ShabbyDoo

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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I have a prosthetic leg and travel weekly. Apparently, the TSA's official policy is (or at least was) that, if asked my me if I am allowed to remove my leg and place it on the x-ray conveyor belt, they are to tell me doing so is forbidden.
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
The number of times I've implemented something by convention due to the lack of this construct... One common use case is that I like "value objects" -- an AccountId class vs. just a String or an Integer. I usually implement them using som
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
A year or so ago, I wrote what was effectively a small subset of the JDK8 streams stuff. Incredibly useful, but hard to get right. It's good the core APIs will be part of the JDK so that, like the collections API, they may be adopted with
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Does the cost of housing in the Bay Area coupled with older people's need to provide bedrooms for their children cause them to move to other parts of the country even if they've spent their 20's in The Valley?
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Moviegoers are biased, and Hollywood wants to create products which sell. The people behind the cameras often are old even if the female stars on screen are barely out of high school. If I see ugly shirts in a store year after year, I don
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I'm 37 and have not been concerned. If I compare my current work to that I did a decade ago, it's obvious to me how much better I am -- faster, better at design, fewer bugs, etc. AFAIK, no one has turned me down for work because I'm too o
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Because I fly Southwest so much, I get free WiFi when available. Of my ten or attempts at using it, I've had no connectivity at least three times. Of those, perhaps five attempts resulted in connectivity so slow that it was only useful fo
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
It would have been even more profound for each daughter to have been made a prodigy in a different specialization. I suppose the availability of instructors in three separate areas would have been a barrier though.
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Why doesn't eBay provide better ways for buyers to increase the belief of sellers that they will follow-thru on their obligations? I'm thinking of something along the lines of "earnest money" requirements common for real estate transaction
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
They're verifying that I created a PayPal account which links to a bank account to which I have read-level transaction ledger access. It's a better-than-nothing proxy, but it doesn't prove that the person setting-up the PayPal account has
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I wish my bank/brokerage/etc all had the equivalent of "valet key" logins where I could set-up and manage accounts for others which only had a subset of my own rights. For example, I'd like to hire an assistant to reconcile/aggregate/class
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
So, does anyone here know any Baltimore cops? Could someone who works downtown walk outside, find a cop, and ask? We're all speculating here.
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Is there any evidence in regard to the nature of quota-esque incentives? Are the measurement periods monthly vs. say, every two weeks? One would assume that, if quotas exist, they would have some periodicity, but there certainly are other
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Do union-required holiday pay rates cause the PD to only staff for minimum requirements? Perhaps the PD simply staffs at minimum levels because most officers want those days off? Do holidays cause so many "real" crimes that the police don
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
It would be interesting to ask the Baltimore PD what incentives are given to officers to write speeding tickets. [I bet they claim none] Then, ask some cops on the street what the real incentive system is like. From there, use the data to
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Yeah. Tethering still is too mysterious. If it's not working, which device is at fault? For awhile (pre-ICS), my Droid RAZR had a bug where it required a reboot before the hotspot would work. Of course, it failed silently and claimed to
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I know little about Bluetooth 4 except that it's supposed to be low power. Could it be used to "scan" for interested/allowed devices and then "step-up" to a higher power, higher bandwidth connection?
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I don't mind this so much presuming it can do Bluetooth tethering with my phone [vs WiFi due to power usage issues]. If I'm the device's user, I'll likely have my phone with me, so having a redundant radio in the device doesn't add value.
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
A-List folks get auto-assigned a boarding order 36 hours before a flight starting with A-16. A1-15 are the "Business Select" seats for which a premium is charged. So, on flights with many frequent fliers, many of the "A" slots may be not
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I bet she's a woman who is already too rich and powerful to go down without a fight. HP needed her much more than she needed HP. I can't imagine that she'd put up with nonsense given her power -- the ability to walk away and likely tank t
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
I have a HP LaserJet 4100 series at home which I bought several years ago on eBay for < $200. It's amazingly reliable and cheap to print with due to an abundance of 3rd party toner cartridges -- not that it matters much when we average
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
The author doesn't mention if he had called getLastError after inserting data: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/getLastError+Command The MongoDB "way" is that clients know the importance of their data and can choose write strategies wh
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Didn't LinkedIn originally offer HR recruiters some version of their system which didn't show photos so that they wouldn't be worried about the liability of violating US discrimination laws by using headshots to bypass minorities? This sugg
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
"It is getting increasingly difficult to just invest in companies you believe in." So, let's say that Mark's right and the combination of HFT and emphasis on macro trends has caused some securities to be mis-priced compared to his analysis
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Perhaps Mayer should have randomized distribution so that Yahoo's mobile offerings would be consumed by employees via all three platforms. Perhaps the downside is that loyalists to a particular platform would just use their personal phones
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
Yes. The piece missing for me in most answers I've seen is eventing. Does one pump a series of events/state changes into the CowModel and see what actions pop-out? Does the model involve interactions with other cows where the actions of
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
"The Veteran - The first ten lines of any function, even an accessor, are all assert statements. All the error conditions for each function are dutifully checked and handled" Even spent a couple hours tracing through a zillion code paths to
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
The article cites customer service interactions as the obvious (and obviously effective) remediation step once a player is identified as likely to quit in a few weeks. I'd like to know if this is really true. What if the game's fundamenta
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
So, should BufferBox pay 7-Eleven, or should the money transfer in the other direction? On one hand, the BufferBox takes up valuable floorspace, especially in the urban markets most likely to be BufferBox's bread and butter. On the other
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by ShabbyDoo 14y ago
So is following around the UPS truck pretending to be doing door-to-door sales.

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