JimmyL

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by JimmyL 15y ago
Definitely agree on the auditing tool - but I'd take it further, and make it a a full-blown feature. Provide the teacher's higher-ups with it (so they can inspect, if needed) and provide it to parents as well, so they can see what the messa
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by JimmyL 15y ago
If you were the head of a large company, wouldn't you probably have an EA to do this manually as a part of their job?
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by JimmyL 15y ago
I'd doubt there was even that much involvement from the other companies - more along the lines of "We'd like to involve the following quote from your boss as a third-party validator in our release. OK?" And then their corporate PR says OK,
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by JimmyL 15y ago
They're not complaining about foreign joint-ventures. The Economist, of all publications, knows that they're essential to do sophisticated drilling in developing countries. What they're complaining about is that the proceeds are being direc
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by JimmyL 15y ago
An old company of mine had Nightingale CXOs ( http://www.nightingalechairs.com/cxo_home.html ) as the standard issue developer chair. I remember the first few days I was there, not really getting it - the thing is this complex-looking chair
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by JimmyL 15y ago
BlackBerry - got started on the platform when I was given a series of them at Big Companies, and stay with them for the keyboard and BlackBerry Messenger.
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by JimmyL 15y ago
Any ideas what the adding of the bleach does - it is just to keep algae from growing in there, or does it have some optical properties?
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by JimmyL 15y ago
The potential for fraud doesn't concern me because Airbnb will clearly get an insurance company to run this program white-label, and they have whole departments designed to find and fight fraud. Based on the profits in the sector, it seems
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by JimmyL 15y ago
I agree - but isn't this then a huge out for Airbnb, in terms of reducing the number of people that will actually be covered under this? NY has its well-known laws that make most Airbnb listing contrary to State law, and in my lease (for ex
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by JimmyL 15y ago
They should be interesting to read, since the current statment - "personal property will be covered for loss or damage due to vandalism or theft caused by an Airbnb guest" - offers a whole lot of wiggle-room. For example, what about non-per
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by JimmyL 15y ago
Two things immediately pop out from this: "Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post trying to explain the situation, but it didn’t reflect my true feelings." I'm not sure how I feel about this line (I assume it's referring to his TC post). On
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by JimmyL 15y ago
The US spent $687B on Defense spending in 2010 [ http://milexdata.sipri.org/ ], and $502B in 1990 (both numbers in 2009 dollars). China - the next guy down the list - is estimated at $114B. I'm a strong believer in the benefits to society t
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by JimmyL 15y ago
"live, work, and play in close physical proximity to the fertile grounds of the Bay Area" Among other problems, how will people on this ship take advantage of the "fertile grounds of the Bay Area" when the CBP agents at the port catch on to
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by JimmyL 15y ago
For a similar (and email provider-agnostic) result, check out http://followup.cc - it runs my life, and is the first service in which I've outgrown the free tier and been excited to pay for more access to.
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by JimmyL 15y ago
Why do you want one?
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by JimmyL 15y ago
That headline is a little sensationalist - only their web- and email-accessible clips have to be that resolution. The guidelines say that "a monitor may send to a customer who requires immediate access a video ... as an email attachment wit
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by JimmyL 15y ago
If you're looking for purely mathematical facts, there's a list of something "special" about each number from 0 to 9999 at http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html . For smaller numbers, Wikipedia is pretty good too.
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by JimmyL 15y ago
I like the idea - I'm a big fan of the Seinfeld Calendar method of forming habits - although in practice I find that I end up using a piece of paper for my calendar. I'm not sure if it's intentional, but it seems weird that you can't change
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by JimmyL 15y ago
West was described by Kidder as "a good man in a storm", which always seemed to me one of the best epithets a hacker could have. Rest in peace, Tom West.
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by JimmyL 15y ago
I love followup.cc, and gladly send them money each month.
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by JimmyL 15y ago
For completeness, the next two paragraphs in Lawson's post: "Of course, this is a ludicrous argument from a security perspective. The webserver is a critical part of the chain of trust in protecting the credit card numbers. There are many s
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by JimmyL 16y ago
I suspect you're thinking of the Tres Amigas SuperStation ( http://www.tresamigasllc.com/ ), which will connect the Western, Eastern, and Texas Interconnects - and should realistically be online in 2015 or so.
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by JimmyL 16y ago
One of the best problem-solving strategies I was ever taught was to respond to things like this with "well, what if it wasn't?" Don't try and fight their reasoning about why it's impossible, because you won't win - instead, step around it b
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by JimmyL 16y ago
When you click to the second page, it includes "...a representative of Kuwait Airways at the event did confirm...have a 747-8 Intercontinental on order for 'head of state transportation.'"
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by JimmyL 16y ago
Are they? From http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/about/commissioners.htm , the backgrounds of the Commissioners: von Finckelstein (Chairman) was the head of the Competition bureau and implemented NAFTA. Katz (Vice-Chair, Telecommunications) was at
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by JimmyL 16y ago
Small correction, as I just got around to reading the CRTC decision itself - which is surprisingly clear, considering it comes from a government body - as opposed to just reports: Bell has to give a 15% discount over the standard retail rat
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by JimmyL 16y ago
If you're curious about the regulatory history of this issue - and who isn't, really - then CRTC decisions 2010-255 ( http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-255.htm ) and ( http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-44.htm ) 2011-44 may be of
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by JimmyL 16y ago
Some context (for non-Canadians): TekSavvy is one of the leading independent ISPs in Canada. The CRTC is (roughly) the Canadian version of the FCC. This price increase is in response to a CRTC judgment that allows Bell to force usage-based
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by JimmyL 16y ago
How is it more bullshit than any other pricing? Does it really cost github anywhere near $7/month to allow me to set five of my repos as private? Just like private repositories are a service that brings value that people are willing to pay
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by JimmyL 16y ago
If she's already gone with a publisher (which she has), it's no longer up to her - she (likely, but it depends on her contract) can't submit that work to a separate publisher even if she wanted. I'm also not sure I buy the people saying tha

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