brianpgordon

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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> The hard part is the publishing platform to integrate with the subscriptions and the billing - that's the part nobody else is doing - and we were getting pretty good at building a flexible, modern publishing platform. Doesn't
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Magnetars, soft gamma repeaters, and strong magnetic fields (2003)(web.archive.org)
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Schwab pays interest on checking balances, offers instant transfer between your brokerage and checking accounts, and waives all ATM fees. No reason to stick with BoA.
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Since I closed my BoA account I've been using privacy.com for temporary credit card numbers. It "just works" - for me at least - and I haven't been charged a dime. They make their money from interchange fees.
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Companies do not magically become exempt from needing to behave ethically just because they're participants in the economy. If, for example, some government is committing human rights violations, companies have an ethical obligation no
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I'm not very familiar with Haskell - is this still a useful first tutorial or has the language changed too much since 2007?
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PG&E paid $798 million in dividends in 2017 and $925 million in 2016.
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"The shutoff, potentially lasting from Wednesday morning until Thursday afternoon, is meant to target fire-prone areas only"
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> You receive a job offer from a startup currently valued at $10m, with a strike price of $2.5m. Isn't backdating employee stock options like this kind of sketchy/illegal? If the company is worth $10m and you accept a job offer
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
They realized that something was off, obviously. They were just saying it was confusing at first because without the context of knowing who Barr is, "AG" is a nonsense word. The only remaining parse is a soft-drink company.
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I think briefly it was considered cutting edge to have your page content be delivered as an XML document, with an accompanying XSL or XSLT file to mechanically translate the XML into a full-fledged XHTML page suitable for rendering in a bro
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I mean, I doubt that many UK natives know the name of the US Attorney General off the top of their heads. It seems like a reasonable mixup to me.
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I worry about the legacy we're leaving gen Z, and all of the people just coming online in developed countries, for whom mobile is their native computing environment. We can put our phones away and retreat to our "real computers&qu
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How is that even relevant? The parent was specifically saying that you should be able to sideload apps so that even if an app was removed from the official store, you could still install it.
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Your point about deadlines gets to the heart of the issue I think. Scrum and agile are flawed in many ways, but generally you can bend the methodology to at least mitigate the issues. The one totally unsolvable existential problem, though,
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Collections of words like this really amuse me for some reason. I have my own collection of animal names which are also verbs: https://gist.github.com/briangordon/e64d58b6b9abab346014ff05...
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I don't know what the downvotes are about. I'm right. This stuff isn't magic. The mechanism of grapefruit-drug interactions is well-understood.
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There's no need to guess; you can look up specifically whether CYP450 enzymes metabolize your medications (and its metabolites). If not then the answer is almost certainly that you're safe.
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There might be technical reasons why browser extensions are particularly problematic and it might make sense to phase them out in their current form, so, to be clear, that's not what I'm getting hung up on. But there seems to be a
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Fantastic article. The diatribe against estimation reminds me of this old article from 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/20140604112011/http://www.thomse... > It is our belief that over the 30 plus ye
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It makes the BBC article ridiculous, but not the academic article. Check it out; it's fascinating: https://sci-hub.tw/10.2307/800591
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All the more reason for employees to be excited about the opportunity to finally see liquidity for their shares.
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Yeah I'm also pretty critical of their narrative of how centralized currency came about. Their timeline is wildly wrong. The author makes it seem like states started minting coinage in the middle ages, when the advantages of a standa
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Hang on a second, since when are we this paranoid about installing software? I'm capable of deciding whether I trust a browser extension with the privileges I'm giving it, just the same as I'm capable of trusting any of the d
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What are you saying is the privacy advantage exactly? Regular adblockers also block requests before they happen - there's no "phoning home."
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He's pointing out that there's a link to a full-size PDF sample of one of the templates on the landing page if you scroll down a little bit.
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My eyebrows went up when I read "It was early 2017." I'm pretty sure I remember chatting about this at work in 2013 or very early 2014 and even then my understanding was that it was too late and that automated cross-exchange
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> On Tuesday morning, the NY Fed launched what's called an "overnight repo operation," during which the central bank attempts to ease pressure in markets by purchasing Treasuries and other securities. It was my (perhaps mi
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This is incredible. The various emergent behaviors are fascinating. I remember being amazed a decade ago by the primitive graphics in artificial life simulators like Polyworld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld
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Just a suggestion: I think it would be a good idea to showcase the variety of your available designs up-front, without requiring a signup. I imagine that a big reservation people will have is that they won't want their resume to be rec

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