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So many well informed comments here I have to ask... and please forgive the spam... If you're interested in this area and might be be interested in working at YouTube then please e…

> I wonder if there's a converse effect? If the inaccuracies are due to the meter's assumption around the current waveform then there probably is a way to exploit that. I suspect (…

Not in general. They are both around 60 lm/W. Of course there are exceptions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy#Lighting_eff...

Yeah, terrible timing. A CNAME record conflicted with our new SSL cert - renewing the cert forced us off VIP on to SNI (per GAE's deprecation schedule for VIP) and the CNAME we had…

>repackage what actual news organizations publish with ideological slant. Which is what The Economist does - it's been doing so since 1843. Current circulation is over one million,…

Good job you didn't have a third roommate who worked in printing...

Good to know! How do you handle Safari 8?

I did a similar analysis in 2008 to determine whether an n% drop in the index could be help inform an investment strategy: https://saffell.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/does-timing-the-…

Hope this doesn't sound nitpicky, but I'm curious about the implication that 'Yelp customer service' would be considered 'middle class'. Were you specifically meaning that, or was …

Looking at the 'before' and 'after' designs, I'd say that the biggest difference is that in the old design the first question you ask (via a textbox) is one to which the user alrea…

Interesting and worrying. Could you give more details on the "low status" and the "small shelf life"? Especially as it relates to gender (if indeed it does - forgive my ignorance).…

zero-based indexing giving you an 'off by one' problem?

I accidentally took a multi-tool (with several blades) through an airport security checkpoint 2 weeks after 9/11. It was found on my person, and confiscated. I was told I could col…

Yes, having pulled a permit myself I can attest that it's 10% drawing, 90% badgering and debating the exact meaning of the code, in all its glorious ambiguity.

>I'm pretty surprised by how far this thing has gone!! Haha - so do we now have two examples of emergent complexity? FYI, it's not that the complexity / length of the code caused m…

Seconded. Without a source to verify these claims, it seems that a huge amount of this discussion is based on hearsay. I can tell you that the SF Electrical code (which I presume h…

>and then the employee issues options back to the startup In effect, yes. When the employee purchases the stock, they sign a contract to sell their stock back to the company (with …

Does it bother anyone else that the three customer reviews on the product page all give five stars, and all three reviewers received the product for free in exchange for an 'unbias…

Sorry I didnt come back in time to elaborate (as offered). The other comments said what I would say and more. One thought on you getting down voted: Your comment started with 'Plea…

me too. i can just see it!

I can't speak for anyone else's circumstances, but I can't imagine ever opting for my two year old son to be away from his mother for three months. Happy to elaborate, if people ar…