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cncool··on If you don’t trust your employees to work remotely you shouldn’t have hired them
>>"I simply can't come in at 9am, I'm a night owl!"

Do you take exception to that statement if it came from someone with Delayed sleep phase disorder? [1]

" According Cary Cooper, a psychologist and professor at Lancaster University Management School, when people who have DSPS wake up early for work, they become sleep deprived which causes them to be less efficient, innovative, and creative at the office. People with DSPS have trouble finding positions that allow them to work hours that let them get enough sleep. This also results in more stress, and can cause workplace accidents. " [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder

[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/not-ever...

cncool··on Why There Are So Many Ties in Swimming
If there can be up to 12 ms difference, how can they definitively say someone who swam a 50.100 s beat someone who swam a 50.110 s?
cncool··on Spotify raises $526M at a $8.5B valuation
"However, Spotify recorded an operating loss of €165.1m (£119m) in 2014 compared to €91.2m (£65.7m) in 2013, while its net loss nearly trebled from €55.9m (£40.3m) in 2013 to €162.3m (£117m) in 2014."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/11/spotify-fi...

cncool··on How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month
It's 90 dollars for 30 squares. That's 133.33 cals/dollar, or 15 dollars / 2000 calories.
cncool··on Inactivity 'kills more than obesity'
I would say a 630 calorie donut is pretty huge. After looking at the calorie info for a bunch of Tim Hortons donuts, the average seems to be around 250 calories.
cncool··on Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich
Video poker has been solved.
cncool··on The Curious Case of iPhone 6+ 1080p Display
Depends on which downscaling algorithm(s) they use
cncool··on Study: 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD
"The fact is that 90% of American's know what HTML is."

Just because they don't think it's an STD doesn't mean they know what it is.

cncool··on Show HN: Flappy Block – Flappy Bird clone using the iOS7 Physics Engine
The SpriteKit physics engine uses Box2D internally. Here is a dump of the SpriteKit framework:

https://ghostbin.com/paste/tm4ko

b2* shows up in there many times.

edit: slow pony

cncool··on 1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256..
987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729
cncool··on iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do
Ah good too know. I guess that is new in iOS 7.
cncool··on iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do
People with non-retina iPads can and will download your app.
cncool··on Having a hard time getting over being not rich
Invest some of that million in bitcoin and you will have a non-trivial chance of being rich in 5-10 years.
cncool··on New Dell UltraSharp Monitors
" The best thing has been 2560x1600 that are still priced higher [1] than the price I paid for this one 8 years ago (~$800)."

The Crossover 30Q5 with 2560x1600 is <700 USD.

http://www.amazon.com/Crossover-30Q5-Pro-Black-Resolution/dp...

cncool··on Sweden becomes the first country to reject low-fat diet dogma
"especially when consumed late in the day"

That's a myth.

cncool··on FlyKly Smart Wheel
Not true. The Specialized Turbo goes up to 45 km/h with some assist.

" e-bikes must have a motor of less than 750 watts and an unassisted speed of less than 20 mph. Because the Turbo is an electric pedal-assist bike, meaning you have to pedal to get any kick from the motor, the speed limit doesn’t apply. In fact, the only reason it tops out at 28 mph is to comply with European laws, which restrict e-bikes to 45 kph. Specialized installed a governor on the Turbo that automatically turns the motor off when it reaches this speed."

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/bikes-and-biking/B...

cncool··on Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour
It really grinds my gears when companies call bars with more sugar than protein as "protein bars".
cncool··on Apple Acquires Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur's Startup HopStop
He said "less newsworthy", not "not newsworthy".
cncool··on Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists
"The “top” list simply rewards developers for getting as many people as possible to buy or download the app once. There’s no reason to optimize for longer-term satisfaction or higher engagement after purchase."

This is clearly false. If you have a free app, you obviously want that so you get money from in-app purchases / ad revenue.

cncool··on The Cost of an ACL Injury
Had ACL repaired privately as a Canadian and the total cost was around $7000
cncool··on Show HN: An Open Source Number Game
I hit three 7s and scored 21 points. Then four and got 28 points.
cncool··on How to eat healthily on £1 a day
I did the math before to see how cheap I could live on a slight deficit and I got $2.00 CAD for 2000 calories (about 75 grams of fat, 200 carbs and 125 grams of protein)
cncool··on Another $1K App on the App Store
Proloquo2Go
cncool··on I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
Quora is a horrible site.
cncool··on 30 pounds in 30 days
He could mean base 2. So 60,000*2^2=240,000
cncool··on The $5000 Compression Challenge
What if the rng generates a file with massive redundancy by chance. Doesn't make it any less "truly random."
cncool··on Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)
Benching without spotting is easy if you aren't going to one rep maxes. If you are doing sets of 5, then don't do rep N if rep N-1 was too hard that you think you will fail the rep. Also, if you stop before the 5th rep, you should be doing sets at a lighter weight.
cncool··on Ask HN: What technology should I use for my new project?
Parse.com might be an option. It will scale as needed automagically. It uses AWS to store the data.
cncool··on Those "stupid ideas" may not be so stupid
Which is irrelevant
cncool··on Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon
losing, not loosing
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