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by No1 11y ago
> At this point a pretty substantial portion of my email inbox is just "how was X? Rate X!" messages. Those messages also attract low-quality reviews from the wrong kind of reviewer. "Just got router in the mail today, loo
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by No1 11y ago
The lack of a space after the commas is throwing a lot of people off here. It's a range, not a decimal point.
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by No1 11y ago
No, it's just a 4-bedroom house. This is a mansion: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/25/behind_the_hedges_a... But my point is more that they bill this sort of thing as getting the "1 Perc
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by No1 11y ago
> The proposed tax hikes on mansions... They show an example of a "mansion" later in the article: a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath house with two car garage. Without any peg to inflation, everything will fall under the new tax in a few de
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by No1 11y ago
They've already got a law regarding that in San Francisco so taxes are still paid.
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by No1 11y ago
> I hope the people responsible for this disaster, their managers and the QA team were fired. Yes, call out the lynch mob. Coincidentally, this bug was released a day before a holiday weekend. It's practically guaranteed that people
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by No1 11y ago
> It's just a question of scalability that gets complicated if millions of people all want to watch the same thing at the exact same time. That's a nice use case for multicast. Worked for me over a decade ago. I can only assume
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by No1 11y ago
Tucked in at the end of the article is this gem: Before he founded Marquis Jets, the world’s biggest private jet company, Itzler was known as Jesse Jaymes, a white rapper with the hit single “Shake it Like a White Girl.”
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NASA Thermonuclear Art – The Sun in Ultra-HD (4K) [video](youtube.com)
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by No1 11y ago
Does is still take a few hours to copy over /usr/local during the upgrade like it did during the Yosemite upgrade or has Apple fixed that? I'm glad I read this before moving the /usr/local directory as was previousl
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by No1 11y ago
You don't have to have a good chance of winning to make money - most civil lawsuits are settled out of court. You can be guaranteed that that there will be lawyers taking up cases (possibly on contingency) for the most frivolous of cla
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by No1 11y ago
I saw some campaign propaganda today. One side of the flier has a guy named Aaron Peskin imploring me to vote yes on Prop F and Prop I. Prop F is the mess thoughtfully critiqued in this write-up, Prop I is a moratorium on building new marke
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by No1 11y ago
>> I wonder if anyone high up in Disney could be persuaded to give Ron Gilbert enough control to make MI3a. > It's easy to predict nothing will change as long as Johnny Depp is alive and working. Clearly, Ron Gilbert should tr
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by No1 11y ago
Changing requirements are quite normal, but changing by the hour is just poor project management, no matter what the environment.
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by No1 11y ago
You may be interested in the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , which recounts some stories of how the process was carried out by the author.
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by No1 11y ago
> Bad code will make your programmers groan and occasionally threaten to quit, but it usually won't threaten the existence of an organization. You're joking, right? I have seen companies be "eclipsed by a faster, nimbler c
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by No1 11y ago
> most fast-growing startups have oral cultures where the way to learn about the software is to ask the last person who worked on it "Oral culture" - I like that euphemism. It's not disorganized, confused, poorly-planned,
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by No1 11y ago
> Most of them are rather inconvenient to work with directly though, not least because they aren't breadboard friendly. You're looking for the ESP-201: http://smarpl.com/sites/default/files/images
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by No1 11y ago
> While controlling the ESP8266 is great, the raw chip itself lacks an analog to digical [sic] converter (ADC) The ESP-12 and a few other models have an ADC integrated. > and only a few I/O pins. Again, with 9 GPIO pins on the ES
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by No1 11y ago
As luck would have it, I have asked HR ;) They have no clue what self-directed means, who to contact at the 401k provider, and aren't really interested in making more work for themselves. Simply getting some paperwork forwarded along t
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by No1 11y ago
"The 401k is tied to dozens of Vanguard index funds" Would be great if someone would offer self-directed 401k plans. In theory, they exist, but in practice, they're nowhere to be found.
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by No1 11y ago
Have you guys been checking on the functionality of this system? Multiple attempts through the web site yielded a busy signal, but calling directly went through immediately, which makes me think they somehow have your Twilio number blocked.
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by No1 11y ago
Yes, Wikipedia's terminology exactly matches that of Scala, but that's because Wikipedia references a Scala SIP ;) It's always bothered me that Baker and Hewitt felt the need to coin the term "future" when they were
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by No1 11y ago
What is up with all the encryption and hacking talk in this article? "mosquitoes can also hack into bacterial communication systems using chemoreceptors on their antennae, rather like World War II code-breakers intercepting an encrypte
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by No1 11y ago
E came out in 1997. From my perspective, Scala and C++11 are the backward ducks (unless you can point to something earlier using the Scala/C++11 nomenclature). I agree the Scala/C++11 way might make a little more sense intuitively
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by No1 11y ago
Sea grass and coral seems to be a bigger concern than fish, though some fish may be affected by salinity. "Overall, it would appear that benthic infaunal communities and sea grasses are the most sensitive to the acute effects of conc
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by No1 11y ago
I'm curious - which scale was ripped off?
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by No1 11y ago
This is likely a response to the recent ADA lawsuits against MIT and Harvard for not providing closed-captions for their online lectures. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-...
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by No1 12y ago
"Hardware doesn’t make money for Jawbone today" Hard to believe given the retail cost of their product line. Unfortunately, this means they're going to have to make their money elsewhere... "the Nest doesn’t know if you’
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by No1 12y ago
"It's unclear how Chariot is getting around San Francisco's anti-jitney regulations." From the article: "... Vahabzadeh says it has received support from SF city Supervisors in neighborhoods that it currently serves

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