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by drags 14y ago
I'd love an invite too :) edit: thanks polyfractal!
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by drags 14y ago
This doesn't help pay the bills, but I lived right down the street from you a couple years back and loved your bookstore. Have you looked into textbooks? There's a lot of money in the textbook market right now (for a variety of reasons). Wo
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by drags 14y ago
Sometimes people come into the office on the weekend. Sometimes they don't realize that they lost their office key until they get to the office (they're never the first one in during the week, for instance). It would be nice if they could t
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What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About Your DNA(healthland.time.com)
6 points by drags 14y ago|0 comments
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by drags 14y ago
We're having problems in multiple AZs. In particular, we're unable to connect to our load balancers and multi-AZ RDS.
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by drags 14y ago
And in constitutional law, Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy ( http://www.volokh.com/ ).
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by drags 14y ago
SF - Rails/JS - HALF OR FULL-TIME I've mentioned before that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480 We'r
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by drags 14y ago
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME-ISH :) I've mentioned before that we have a few engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480 We're
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by drags 14y ago
For multi-Availability Zone ELBs, the ELB service maintains ELBs redundantly in the Availability Zones a customer requests them to be in so that failure of a single machine or datacenter won’t take down the end-point. Based on how they be
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by drags 14y ago
SF - Rails/JS - HALF-TIME-ISH :) I've mentioned before that we have a couple of engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480
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by drags 14y ago
I think this makes a lot of sense. One of our products is a B2B analytics tool that leverages a custom Chrome extension for one piece of functionality. As a result, all of our users are on Chrome. We already use chai for testing, which does
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by drags 14y ago
Did anyone else run into issues with ELB during the outage? We're multi-AZ and could access unaffected instances directly without a problem, but the load balancer kept claiming they were unhealthy.
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by drags 14y ago
SF - Rails - HALF-TIME-ISH :) I've mentioned before that we have a couple of engineers who work half-time-ish (and do their own things the rest of the time) and it got some positive feedback: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850480 We
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by drags 14y ago
The Wikipedia page on the "greenshoe" gives more detail on how Morgan was able to safely buy these shares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenshoe Brief summary: Morgan oversells the offering. Facebook gives Morgan the right (but not the o
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by drags 14y ago
> A programmer's salary is great, but why can't I work 20 hours as a programmer, and 20 hours as a tree-planter, or teaching rock climbing to high school kids, for maybe 55% of a programmer's salary? My company does this. Work half-time
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by drags 15y ago
My first thought was: what's to stop someone from waiting for some responses and then running over to Kayak to book once they know the best dates/airlines. But it looks like they take the finder's fee upfront. It would be nice if there were
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by drags 15y ago
A good example for using the dispatch object was how views interact when we send messages out from the compose message form on Sendhub.com. When a user composes a message and submits the form (ComposeMessageFormWidget), we render the new m
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by drags 15y ago
It's possible to make "process" and "strategy" interesting without twisting facts: "The War Room" is a great example. It's unfortunate that the producers of this series weren't up to the task.
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by drags 15y ago
Does it support X forwarding? That's a deal-breaker for me.
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by drags 15y ago
Some of Southwest's profit comes from fuel price speculation, which could backfire on them much more quickly and easily than their core business: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#Risk_managem...
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by drags 15y ago
If there is more demand for government bonds (due to higher capital gains taxes, for example), I imagine the yields on government bonds will decrease. That would probably help the economy more than hurt it. Taxes (in general) apply to _gain
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by drags 15y ago
Why not apply for a permit, dress up as business travelers and pass out literature promoting your position? Seems that would avoid feeding into the "Why are a bunch of crazy leftists clogging up my airport" stereotype _and_ ensure you get t
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by drags 15y ago
On the GP's point, isn't a gold certificate a debt instrument? If you use a gold certificate for convenience, then you are introducing counterparty risk. Most people are willing to pay a few cents on the dollar (whether that rears its head
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by drags 15y ago
Verba, San Francisco, CA We help college bookstores decide what to sell to students (print? rental? digital?), who to buy them from, and how much to sell their inventory for. Students get their books for less, local bookstores make more mon
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by drags 15y ago
The Judicial Conference waives fees if they amount to less than $10 in a quarter, I believe. So you get 125 pages free. Be aware that search results do count as a page, though.
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by drags 15y ago
Normally when restricted stock grants vest, doesn't the recipient have the option to pay the tax by having the company withhold the requisite number of shares? Isn't this similar in form to a restricted stock grant (in the sense that there
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by drags 16y ago
We don't drink rainwater directly -- it probably sits in treatment facilities for a while before coming out of your faucet.
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The Wrong Stuff: How You Too Can...Lose Your Appeal(notabug.com)
1 points by drags 16y ago|0 comments
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by drags 16y ago
Despite my distaste for Sony, I worry that the tone and claims of bad faith in Hotz's filing will distract from the overall strength of his argument. From Kozinski's "How You Too Can Lose Your Appeal:" Let's face it, a good argument is hard
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by drags 16y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but the Eastern European "refolutions" were made possible because a) the Soviet Union and b) local Communist governments simultaneously made the decision not to use force. Those decisions (and their publicity) were a

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