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by gav 12y ago
It should parse as: [ ["x","\"x\"","","x\nx","x"], ["y","","","",123] ] It's valid CSV, inasmuch as it's
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by gav 12y ago
MS Excel has supported CSV that had newlines in fields for a least a decade.
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by gav 12y ago
Note that it fails to parse CSV like: "x",""x"",,"x x","x" "y",,,,123
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by gav 12y ago
> Also, my WiFi is randomly disconnecting all the time since the update. I don't get the WiFi disconnects, but 10.9.3 has stopped being able to automatically connect to WiFi. Wake up Macbook from sleep and find WiFi disconnected. Cl
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by gav 13y ago
You should really avoid using a debit card at all. There's numerous disadvantages, the main one is that that you generally have less protections against fraud, and even if you do, you may have to wait for the transactions to post befor
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by gav 13y ago
NYC has a program to send homeless people back home with a one-way ticket: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29oneway.html
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by gav 13y ago
I too prefer buying from Amazon, for mostly the same reasons. I had assumed that it was saving me money too, so I checked the last 8 albums I bought: Amazon | iTunes 6.99 | 6.99 9.49 | 9.99 7.99 | 7.99 5.00* | 7.99
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by gav 13y ago
If you are working with XML, XMLStarlet is invaluable: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
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by gav 13y ago
As an alternative, you can always rewrite: cat file | grep xyz To: <file grep xyz
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by gav 13y ago
The Garmin Vector is very cool for cyclists: http://sites.garmin.com/vector/ The $1699.99 price tag (plus cost of a matching unit) is the issue.
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by gav 13y ago
A large part of the "rapid change" is people re-inventing things or re-writing things in a hipper language. I feel that a lot of this comes from unrealistic scaling expectations; stop worrying about serving Facebook-like traffic a
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by gav 13y ago
> if one person gets sick, it wipes out the workplace This is on my "if I was in charge, I'd fix this" list; I spent most of this January sick, I attribute this to coworkers who couldn't take time off. You really need to get a lot of si
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by gav 13y ago
This isn't true in NYC, we're at 98-99% utilization. If anything AirBNB makes this worse, it's encouraging people to rent an apartment to visitors instead of releasing it into the rental market. If you look at a $169/night AirBNB rate, that
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by gav 13y ago
> Does anybody at all on HN think that pulling credit reports on candidates is a reasonable thing for hiring firms to do I would if the evidence suggested that a credit report was a good indicator of the risk of the candidate committing
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by gav 13y ago
I've heard the argument about people only being productive when nobody else is around before, sometimes it's even been me saying it. With the benefit of hindsight I know that it's just another symptom of bad management. It tends to be cause
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by gav 13y ago
The author, Ilya Pozin, has worked in exactly 1 company that he founded for 13 years. This is not a ad hominem attack, I just don't think it's possible to make such sweeping generalizations with such a narrow range of experience. There's tw
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by gav 13y ago
They do work, sometimes the results can be significant. McAfee does an A/B test as part of the sales process. http://www.mcafee.com/us/mcafeesecure/resources/results.html Everything I've seen points to these logos having a noticeable impa
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by gav 13y ago
Do people still check the signature? I haven't had one on any of my cards for at least five years nor do I sign receipts with my name; nobody has ever questioned me or asked for ID.
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by gav 13y ago
We've been having problems hiring in NYC, there's definitely a shortage of good tech talent here. Just an anecdote: in the last month or so we've had two candidates not show up to an interview because they've already accepted another job.
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AP’s Twitter Feed Hacked — Did Markets Just Panic?(blogs.barrons.com)
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by gav 13y ago
It's a crazy rant against mediocrity; given the majority of corporations will be average or worse, what's his goal? To tell people to try harder?
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by gav 14y ago
A previous employeer used Spector 360[1] on the majority of workstations. It would monitor everything including taking a screengrab every 5 seconds that you could then watch later. They'd sit down employees and playback fast-forwarded video
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by gav 14y ago
I've worked on a lot of legacy Java code where these kind of null checks cause problems. The end up confusing things in corner cases. You should verify arguments at a top level, then let the code underneath blow up with a NullPointerExcepti
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by gav 14y ago
I'm a consultant that mainly works with big companies, the main thing big companies have in common is that they are big. Seriously there's so much variation in how they go about things that it makes no sense to say big is bad and small is b
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by gav 14y ago
Here's an example going back to the 80's when IBM shook down Sun[1]: >> Finally, the chief suit responded. "OK," he said, "maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go
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by gav 14y ago
It's about who your customers are and how they would want to be associated with your brand. For example, consider a washing machine repair service, it's somebody you are going to use infrequently (hopefully!) and even though you might give
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by gav 14y ago
It may be better to stick to targeted advertising (e.g. Adwords) where you can aim at consumers further along the sales funnel by controlling specificity and have an easier way to track conversions. Also any money invested in SEO, as in bui
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by gav 14y ago
Local business - yes, if their customers make regular purchases Fashion brands - yes, if it's a brand name that people are excited about sharing, and again regular purchases helps - people want to keep checking back for what's new It's toug
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by gav 14y ago
Not just knowing your code works, being able to capture what the code is supposed to do for the next person that comes along. For example, this week I've been working on refactoring some code that had some performance problems. Digging into
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by gav 14y ago
It's $18[1] to park at SFO. Assuming 4 days it's $40 vs. $-72, I'm not sure it would be worth $28/day to me to run the risk of damage to my car, tickets, etc. There is the upside of a carwash and not having to worry about damage in the lot.

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