you don't know where to start. Open sourced on GitHub. https://github.com/nickcoury/alexa-adopt-a-pet
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by nickcoury 9y ago
I had an Acer Aspire 751 with Atom Z520 and the GMA500 GPU you mentioned. It always had terrible driver support in Windows 7. When I updated to the Windows 10 insider preview before it was released, it was unusable. Huge graphics glitche
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by nickcoury 10y ago
It's a real thing. Freakonomics talked about it in one of their recent podcasts. Basically, clinical trials often exclude or under sample women for a number of reasons including the confounding factors of menstrual cycles, pregnancy c
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by nickcoury 10y ago
If you think it may be along the lines of the article and don't have a resource, I'd recommend Dr. Sarno's A Divided Mind. I had two bouts of knife-jabbing back pain (couldn't walk down a hall without holding the wall)
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by nickcoury 10y ago
I think it's unfortunate when people ignore the possibility of psychosomatic symptoms, but even more dangerous when they attribute every issue to it. It should be a tool in the toolbox, a possible explanation/approach to ailments