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by clintonb 10y ago
Non-profits still bring in revenue. If they do well, they may actually turn a profit. They simply cannot distribute said profits to shareholders. Charitable giving was around $350B in 2015.
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by clintonb 10y ago
Pricing might play a part there. A base WRX starts at $26K. The STI goes up to $35K. The Honda Civic starts at $18K. If you're on a limited budget, your base vehicle needs to be cheap enough so that you still have funds left over for t
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by clintonb 10y ago
I see your point, but it's not exactly relevant. As a purchaser in need of putting a multi-million dollar satellite in space, I could not care less that your company had failures in its infancy. I want to see your most-recent results a
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by clintonb 11y ago
A colleague was working on a replication study. We got the code from the original researcher and another researcher who did a follow-on study. The code barely runs, and the results seem off. I spent days debugging to no avail. Just because
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by clintonb 11y ago
I'm an MIT alum. There is no "game" being played. If a student is violating certain terms of service (e.g. downloading all of JSTOR) he/she would normally be told to stop, and that's the end of it. You do it again,
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by clintonb 11y ago
I've only used Stripe for about a month. Stripe.js seems like the right solution in this case; but, I'm curious to know how the UX is improving. Aside from the addition of payment providers (e.g. Alipay), the UI/UX doesn&#x27
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by clintonb 11y ago
What would be the benefit of that?
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by clintonb 11y ago
I completely agree that support matters. What I like about both Stripe and Braintree is that both have great documentation that make integration super-simple. (I liked their docs so much that I blogged about them: http://dev.clin
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by clintonb 11y ago
> Ever since my first iPhone in 2007, I've been keeping every mobile phone photo and video I've taken. Have you ever considered deleting some of the photos or videos? I shoot headshots along with my personal projects (RAW files
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#EndALZ Hackathon in Boston/Cambridge July 25(eventbrite.com)
1 points by clintonb 11y ago|0 comments
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by clintonb 12y ago
What a sensational headline. Yes, the bug can shut down the plane...after the generators have been operational for 8 MONTHS CONTINUOUSLY.
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Multiple Engineering Positions at edX(edx.org)
1 points by clintonb 12y ago|0 comments
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by clintonb 12y ago
tl;dr It's not pretty enough.
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by clintonb 12y ago
Few, if any. Highcharts is an awesome package.
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by clintonb 12y ago
Highcharts is amazing, but it is not distributable with open source software. My team at edX recently migrated away from Highcharts to nvd3 for this very reason. The state of charting is such that good packages are expensive. There are some
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by clintonb 12y ago
I used Thumbtack once, and felt that Thumbtack was a scam. It costs me $2-4 just to send a quote. I spent about $20 sending quotes over the course of a month and never saw any business. A lot of the requests I received just seemed fake (e.g
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by clintonb 12y ago
What!? The scenario you described doesn't make much sense. Why would you need to read pages to determine if git pull is the correct command to use?
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by clintonb 12y ago
If you're approaching your limit, either request an increase or, as you have done, pay it off. There very well could be inconsistencies around reporting. I am still an advocate of paying the bill on the final due date because I see cre
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by clintonb 12y ago
Do not take out a loan just to build credit. That's simply a great way to waste money. Just get a credit card and pay it off each month (after the statement but on/before the due date). Setup automatic payments to make this easy.
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by clintonb 12y ago
Wrong. Pay the bill after the statement is delivered and on/before the due date. Paying before the statement arrives means you receive a statement with a balance of $0. When reported to the credit bureaus, a $0 balance does nothing to
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by clintonb 12y ago
The "missed call" is not a phenomenon. Most cell phone callers (not the receivers) in the developing world are charged by the minute for each call. Hanging up before the call is answered incurs no fee. This is simply a way to save
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My Breakup(dev.clintonblackburn.com)
5 points by clintonb 12y ago|1 comments
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by clintonb 13y ago
This is pretty easy to comprehend. 1. Some people are just ignorant and refuse to follow directions. Despite being in the final boarding group, they are the first to stand and attempt to board the plane, thinking they can somehow jump ahead
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by clintonb 13y ago
I agree that a CDN introduces a potential point of failure. Another reason I host locally is that I compress and minify my CSS and JS into single files (e.g. application.js and application.css in Rails).
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by clintonb 13y ago
Nope, it's real: https://twitter.com/eugeneross/status/433047716374253568
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by clintonb 14y ago
Education is not being embargoed, only certificates.
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by clintonb 15y ago
Beyond the closed model, what sets this apart from Flickr or /r/photocritique? Making the community invite-only excludes spammers and trolls, but also excludes potentially valuable contributors. What is rules are processes are in place to e