psgibbs

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by psgibbs 5y ago
tl;dr: government incentives
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by psgibbs 5y ago
Range goes way up – electrification can turn a 10+ mile commute from something intense (where you need a shower when you arrive) into something manageable. It allows bikes to be a substitute for far more things that you'd otherwise use
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by psgibbs 6y ago
My understanding is this is precisely backwards: using BMI to gauge your own health is inaccurate, but using it to analyze populations is the intended purpose.
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by psgibbs 6y ago
I think there's some "both sides are equal" aspects in your position that mischaracterize the reality as I understand it. In 2016 Democrats thought manipulation / fake news (exactly the root problem in this article) was
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by psgibbs 7y ago
I've seen plenty of junior engineers who read a FP blog post, and start arguing about 'purity' and the need to refactor lots of code – without having any clue that pure functions are useful regardless of other coding paradigm
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by psgibbs 7y ago
Without much more detail than this, they don't sound like cofounders. If they're waiting until you launch to go 100%, then you're assuming all the risk right now. Again take with a grain of salt, bc I have no context, but ,
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by psgibbs 8y ago
I'd make the argument that because there are low costs of switching (as has been mentioned elsewhere), these are scale effects (like in most industries), rather than network effects.
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by psgibbs 10y ago
Why? I actually still have a 6S and I find the physical button feels mushy in comparison to the new solid state / haptic button. Is there a disadvantage I'm missing?
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by psgibbs 11y ago
Yes – every day. By most metrics, my startup is going great, but it's taken years of all-nighters, working weekends, and skipped vacations. I love what I'm doing, but I'm also cognizant of all the friends, relationships, fa
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by psgibbs 12y ago
Folsom Labs, San Francisco, Full Time Software Engineers (www.folsomlabs.com) We make powerful design tools for Solar PV (think cloud-based AutoCAD with built in physics modeling). Our mission is to make these tools as easy to use as possib
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by psgibbs 12y ago
We use it for our core app, and now have a bit over 10K lines of application code. Our general strategy is to organize the app by functional areas, each area of which is organized similarly to how most angular sample projects are: with a di
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by psgibbs 12y ago
It's a $10 million dollar idea, they just sold 15% of it.
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by psgibbs 13y ago
The closest parallel I can come up with is Erlang, which (I believe) was developed by Ericsson specifically to handle their exchange traffic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
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by psgibbs 13y ago
Folsom Labs, San Francisco, Full Time (www.folsomlabs.com) Basically, if you are interested in science and/or energy, and want to do software engineering at a place that actually let's you leverage the math/physics you learne
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by psgibbs 13y ago
I posted this on the "Who's hiring" thread a few days ago, but didn't get much traction. Basically, if you are interested in science and/or energy, we're going to be doing a lot of really interesting things sp
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by psgibbs 13y ago
Folsom Labs, San Francisco CA, Full-time/Intern Software Engineer http://www.folsomlabs.com We're building the next generation in solar (PV) system design tools; basically we make it very easy to analyze the potential
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by psgibbs 13y ago
It is, though if you're using PostGIS, I'd recommend GeoAlchemy2[1], which ties into SQLAlchemy a bit more naturally (because they get rid of support for all other engines). Also, seems to be more actively developed/maintain
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by psgibbs 13y ago
You can always create functions that refer to the private element: MyObject.prototype.id = function(){return this._id;}; Which gives you: leagues/{{ league.id() }}
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by psgibbs 13y ago
While I agree with this statement in general, it is a bit of a tautology - do cash reserves come from success, or cause it? I agree that cash reserves help, but I think it's hard to ascertain how big a driver of success it is, given th
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by psgibbs 13y ago
If you take a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KITGRQujQ and associated tutorial, it will give you an example of binding to the RouteChange events for exactly this use case.
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by psgibbs 13y ago
I don't get it, why are you afraid of scooping yourself? In the same way that HN frowns upon stealth startups, shouldn't we frown upon 'stealth theories'? If your thoughts are novel and deep enough, revealing something
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by psgibbs 13y ago
I'm not saying people aren't still choosing Backbone/variants today, just that 2 years ago, Angular was (1) not a nearly as viable an option and (2) not nearly as well known; so any time /company-size correlation will pu
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by psgibbs 13y ago
I wouldn't draw a strong conclusion about 'larger' startups using Backbone instead of Angular based on this data. There is probably some high correlation between a startup's size and age... Older startups are likely to
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by psgibbs 13y ago
If you don't have a specific reason not to, I'd highly recommend using the unstable branch today. I've had no problems with it since I switched several months ago, and any breaking changes have been pretty well documented in
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by psgibbs 13y ago
What this is missing is the amount of listeners each play counts for. On Pandora/Spotify/Youtube, a 'play' is typically one listener. For these, it's mainly worth noting that Spotify is about an order of magnitude
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by psgibbs 13y ago
Really, only in the sense that this source pushes out the aggregate supply curve, delaying the point in time when prices get higher. Practically, once prices become 3x of current, that's what everyone will pay on average, it just means (in
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by psgibbs 13y ago
I think typically people start them out in 'services.js' since effectively models in angular are constructors that are created, and then injected whenever you need a certain type (so you have a service that returns the constructor function)
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by psgibbs 13y ago
I added 'evil' because particularly in this community, the connotation of 'hacker' is not necessarily negative. Many here esteem hackers as people who get things done by taking cleverly manipulating the system, or, alternatively, value resu
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by psgibbs 13y ago
So all cops are 'agents of state violence'? Just like all developers are 'evil hackers'. If people realistically want the situation to get better, they need to embrace the 'good' police officers, rather than automatically ostracizing all po
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by psgibbs 14y ago
I think there's a much simpler way to do fix it - force users to anonymously unendorse in such a way as to maintain a fixed ratio of endorsements to unendorsements. Don't show unendorsements or a negative endorsement level. Suddenly incent

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