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jaydub

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About jaydub

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

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    Here's to many more joyful moments! Congrats!

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    CTG | Multiple Roles | Remote (Within US) | Full-time We're consulting firm led by hands-on software engineers that specializes in custom software development for projects that tou…

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    Based on my experience, I like the author's approach since it makes things pretty clear-cut and optimized the storage in the core table (in my experience as well, deletes happen fr…

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    Comment #23976620

    Yeah, I checked it out and wanted to use but a bunch of regular old SQL queries don't work. Please add support for the old fashioned group by syntax! (This will be helpful for gett…

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    Comment #15632637

    my first reaction was, it looks like an HDR effect

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    Even if he's out as CEO he still will likely wield outsize influence due to his 1) board seat 2) equity stake 3) majority of leadership are presumably his people. Will be interesti…

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    Comment #13689641

    Just to confirm, is this a smart-phone based spectrometer? (Why don't they use that term?)

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    Comment #12348030

    This CNC also represents what appears to be the best UI in almost any machining tool I've seen. Glad to see good design thinking not just get it done engineering.

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    Comment #11693798

    I'm no physicist, but I think that while it may be theoretically possible to distribute power wirelessly doing so in practice seems like it will be necessarily dangerous so as to b…

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    Comment #11431568

    Jon here - also worked on Data USA. Several of the visualizations use data from ACS summary tables and the axis in several of the visualizations reflect the underlying buckets prov…

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    Comment #10352177

    To distribute sound over long distances 'wirelessly' you need to make it loud. That typically means cranking up the power. And ultrasound can be harmful at high power [1]. [1] "Occ…

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    Comment #10004885

    Used Pandas + Matplotlib to generate the charts. Looks at 2013 5-year estimate from ACS PUMS, using all rows where wage > 0 and age > = 16

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