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by fps 10y ago
My guess is that when you call them on the phone, they ask for your password to validate your identity. Which means it's stored in plain text in their database so that customer service can verify what you said is correct. Maybe they d
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by fps 10y ago
a 10 year old prius, which originally sold for $21K, is worth a little over $5K today. a 10 year old Tacoma, which originally sold for $22K, is worth just under $13K today. Conservative design was the better buy.
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by fps 10y ago
Gas in my area has been around $2/gallon for a few years now. ( https://blog.gasbuddy.com/Retail_Price_Chart.aspx ) The current price right now in Boston is $1.91.
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by fps 10y ago
because some people set up services on internal/private networks, and split horizon DNS is a pain to set up. I typically tell people if they can't connect to services on our VPN, to make sure they're using google's DNS s
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by fps 10y ago
The UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, well" and "write many programs that work together" is contrary to powershell's idea of having all the tools you need as built-ins to your shell. The minute you need something th
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by fps 10y ago
I get them all the time on my Google Voice line, although that number originated on Cingular and was ported twice before landing on Google. I get about two a day from people mostly asking me to change my home electricity provider and politi
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by fps 10y ago
Drivers ed instructors, which is basically what supervising a self driving car is, are $14/hour average: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Driving_Instructor/H... I think this is higher than wha
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by fps 10y ago
The latest version of the play store identifies apps that show ads or have in-app purchases. https://files.derf.us/Screenshot_20160801-105001.png
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by fps 10y ago
Yes, school is also closed during the summer, but kids have special summer arrangements, either "camps" or daycare, or staying home with a relative. Kids in the US typically go to school 180 days a year, and so they're off ab
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by fps 10y ago
I work in the US and get 4 weeks of vacation a year, but I wouldn't take it all at once in the summer. My kids are in school and schools close for 3 weeks during the normal school year - one between Christmas and New Years, one in Feb
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by fps 10y ago
SSH config supports lots of esoteric options, like setting non-standards ports, usernames and specialized routing (using Proxycommand options). Three issues, for me, with adding hosts to DNS: 1) I work from several networks - work, home, te
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by fps 10y ago
By implementing your own ssh, you appear to be ignoring lots of useful default ssh utilities, like ssh-agent and ~/.ssh/config eg. [derf@pan][09:06:20]-[~] $ orgalorg -o pandora -C uptime 2016-07-25 09:06:28 [FATAL] can
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by fps 10y ago
if you buy an unsubsidized android device, the carriers don't get to tweak the functionality of the device. It doesn't have to be from an international seller - I bought my device directly from Motorola and just put my T-Mobile S
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by fps 10y ago
I don't know if it's particular to my city (Boston), but when I've worked with recruiters they've almost always led to interviews and offers. They have a good handle on what the hiring companies are looking for and how
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by fps 10y ago
Zigbee hardware switch: $36 https://www.amazon.com/GE12722-Z-Wave-Wireless-Lighting-Cont... 7 inch touchscreen android tablet: $39 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CGSWYFM/ The zigbee swi
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by fps 10y ago
End to end means that your computer is the only one that can read your gmail email, because the key is stored on your computer and not in the cloud. The whole reason we all moved to webmail from pop3 is to have access to our mailboxes on a
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by fps 10y ago
I've lived in New York or Boston my entire life, and travel from Boston to NY and back again about 6 times a year. I've only ever ridden on Amtrak once (from Albany to NY) and it was slow, uncomfortable and expensive. To drive
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by fps 10y ago
linkedin's IP based tracking includes their website, and doesn't require you to share your location through the browser. They've been doing that for years. If you share a network gateway with someone, LinkedIn will suggest t
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by fps 10y ago
Authenticator Plus[1] has an android wear view, but it goes into lockdown mode if your phone is offline. Luckily (but also insecurely) it also supports regularly backing up two factor codes to google drive with gpg encryption, for when you
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by fps 10y ago
Firefox's clumsy profile support is the one thing that makes me keep switching back to chrome. I really prefer firefox sync to chrome's implementation, and some of firefox's tab organization tools are way better than chrome
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by fps 10y ago
When a company renames itself, everyone that works with that company needs to make changes. Financial records, password and account management, , internal documentation, integrations, etc all have to change. Plus, eduction on the change ta
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by fps 10y ago
Yes, lots of tech jobs have migrated from 128 to the city over the 10 years that I've lived here. There are still a lot of jobs on 128, and those companies run shuttles from the city out to the offices for people who live in the city.
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by fps 10y ago
Anecdotally, the people I work with in Cambridge, who live in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Arlington own cars, but don't use them to get to work. The cars are for the weekends and vacations because there's a lot of leisure a
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by fps 10y ago
Ah, I didn't see that part of the announcement at all. That makes the new pricing much closer to what we were paying before. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by fps 10y ago
mostly these reasons. We also want to make sure that code we open source is properly documented, has appropriate functional tests, and is useful outside of our organization. Our typical workflow is to build a POC, then an MVP, then build
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by fps 10y ago
Network effects make github more valuable, to an open source organization, than self hosting or hosting on another provider. Almost everyone has a github account and asking users to sign up for another account is a significant barrier to c
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by fps 10y ago
the software is AGPLv3'd, and run by hundreds of educational organizations around the world. Those organizations typically contribute changes back via Github. Non-employees don't contribute to our private repositories. We gain q
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by fps 10y ago
We have about 100 private repos at the moment, including internal tools, branding related components, infrastructure code and pre-release stuff that we're not developing in the open. We may just move those to AWS code commit, gitlab or
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by fps 10y ago
I work for a non-profit open source organization that collaborates on github ( https://github.com/edx/ ) We have lots of people who aren't employees, but have signed a contributor agreement with our organization and
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by fps 10y ago
> Oh there's a download all button too, but it does NOT return the original files. It does return the original files. Here are two files, one that got backed up off my phone by google photos, which I then downloaded from google dr

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