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Wired: GE’s Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves(wired.com)
1 points by skibrah 13y ago|0 comments
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by skibrah 14y ago
Wonderfully written article. Thank you.
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Top Ways to Die in DIY Space Project (Wired)(wired.com)
2 points by skibrah 14y ago|0 comments
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by skibrah 14y ago
Thank you for writing about this. Bickering about biases that an article or commenter might have is the least productive thing imaginable. We all have biases, we all have one product that we prefer over another. If you have a well developed
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by skibrah 14y ago
IMO, using light colored type on a dark background is relieves more eyestrain than any particular font could.
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by skibrah 14y ago
I couldn't agree more regarding using a standing desk. The ability to stretch and move around makes working for long periods of time much more productive.
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by skibrah 14y ago
I agree with the OP, but the most important part of Jiro's philosophy is his believe that one must choose a craft and dedicate one's life to perfecting it. If this is the mindset that you take towards your work, you will naturally seek out
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by skibrah 14y ago
That functionality is coming with Xcode 4.5
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by skibrah 14y ago
do you see an API becoming a "platform" in the same sense as iOS/Android or will they remain services that provide content and facilitate specific features?
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by skibrah 14y ago
Designing for the 80% case is especially important in mobile, where cluttering the user experience with small, seemingly nice to have "features" ends up turning a smart, functional application in to a confusing piece of software.
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by skibrah 14y ago
thats the kind of attitude you have when they serve JD in the water cooler
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by skibrah 14y ago
The last thing the government wants to be involved with is selling real estate, art and other illiquid assets. There is a very real possibility that the government would lose money if it is unable to sell the asset at the original valuation
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by skibrah 14y ago
Learning about algorithms is far more difficult and far more important than the mechanics of writing code, which is the focus of sites like Codecademy. I believe that there are certain people whom have minds that can naturally pick up algor
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by skibrah 14y ago
over under on the time that it takes for this to be changed?
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by skibrah 14y ago
Agreed- you can take an intro course in crypto and still find many ways of getting it wrong. My intro to crypto professor reiterated this fact almost ever class and noted that even seemingly small changes to a protocol can render it vulnera
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by skibrah 14y ago
I agree that there are definitely cases, attaching multiple files being one, where the lack of file system access makes the process more difficult or impossible. However, I think that there isn't really a "happy medium" in terms of whether
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by skibrah 14y ago
Rand would never be able to adhere to DRY
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Show HN: Arrow'd - Find your friends at Coachella(itunes.apple.com)
1 points by skibrah 14y ago|1 comments
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by skibrah 14y ago
we use this as the basis of our OS course at Columbia. It helps you get an understanding of how an operating system works without having to wade through tons of code.