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by apike 6y ago
Quite right – typo now fixed.
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by apike 7y ago
While Europe may be more judicious with their allocation of bathrooms, in Canada – Vancouver, at least – they’ve proliferated in newer homes. A lot of newer 3 bedroom condos on the market cram 3 bathrooms into ~1100 square feet – often with
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by apike 9y ago
According to the article they are not only doing what you describe, but if due to an error or customer service reason they refund the ride later that day, they still count it as $100 of revenue.
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by apike 9y ago
The US can always pay its debt because it is denominated in US dollars - it can print sufficient US dollars to meet its debt obligations. States do not have this ability.
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by apike 9y ago
Local YIMBY groups often send notices like this out. For example, in Vancouver, the Abundant Housing Vancouver group has a mailing list and Twitter feed for proposed housing developments worth supporting. Supporters of housing can then be t
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by apike 10y ago
In Vancouver, our most popular local supermarket chain (Save-on-Foods) has started offering a service where you can order groceries on the web or in an app at the same prices as in the store. Then, you can either quickly pick up the collect
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by apike 10y ago
The project author and Facebook legal appear not to be in sync. The license does not grant the right to distribute the software as-is (a fork) or publicly with modifications, but the CONTRIBUTING.md file asks potential contributors to do bo
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by apike 10y ago
Presumably they're tracking when the user last submitted a salary, but not what they submitted.
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The Disclosure Indicator(allenpike.com)
3 points by apike 10y ago|0 comments
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by apike 10y ago
A lot of folks have debated whether there is a need or a place for a "Rails for Node" platform that brings together a set of blessed libraries that work well together and a set of tools for rapidly building software with that set
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by apike 11y ago
I'll echo and expand on point 6: sleep in warm clothes. Marcus Aurelius asked: > is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm? The mental barrier of throwing off the warm covers can inspire a lot of tim
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by apike 11y ago
While it would be nice to have a more complex example than a todo app, studies show that a todo list is the most complex JavaScript app you can build before a newer, better framework is invented: http://www.allenpike.com/201
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A JavaScript framework on every table(allenpike.com)
1 points by apike 12y ago|0 comments
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by apike 12y ago
Believe it or not, the iPhone 5c ONLY comes in 8GB. On a brand new iPhone 5c, you would be able to just barely install one of these 4GB apps. The user experience tradeoff of selling new phones with so little storage seems very short sighted
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by apike 12y ago
Undergrads and sessional instructors tend to think of the primary job of a university to provide well-taught classes. On the flipside, university management and the faculty running each department are often much less focused on teaching tha
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by apike 12y ago
Particularly interesting are the Human Interface Guidelines for Apple Watch: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta... They feature various previously unknown details about the watch, fo
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by apike 12y ago
Disturbingly, this is even more dangerous than them storing credit cards on their servers, since the MCX system uses raw bank account information. If you think it's bad dealing with reversing charges and changing numbers when you get a
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by apike 12y ago
Works now, thanks!
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by apike 12y ago
Interesting. I paid the $2, or at least tried to. The Stripe form processed and gave a "paid" checkmark, but then redirected me to a plain HTML page that simply said "Oh, too bad." When I reloaded it prompted me to pay a
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by apike 12y ago
We also hit this - it was a bug, and was fixed within a couple days. They are now rolling this out intentionally on Feb 1. This is a challenge for us because we use a large 3rd party library (WebRTC) that has a bunch of armv7 assembly in it
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by apike 12y ago
> During that podcast, Gruber encouraged that group to consider not calling what they were doing Markdown. John Gruber's stance was a little stronger than this - he currently has a reasonable claim to the trademark Markdown, as a te
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by apike 12y ago
This, naturally, violates the Google Maps API Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/maps/terms . Probably not a big concern for a personal portfolio site, but for most applications this is a bad idea.
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by apike 12y ago
I'm working on a competitor to Meetup called Caravan. We're focusing on larger, more established meetups that aren't served well by Meetup. http://launch.caravan.io/
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by apike 12y ago
It seems that the latest Canary has toggled the flag back off for now. If you're curious to try the feature so you can provide feedback on its future, go to chrome://flags and turn on "Enable origin chip in Omnibox"
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by apike 13y ago
Congrats to Tito on raising a round - by their description it sounds like they got excellent terms.
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by apike 13y ago
I wasn't surprised that there was some blowback, just by the level of vitriol in one particular comment. The Nickelback feature was intended to give an example of how doing something unprofessional will generate criticism, even if doin
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by apike 13y ago
There's a lot of backlash here against the idea that managers will use this to micro-manage. That's possible, sure. Bad managers will be bad. The reason I'm interested in Peak is that it may be a good tool to implement the &q
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by apike 13y ago
The Brazilian government has incredibly high taxes on electronics from outside of Brazil. Additionally, the cost of doing business in Brazil is very high. Some manufacturers cave and do assembly in Brazil so they can sell at a more reasonab
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by apike 13y ago
This makes a nice demo and highlights that in some ways, iOS 7 is easier to reproduce using web technology than iOS 6 was. > There’s been a lot of controversy recently on whether Javascript could compete with native or not, both in terms
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by apike 13y ago
One of Microsoft's documents about the acquisition calls out that it is getting the Asha brand and a 10-year license to the Nokia brand for feature phones, so I expect that line will stay for now.

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