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by imroot 12y ago
"The data are from Netflix." Really, Washington Post?!
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by imroot 12y ago
I don't really call this "Outsourcing." I call it smart hiring. I have two teams -- one in Cincinnati, and one in Walnut Hills, CA. On my teams, I have a blend of about 60% onsite and 40% remote workers. I pay equally acro
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by imroot 13y ago
I've taken a different approach to the audition -- I have something that would take a developer 8 hours to do: something that we do in the core product, but, in an entirely different context. For example: "At LowBudget Brands, we
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by imroot 13y ago
If you have a direct-billed account, and are spending more than 1,000/month, you'll get an automatic price break. At my current $DAYJOB, we're billing around $15-20K/month (depending on traffic) in Amazon Web Services c
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by imroot 13y ago
I'm impressed that Fluke took these steps to go above and beyond what I expected them to do in this situation. This was written in a very neutral tone without marketing spin.
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by imroot 13y ago
With USPS, if I don't get my package delivered between Monday and Friday, I won't get it -- the carrier who delivers on Saturday is afraid of my dogs and just marks my packages as "Business Closed," and Sunday delivery i
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by imroot 13y ago
My biggest gripe with Amazon isn't the rising cost of prime, but, it's with the fact that my long-standing amazon account (seriously, I've had this account since 1999) is now being throttled. When I'm using my prime acc
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by imroot 13y ago
I've seen these cars in the Cincinnati area. They're using the same technology (Cameras, at least) that the Law Enforcement folks (Ohio State Highway Patrol) are using, but on a 4 year old Honda Civic versus a Crown Vic/Dodg
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by imroot 13y ago
I'm really excited by this. I've been a big fan of ShareLaTeX and teach a LaTeX class at my local Hackerspace for EE/CE students at the Universities near Cincinnati and I always use ShareLaTeX in our class as an easy way of
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by imroot 13y ago
OBT stands for Ohio Bell Telephone, and "125" is the job/billing code for a line splicing/Frame/Switch person.
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by imroot 13y ago
That's not completely true. If you're in an old Ameritech area in Ohio, pick up the phone, dial '0' and when the Operator comes on, say: "OBT-125, please read number on display." You'll get the NPA-NXX-XXX
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by imroot 13y ago
These rules were publicized in November of 2011,[1] and implemented March 1, 2012. Press release November 15, 2012. I don't think 6+ months qualifies as "a matter of days." 1: http://www.ftc.gov/news-events&#x
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by imroot 13y ago
Actually, most if not all of it will be paid by the city's insurance company -- but the city will have to pay increased premiums (or find a new insurance provider) after it's done.
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by imroot 13y ago
I have my CCW (Carrying of Concealed Weapon) license. In Kentucky, you must go through an instructional class before getting your weapon -- and you learn that pulling your weapon out should only happen when you're prepared to use it i
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by imroot 13y ago
I'm working on building a desktop CNC machine so that I can mill out and drill the holes for my projects...I'm hoping to have this done mid-year, but we'll see.
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by imroot 13y ago
The biggest thing that I had against using the Pi's GPIO pins were that they're really unforgiving, and only ran on 3.3v. My One-Wire sensor ( http://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/DS18B20.pdf ) Nee
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by imroot 13y ago
I've just built something very similar to this last weekend -- For around $43/sensor (Raspberry Pi Model B, DigiSpark, and 1-Wire Temperature Sensor) I made 20 of these for my home, farm, and hackerspace for temperature logging.
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by imroot 13y ago
CLEAR wireless is the same way -- I signed up online, used it for two months, and attempted to cancel. I couldn't cancel online (even though I signed up online), and I couldn't reach anyone when I called -- after waiting on hold
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by imroot 13y ago
I think you're totally missing the point of the Make-A-Wish foundation -- the MAW foundation isn't for care. It's to make the life of a child who's been affected by a life-threatening disease a little bit better so tha
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by imroot 13y ago
The problem with the iCache was that it was very short lived, and once apple moved away from the 30pin connector, the icache folks never updated their case for the smaller form factor or new connector configuration. My iCache is now sitting
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by imroot 13y ago
Souceforge had an enterprise edition (Disclaimer: I was a Sysadmin/support guy/developer of SFEE in my 7 years of working with that product). Unfortunately, SF.net's issue system is nothing compared to what JIRA or Redmine
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by imroot 13y ago
It was cloudbees, pre-acquisition by CollabNet. They hosted the subversion repository and provided file space, paid for by his credit card.
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by imroot 13y ago
I did some investigative work to look at if we could use the leap motions to replace the touch-sensitive overlays that we strap to 60" TV's for our on-air traffic folks to use during their segments -- the overlays run about 2500,
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by imroot 13y ago
There's someone in Cincinnati who is doing this in a much, much different fashion -- they're buying drinks in return for 1-5 minutes of interaction with an iPhone app. It's a really unique way of getting instant feedback on
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by imroot 13y ago
My account was impacted by this as well, however, it looks like my credit card company blocked the fifth recurring bill (and I woke up to a call from the Fraud Team at my credit card), so no real damage has been done. Support answered my e
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by imroot 13y ago
Crypteks, Inc has a few patents (mainly dealing with network security), but nothing patented for the USB key. http://1.usa.gov/14l68Uj
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by imroot 13y ago
I've always had amazing support from the rsync.net guys. Great service, amazing price, and surprisingly knowledgeable staff (I use duplicity to backup my home Linux servers, and they were able to help me diagnose a problem when I went to r
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by imroot 13y ago
I can't seem to get it to work -- after the "Secure Payment" steps, my screen refreshes with no confirmation or receipt.
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by imroot 13y ago
And most of those forms are copyrighted -- one of my former employers did electronic real estate forms, and the threat of a lawsuit was always on the horizon (until we either came to an agreement with an area, usually).
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by imroot 14y ago
I use ShareLatex often. They did just roll out syntax completion for some of the common items (begin, subsection, subsubsection), and their new 'split screen' feature is rather nice. I do see it on HN often as well....

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