ajtaylor

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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I owned a 2009 Golf TDI and loved every minute of it. The car was simply a blast to drive. In the 18 months I drove the Golf I didn't have any issues with high-torque. In fact, the turbo lag guaranteed you wouldn't slam into the c
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
What can I say? I was pretty late to the internet show. Never really got deep into the BBS scene, though I do remember doing some exploration of several.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
This brings back a lot of memories: the family Apple IIe and TRS-80 (Trash 80), Compuserve and external modems. Good times! I don't think I ever owned a Hayes external modem though. IIRC my first online experience was with a 9200 baud
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
Looks like the crows' intelligence can go both ways! I suspect that your disguise would not have fooled them though. I've watched some amazing feats of Crow problem solving (thanks Sir David Attenborough!) so they probably would h
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
That's exactly what my wife said! Wildly exciting to watch either way though.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I recently had to replace my front chainrings after about 7000 km because the chain was jumping when I applied lots of pressure. The rear cassette was also replaced because the old chain (5k km) had damaged the cogs. So gears do indeed wear
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I'm sad that people incur permanent, potentially life changing injuries from the game, not because I want to push my views on them.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I'll ask you the (serious) question then: if the cost of the experience of playing with those people was a permanently injured knee would you still say it was worth it? I get that sports are about relationships as much as the game, but
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
What's sad to me is to read that the writer is happy to have a permanently damaged knee in exchange for a few years of playing football. Personally I can't see how it would be worth it. I need to walk, run and cycle every day for
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I've had exactly the same thoughts. Swype is a godsend for me and generally just works. It knows how I type, and gives excellent suggestions so a significant percentage of the time I tap a suggested word rather than have to swype it ou
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I yell at cyclists for running red lights, etc. It's stupid, illegal, could get them killed and also gives everyone a bad reputation.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
Is your insurance deductible $2500? If you had full insurance, as I assume you would from your comment, why not claim it? After all, it's there to protect you too. You can substitute cyclist for uninsured driver and the situation would
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
And just what would be the point of bike insurance cover? Car insurance is primarily for property damage and/or medical issues. When's the last time you saw a bike cause serious property damage? And it's obvious that short of
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
This was fascinating to me. It feels like a major failing that I could register routes for address space I don't control. Kudos to the authors for explaining things in a way that a novice networking guy like myself could understand.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
Thank you for the pointer to the videostream app. I've been wondering how to do this for a couple weeks now!
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I had the same initial thought about (a), but the comments mentioned that CloudFlare issues a certificate you can install on your origin servers which will allow secure connections with CloudFlare.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
Ahhh, that would make it simple! I was hoping you were going to recommend a device that would make it work for my single Thunderbolt port MBP.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
If I could ask an unrelated question, what are you using to power 2 external monitors on your MBP? I have a 30" monitor at $work, but a pair of smaller monitors would be even better.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
Even if you're not a perl programmer, attending a presentation by The Damian will be time well spent. He's not only brilliant and insightful, but very entertaining! I was present for a talk at a YAPC years ago where I think he fir
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
There's plenty of tricks to allow you to watch Netflix outside their official countries, like the DNS services. But I agree with you that I'll first look if something is available on Netflix and only then look for alternative opti
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I'm also in Australia and use the same DNS tricks to access Netflix. A couple of days ago I started watching Orange is the New Black and am enjoying it immensely so far. House of Cards is also on My List too but I need a few more hours
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
Thanks for the information.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
The whole of Massachusetts is brighter than the surrounding states, and grows brighter the closer you get to Boston. I wonder where all that data came from. Was it a corporate or state data donation?
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
They must be assuming that most people won't actually use all 100 GB since the $1.99 is way below the cost of the physical drive (on a $/GB basis).
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I applied for a job with athenahealth in Boston many years ago, but sadly didn't make the cut then. It sounded like a fantastic place to work, where you could make a difference in people's health as well as make good money.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I don't think that node is bad, but it's simply another dependency you have to worry about. Most devs likely won't have node pre-installed. Having a no-dependency binary is a great thing.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I've been using an HP MicroServer (the N54L to be exact) + FreeNAS with great success. My outlay was <$300 since I used disks I already had lying around and the performance is much better than the cheap home-grade NAS products.
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
That's the one I was referring to. It was really, really good! :)
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I played around with the demo map and the scrolling was indeed super quick, along with zoom level changes. If they could do the same thing with WebGL so that we'd have vector maps in the browser (like Google maps) that would be awesome
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by ajtaylor 12y ago
I've been thinking long and hard about upgrading my Macbook Pro with a hard drive to an SSD. Which this kind of performance and value, it's looking to be a no brainer. The main thing holding me back was going from 500 GB HD =>

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