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by dmckeon 13y ago
The buses are a convenient and visible symbol for SF activists to use as a shorthand for the influx of tech workers and housing demand. While buses clearly reduce roadway commuting loads, and are convenient for those inside them, they are a
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San Francisco split by Silicon Valley's wealth(latimes.com)
88 points by dmckeon 13y ago|140 comments
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by dmckeon 13y ago
A (cheap) trick for formatting shell scripts is approximately: wrap script into a shell function source function definition diff defined function against script with something like: { printf 'dummy (){ ' cat scr
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Any guesses as to what the "3 × 9 in" dimension refers to? Is this a photo, a postcard, the size of one component, or what? I'm thinking that the wooden mounting board would be around 18 inches by 24 inches.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Being reminded of a username could also be helpful if you have more than one username at a given site - for instance, personal and business accounts for a bank or credit card site, per-project accounts for a contractor, etc.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
A (bit.ly) linked article at http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/06/fake_drug_c... quotes an assistant prosecutor: "Vitantonio said that if Peters had not given police permission to searc
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by dmckeon 13y ago
format error: unclosed </sarcasm> tag. What would ISP pricing look like if the market were heavily competitive (5+ alternatives) and the pricing was more like an electrical utility: $N just for the wired connection, and $B/g
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by dmckeon 13y ago
My takeaway from this article was: measurements do not match theoretical model, researchers await more measurements, a more accurate model, or both. tl;dr: Science, people!
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Conveniently, the first person leaving might go to work for another company that has a similar policy, and start referring their co-workers from their previous employer, who then move to the new employer, referring one another as they go. I
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by dmckeon 13y ago
For large values of "remarkably wealthy" - http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/mapping_15_of_tech_bil...
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Interesting timing on Tesla's part - announcing battery swap stations less than 4 weeks after battery-swap based Better Place announced (May 26) that they are shutting down. This is either an amazing fast pivot, or more likely Tesla ha
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by dmckeon 13y ago
The info nav system can be avoided with: info () { command info "$@" 2>&1 | less; } to get the content with a more (or less) familiar nav tool. Another useful approach is to 'project the document' rather
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Don Libes covered this in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Around 45% of new teachers leave the profession within 5 years. Is a degree in education (or a post-bac year in California) worth the time and money invested? What other professions have similar turnover rates? https://www.ny
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by dmckeon 13y ago
A frequent issue with computer tech in schools is that districts will spend most on hardware, a little on software, but little or nothing for teacher training, or for program or curriculum development. In the face of that profile, not doin
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Assuming that the weights of the lift car and the passenger load remain about the same, moving the motor to the car saves the weight of the cable, but adds the motor, power contacts, and whatever traction device (cog?) moves the car. edit:
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by dmckeon 13y ago
It appears that trailing slash characters on URLs are showing up as an encoded entity (amper-hash-x-hex-hex) in links since sometime on June 7, 2013. Many examples in the search posted, here's a simple example: https://new
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Ask pg: "&#x2F" considered harmful?(hnsearch.com)
1 points by dmckeon 13y ago|4 comments
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by dmckeon 13y ago
You tell a good story, and tell it well. I hope you continue to turn your experiences into stories, and that you continue to survive them. Advice: Buy a spare phone battery. Keep it charged. Fold a crisp $20 into the battery compartment s
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Here is a more detailed reference: http://brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif
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by dmckeon 13y ago
That night marked the beginning of a transformation for the battalion of soldiers. ... Sleepy midnight chow became a teeming communion of comrades ... In this case a meal was the center of a transformation, but could another popular shar
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Your personal bus number is one. Plan for this with a partner, family member, executor, or employer, for work-related accounts & passwords. It would seem a reasonable approach to maintain some 'passwords to passwords' (like: disk encry
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Leaving Behind the Digital Keys to Financial Lives(nytimes.com)
4 points by dmckeon 13y ago|1 comments
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by dmckeon 13y ago
For those using the bash shell, the hash builtin: $ hash | sort -nr may be informative, producing counts and command paths, although only for the current shell instance.
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by dmckeon 13y ago
People tend to focus on the size of projectiles from space, but their great speed is often overlooked - from a simulator at: http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ > Impact Velocity - This is the velocity of the projectile before i
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by dmckeon 13y ago
Groupon charges 1.8% + $0.15 per swipe for Visa/MC/D, Amex varies. Square charges 2.75% + $0.00, so the transaction amount breakeven point is $15.80 and Groupon is cheaper for amounts > 15.80, but Square is cheaper for amounts < 15
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by dmckeon 13y ago
As a merchant who uses Square, I can say that the merchant does not have access to the e-mail address or SMS number that the receipt is sent to. That Square has access and will offer the customer the choice of using a previously used recei
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by dmckeon 13y ago
"the average software project contains 64 open source dependencies, and an average of 8 different open source licenses" Do any audit tools exist that one could use to confirm suitability of all licenses used to a business model?
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Indirect Dependencies in Open Source(drdobbs.com)
1 points by dmckeon 13y ago|1 comments
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by dmckeon 13y ago
300.00 initial total 50.00 card unreturned, unused 66.26 returned unspent 55.28 food 74.61 food, phone minutes ($15) and cigarettes 53.85 LCBO: Liquor Control Board of Ontario Finding out what that

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