dmethvin

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by dmethvin 12y ago
My wife and I work from home most of the time. I just checked our last bill and our use is 108 gallons per day. Toilets, showers, laundry, cooking, dishwasher. We don't wash our cars and just water some house plants. It adds up.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Um, "haven't bothered"? Think about all the Linux/Unix -based devices that could be affected here, it's in the millions. Do you run a local server on your box? How about your Linux-based router? Has it been patched
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> "this should be illegal" Governments define legality, and governments are likely to be some of Mitnick's best clients. Funny thing is, if I were Iran's government I would be concerned about buying exploits there be
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by dmethvin 12y ago
You can essentially do what you're asking in Excel using named ranges. Getting novices to use advanced Excel features is just as difficult as getting novices to use advanced features in any other language.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
It reminds me of Microsoft's early attempts at portable devices, where they seemed to think they needed a huge chunk of the Windows desktop API and its conventions in a phone or tablet. Watches are not phones, they're peripherals,
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Interesting in an academic sense, but it seems like a very clickbaity way to converse with someone and waste some of their time.
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Making the web “just work” with any input: Mouse, Touch, and Pointer Events(blogs.msdn.com)
21 points by dmethvin 12y ago|4 comments
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I'm sure your coding skills are great. Thanks for the downvote.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
At some point in the decision process you should be weighing the cost of buying software/support vs. the cost of developing it in-house. Highcharts is not expensive compared to developing something similar yourself, unless you have the
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> I suspect you can be quite rigorous about the definition of a "breaking change." You'd be surprised. Here are two real examples. 1) Project X 1.5.2 inadvertently returns `undefined` in some edge cases when it is document
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by dmethvin 12y ago
How can everyone--including O'Callahan--be giving Apple a free pass on this issue? Pointer events are a great example of Apple's obstructionism. The W3C tried for years to standardize touch events and Apple blocked them several ti
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by dmethvin 12y ago
The unifying nature of pointer events is what makes them so important for the future. Otherwise you have to implement multiple pointer models on a device that provides more than one, or try to simulate one from the other which becomes a mes
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Right, I guess it's a question whether you see him as a wayward whistleblower who is otherwise on the side of the American people, or a wily double-agent who is using this to cover his disclosure of sensitive information to foreign pow
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by dmethvin 12y ago
At the moment, both riders and drivers benefit from Uber and Lyft beating each other's brains out with bags of money. It can't last forever but while it does we can benefit. At some point the party will be over and we'll need
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I'm not sure I believe the "keep you from getting drunk" part of this, as this experiment bears out. However, yeast is a good source of B vitamins, and alcohol often causes B vitamin deficiency. So taking yeast (or drinking u
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by dmethvin 12y ago
It's really common for retailers and marketers to segment the population by demographic or price. Look at Gap, which also owns the Old Navy, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta, and Piperlime brands. They're selling the same basic
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> Walt viewed his theme parks almost as “factories” that produced delight and entertainment. That's one of the reasons I don't enjoy Disney parks. They're too automated, too perfect, like some sort of strange Twilight Zo
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by dmethvin 12y ago
The voiceover is William Schallert, who played Patty Duke's father on The Patty Duke Show [1]. [1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769974/
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by dmethvin 12y ago
No, the bar isn't packed at all. The bouncer is being a dick and only letting in the people who bribe him.
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by dmethvin 12y ago
They are saying "The Verizon network is crowded right now" but in the letter they say that the problem is with "interconnection congestion". So yes the problem lies with Verizon and its hesitancy to open up peering point
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by dmethvin 12y ago
I agree on security, but as a more practical point the market disrupters like Nest aren't thinking about reliability or the risks of DIY installation. I have to think Honeywell weighs that differently since they're not targeting t
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Agreed, the site looks fine and functional as it started in the demo. Why is consistency across sites necessarily a bad thing?
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Scan your pages with this, at least your static HTML pages: http://kangax.github.io/domlint/
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by dmethvin 12y ago
> due to Microsoft's decision to buck the spec and enable it by default for all IE10 users Did you ever install IE10? The screen gave users the option to configure everything but selected the most likely settings for many things, no
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by dmethvin 12y ago
This is one of the reasons why continuous performance testing is important. Even when your own code doesn't regress, the platform beneath you may do so. In this case it sounds like a case of the platform making most stuff faster but no
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by dmethvin 12y ago
Why do people always focus on the code part? Even when the code is written in a language you don't understand, you can contribute by making the documentation, install process, or general community better. In the article one of the qu
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by dmethvin 12y ago
From a business standpoint, it makes a lot of sense. Before the deadline, the high maintenance cost helped scoot companies over to Windows 7. After the deadline, giving a deep discount (carrot) with supposedly hard migration deadlines (stic
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by dmethvin 13y ago
Sure, and for that upside you pay the downside of not knowing when that ever-changing dependency may inadvertently break your application. There's no free lunch.
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by dmethvin 13y ago
If it snows and you have kids at home, it's pretty hard to work. Especially if you have meetings.
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by dmethvin 13y ago
The work-at-home environment brings a lot of questions to the whole employer-employee relationship and work environment. For example, my wife works at a US government job where they have the ability to work from home 3 days a week and &quot

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