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by eric_the_read 13y ago
The chrome to phone extension does exactly this. If you search for an address in Chrome, and click the extension's button, it'll fire up Maps with the address selected in your phone. It can be finicky about making you log in all the time, b
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by eric_the_read 13y ago
In my case: good schools for my kids. I looked at several options nearer to the downtown area, and in every case, the schools were rated at the middle or near the bottom of the rankings. The schools where I ended up are near the top.
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by eric_the_read 13y ago
The first three or four times I read this post title, it made no sense at all to me. It might as well have read "Sydney tunnel correct horse battery staple". Once I clicked through to the article it made sense, but this is one of the few ti
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by eric_the_read 13y ago
I used to have that problem about half the time, and the other half of the time, the opposite-- where I'd assume they knew nothing about my field, and elide details they were actually interested in. So now I tend to ask lots of probing ques
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by eric_the_read 13y ago
Whedon had said he doesn't have time for at least 3 more years: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/joss-whedon-on-kickstarter...
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by eric_the_read 13y ago
I've never worked in the Valley, but with one possible exception (I never tried to take advantage while I was there) every job I've had has had some form of Employee Assistance Program that covered things like counseling for workplace-relat
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
This is what I don't get, that people think that walking somehow magically makes people somehow more social than they are. Maybe I'm wrong! But I'd like to see data that proves people are more social when walking than driving. I think the l
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
I think this idea that 'driving disconnects people from nature and from knowing their own neighborhood' is silly, and possibly harmful if it leads people down suboptimal urban planning designs. It sounds lovely and humanistic and all that,
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
My kids' school had a fundraiser auction last year where one of the items you could bid on was a ride to school on a fire truck. I'm still mad I didn't have a budget to bid on it.
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
Probably just a typo for 'noting'.
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
My favourite online tea store does this too, and it's one reason I ended up eventually creating an account with them. anybody who dies this automatically gets a credibility boost in my eyes.
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Cook Your Own Food. Eat What You Want. (Think for Yourself.)(ruhlman.com)
2 points by eric_the_read 14y ago|0 comments
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
Thanks! I knew what the comma operator was doing, but had no idea why.
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
I can't for the life of me figure out what the right-hand side of this is doing (from https://github.com/shichuan/javascript-patterns/blob/master/... ): var global = (function () { return this || (1, eval)('this'); }()); Why n
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
I read it as, "I'm not sure this is the best way to solve the problem," which is a very different thing to "there isn't a problem," or "the problem isn't all that important."
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Turbo Tax is not saving as you go. I had just finished entering my income a couple of weeks ago, and just as I started on my deductions, it crashed. None of the work I had done up to that point was saved.
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Go Daddy-serviced Web sites go down; hacker takes credit(news.cnet.com)
1 points by eric_the_read 14y ago|0 comments
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
I used Aquamacs for a while, but I found GNU emacs had everything I needed- clipboard integration, cmd-s and so on. Out of curiosity, what do you want that's more OS X-y?
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
Don't worry too much about this. A lot of people haven't internalized the correct rule (use "an" before a vowel sound , not a vowel letter ), and instead just use "an" before a vowel, regardless of the sound it makes. I've certainly never
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
Along the same line, "If a pig had wings, it'd be a pigeon." I want to say that's from Heinlein, but I'm not positive.
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
That was exactly the problem that started time zones in the first place! Every town had their own definition of noon, which made it impossible to schedule trains across long distances. Time Lord, about Sanford Fleming is a great book about
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
Sounds like you've left Denver already; that's too bad, because we're hiring Rails devs in the Denver area-- http://www.comverge.com/careers/
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The Woodward Effect allows for endless supplies of starship fuel(io9.com)
2 points by eric_the_read 14y ago|0 comments
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
What if that someone is the underage child themselves? There are several instances of children being arrested and charged with CP for sending their own pictures to each other. IMO, the proper solution is to involve both sets of parents.
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
You're clearly not the only one, but I've never seen an ad on Facebook for anything I was even remotely interested in. Mind you, that's mostly my fault, because I refuse to Like anything unless I can control the publicity that Like generate
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
Computer-based systems that print out a machine-readable paper ballot that can be hand-counted as well. You vote (perhaps with a touch screen, perhaps not) by making your selections, printing out your ballot, examining it, and inserting it
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by eric_the_read 14y ago
It seems the minimum reported by window.innerWidth on 16.0.2 (OS X, 10.8.2) is 453. Once it hits that, I can drag it all the smaller I like, and it is stuck at 453.
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ManyTricks migrates users off Mac App Store due to sandboxing(manytricks.com)
5 points by eric_the_read 14y ago|1 comments