stevenwei

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by stevenwei 11y ago
I've had a treadmill desk for several years now and haven't noticed any issues with this. It's fine to walk when you're just reading or doing light tasks. I do need to sit when doing concentration heavy work though.
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by stevenwei 11y ago
> #Fact: Flappy Bird’s success was because of its user reviews, reaching 700,000 reviews per month Uh, seriously? Seems like they might have cause and effect reversed there. But at least they marked it #Fact, so clearly it must be true.
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by stevenwei 12y ago
You can, but most of those poor quality treadmills are meant for light use (i.e. running at high RPM for 30-60 mins per day, 3-5 days a week). If you try to run the same treadmill at low RPM for several hours per day every day, you'll
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by stevenwei 12y ago
I don't think these are contradictory at all. If you're largely sedentary, getting an hour of exercise per day doesn't counteract the fact that you've been sitting for 12 hours per day. [1] Simultaneously, walking slowly
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by stevenwei 12y ago
This is not true anymore. As of August 12, 2014, visa runners will not be allowed back into the country.
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by stevenwei 12y ago
Mercedes has been dominant the past two races as well so it's not necessarily a spoiler to say they have been owning the season. On the other hand today's race ended a few hours ago and I didn't expect to run into race result
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by stevenwei 12y ago
Aw, a spoiler warning would have been appreciated there.
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by stevenwei 12y ago
I switched to a treadmill desk setup in my home office about a year ago and have been pretty happy with it. http://imgur.com/a/zbm35 The desk itself is electric height-adjustable which makes it easy to switch between w
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Perhaps the source is the article itself (i.e. he was contacted by the author)?
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I had a bunch of Amtrak points sitting around that I recently redeemed for a bedroom sleeper trip between Seattle and Chicago. It was an interesting experience but not one that I would repeat. It is by no means a smooth ride, and even with
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Not really. I think the overhead comes more from having to create the views programmatically in the first place. But once everything is up and running, the maintainability is not very different compared to working with nibs.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
We recently converted our project from IB to doing everything programmatically and could not be happier with the result. As the app has evolved over time and grown in complexity, we felt we reached a tipping point where using IB was slowing
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by stevenwei 13y ago
[blue][red], you want to make sure you round their shared edge either to the left or to the right. Otherwise, there will be a gap between them. You need to make sure you round their shared edge the same way consistently too, or it will jum
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Luck is also a huge factor. Sometimes it's just one of those 'right place, right time' moments that can't really be replicated again.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
They are technically called distributions, not dividends, for the reasons you mentioned.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
These are very interesting numbers. Obviously the financials are not well suited to the VC-backed startup model, but I wonder if Everpix could have been successful as a small business run by a small handful of people.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I'm a huge fan of the Prana Brion ( http://www.prana.com/brion-pant.html ) - very similar to the one you linked, except without the cargo pockets. After getting these I'm never going back to pants without stretch fa
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by stevenwei 13y ago
It doesn't make any sense to add up the highest marginal tax rates like that though. In your example of someone earning $90k in CA, the federal income tax rate of 28% only applies to the $2150 of income above the threshold of $87,850,
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by stevenwei 13y ago
On top of this, if you are making any significant amount of money as a self-employed individual you should probably look into setting up a solo-401k or a SEP-IRA, which will help reduce your taxable income (by up to $51,000 for 2013).
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by stevenwei 13y ago
These numbers are heavily skewed by the fact that the Top 200 on both iOS and Android are dominated by IAP based games. E.g. Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans are not significantly different on iOS vs Android, and that is where the narr
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by stevenwei 13y ago
> Get a $200 iphone5 from AT&T, next day unlock it without paying ETF and get a cheap prepaid T-Mobile sim and never use the AT&T sim again; thus not paying AT&T's voice/data fees(and we all know they get you on ove
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I think you need to differentiate between unlocking the phone and breaking the service contract . Just because you want the former doesn't necessarily mean you want the latter. For example, you might want to make sure your phone is
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by stevenwei 13y ago
It's actually interesting to me to look at those slides and see just how far Android has come along in the past few years. There are some really awful mistakes in those slides, like buttons being cut off when the keyboard pops up, or t
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Yeah, it's not like they went screen by screen through the iPhone and said 'hey, we need to do what they're doing...' http://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evaluat...
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Amazon does grocery delivery in Seattle and parts of Los Angeles via AmazonFresh, and it is pretty awesome.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I imagine a major difference is that most vacation rentals are rented out by the owner of the unit, whereas it seems like a lot of Airbnb rentals are being offered by tenants who are under existing rental agreements (which likely stipulate
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I don't see any incongruity. Google paid $12.5 billion for Motorola a few years ago. Considering RIM's market cap was $83 billion at one point, paying ~$4-5 billion now would probably be a bargain for their patent portfolio.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Good call on the NUMERAR countertop! I ended up pairing a NUMERAR countertop (73" x 25") with an adjustable height base (like this http://www.thehumansolution.com/uplift-900-electric-sit-stan... ) and am very happy
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by stevenwei 13y ago
Words tend to change meaning over time. Some words fade out of usage, and others get invented. Such is the nature of language, I'm not sure there's much point in getting upset about it.
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by stevenwei 13y ago
I have been running uWSGI for many years, I only recently made the switch to Gunicorn for the async gevent/websockets support. (The last time I looked, which was a few months ago anyway, uWSGI support for gevent/websockets wasn&#x

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