JimmyL

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by JimmyL 13y ago
If you've got a good story - like this one - hacking government bureaucracy requires only one thing: getting your local elected representative involved. Not because they're particularly dedicated to helping out constituents, altho
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by JimmyL 13y ago
The hard part is defining what "just enough to meet the 90 day goal" is. The rovers were things that had to be built to survive a flight to Mars, go though the atmosphere, land by bouncing on some airbags, and then go drive around
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by JimmyL 13y ago
That manager is bad at their job, or has a different set of values than the developer who's asking the question. In either case, this is a recipe for a bad relationship. As a manager, I consider my biggest responsibility to be creating
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by JimmyL 13y ago
If you're Canadian and looking for an online discount brokerage, I've had good luck with VirtualBrokers ( https://www.virtualbrokers.com/ ). Their website is ugly and old-school, and their online interface - at leas
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by JimmyL 13y ago
All the points you get come from the real games that happen - it's pretty much the same as Fantasy Premier League, but about American Football.
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by JimmyL 13y ago
In my nerd-office we've started getting serious about https://www.fanduel.com/ - think normal fantasy football, but each league only lasts a week long. It means you can put much less effort into a long draft, and you c
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by JimmyL 13y ago
I just upgraded to 4.3 (Win7 host, Sandy Bridge Core i7 processor), and VirtualBox is now complaining that I've got more virtual cores (4) assigned to my guest than I have physical cores (2) on my host. While this is true, this wasn&#x
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by JimmyL 13y ago
>> you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing. I used to be a devout BlackBerry user, and could happily type out entire emails in meetings with my device under the table, send then,
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by JimmyL 13y ago
I'll happily continue to pay for PyCharm even now that it's open-sourced (I re-upped for another year last week, and don't feel like I missed anything by not waiting for this). Aside from the fact that the Pro version has som
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by JimmyL 13y ago
There are also huge differences in the tax treatment of cubicles vs. walls, which can have a non-trivial impact on the decision making if it's an office of any size. Generally (and IANATL) cubicles and movable walls can be considered o
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by JimmyL 13y ago
Also Bruce Schneier - http://www.schneierfacts.com/
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by JimmyL 13y ago
I've read about https://github.com/tthieman/dagobah recently, but I haven't used it...also, if you think celery is too heavy, you'll probably think this is too. I've also heard good things about ht
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by JimmyL 13y ago
With adding the keyboard backlight, did they get rid of the Thinklight at top of the screen?
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by JimmyL 13y ago
It doesn't "officially", but if you put in a pair of 8GB sticks with the specifications that Crucial gives you for the recommended RAM, it works fine (although it takes a pleasant while to come back up from full hibernation).
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by JimmyL 13y ago
Lenovo X220 with 16Gb RAM, the long-life battery, and a few docking stations (for work and mobile); IBM-era X60s Thinkpad moored to a docking station for home.
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by JimmyL 13y ago
I know nothing about Pin's business model, but I bet the answer is "No" - in most processors like this, foreign exchange is what actually makes the profit for the company. The $50/$0.30/3% you pay will cover expenses and make a bit of money
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by JimmyL 13y ago
From the djangocon.eu bio page: Steve Holden is known throughout the Python and Django worlds as a stimulating speaker with a broad knowledge of computing generally and Python in particular. Steve has been on the board of the Python Softwa
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by JimmyL 14y ago
Also Resurva - they're not marketing as a stylist-only product (more as a general booking system), but I know a whole bunch of barbershops that use them.
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by JimmyL 14y ago
Is it actually limited to 8GB, or is that just what Lenovo says/is willing to support? My x220 limited to 8GB in ever bit of published Lenovo literature, but I bought 16GB of RAM at the same spec as the 8GB I have running now and everything
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by JimmyL 14y ago
Same as above - get a native English-speaker (or if you have one, get a new one with more professional writing experience) to redo your copy. Also clarify who your product is aimed at. Is this something I as a consumer sign-up for, or somet
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by JimmyL 14y ago
Get some editing help on the copy - it's got some seriously awkward phrasing. Also, I've read it three times, and I'm still not sure what it is that your company will do aside from "reinventing the world of coupons". If your value propositi
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by JimmyL 14y ago
Re: Vacations, the place I work uses a combination of both, which seems to work out pretty well - everyone gets their yearly (competitive) fixed amount with some rollover (which is mostly for accounting purposes, so the accountants can quan
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by JimmyL 14y ago
One of my favorite stories about this was from the guys at 500px.com. When they first launched, their only server was a Mac Mini in a second-tier colo that was run by a friend of theirs. After about six months, they did their first major se
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by JimmyL 14y ago
If you're a conference organizer and struggling to find local women to speak at your event, it's often worth putting in a call to your local Google office. If you can show that your event has a decent level of organization & chance of s
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by JimmyL 14y ago
The headphones-over-earplugs strategy works great. I don't use it at work (I like the background din of my office), but when I'm trying to watch a movie on a long flight this is a lifesaver. The earplugs cover up all the background sounds o
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by JimmyL 14y ago
Maybe it's just the airport I was flying out of (LGA), but I noticed that the TSA signs explaining the millimeter-wave scanners no longer say that you can opt-out of them. Where it used to say (IIRC) in smaller print at the bottom that you
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by JimmyL 14y ago
There was a successful experiment doing something very similar to this - although I can't find the article - with cold storage facilities in the Netherlands. Cold storage is apparently a pretty big industry there, and all those buildings ar
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by JimmyL 14y ago
I'm with you that the screen on a Retina MBP is a leap ahead, but I don't think I'd call it a game-changer. For one, I do 80% of extended work sessions when I'm at one of two desks. At both those desks, I've got an aforementioned docking st
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by JimmyL 14y ago
You can still get IPS panels, you've just got to pay the extra $50 to get the "enhanced" screen (and they're not available on all models). I'm with you about being less than thrilled with the transition to 16:9 displays, though.
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by JimmyL 14y ago
In an office full of Retina MacBooks, I love my ThinkPad X220 (and this is my fourth ThinkPad in a row, spanning both Lenovo and IBM eras). It's not a flashy machine, but it's got a bunch of non-mainstream features that are devoted to getti

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