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by dsr_ 8y ago
Companies that don't mind outsourcing their reputation to a third-party outbound call center. When I get an unsolicited call, I always ask pertinent questions. If they can't be answered swiftly, I know that the company doesn'
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by dsr_ 8y ago
An awful lot of this is most easily done with pandoc. Use wget to pull pages down, pandoc to convert to markdown, apply edits (for example, a table of contents), and then pandoc again to make it an epub.
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Yes, many of them are still alive and even still working in the field. Some have blogs.
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Related: RFC 2119, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt which defines the key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOU
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by dsr_ 8y ago
It is a widely-held belief that searing a piece of meat before a slow roast will seal in the juices. Actual testing reveals this to be completely incorrect. Searing (dry, high heat) produces maillard reactions which are responsible for lots
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by dsr_ 8y ago
That would let people drive trucks on Storrow, and they aren't supposed to do that. It gets enough traffic as it is/
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by dsr_ 8y ago
If it's not possible, then the answer is clearly 0. If it is possible but not practical for solving any problems, that's a thing one would want to know. If it's possible but unlikely to be practical within the next ten years,
3308.
by dsr_ 8y ago
That's a very wide question. How about something like: What's the likelihood of quantum computing being a practical method to solve some class of problem in the next ten years?
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by dsr_ 8y ago
DNS, although the individual registries are each centralized.
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ACLU Advice on Securing Software Updates(aclu.org)
3 points by dsr_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by dsr_ 8y ago
What's the maximum cost to your company if one of your developers has a really bad day and deploys a release that accidentally allows all customers to see each others' data? For my company, that would probably be a death blow.
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Interstellar Object Oamuamua gets an unexpected speed boost(nasa.gov)
6 points by dsr_ 8y ago|3 comments
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by dsr_ 8y ago
This appears to be a debit card that processes at the end of a statement period rather than immediately. Is that accurate? If so, is the phrase "credit card" in the FAQ a mistake?
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by dsr_ 8y ago
No. The entirety of intellectual property is a pure construct of human convention. At one end of legitimacy is the right of proper attribution, and at the other end is the right to be a patent troll. The US does not do a great job in settin
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Does blending olive oil make it more bitter?(seriouseats.com)
2 points by dsr_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by dsr_ 8y ago
When the company is five people, doing the deployment yourself is a necessity. When you have a dozen developers working on the same project, doing the deployment yourself is a danger to the company.
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by dsr_ 8y ago
I did that for a while. I used Ghost, Octopress (which was basically Jekyll), a variety of SSGs that I tested and never got to deploying, and then Pelican. Since January 2016, though, infrastructure work basically stopped and I just write t
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Speaking of tomatoes -- all the tomatoes in that tube were beautfully colored, exactly the same shape and size. (And beefsteak variety, so nearly tasteless. That's a different issue.) In the real world, tomatoes come graded. You pay a
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by dsr_ 8y ago
The United States of America is, in the terms of other countries, 50 states that have given up certain powers and responsibilities to a federal government but retain their own powers, including the ability to set tax policy inside their own
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Indeed they are. Beginning with the simple workflow: 1. Get many burner phones for cash. 2. Get many prepaid credit card for cash. 3. Sign up for many self-driving car services. 4. Targeted denial of service. (I'm avoiding the very-slo
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Technically, it's the inability of the payer to pay the mortgage that causes market crashes. If you had an oracle that could predict with 99% certainty whether a given housebuyer would make a certain size of mortgage payments, you coul
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by dsr_ 8y ago
I am interested in your hypothesis and would like to see the research supporting it.
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by dsr_ 8y ago
It's not "effectively" losing money. It's losing imaginary money. If you want to see an actual loss leader, go to a grocery story in mid-November. They'll sell you a frozen turkey for (depending on competition) 20 t
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Well, if they were actually losing money on it, it would be a loss leader. But since the actual cost of the dog, bun, cup, soda, paper plate, napkins, condiments, labor and depreciation comes in under $1.50, it's not a loss. It's
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by dsr_ 8y ago
"To better understand how rents and affordability have changed over time, Apartment List analyzed Census data from 1960 - 2014. We find that inflation-adjusted rents have risen by 64%, but real household incomes only increased by 18%.&
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Quantity Premium in Internet Advertising(ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
1 points by dsr_ 8y ago|0 comments
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Project Wonderful Shutting Down(projectwonderful.com)
3 points by dsr_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by dsr_ 8y ago
I believe the point is to make it sufficiently widespread that an ignorant server developer can't ignore it. (edit: or at least will start getting bug reports as soon as a Chrome/Chromium user enters the population)
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by dsr_ 8y ago
Perhaps you should be making plans to be multiplatformable now ?
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by dsr_ 8y ago
In my experience, people who are significantly depressed can't make time in their lives for exercise. One of the indicators that they are coming out of a depressive period is that they return to exercise routines that the abandoned on

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