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by gav 14y ago
I see this more frequently, sites are adding dependencies on third-party Javascript for tracking, and when they are unresponsive (or blocked with something like Ghostery) the site's functionality breaks. This is especially worrying for e-co
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by gav 14y ago
I've never had a problem with my UK degree in the states, though this may be because I'm at the point where it's just a check mark next to "the candidate has a relevant degree".
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by gav 14y ago
If his antics really distracted the TSA so that "nefarious actors" could exploit the situation, the state of our airport security is in grave danger.
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by gav 14y ago
This one of the things I learnt from business travel; sitting at the bar means you can talk to the waitstaff plus everyone else waiting for tables, you'll end up feeling a lot less lonely than sitting alone at a table.
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by gav 14y ago
I'm also assuming that if you are building a device that has a multi-year lifespan you can factor in the ever decreasing cost of components. Maybe the price of the components on day-1 are $500, but day-730 $350.
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by gav 14y ago
They are generally legal for non-profits, but it's complicated and depends on the state. General information: http://www.nals.org/?p=1340 New York State: http://www.charitiesnys.com/pdfs/raffles.pdf
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by gav 14y ago
Fun fact: the VT-100 supported a 132-column display. Anyway, there's a lot of advantages of trying to keep lines <= 78 columns wide. I don't make it a hard-and-fast rule, but usually overly long line is a sign that something's not right
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by gav 14y ago
I just logged in to Cloud Player: "We've added 1084 songs from AutoRip CD purchases for free."
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by gav 14y ago
Using `find` is nice to get just directories: $ find . -type d -maxdepth 1
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by gav 14y ago
One of the disadvantages to using imgur is that it's blocked for a lot of corporate users. I'd suggest instead to use S3. Things like S3Fox[1] make uploading easy. [1] http://www.s3fox.net
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by gav 14y ago
I think it's a bad idea to look at what Google does with their search results and then try to apply it to product search. Users have a very different set of goals, with Google we know that the falloff from the top search result to the botto
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by gav 14y ago
I solve this problem two ways: firstly by being very expensive, charging several hundreds of dollars an hour; secondly by only working on a time and materials basis. This won't work for everyone. Fixed priced projects only work in a few cas
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by gav 14y ago
I've always considered the first rule of development is to first figure out what the client actually needs: Average people will try to build what the client wants and fail. Good people will build what the client wants. Great people will bui
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by gav 14y ago
Personally I've not had much luck with hot-spares, I'd prefer to have the spare in the array (in the case of RAID-6) so I can find out if there's a problem with that drive before it's the only thing standing in the way of total failure. I'm
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by gav 14y ago
To add some extra emphasis to wazoox's point, RAID-6 is always a better choice than RAID-5. If you're willing take a capacity hit for improved write performance, RAID-1+0 is great. Though you can only survive two disks failing if they are i
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by gav 14y ago
I used to carry kitty litter in the trunk of my car when I lived in Vermont. Throwing a couple of handfuls under your tires would give enough traction to get going on ice.
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by gav 14y ago
In my experience it works like this: you go to your boss as part of the review cycle and ask for a raise and your boss goes off and talks to the people that make those decisions. They say no. You tell your boss that you are going to look el
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by gav 14y ago
I dread going to an Apple store. I live within walking distance of 3 and avoid them all. They are busy full of people trying to get service at the Genius bar (which is pretty poor experience a lot of the time), the demo units are taken by p
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by gav 14y ago
Correct. That's why a contract mentioning WFH should include a clause that if this work isn't considered a WFH, then there is a rights assignment.
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by gav 14y ago
What is your objection to having the work deemed work for hire?
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USB device pretending to be a keyboard(securepla.net)
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by gav 14y ago
Living in NYC I've definitely appreciated seeing the number of calories on the menu; I'd like to see it everywhere and not just chains. I'm much more likely to order something with a lower amount of calories. If there are three choices: 400
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by gav 14y ago
I'm making two assumptions here: firstly that there is a hierarchy of contributors, where triage doesn't have to be handled by the guys right at the top; and secondly that the first few submissions by a new person aren't major--they are goi
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by gav 14y ago
> It's what people have been saying for a while now: mutable state is problematic. Local mutable state is fine, it's when it leaks across boundaries things start to get problematic.
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by gav 14y ago
I'm of the opinion that the best thing for large projects is new blood. If large OSS projects rotated people through triage and new contributor on-boarding, e.g. how to make a patch, how to get it approved, and so on, then in the long-run t
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by gav 14y ago
It's not just the cost of going to court you have to think about, it's the cost of having your lawyers investigate a claim too. There was a company going around asking $25k from e-tailors for a seemingly bogus search patent. The lawyers we
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by gav 14y ago
It's not the worst way, but it's far from being the best way. Sometimes you don't want the user to stop what they are doing, wait for an email to arrive, hope it doesn't land in spam, read it, click then link, and then continue. This is usu
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by gav 14y ago
Most of NYC is very safe, if you don't feel safe at 3am you're living in the wrong place. Within a mile of where I live in Clinton/Midtown there's been 4 murders since 2006[1]. I also work right by the Empire State building and walk to work
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by gav 14y ago
Does anyone consider that showing up at the airport with a watch that looks like a bomb is a good idea? We all know that in the current climate that the TSA is prone to overreact. It's not right that this is the case, but like it or not, it
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by gav 14y ago
I called up TWC to complain as I figure that after 2 years of service they've more than covered the cheap RCA modem they gave me. I was told that some customers were paying $2.50 and some were paying $0 so they were going to charge $3.95 to

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