drewmate

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by drewmate 8y ago
I haven't lived in Oakland too long, so I don't have memory of these fires, but they certainly haven't stopped the momentum of 1+5's in my neighborhood. Just in the last ~2 years I've seen 3-4 (block-sized) buildin
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by drewmate 8y ago
Another consideration: it looks like those of us without fb accounts probably can't even look at lists or buy for friends / family. This is a bummer on a personal level, but also limits usefulness in cases where anyone who would
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by drewmate 8y ago
Content owners would love for people to have adopted DRM as standard way back when VCRs first came out. Higher-resolution is just the carrot they are using to get consumers to adopt their DRM standards.
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by drewmate 8y ago
I'm kind of in the same boat. I assumed that I would be able to participate in normal friendships without social media (the way people did for generations before me). Instead, I think people just assume I'm ignoring them on face
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by drewmate 8y ago
I am also unable to download and I doubt _my_ cache is the issue as I've never visited this site before. Is anyone able to download the Windows client (or any other)?
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by drewmate 8y ago
An important benefit of punycode is that it provides some protection against homograph attacks [0]. There are so many similar-looking characters in Unicode that it seems reasonable to trim the allowed characters to a subset. Of course it&
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by drewmate 8y ago
I like the analogy; it's an apt workaround for this sort of problem. Just FYI, Utah is slowly modernizing its alcohol laws and as of 2009 no longer requires 'club membership' to enter a bar. [0] [0] https://en.wiki
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Victorian Banana Candy [Video](youtube.com)
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by drewmate 8y ago
Have you encountered any project maintainers uneasy with the idea of Google "owning" that part of the source code? In practice it doesn't matter, but that part kind of confuses me.
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by drewmate 8y ago
I've never lived in that part of the country. What is it about that area (government jobs, other industries) that make it imbalanced toward women?
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by drewmate 8y ago
We already have a progressive tax system where higher income levels are taxed at a higher rate. The question is where to ratchet up those rates and by how much. In order to do that reasonably, we need to understand what the marginal util
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by drewmate 8y ago
Clever ambiguity, or mere coincidence?
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The Billionaire Space Race Is Making Life Difficult for Airlines(bloomberg.com)
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by drewmate 8y ago
I've observed the same re: the culture difference in NYC and other American cities. New York got dense before the advent of the automobile, so generations (both rich and poor) have lived there in apartments of varying quality. Other c
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by drewmate 8y ago
I'm guessing you're not really in the target market of scooter users then. Getting the app and creating the account (for any of these companies) is very straightforward. You should give it a try, if for no reason then to satisfy
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by drewmate 8y ago
In many ways, it seems very similar to the taxi industry, which only seems to be as profitable as it is (in addition to safe and reliable) thanks to regulation and a sanctioned geographic monopoly. Somehow I doubt such a monopoly will be g
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by drewmate 8y ago
I don't see how a scooter rental like this can be anything but a race to the bottom. I have used competitors' services (though never Bird) and they work just fine. There's no network effect with a fleet of drivers like Ube
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by drewmate 8y ago
Some context on the Ken Thompson article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1284524
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by drewmate 8y ago
GP gave you a very good reason why this is different than historical Microsoft EEE[0]: > Github doesn't have the vendor lock-in that other companies have There's not much about Github that can't be easily replaced; it uses
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by drewmate 8y ago
I'm with you on this one, but I've recently decided that "Hi Phil" boils down to some fundamental personality split rather than a misunderstanding; I don't think either side will soon change. I believe "Hi Phi
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by drewmate 8y ago
Is having a facebook account an important place to start when trying to establish the appearance of sanity? Asking for a friend...
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by drewmate 8y ago
That's a good point. It would have to be the right set of circumstances: with unused land in close proximity to an existing city that can't manage to scale up because of entrenched interests. I suspect such areas exist (perhaps
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by drewmate 8y ago
Much of the land in the American West made its way into private hands through homesteading, where farmers earned the land by improving (i.e. farming) it. It's worth considering what modern homesteading could look like. Perhaps large
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by drewmate 8y ago
I'm surprised at some of the numbers from early on in their history. The brothers bought the business with a $900 loan (maybe they had some of their own money) and had $99 in sales (not profits) their first week, with _profits_ rising
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by drewmate 8y ago
That is an interesting and vexing problem and it's not clear to me how this applies. Could you post a link with more details?
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by drewmate 9y ago
It's just an expression meaning they made a lot of assumptions (eg how much people would pay, how many would pay, and at what point advertisers stopped dropping out.) Obviously they never actually tested these assumptions, presumably
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by drewmate 9y ago
> Disclosure: I am putting a Kickstarter together to use GMOs to eliminate tobacco long term. Could you elaborate on this? It sounds interesting, but it also sounds kind of "Scorpio-like" [0] like you are some Bond villain plo
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by drewmate 9y ago
I have a few qualms with this app: [1] 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by writing a shell script, compiling your own custom X server, and then monitoring the screen state for full-screen app
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by drewmate 9y ago
That probably tells you more about the haters than the brace style. That was my career path, and while I've gotten used to reading Allman braces, I've heavily relied on tooling (especially Visual Studio) to auto-format my K&R
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by drewmate 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. Studying Russian has helped me notice interesting patterns in languages. Where there is much friction (due to heavy usage, difficult pronunciation, or both) languages tend to break rules to make things easier to say. Fo

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