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by aclimatt 6y ago
Like the article says and as applies to almost all failed startups / products, it can all be traced back to bad management. I've been a heavy CS user for over a decade, I've been to events at their (now defunct I suppose) off
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by aclimatt 7y ago
Yep, it just uses ImageMagick's `convert` to take the PDF, rotate it a little bit, blur the text, and generally reduce the quality just like a scan would. The OP also uses a few other flags like `+noise Gaussian` and `-attenuate 0.25`
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by aclimatt 7y ago
Ha! My co-worker made one of these for the same reason. Some places still require "wet" signatures, and some people (us) like to stick it to bureaucracy and prove that they can't tell the difference. For a one-liner, if you u
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by aclimatt 7y ago
Also worth looking at: https://www.passportindex.org/comparebyPassport.php?p1=us&fl...
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by aclimatt 7y ago
But this is what almost every other economy around the world dreams about -- a large amount of new highly-paid workers increasing the tax base and dumping buckets of money into the economy. Municipality after municipality has tried to cre
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by aclimatt 7y ago
I don't believe they're going door to door and knocking on random doors. It's not said explicitly but it's implied that they're sending postal mail and following up with people who respond for in-home interviews. Th
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by aclimatt 7y ago
Let's fast forward a few years from now to the point where we determine that e-cigarettes contain some sort of cancer or lung disease-causing product / additive, just like we figured out with cigarettes decades ago. What I don&#x2
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by aclimatt 7y ago
I agree that its real-time inventory and pricing availability has been a total game changer in the UX department. Presumably their acquisition of ITA gave them the ability to respond to queries in real-time which enabled all of the (quite e
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by aclimatt 7y ago
It's not just amongst your friends, but Google already offers this in the latest versions of Android. It says "Suspected spam call" below the number during the incoming call. https://support.google.com/phoneap
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by aclimatt 7y ago
At least NYC is finally fixing that with Omny. Full rollout won't be for a few years but it'll support the entire regional transit system like Clipper in the Bay Area does. https://omny.info/
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by aclimatt 7y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / New York City / Remote ------------- hello@bitmatica.com ------------- Hi! I'm the co-founder of Bitmatica. We build cutting-edge web and mobile products for enterprise and fast-growing startups
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by aclimatt 8y ago
Well, that's not entirely true, Apple can't exactly do what it wants. As other comments point out regarding Microsoft, Microsoft were forced to allow IE to be debundled and other competing browsers installed, because having a mono
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by aclimatt 8y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / New York City / Remote ------------- hello@bitmatica.com ------------- Hi! I'm the co-founder of Bitmatica. We build cutting-edge web and mobile products for enterprise and fast-growing startups
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10-Point Plan to Transform and Fund the MTA(governor.ny.gov)
2 points by aclimatt 8y ago|0 comments
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by aclimatt 8y ago
The article provides a very light history and technically shallow description of OAuth and OIDC so it can advertise Okta. Essentially, "these two protocols are complicated, and you probably don't care, so you should buy Okta.&quot
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by aclimatt 8y ago
It looks like this opens a copy of WhatsApp Web and instruments it as its client. And it uses compiled class names like `._2EZ_m` to interact with the DOM. Unless I'm missing something, this will probably break weekly or every time the
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Federal judge blocked New York’s latest attempt to crack down on Airbnb(vox.com)
1 points by aclimatt 8y ago|0 comments
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by aclimatt 8y ago
For what it's worth, I have the exact same skill as you down to all of the details. I can remember many songs in their original key, sing them / whistle them within a few cents usually, identify the key of many notes most of the t
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by aclimatt 8y ago
Of course, and if you're delivering work and that's working out all well for you, then great. And it appears that you can go that route instead on UpWork, agree on milestones, and no tracking required. But, if like many people you
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by aclimatt 8y ago
I'm a consultant and have been for a long time, and I know this business. I don't think counting keystrokes and in many cases screenshots make any sense, so I think the implementation of this is totally bogus, but the concept make
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by aclimatt 8y ago
Correct. However one of the key differences is that when the Republic was established, per the Constitution, States' Rights were a primary aspect of legislation. The federal government had very little power and very few laws compared t
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by aclimatt 8y ago
I'm not sure that anybody is against the ruling itself, but more that a company would decide to institute that policy in the first place. It was well within Mylan's right[0] to raise the price of EpiPens an egregious amount for no
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Stop Calling Yourself (or Anyone) a Coder(aclimatt.com)
2 points by aclimatt 8y ago|0 comments
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by aclimatt 8y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant. As others pointed out, even if it's very niche, it still exists. Yes, there are a number of articles fetishizing all of the "weird" aspects of Japan and perhaps in some way making t
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by aclimatt 8y ago
Just overlay a map of median temperatures and you'll have some interesting insight.
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by aclimatt 8y ago
A little late to the game, but the NYT-accepted wisdom among other things is "repeated, unplanned interactions". That's how most strong friendships work. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fa
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by aclimatt 8y ago
It's really not. It's actually a surprisingly livable and automobile traffic-free city for being literally the largest in the world. (Obviously the train system plays a huge role in that.)
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by aclimatt 8y ago
Not the crux of the article, but: > This doesn't mean that they, or the even higher-cost, more congested coastal metros, will adopt Manhattan or Tokyo-style density and transit patterns. Instead, Austin and San Antonio might be the
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by aclimatt 8y ago
And there's actually a great article about this that was on HN in January -- the history of the term jaywalking: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history Basically, automobiles were
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by aclimatt 8y ago
I think it's the natural evolution of frameworks. About 5 years ago, we had the Cambrian explosion of front-end frameworks -- Angular, React, Ember, Meteor, Backbone, even jQuery was still hot back then, and certainly dozens more. Tech

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