DougWebb

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by DougWebb 6y ago
You could spend a few hours making a 3D print of that bottle to produce a very believable mock-up. And then use it with someone gullible to make a deal on an order to manufacture a million of them. You get your commission on the sale, toss
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Early in my career, I routinely worked 50 hrs/wk. Not on purpose; I just preferred to get to the office early to avoid the morning rush hour, and I often stayed around late to get a drink with co-workers after work. I was always produc
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by DougWebb 6y ago
That article provides pretty strong evidence that DTC ads, overall, are bad for patients: 58 percent [of physicians surveyed] agreed strongly that DTC ads make the drugs seem better than they really are. Physicians thought the ads did no
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Patients do not need to be informed of new drugs, and never were until pharmaceutical companies lobbied Congress to remove the ban on direct advertising, which had been put in place as a consumer protection law due to 19th century "s
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Pharmaceutical companies have massive advertising/marketing budgets, which a nationalized drug R&D program would not need. That lowers overall costs. The R&D and manufacturing costs would also be spread across all Americans ins
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I'll agree that allowing corporations to steal most of the resources that were intended to help people trying to quarantine, and failing to ensure both the ability to quarantine and the safety of those who absolutely could not, have be
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by DougWebb 6y ago
The point of locking down everyone is to slow down the spread of the virus through the entire population, which protects the high-risk people from accidental exposure, until a vaccine can be developed and deployed. That way we get herd immu
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Also with OOP and procedural programming you get lego blocks that can mutate. Lego blocks can transform themselves and other lego blocks. They form an interconnected network of entities that are constantly mutating. That kind of sounds li
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I tried it on my company's website, surroundtech.com. It just produced a parent node and a very wide tree of child pages. Not useful in any way. The website is built using a CMS that's part of our product line, which auto-generate
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by DougWebb 6y ago
There is only one intelligent being in the entire universe. It's the entire universe, having a dream about being a human. And it's you.
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by DougWebb 6y ago
Perl isn't really an interpreted language. It's compiled to a sort of bytecode when you run the program, and executed on a sort of virtual machine. Similar to Java or C#, but much faster to compile. So fast that most people don&#x
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by DougWebb 6y ago
My postman mostly brings me junk mail, that I throw directly into a bin next to my building's mailboxes rather than bring it up to the apartment. That's not his fault, of course. There's no mechanism for me to tip him on any
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by DougWebb 6y ago
I don't go to grocery stores; I have my groceries delivered, and I tip them well. If the businesses I buy from raised prices so they could pass the additional revenue on to their workers as hazard pay, and I had any confidence at all t
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by DougWebb 6y ago
How about "Hey, this person is out doing a job that could possibly kill them, to save me from having to risk my life by going out. That's really valuable to me; I'll give them an extra $5." I really don't get peop
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by DougWebb 6y ago
We don't have those numbers because of the lockdowns, which were obeyed in part because of the media coverage. The alternative would have been China's approach of physically locking people inside their homes, or much lower compl
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by DougWebb 7y ago
As user you shouldn't be concerned by how it looks. Thats job of overall design and that might change depending where you publish / who designed it. You shouldn't make that decision because you don't have the required c
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Note just that; the entire maps are showing present-day landscapes instead of ice-age landscapes. There should be glaciers, lower sea levels, and Doggerland.
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Most of what I’ve heard about keto diets involves leaving blood sugar levels dangerously low for long periods of time by forcing your body into its weird starvation mode. That's a gross mis-characterization of keto diets, at least wh
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I would say that we shouldn't have an advanced web application unless we need an advanced web application. Most of the time, we really don't need it.
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Just came to recommend idempotency keys as well. https://stripe.com/docs/api/idempotent_requests
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by DougWebb 7y ago
We've done that, but it's tough to rate-limit a botnet because of the ip address spread. Also, their crappy scraper software doesn't even bother to check if requests are successful; it spews them just as fast no matter how ou
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by DougWebb 7y ago
We did figure out who the scraper probably is, but only after several years. For a long time they used an untracable botnet, but after blocking that they eventually switched to a corporate network we traced to a data aggregation company. Bu
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by DougWebb 7y ago
If the scraper contacted the client, said what they need the data for, and (probably) paid for api access, then my client would probably go for it. My client is under no obligation to make access to this data easier. It's not really th
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by DougWebb 7y ago
One of my clients is involved in property tax collection and reporting. Property Tax records are public info, and their website allows looking up the records for any property without a login. However, the data behind this website it the _so
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by DougWebb 7y ago
My problem is that I lose track of where all of my todo files are; I work on too many (client) projects to keep everything in a single file. Luckily, over time todos tend to become todon'ts, so losing track of the old ones isn't g
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I have a very similar process, except I also insert "Let me start (over) building something to manage this properly" into each cycle.
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I built a new web application front-end to an old warehouse inventory tracking and catalog management system for a very large corporation everyone is familiar with. But thanks to the contracting arrangement, I can't talk about it. Make
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by DougWebb 7y ago
Try sideloading QuestIPD [0]. It shows a test pattern that's supposed to help set the slider properly, and it shows you the exact setting value you're using. [0] https://sidequestvr.com/#/app/303
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by DougWebb 7y ago
So, your suggestion is that the US consumer has to pay a "tacked-on fee" when they purchase a recyclable product. That fee, presumably, is held by the US government. In other words, it's a sales tax. When the consumer wants t
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by DougWebb 7y ago
I've read (elsewhere, I guess) that some 95% of the Milky Way's mass is estimated to be dark matter. If there are only 700g of it nearby, it can't be distributed the same way normal matter is. How can that be, since it intera

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