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by ianb 13y ago
Things start looking weird when you get to the later pages (I'm looking at page 130, sorted by TCOE). For instance: Bodin, Gwendolyn (Train Operator, R-Line Rail Operations): Base pay: $2,901, Medical/Dental/Vision: $20,183
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by ianb 13y ago
Does Russia really not give up anyone? There's lots of crime that is much less complicated than this case. I assume this is hyperbole?
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by ianb 13y ago
No API? Sigh. It could be a nice backing host for a through-the-browser CMS – a little OAuth, a little CORS, and it could work pretty nicely.
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by ianb 13y ago
I've been riding and thinking and griping about buses lately. While this notion has seemed very appealing to me in the past, I'm less sure. Even right now, I feel like a major problem with buses is that they really don't nee
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by ianb 13y ago
This is a really indirect and complicated alternative to putting FIXME comments into the source.
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by ianb 13y ago
This article has a less forgiving take on the finances: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/04/25/why-cooper-... And this fairly extensive piece goes into it as well: http://nplusonemag.com/save-cooper-union It seems like adminis
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by ianb 13y ago
Something like a one repository limit would work well for me; enough to really get the feel, no real risk since I just revert to the web interface if I don't like it, but if it's good I'd definitely want to use it with more repositories.
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by ianb 13y ago
Can someone tell me how exactly Instacart is working this? Do they have an agreement with Costco? (I'm guessing not.) Do they have individual shoppers who just do their thing as though they were individuals, and then deliver? Are those
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by ianb 13y ago
Sometimes people will distinguish between "replicating a result" and "reproducing an experiment" – with the differences more prominent when you are dealing with straight data. Replicating a result simply means you confirm that the results
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by ianb 13y ago
The server is super-simple, it just relays messages between the clients, it doesn't interpret or change messages at all. We're keeping the server simple so that we can do things like replace it with WebRTC data channels, or... just basical
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by ianb 13y ago
Yes, Firefox/Chrome only for now: https://github.com/mozilla/towtruck/wiki/Supported-Browsers
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by ianb 13y ago
There's also an Addon ( https://github.com/mozilla/towtruck/wiki/Addon ) which is basically equivalent to a bookmarklet like this where you activate the bookmarklet every time you load a new page. It's only intended to trying TowTruck out
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by ianb 14y ago
Another Minnesotan, who also moved to Chicago and moved back when considering where I wanted to raise a child... I think part of what Linus gets wrong is that he confuses the correlation of high-property-tax well-funded districts with the p
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by ianb 14y ago
EconTalk had an excellent interview about this: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/04/autor_on_disabi.htm... This EconTalk is also interesting: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/mulligan_on_red.htm... – the thing that really m
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by ianb 14y ago
If you were in the same situation as Adria, would you have wanted that person fired? I'm going to hope the answer is no, and I hope Adria would have answered the same way. In that context, could you assume that the repercussions of posting
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by ianb 14y ago
I'm not sure if it's safety, or a knowledge that risk assessment also has to take into account the risk that your assessment is wrong. How can anyone make a prediction of any 0.1% chance? The accuracy of the information going into combine
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by ianb 14y ago
So... while I'm almost reluctant to even know because it feeds into a mob mentality we've already seen, what was the company that did the actual firing?
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by ianb 14y ago
Most prefs live on in about:config, and can be set in peers.js. This is probably easier to automate anyway.
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by ianb 14y ago
This is a very poor approach to scraping. SAX parsers aren't good for much of anything, and they are especially bad for scraping HTML. You'll get lots of errors while parsing relatively normal pages, and your logic will become very challe
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by ianb 14y ago
I had the plastic one used in an exterior location, which isn't a good idea – was always finicky and difficult. The metal one seems to be more reliable. I wouldn't trust it somewhere I cared greatly about security, but combination locks a
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by ianb 14y ago
I think a general pattern is that the console should be smarter about the specific stuff people do in a console, in the browser. Every kind of DOM node should have specific representations appropriate for that DOM node, not just what falls
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by ianb 14y ago
Logo is one of the few programming languages that has been translated into other languages, you might look for a dialect in whatever your native language is.
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by ianb 14y ago
Storing it and transferring it on the server is one thing; serializing it locally in the browser itself might be a more reasonable goal? That is, it wouldn't be expected to be portable to anything but that very same browser, but it would a
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by ianb 14y ago
Wikipedia says that Opera has 777 employees as of a year ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Software That's a couple hundred more than Mozilla has now (after Mozilla added a lot of employees in the past few years). OTOH, the numbers
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by ianb 14y ago
I think the FUD aspect is unfortunately just part of the kind of communication it facilitates. Neighborhood mailing lists, blogs, Facebook groups – they all end up spreading information about crime in a way that makes the neighborhood feel
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by ianb 14y ago
This site has seen a little traction in my neighborhood (which surprised me because there's also a mailing list that about 20% of the neighborhood is subscribed to): https://nextdoor.com – it seems well executed. None of the aggregation
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by ianb 14y ago
Where I think this analysis is wrong is using the general inflation number. If your inflation basket of goods was full of products similar to Lego – plastic toys – the real price of Lego would not appear to be going down. Well, "wrong" is
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by ianb 14y ago
Out of curiosity, and having never used it, what is cool about BBM?
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by ianb 14y ago
Unfortunately, no: both browsers need to exchange volatile information to establish the connection. It includes information like how to traverse NATs to get to the other browser. You need some more centralized service to exchange that inf
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by ianb 14y ago
The Same Origin Policy can be overridden by the site accepting the connection ( http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/ ), so assuming that site is hosted by the attacker it wouldn't be helpful. If the site used (and the browser supported) a Content Se

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