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by gav 9y ago
There's a quote from Douglas Adams - "Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things"; in the decade and a half or so since he wrote that, things seem to have moved even faster, and now
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by gav 9y ago
Megatec make a few devices for power cycling routers: http://www.megatec.com.tw/info.htm I've not tried one and at around $75 they aren't cheap. I was looking into them at a time when my cable modem would forget h
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by gav 9y ago
If I have luggage in the truck, I'm always concerned that the driver may simply forget and drive off. Leaving the passenger door open until you get your luggage is good advice.
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by gav 9y ago
My issue with non-competes is that the vast majority of people who sign them don't understand what they are signing, nor do they negotiate the terms. They feel that they are in a weak position; it's the first day of a job and if t
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by gav 9y ago
I disagree and argue that any damage to a home can be repaired in a way that makes things better, while most car repairs have a negative impact to the car's value. Somebody damaging a wall: the drywall can be replaced and the whole roo
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by gav 10y ago
You could feed in a whole bunch of data to determine if a user is a bot or not: * Did they request robots.txt? * User-agent * Logged in vs. guest account (if applicable) * Number of requests/time period * Patterns
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by gav 10y ago
It's possible to get something around that price that's close to Northridge, but you are looking at an hour commute each way to Santa Monica—the 405 is bumper-to-bumper all the way. I would suggest looking for an apartment in West
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by gav 10y ago
It's a miserable 20-odd miles between Santa Monica and Northridge through the Sepulveda Pass, which makes that a tricky thing to optimize for. The real questions are the usual: where are you going to work? what do you consider a reason
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by gav 10y ago
Finding a better solution by changing the problem is great, especially as the problem stated is often not the problem faced. Not doing something, or doing something dramatically simpler, ends up with less code being written. The cost of wri
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by gav 11y ago
> #5 Architects make the best decisions when they code. It's not just a matter of coding, it's about the right kind of coding. I like to have architects be pareto-programmers, that is they get to 80% of of the solution so that
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by gav 11y ago
> priority access to customer service I don't think people value this enough, I have really appreciated this in the past. For example, on a MEL to LAX flight, our 787 had mechanical issues and the flight was cancelled. As the 270 pa
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by gav 11y ago
I worked with a huge multinational company that was trying to replace the system they used for planning. The system was 10s of millions of lines of 16-bit assembly code written for a minicomputer in the the mid-1970s. The next generation
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by gav 11y ago
UberX is now defunct in Los Angeles at least, I assume they've shut it off for all of CA. No cars available this morning.
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by gav 11y ago
There's a lot of times where you know that something needs to be extensible, but you only know the immediate requirement. From Martin's example, the team needs to support storm risk, and think they need piracy risk in the future.
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by gav 11y ago
To add to the anti-PayPal anecdotes: I once used it to checkout from a merchant that I hadn't used before and didn't trust; there was no shipping charge added until I completed the order. Given the merchant didn't respond to
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by gav 11y ago
I've used Xoom in the past as to send money to family in the UK, it's always been fast and easy. However they charge $4.99 up to $2999, with TransferWise there's no fee and slightly better rates (0.6346 vs. 0.6262). I'm
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by gav 12y ago
Unlocking my phone for border officials in 2013 when I arrived in Canada cost me about $300. They turned on cellular data when it was left in airplane mode so they could search through my emails. I fly internationally on business and the Ca
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by gav 12y ago
As somebody who has to stick to gluten free food at home because of their partner, it's tough because of how bad most things taste, but these guys make bread that's surprisingly decent: Canyon Bakehouse - http://canyong
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by gav 12y ago
It's interesting to me how many companies expect you to sign an employment agreement that contains terms that you've just broken in the agreement with your previous employer to go work for them.
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by gav 12y ago
The banks have built fraud detection to handle this, I had to handle the case of somebody attempting to cash several hundred thousand dollars worth of faked cheques in a past job. The bank stopped them before they cleared. What's more
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by gav 12y ago
If you are a regular commuter, but don't ride enough to make the unlimited card work, there's an EasyPay MetroCard[1]. It refills automatically via credit card (and you get the 5% bonus) so you never have to use the machines. [1]
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by gav 12y ago
You can use insulated concrete forms[1] blocks. I've helped a friend build a house this way, it's like putting together lego blocks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulating_concrete_form
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by gav 12y ago
In the spirit of more options, `pee` comes with moreutils and does the trick: cat filename | pee 'head -n 1' 'tail -n +2 | sort -u'
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by gav 12y ago
> But that can screw with your header lines, so be careful there two. F=filename; (head -n 1 $F ; tail -n +2 $F | sort -u) | sponge $F To get counts of duplicates, you can use: sort filename | uniq -c | awk '$1 != 1&#
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by gav 12y ago
After last summer's early morning Amber Alert[1] in NYC, almost everyone I know turned them off. [1] http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/07/17/early-morning-amber-a...
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by gav 12y ago
> Airport security does stop security threats - it raises the bar considerably. As somebody who flies a lot for work, it raises the bar enough to stop a really stupid terrorist. Those business travellers that you see flying week in, week
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by gav 12y ago
I like to only commit to a short elaboration, several weeks of documenting the state of the current project and coming up with a plan to get it on track. I then offer the client the option of continuing, almost always at T&M at this poi
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by gav 12y ago
> If I had my way, I'd only ever take cases where things had gone really sideways. I like taking on projects like this. The client won't fight with you about your bill-rate because they've seen what the result of being che
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by gav 12y ago
Also see crontab2english: http://interglacial.com/pub/crontab2english.html
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by gav 12y ago
Have you tried XMLStarlet[1]? It's my go-to for command line XML processing. [1] http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/

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