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by burkemw3 11y ago
Do uberCOMMUTE drivers get 1099s? Assuming so, I'm not sure the hassle of doing more taxes and actually paying those taxes would be worth it to me.
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by burkemw3 11y ago
Does the article explain what the play on Joan was? I can't find it. My guess is get close enough to find the personal details necessary for identity theft. Long cons like that fascinate me. Such a large investment, especially of time,
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by burkemw3 11y ago
Off topic from the post, but interesting discovery it spawned. From the top orgs at the top, I learned about https://thegrid.io : "The first artificial intelligence (AI) platform that creates websites." [0] > The eng
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I figured some expenses were hiding, but hadn't found enough of them yet. I'm cobbling together some more data points here. They aren't all for the same year, but are close to recent. - Veterans Affairs: ~160B [0] - DHS
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by burkemw3 11y ago
"A lot" is relative. Wikipedia says the military is 17% of expenditures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_Sta... This may or may not constitute a lot, depending on who you are.
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by burkemw3 11y ago
There is a push for 10G internet in some areas of Detroit: http://rocketfiber.com It isn't clear from the article what neighborhoods have been targeted, but I bet the "Civic and business leaders" from the article
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I've been impressed with working on [syncthing][]. The team is very open to discuss anything that comes up, which makes it easier for me to tackle things. I've also been impressed with the user experience of the product. Installat
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by burkemw3 11y ago
This used to be a bigger timesuck for me because I didn't always have a good interrupt to tell me that whatever process (e.g. compile) had finished. I've since added a bash alias that helps: `alias beep="echo -e '\a&#x27
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I recommend commenting where there are comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483024
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by burkemw3 11y ago
> Your first priority is the productivity of your team I agree! The grandparent talks about unblocking team members and bringing them back on track. These little tweaks happen frequently as part of team productivity. Other things also af
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by burkemw3 11y ago
Including me, so I tried to find some statistics to see if a manual was enough to focus on. I didn't find much. I found one Swedish study that looked at automatic and manual transmissions affect on young and old drivers' ability t
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by burkemw3 11y ago
In most of the given examples, humans have little control of the environment. We are, in fact, trying to use autonomous vehicles to explore. In the case of cars, humans can change the physical environment to meet the needs of the car. Addit
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by burkemw3 11y ago
Prime Pantry is extremely competitive for me (in New York City) compared to brick-and-mortar stores. I agree that before Prime Pantry, however, that Amazon was more expensive or I had to buy way to many items (e.g. 10 bottles of shampoo).
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by burkemw3 11y ago
> The facilitator rents a carefully vetted Airbnb and arranges for a naive student to be there to sign for the package. The student then takes it to a second location What are the risks for that renter?
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by burkemw3 11y ago
What do you think about HN auto-submitting to archive.org? Archive.org does follow some rules (e.g. robots.txt and passwords as you mentioned), so not everything would be guaranteed. It could be a good start for a lot of the content here, t
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by burkemw3 11y ago
e.g. http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/skymiles/medallion-pr...
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I totally agree with "Debugging is an art and discipline in and of itself" for issues that are difficult to reproduce. With a reproduction, debugging should be straightforward for any engineer. For reproducible issues, it's s
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I agree with parent and siblings that retros are awesome! Initially, my team started by sitting around talking about work item by work item and other miscellaneous topics. Most of the time, this was cathartic but didn't lead to much ch
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree with number 4 "Authors should annotate source code before the review begins". This source code will live on beyond the code review. If it requires annotation for the code review to occur, how will it stan
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by burkemw3 11y ago
The other datasets could be storing passwords in plaintext, which could be hashed using Facebook's algorithm and then compared to what Facebook stores.
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by burkemw3 11y ago
When traveling with at least one person you know though, this might be preferable. There could be a group of seats in this new configuration and a group in the current standard (everyone forward configuration).
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I'd already consider it impossible to exit from the window seat when the seats are filled.
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I've tried grocery shopping at off hours, especially late night as you mentioned. I was surprised to find the grocery effectively just as crowded, not by people but by re-stocking efforts. Lots of pallets left in the aisles with stock
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by burkemw3 11y ago
As a team lead, I have trouble coming up with a unifying theme for a sprint (2 weeks). My team is about 4 devs, 2 qa, a product owner, and myself (tech lead). If we devote a sprint to finishing a cohesive goal, I find it extremely likely th
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by burkemw3 11y ago
I avoided this article for a while because I thought it was going to be about mediocre devs copying-and-pasting code from development blogs into 'enterprise' software and the impact that it had on morale, or culture, or whatever.
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by burkemw3 11y ago
When I read callahad's comment, I thought it was referring to Amazon as a "CRUD-based storefront website". What would you say about the retail Amazon store compared to Etsy?
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by burkemw3 12y ago
And specifically IT guidelines for US: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/fairpay/fs17e_compute... Not all computer and technology related jobs are exempt. As I read it, the exemption focuses on empl
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by burkemw3 12y ago
I quickly learned that batching database and web service calls instead of making them inside a loop is generally not a premature optimization. It is one of the few performance considerations I consider while writing and reviewing code.
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by burkemw3 12y ago
I felt weird self posting. My curiosity of others thoughts overwhelmed any shame or other things stopping me.
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Google's Trusted Store protection siphoning more data(burkemw3.herokuapp.com)
4 points by burkemw3 12y ago|2 comments

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