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by ajtaylor 14y ago
(Sorry for the delay - I never think to check comments for replies.) In this case, the apartments do seem to be occupied. But Australia has had a housing bubble for some time IMHO. Government policies like negative gearing (tax write-offs f
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Just... wow! I had no idea origami had progressed that far. The animals are so life-like, it's a bit creepy. All the practical applications of the folding principals are very interesting.
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One difference between the Irish and Chinese housing markets is that in Ireland the gains were from Irish selling to other Irish, in ever increasing sales prices and volume - flipping in it's purest form. In contrast, the Chinese appear to
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Thank you for the tip. I'm looking over the Parse documentation now.
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Let's just call it nostalgia. :)
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This is excellent timing for $work. We'll be needing push notifications for a mobile app we're building over the next couple months. How do we integrate Pushover in our app? Is there an SDK we include in the app, or would users have to purc
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I'm so excited to have proper offline maps for Android! I have lots of space left on my SD card, let me fill it with map data please.
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
I'm kind of sad that my daughter won't know what a dial up modem sounds like. I can imagine the conversations now: "This is how we used to get on the internet. Can you hear those tones? That is one computer talking to another." "What, you d
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
We've been using SendGrid at $work and I couldn't be happier. It just works, and it's FAST. 3 lines of configuration in the code and we were integrated. Soon I'm going to implement their Events API so we can start doing some detailed analyt
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
Part of the reason these new fields are being developed is that the price of oil will now support them. I wonder what these newer, more expensive methods of production will do to the long-term price of oil? Anything to break the near-monopo
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by ajtaylor 14y ago
It made it to orbit!
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Only 25 minutes until launch! It's a shame this window is in the dark, but I'm sure it will be awesome to watch anyway.
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As a teenager I lusted over the Shelby Cobra, and also the Mustang Fastbacks. I still think the Cobra is one of the most gorgeous muscle cars ever.
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When I was attending BYU back in the mid 90's, my tuition bill was about $1200 a year (I'm LDS & it could have been per semester - I can't recall). Regardless of whether I paid per semester or year, that's an incredible lack of inflatio
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I've always wondered how they managed to pack so much information into so small a space. Obviously it's all algorithms which generates everything at run time. But still, it's very impressive!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I HATE HATE HATE the new design! I was dreading the day they took away the old look, but these tips go a long way to making gmail usable for me again. Thanks!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I just checked the iTunes AU store. Yes, the season pass is available but it's only SD quality. Thanks, but I'll pass.
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
It's not on TV. But it is on torrents and Usenet. And a surprising number of people know exactly what to do. I've even considered buying season subscriptions from iTunes, etc and then downloading the ripped versions. This would sooth my con
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I've been in Australia for nearly a year now, and the dearth of movies/videos available to buy/rent here is astounding. If you're lucky, a TV show will be re-broadcast here a year after it airs elsewhere. But the channel will probably butch
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Having a weekly summary of what's going on in the perl community has been invaluable to me. I've been using perl for 15 years, and I still learn new thing with every newsletter. Thanks Gabor!
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I tried the mouse integration and turned it back off for the same reason as you. Not having copy-paste at the terminal level is a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. Learning the vim movement commands better eliminated most needs for the m
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Ahhh, that would explain the problems I had recently trying to join a conference call. It took me 4-5 times, trying varying amounts of time between presses, before the conference system let me in. Voice wise, I rarely have a problem - even
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Hahaha, I love the "nuke em from orbit" comment. Aliens is quite possibly my favorite movie of all time! But I agree 100% with you. Feeling appreciated and valued can make up for a surprising amount of small things (which can quickly become
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. I've been hacking perl for about 15 years now, and I stay with it because I can be so spectacularly productive with it! People sometimes think I'm some kind of super genius, but it's just perl enabling me to ba
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I'll be adding redis into our $work stack in the next couple weeks to add pub/sub (email subscriptions) and a job queue (Resque). The ordered sets will likely be very useful to help us scale sorting of search results, etc. From what I've re
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I started exercising regularly last week and I've noticed that my productivity has soared! Until I read this article I wasn't entirely sure if the two were correlated, but now I'm thinking there is something to it. My exercise time is in th
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
As always, thank you for your detailed comments. The question I was trying to get out was: Is there a way to help curb the frivolous lawsuits so prevalent in the US today? You mentioned special statutes to allow fee recovery in some cases.
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What do you think about (IIRC) the system in the UK where the loser pays the lawyer costs of both sides? Do you think the US could ever have this type of procedures established? It seems to me that it would primarily have the effect of prev
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
I've been thinking the same thing over the last few years. Going to bed at 1AM every day used to be no big deal, but that's not the case now that I'm closer to 40 than 30. To combat this, I'm working on new routines - sleep by 11-12PM, alte
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by ajtaylor 15y ago
Listened to the beginning few minutes of the first, and went straight to downloading. Thanks for the links.

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