NoPiece
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Comment · 4 years ago
When I was a kid I had a nice cache of coverless books I'd retrieved from the trash bin behind the local Crown Books.
Comment · 6 years ago
Castle Wolfenstein in 1981, which was the first game to include digitized speech and an early example both of stealth gaming and of the World War II shooter.
It was also an early example of procedural generated levels. During startup, it would create and write the castle map layout to the floppy disk. If you wanted to replay the level, you could pull the disk out and add a write protect tab so it couldn’t be overwritten.
Comment · 7 years ago
There are lots of Facebook groups I like. No one is talking about my neighborhood on HN! But besides interesting local groups, there are amazing niche technical groups on Facebook that would crossover with HN. A few I find useful:
Apple ][ Enthusiasts: https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/
BMW i3 Worldwide: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BMWi3/
Monoprice Mini (3d printer group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/710952782398723/
Commodore Amiga: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CommodoreAmiga/
Comment · 7 years ago
Calling out the cholesterol is kind of a distraction, because it is no longer what is associated with heart disease. The level of saturated fat in the impossible burger is actually very high.
Impossible Burger, for example, has more than double the saturated fat of an 85% lean beef burger: 3.6 grams per ounce (derived from coconut oil) versus 1.7.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/great-veggie-burger-debate-...
I know there is debate about the link between saturated fat and heart disease, and further question about the specific types of saturated fat in coconut oil. I have no idea what the truth is, but if you are on a low fat diet, impossible burger isn't a good substitute for beef.
I've tried impossible burger, and thought it was very good, so I'd eat it just for the flavor.
Comment · 7 years ago
It was as seriously discussed and considered 40 years ago as today. Maybe more seriously as Medicare and Medicaid had recently been enacted, so there was momentum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_health_care_reform_...
Comment · 8 years ago
There are inexpensive youth and junior skates (<$100), but these are for younger kids. As soon as you are wearing adult sized skates (10-12yrs old), the price is many times that of cleats.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's exactly this limit that eventually leads engineering teams at your Dropboxes, Facebooks, Twitters, Tumblrs
True, but those are such extreme edge cases. 99.9999% of projects will never see that kind of demand for scale and speed. Facebook shouldn't switch to Ruby, but that doesn't inform whether Ruby would be viable for many (most) projects.
Comment · 8 years ago
I hadn't realized that QQ and WeChat are part of Tencent, but are part of different divisions. It would be interesting to know how collaborative or rivalrous the relation between them is.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'd call it an interpretation, not a theory. But clearly the conflicting inputs was a UI problem, and while there may be tradeoffs, a better UI could have prevented the AF 447 crash.
Comment · 9 years ago
"Tax credits are subtracted not from taxable income, but directly from a person’s tax liability; they therefore reduce taxes dollar for dollar. As a result, credits have the same value for everyone who can claim their full value."
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/whats-differenc...
Comment · 9 years ago
They are just changing the setting, and creating a new default. Not sure why a user of MailChimp would feel the need to switch, or complain they "only" have 7 days to switch the setting to what they want. That's not an unreasonable burden.
Comment · 9 years ago
True, but it does have impacts, like you can see less of the overall program on the screen at a time, so to scan through requires more of a look->scroll->look->scroll.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, wine.com was one of the the early ecommerce sites. Started in 1995, but may not have been transacting until a few years later.
Comment · 9 years ago
In terms of units, Fitbit has probably been the most successful so far (22m units sold in 2016). They don't get attention in the US, but the Mi Band from Xiaomi isn't far behind.
Comment · 9 years ago
I stand corrected, you are right!