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by dboyd 3y ago
Leach fields are not uncommon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septic_drain_field
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by dboyd 8y ago
Lendeavor | San Francisco, Columbus, Remote | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/ Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Colum
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by dboyd 8y ago
Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time | https://www.lendeavor.com/ Lendeavor is a FinTech company operating in the healthcare space, headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a satellite office in Columbus, Ohio. We&#x27
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by dboyd 9y ago
Lendeavor | San Francisco | Full-time, REMOTE | https://www.lendeavor.com/ Lendeavor is a technology-enabled lender to healthcare practices. Practitioners — primarily dentists, veterinarians, and optometrists — use Lendeavo
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by dboyd 9y ago
My favourite one that I use as a cliche from time-to-time is... > The average European lifespan has more than doubled since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to the continent.
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by dboyd 10y ago
That is in the lama book ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001322.do ). > Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise
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by dboyd 11y ago
It would screw up high-noon for a lot of people. However, getting the US down to two time zones would be much less problematic, and achieve most of the benefits you'd see from one time zone... http://www.theatlantic.com&#x2F
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by dboyd 11y ago
Looks great. Your formatting on the result page is messed up in my browser (chrome on osx). You can see a screen shot here... https://annotate.driftt.com/view?i=99nffsejxeiittq%2F2015-08...
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by dboyd 11y ago
San Francisco, CA REMOTE Lendeavor helps people get small business loans. Since the beginning of 2014, we've helped bakers, consultants, builders, sneakerheads, doctors, and brewers get the money they need to grow their businesses. We&
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by dboyd 11y ago
That's less than 1% over one week . The APR would closer to 15-20% (depending on salary, pay frequency, etc.).
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by dboyd 11y ago
This was my first thought as well. Why is it that people have no issue with your laptop vendor "claiming ownership" of your laptop, but are so alarmed when the same principle is applied to a larger machine? Yes, I realize that th
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by dboyd 11y ago
3/7 == 0.42857
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by dboyd 12y ago
As well as readability (mentioned above), I find Evernote's Clearly to be a great extension for reading anything on the web (medium.com tends to be notorious to read)... https://evernote.com/clearly/ Note that you
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by dboyd 12y ago
I have the same issues. I do have Disconnect running, which blocks about 30-40 third-party requests made from your site. It looks like errors from mixpanel are breaking the rest of your app. I do allow same-party interaction and cookies.
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Dart 1.5(news.dartlang.org)
160 points by dboyd 12y ago|160 comments
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by dboyd 13y ago
This desk doesn't look like it does very low. When I do sit, I like my desk to be almost on my lap, so that my arms hang straight down, and my elbows are very close to 90 degrees. I find this very comfortable. However, it means the
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by dboyd 13y ago
Just started using OpenStreetMap on the weekend. I found Mapbox[1] to be very easy to get started with. Their plans also seem to specifically benefit the 'small user' (I.e., free developer account). At the same time I have to a
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by dboyd 13y ago
Exactly the same... I was hired by my college to build a grade management system in my second-to-last year there. I was in a hurry due to a lunch meeting with other IT staff at the University, forgot to add the where clause, and suddenly e
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Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)(googleblog.blogspot.com)
638 points by dboyd 13y ago|177 comments
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by dboyd 13y ago
Hat-tip to roadie. I am absolutely amazed at how well it works, and how much work it removes in producing HTML emails.
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by dboyd 13y ago
Related post from a couple days ago (re: Valve's SteamOS)... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745386 And, from that article... > Sony may have lost between $4 and $6 billion on PlayStation 3.
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by dboyd 13y ago
I tried to create an account the other day and they explicitly required a mobile phone number they could send an SMS too. I suspect that different people see different behavior.
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by dboyd 13y ago
> even more offensively intrusive than Facebook Not sure if that statement is specifically related to your wife having to "provide a phone number", but... Facebook does the same thing.
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by dboyd 13y ago
I thought so too. My meager spanish translated the domain name into "mansauce.com", which really doesn't sound that appealing 8).
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Behold the Bankruptcy of Software Patents(blogs.computerworlduk.com)
1 points by dboyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 13y ago
Rails 4.0.0 was released 129 days earlier, on June 25... http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/6/25/Rails-4-0-final/ I'm very impressed with Rails 4, not just the overall level of improvements, bu
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by dboyd 13y ago
Tried to signup for facebook several times today and it kept asking for my phone number. I wonder if teens are less willing to go through that hassle. Compare that to twitter's new onboarding experience, which is (arguably) very well
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by dboyd 13y ago
That article would make a great TED talk. Has pretty much the exact right levels of focus, clarity and eloquence.
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Samsung Loses Bid for Obama Veto of Apple-Won Import Ban(bloomberg.com)
2 points by dboyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 13y ago
> Second, no one has 20 years of relevant experience. I worked at my first Internet startup in 1993. Sadly, the web archive only tracks it back to '97... http://web.archive.org/web/19970429192003/http:&#x2F

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