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by cschneid 9y ago
The answer probably is: "Capital could be better spent on the core businesses" rather than that they can't. Even Amazon with all its projects has limited attention it can spend. Becoming a bank isn't something you half-a
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by cschneid 9y ago
That doesn't make any sense. Visa & MasterCard are the intermediaries, not the actual source of the cash. They sell their merchant network, and recreating it would be hard (not impossible, but a lot of work not in Amazon's whe
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by cschneid 9y ago
> like Sequel Ecto can do a reasonable impression with its DSL & direct use of tables. You don't need to go through the whole stack of schemas and such. What in particular do you like about Sequel (over what Ecto is providing)?
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by cschneid 9y ago
Are there good resources / books on advanced BEAM? I'd love to know more of the nitty-gritty details of the VM, and how to make the best use of it.
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by cschneid 9y ago
So the nesting you have is Shell -> Nvim -> Ranger, so ranger is contained inside of a vim split? Mind sharing some docs on how to do that?
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by cschneid 10y ago
My local store just started carrying small (1 pint) UHT milk. We don't use milk in our house, except as an ingredient in other things, so a pint at a time is perfect, and now it has a 6+ month shelf life, so there's less planning
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by cschneid 10y ago
You hit on a problem I hear from my high school teacher girlfriend. It typically looks like: 1. One or several motivated schools attempt a new style of teaching / grading / curriculum. 2. It succeeds amazingly. 3. Other schools ru
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by cschneid 10y ago
Agreed - people in this thread are too down on typing skill. It's not the only thing, but it is important. Think -> decide that you need to extract a method -> using the keyboard, and your editor, do that -> think again. The s
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by cschneid 10y ago
Other people have covered how the Dow is a mediocre stock index. The other half is that 20k doesn't mean anything either. It's just a number calculated by the math-function of the index. The psychology is mildly fun, just like a
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by cschneid 10y ago
God, I always lol at HP URLs. What a mess.
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by cschneid 10y ago
Also not a doctor, but my dad has lung cancer (never smoked, just a "surprise, stage 4 lung cancer"). Specifically, he has the ALK mutation. This occurs in 3-5% of non small cell lung cancers. He's on an inhibitor drug (a su
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by cschneid 10y ago
That's $3.50 / 12pack - which is probably the average around here (non-sale price of $4, sale of $3, or best at $2.50). This is pepsi line at a Krogers, so name-brand product & store.
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by cschneid 10y ago
I know this is a joke post, but there's some happy middle ground that's possible too, without going full SPA. If you render your pages and snippets on the server, a small amount of JS on the client can hotswap content. In the ext
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by cschneid 10y ago
The majority of links are to Amazon's product listing. Sometimes with alternate links (I've seen Jet.com and Homedepot.com type links). All reliable web stores. You're right that its percentage based, so there may be a slig
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by cschneid 10y ago
Why is SEO'd site bad? The things you listed (domain & titles) sum up to: "Created something and it's easy to find, with clear descriptions".
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by cschneid 10y ago
The code entry form is 100% broken on safari [1]. It lets me type a number, then deletes it. The cursor doesn't move to the next field, and the number I did type flashes in and then disappears. [1]: Version 9.1.1 (11601.6.17)
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by cschneid 10y ago
Star Trek never really explains its economy. Why does Picard's family own a vineyard[1]? Presumably other people would like to have that. Why does starfleet headquarters get to be in the middle of SF. Don't they know that real-es
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by cschneid 11y ago
You're describing one form of carbon offsets. A cap & trade system is pretty much what you're suggesting, depending on the specific implementation of a cap&trade system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by cschneid 11y ago
There are lots of products in this space. Pingdom is the gorilla, and there are lots off smaller companies & free services. What makes this one different?
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by cschneid 11y ago
I've used this library (the promises part) and it works fine. Error handling as a proc is mildly awkward, but worked out fine.
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by cschneid 11y ago
I don't mind the implementation of this code, but 99% likely, it's in a method called `capitalize_sentence` or similar. If that is strewn through the middle of your code, it's probably breaking single-responsibility-principl
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by cschneid 11y ago
Dropped Phone: The Game.
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by cschneid 11y ago
I like this builder pattern. Seems pretty similar to https://hackage.haskell.org/package/optparse-applicative as well, where you continually apply small functions to a data structure to end up with a big one. Since Eli
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by cschneid 11y ago
It's easy to want to simply to steal from the rich, as you point out. But that's not our current style of failure, it's "hey poor district, you're not up to snuff compared to the rich district. We're going to f
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by cschneid 11y ago
They've gone through a few engines. They have a post about the newest one which isn't quite out yet: https://influxdb.com/blog/2015/10/07/the_new_influxdb_storag... We use them for storing &qu
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by cschneid 11y ago
:-/ Yeah, deunionizing would be great.... Private school teachers get paid much less than public [1], with the bonus of being fired any time. Instead, when school districts attempt to bust the teachers union, they do it in order to f
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by cschneid 11y ago
ugh, summer argument. First: teachers typically work days not on the student's school calendar, so it's more like 39 or so weeks by your calculation. Second: they work WAY more than an 8 hour day. Last night she did 7am - 4pm in t
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by cschneid 11y ago
Given 20 years, and a doctorate degree $65k. Beyond 20, it goes to letters on the pay scale, and I'm not sure what the requirements are to move up that. No teachers in this district are making money suitable to their training and expe
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by cschneid 11y ago
At the teacher level, they are underpaid. My girlfriend is a high school teacher w/ 4 years experience, a masters degree in her topic, and works 12+ hours a day (not kidding, seriously all day). She makes $35k / year. If she wasn
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by cschneid 11y ago
From my reading, it appears to hook up to a Jenkins server, potentially that you control, so it can do anything Jenkins can, which includes building windows artifacts.

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