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by padmapper 17y ago
Thanks for retrieving that. What he says and does may be slightly different (especially in a TV interview), but pretty good video.
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by padmapper 17y ago
Curious about the bit about strategy inspiration - do you remember where you learned that? Sure, Jobs isn't designing every little piece - it's more that he serves as the dictator. Because he's very unforgiving in design reviews, I think hi
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by padmapper 17y ago
Apple has thousands of employees. But it's not design by committee. There's a strong drummer in that company that keeps everyone marching in step, so that the entire company adopts and shares that one person's vision, or at least the genera
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by padmapper 17y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I'm happy I heard about this bundle, but I don't think it falls under the purview of HN. HN has started seeming more promotional in general in recent times, with far more linkbait articles than I remember there being
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by padmapper 17y ago
I think your 90% vs. 50% characterization is spot on. I once tried to found a company with someone who has fairly fundamentally different views on many things, thinking it would balance my crazy ideas out with an alternate viewpoint, but we
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by padmapper 17y ago
You should be multiplying the diesel price/joule numbers by roughly 5x to make them comparable to electrics. When you buy metered electricity, you're paying for the end product. Internal combustion engines are roughly 20% efficient on avera
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by padmapper 17y ago
True. Too bad the media is on a witch hunt, and finds it convenient to gloss over facts for the sake of generating indignation over Tax-Payer Funded Bonuses Of Inconceivable Magnitude, so most people don't know this. The GS employees I know
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by padmapper 17y ago
That's kind of like saying we should keep crime high so demand for policemen stays high...
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by padmapper 17y ago
Which would cause all of the energy to be dissipated as heat in an instant... perhaps you could put it into some non-volatile heat sink, but unless it's a really big heatsink, you wouldn't want to be anywhere near that thing when it went in
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by padmapper 17y ago
But as far as I can tell, the main thing they're good at is being a one-stop shop...
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by padmapper 17y ago
Yeah, in London currently, did a double take when I saw the difference between Oyster and standard fare. The standard fare is absurd, whereas oyster puts it on par with NYC (and has the very nice feature of acting as a la carte until you re
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by padmapper 17y ago
Ooh, even more portable, no computer needed. Thanks!
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by padmapper 17y ago
Nope, hilarious. And that's the first really solid evidence that I've seen shared that zodiac signs are utter BS, which makes me doubly grateful to them. Something to point to when someone says it can't be proved otherwise...
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by padmapper 17y ago
Just because it's on the todo list doesn't mean they have the manpower to get it done in the next year, especially where new features are concerned. Users pull in all directions...
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by padmapper 17y ago
There are 300 million people in the US, but in the very specific specialties at the cutting edge of science and tech, every person is significant, and can't really be substituted for by another. Letting in the best of the best is all kinds
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by padmapper 17y ago
It looks like the only major distinguishing factor is daily rather than weekly alerts for saved searches... Perhaps it's useful for those recruiters who want to be the first to contact people when they get on the market?
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by padmapper 17y ago
I can see a great many people downloading it and then getting confused for a split second every day between the two and keeping track of what they were using each for. Over time that additional mental fatigue translates into lowered satisfa
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by padmapper 17y ago
I highly recommend PG's book of essays Hackers and Painters (it contains this essay).
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by padmapper 17y ago
You've gotta put the blast shield down before you can begin to sense the Force.
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by padmapper 17y ago
I'd say that aggressive flagging and downvoting are the price of HN not becoming like Digg and Reddit. I'm really happy to pay that price, even when I get downvoted.
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by padmapper 17y ago
I looked into this a bit, and there are tons of conflicting reports on this over the web. I have a 2007ish 15" MBP, and it dithers/FRC's like a mofo with certain colors in WinXP.
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by padmapper 17y ago
mod_rails/Phusion Passenger is indeed awesome - getting set up on production was a cinch, and no babysitting has been required at all... it just works. If you use it, consider turning on global queueing for extra special goodness: http://b
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by padmapper 17y ago
I'm not sure about this - if false advertising (millions of colors) caused him to sell his old laptop with a better screen, then he's still worse off, as a result of Apple's actions. Then again, I think the whole MBP line has had 6 bit disp
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by padmapper 17y ago
Great, glad it's working! Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements. Good luck with your hunt!
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by padmapper 17y ago
Text messages are a scam. Especially when the company also charges you that .15 when you receive a message without consenting to it. And when there are no alternatives and little price competition because it's commonly accepted practice in
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by padmapper 17y ago
Thanks! I just added santa barbara for you, it should populate with listings soon.
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by padmapper 17y ago
Looks like at least some of those comments are being replaced with [Dead], I guess that means a mod agrees with you?
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by padmapper 17y ago
heh yeah, heavily inspired. This was basically an attempt to fix the problems I had using HousingMaps. The features are there, just tucked away - click "Filter Listings" in the box on the lower left, or the blue bar on the right that says "
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by padmapper 17y ago
Eh, maybe not now, but they were apparently picked up by YC - they probably have at least some novel ideas. I just had a look at their NY Times article, and they seem to have at least one - setting up appointments with the realtors online.
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by padmapper 17y ago
http://www.padmapper.com (my hobby site) has a bunch of other cities, if you're looking for a place.

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