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by cosmie 9y ago
It's probably a more mundane issue related to either older versions of HTML (which did not support UTF8[1]), or issues with an older database that stored things as latin1 or ASCII by default, or issues with an older programming languag
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by cosmie 9y ago
Matches anything that's not between the space and tilde in the ASCII code range[1], which is the entire range of printable ASCII characters. It's similar to [a-Z] you see a lot, but expanded to include the space character, numbe
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by cosmie 9y ago
I don't remember where I came across that regex, but it's saved me from so many headaches I quite literally get giddy any time I can insert it into a processing stream. A developer upstream naively split on /n and leave some
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by cosmie 9y ago
Ftfy and Unidecode[1] are two of the first libraries I reach for when munging around with a new dataset. My third favorite is the regex filter [^ -~]. If you know you’re working with ASCII data, that single regex against any untrusted data
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by cosmie 9y ago
In some cases, I’ve gotten products off AliExpress that were made far more robustly internally than the name-brand product they were imitating (not direct knockoffs pretending to be authentic, just obvious imitations). The economics of buyi
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by cosmie 9y ago
As far as I understand, your state says it’s legal but the federal government says it’s illegal. However, there’s a standing directive from the Justice department that they won’t prosecute individuals complying with state laws (when those s
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by cosmie 9y ago
Not a DIY project, but one solution I’ve been looking at is Circle [1]. It comes as a stand-alone device or baked into some higher end Netgear models. And they have a subscription that allows you to monitor remote usage as well (I’m assumi
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by cosmie 9y ago
For far more reasons than I care to go into, the Dominos PULSE system[1] sucks at making delivery time estimates. The CSMs in store don’t use it, but can’t control what online orders see. As a former manager, blowing through unrealistic del
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by cosmie 9y ago
> Easily available in any country without a bank as an intermediary > because again no banks are involved which might also go bankrupt > Highest liquidity I'm not sure what you mean by this. Banks certainly are involved, and
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by cosmie 9y ago
I read that section as what one is commonly exposed to, not what he's advocating doing.
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by cosmie 9y ago
> I realized you can't truly turn them off on FB messenger. You can only mute them for up to 24 hours. At least on iOS, you can go into the system settings, scroll down to the Messenger app, and untoggle "Allow Notifications&qu
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by cosmie 9y ago
Also, the loss of voting rights for people with felonies[1] means that the most likely to feel strongly on this issue are also ones that can’t express that opinion via voting. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_
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by cosmie 9y ago
Ireland would much rather keep its word with Apple and not make them pay anything more than previously agreed to, but the EU is forcing its hand. The only deal being struck is between the EU and Ireland to make Apple pay additional tax that
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by cosmie 9y ago
Care to share that extension? I haven’t quite solved that laptop <-> mobile sharing workflow yet, myself.
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by cosmie 9y ago
Generally, the company lists specific approved third party arbitration administrators as part of the arbitration clause, and that administrator is in charge of picking a specific arbitrator for a case. There’s only a handful of large arbitr
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by cosmie 9y ago
> so it doesn't matter much how MP negotiates the price, since they don't get much of that anyway But it does matter. Because there's always the potential for the theater to go from barely getting any ticket revenue to ac
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by cosmie 9y ago
Their concern is the long term consequence, not the short term benefit. > and otherwise get people showing up for free subsidized movies while they can. The issue comes in when the "free subsidized movies" ends, but consumers a
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by cosmie 9y ago
That seems to be consistent with what I’ve seen. Thanks for another data point confirming that. :)
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by cosmie 9y ago
> The company is trying to get out of a contract, not by finding a legal flaw, but by trying to not let the other side know that the contract's terms have actually triggered. From the excuses the company is giving (presuming truthfu
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by cosmie 9y ago
In a similar vein, do any non-devs here work remote? A lot of companies where I’ve seen remote work allowed, only (explicitly) allow it for software engineering roles. And any other postings from the company will specify a particular office
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by cosmie 9y ago
Very true. From what I've observed, it's because a firm with This Guy allows that role to absorb all the odds and ends that pop up and need handled, while allowing specialists to focus on what they do best, maximizing their work o
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by cosmie 9y ago
> If companies find it hard to reliably staff generalist positions, _and_ you're a generalist as you claim, then you would find it _easy_ to get a job. It's incredibly hard to get a job. But your versatility will ensure job s
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by cosmie 9y ago
I was once on a team piloting a new inventory planning model in Excel, testing it out at a handful of distinctively different manufacturing sites to stress test it before paying SAP's ransom to bake it into the official system. When I
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by cosmie 9y ago
Cloud9 was the name of the IDE before AWS bought it in 2016[1]. They just wrapped it under the AWS umbrella now with tight AWS integration/support out of the box. [1] https://c9.io/blog/great-news/
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by cosmie 9y ago
It's a networking and numbers game. Did you guys pick this product out of the blue, or do you have industry experience? If you have industry experience, reach out to your network. Both for trying to get actual leads and for simply soli
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by cosmie 9y ago
That's not always the case. My daughter's going on 6, and she actively enables my being a night person. But it's worked out perfectly in my case. My daughter is definitely a morning person and enjoys having some alone time. A
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by cosmie 9y ago
> I'd bet the majority of bing traffic comes from such workplaces. I'd agree with you on that bet. I stumbled onto that revelation when I was running PPC campaigns for B2B software. Bing is a hidden goldmine when it comes to th
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by cosmie 9y ago
To your point on beer and wine: state liquor licensing boards control retail pricing structures pretty heavily. In Tennessee for example (the state I’m most familiar with), the price of beer can be set at whatever, but liquor can’t be sold
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by cosmie 9y ago
There seems to be a trend here where people don’t want to sell their side project, but also don’t want to stray too far away from “fun side project I can hack on” into the world of business/marketing/operations. As someone who enj
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by cosmie 9y ago
That's probably the most succinct way I've seen to articulate the Kid Effect. I'm going to steal that one!

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