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by puls 1y ago
It doesn't because it doesn't use any mainline rail track. Imagine if the T-Third went onto the Caltrain tracks at Bayshore and continued down the peninsula instead of terminating at Sunnydale; that would be a tram-train. It would
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by puls 7y ago
I love this footnote so much: > This feature does enable a neat quine: the Perl program “Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.”, when saved in the appropriate location, outputs “Illegal division by zero at /tmp
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by puls 8y ago
This article lost me at "Most homes are not wired to handle 120kW chargers, which are likely not cheap to set up." If the author had done any research, he'd realize that there's no such thing as a 120 kW home charger. (T
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by puls 10y ago
According to Apple's support site ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587 ), the range of computers that support 4K at 60 Hz is a bit bigger: - MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) - MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-
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by puls 10y ago
I have the same machine you do and I ordered the new machine as soon as I could. Two external 5K displays is a huge unlock for more productivity.
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by puls 11y ago
All airlines do this, all run by the same vendor: http://www.rewardsnetwork.com/earn/
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by puls 11y ago
Precedent: Facebook paid Caltrain a bunch of money to clean up those tracks a few months back. http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/Projects/Caltrain_Capi...
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by puls 11y ago
What was the downside to doing the same thing as before by default?
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by puls 11y ago
When I read > This means when you install Babel it will no longer transpile your ES2015 code by default. what I really see is "This means that Babel no longer works out of the box and is now harder to use." Was any thought give
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by puls 11y ago
Comcast does this under the "xfinitywifi" network name as a default setup for anybody who uses the standard cable modem/router-in-one box, with thousands and thousands of access points: http://wifi.xfinity.com&#x2F
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by puls 12y ago
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9132385
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by puls 12y ago
Carnegie Mellon is absolutely in the midwest. Pennsylvania is a big state.
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by puls 12y ago
The website they built is called ITA Matrix ( http://matrix.itasoftware.com ) and it's still available today even after Google acquired them. It's the most powerful flight search engine out there.
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by puls 12y ago
This is so telling: GitHub had a blog post yesterday[1] about pull requests and now Atlassian does today with a very similar title. The one from GitHub was about social dynamics and how to work together better, while the one from Atlassian
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by puls 12y ago
I've been coding full-time in Swift for the last three months and at this point our source base is about 10K lines of code. Given this experience, if I had to do it all over again, I'd probably choose Swift again. The good: - Swif
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by puls 12y ago
Same place we were five years ago: nobody cares what API you're programming to as long as your apps are good. No, seriously. The iPhone SDK came out in 2008. Google Maps came out in 2005, ushering in the modern era of web apps. Mac OS
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by puls 12y ago
Check out plus addressing! Not part of any standard, but supported by Gmail and many other email providers. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-m...
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by puls 12y ago
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet: exactly this was one of the standard disasters in SimCity 2000, where "microwave" was one of the power plant types.
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by puls 12y ago
You can control this with the HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE environment variables: http://askubuntu.com/questions/15926/how-to-avoid-duplicate-...
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Eliminating stringly-typed code in Objective-C(squ.re)
1 points by puls 13y ago|0 comments
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by puls 13y ago
I bought a car a couple months ago, and as soon as the sales manager saw a TrueCar page open on my phone, the negotiation ended and I paid the price on the phone. Pretty amazing how easy it was.
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How to win at career fairs(corner.squareup.com)
3 points by puls 13y ago|0 comments
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Square's Open Approach to Code(corner.squareup.com)
18 points by puls 13y ago|0 comments
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by puls 13y ago
The Square Stand actually includes a USB hub to plug the printer, cash drawer, and barcode scanner in via USB. It's much simpler than setting up everything to talk on the network.
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by puls 13y ago
"Runs the same tests as Xcode.app." If this works, it's huge. Mad excited about this.
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Making TimesSquare fast on iOS(squ.re)
2 points by puls 14y ago|0 comments
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by puls 14y ago
Why do people keep suggesting iTerm2? The built-in terminal app on the Mac does Unicode and 256 colors just fine.
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by puls 14y ago
The implementation already exists in iOS 5, you just need to make the compiler happy; a header that declares them is sufficient.
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by puls 14y ago
Upvoted for the hidden Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubeman link.
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by puls 14y ago
I would have gone guru, ninja, rockstar and put them in increasing order of annoying, but that's just me.

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