awfullyjohn | 8 years ago | on: Not Explicit
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awfullyjohn | 8 years ago | on: North Korea Launched Missile Over Japan Toward Pacific Ocean
Not sure what you're saying is obvious. What makes you think they can't do this on their own?
awfullyjohn | 8 years ago | on: There are very few suitable use cases for DynamoDB
He complains that DynamoDB doesn't work for him, then says you should instead use Google BigTable. But he doesn't offer evidence why you should use BigTable. And just says that it works for him.
I don't buy it. I've used BigTable in the past and found it to be infuriating. Now, because it works for him, I'm supposed to believe that BigTable is right for me?
awfullyjohn | 8 years ago | on: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
Not only high-end cars.
Every Toyota comes equipped with lane following and smart cruise control. They call it Toyota Safety Sense, and even the lowest priced, $18k Corolla has it.
awfullyjohn | 8 years ago | on: As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
Yes, people absolutely prefer public transportation to cars with accommodating roads.
Have you been to Japan?
awfullyjohn | 9 years ago | on: Ladyada hosts Andrew “bunnie” Huang on Ask an Engineer [video]
Bunnie was part of this great documentary on Shenzhen,
awfullyjohn | 9 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video]
"Travel to Mars"
Ha.
Is that the trend now?
awfullyjohn | 9 years ago | on: Google Allo a Success or a Failure: Analysis of Data By Region
Network Effect? I have another theory.
Allo is #1 in India because a Jared paid people to download it ;)
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: This Is Your Brain on Nature
Yes... When it made a point.
The bare skin in these photos have little to do with the content of the article.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: This Is Your Brain on Nature
It is NSFW.
Saw that picture and the one of the couple in the hot spring. Then I remembered, Nat Geo was recently taken over by Fox.
Ah, I thought. Explains everything.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: ArcaBoard
ArcaBoard, the hoverboard nobody wants™
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Why Japanese leaders attacked Pearl Harbor
I completely agree. The title is reductive.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days
Sounds like it worked great for you.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Tech Prep by Facebook
I think that's the point.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Exposé – a static site generator for photos and videos
It looks like he originally built the site for himself (it made HN awhile back) and then generalized and open sourced it for everyone.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration [pdf]
I hope this plan includes the Rich Purnell maneuver.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Totally Honest Software Engineering Negotiations
Agreed. This is more about seeing the perspective of the employer than the employee. Managers who claw their way up expect employees to do the same.
Also, it'd be interesting to see his manager's perspective in this all as he claws his way up. I'm betting there were points where, just as he thinks he's getting what he wants all along by lying (why are his lies always in parentheses?), management is thinking they had this planned all along as well.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Chaldal (YC S15) Wants to Become the Amazon Fresh of Bangladesh’s Capital
Sounds like Instacart. How's this different?
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Leaves from the mental portfolio of a Eurasian (1890)
I am a mixed person. Her experience resonates even 125 years later.
awfullyjohn | 10 years ago | on: Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet
> (asian Americans also earn more on average than white Americans, are whites being discriminated against?)
Really? Seems like an unnecessary thing to say.
If you take a closer look at the numbers, this isn't really the case. Asian households are larger, so median incomes are larger, and Asian-Americans tend to live in about 5 states, which have on average higher costs of living (and as a result higher median incomes).
Source: http://reappropriate.co/2014/10/how-both-bill-oreilly-and-jo...
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> you can figure out a lot about your program from the source of it.
How does "implicit" not satisfy this condition? I can tell a lot about a program from the source of it implicitly as well.