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by jarek 12y ago
The headline sounds great - I much prefer dollar coins
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by jarek 12y ago
Sounds like Western "MSG allergy" :)
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by jarek 12y ago
> What exactly did I say to warrant that? Ironically, you have missed the point of the blog post. It wasn't written to market the service, nor to engage those who aren't engaged right now. Your comment sounds like it was writte
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by jarek 12y ago
I'm not OP but tagging and search are the big ones for me. It's like comparing Outlook Express with Gmail or M2.
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by jarek 12y ago
The $200k is the income (revenue). Monthly expenses have been published in the past, most recently (AFAIK) for 2012: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au7yiR802qQmdDJ...
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by jarek 12y ago
The suggested tags also appear when you use the popup bookmarklet from https://pinboard.in/howto/
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by jarek 12y ago
> I share, and clean up You're doing more than Google :)
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by jarek 12y ago
I'd guess a basic custom search defined to go to https://pinboard.in/search/u:[username]?query=%s
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by jarek 12y ago
> _ hardly _ I can't make it 36 pt unfortunately...
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by jarek 12y ago
Suburbs have a huge role here. The City & County is small geographically. Parts of it could definitely be densified and improved (not the parts where your prototypical 20s tech worker currently wants to live, but that's part of the
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by jarek 12y ago
> It's not their job to fix all of the problems and politics of the bay area. No. But currently they're hardly solving any problems, creating more, and wondering why they're not popular.
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by jarek 12y ago
> The buses don't compete with public transit as they cover cross-county routes for which there basically is no feasible public alternative vs driving. So try to fix that. The distance is hardly unbridgeable with public transport an
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by jarek 12y ago
> Do doctors, lawyers, and people in finance get harangued constantly in other cities? (substitute anyone with a well paying job) Do they have to take surveys about their donation habits to charities, and if they didn't, answer why
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by jarek 12y ago
I would suggest that it's more that an upmarket of mobile phones doesn't really exist right now. Pretty much everyone has the same thing. Who's the Porsche or the Rolls of mobile? To a first approximation, much of the first w
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by jarek 12y ago
It's a good thing there are many protests against the rising price of chocolates right before Valentine's Day. The gas price doublers might get the news and the local representatives being outraged, but, empirically, few care abou
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by jarek 12y ago
To clarify this example, the capacity of the train doesn't change when a ticket is bought on the day of travel, so the higher pricing is simply because they can, not because it costs more to add necessary capacity.
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by jarek 12y ago
Think about someone picking up, e.g., half of a store's supply of Snickers. This increases local demand for Snickers right now and the supply doesn't change. Surge pricing suggests that this is a good time to increase price. Then
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by jarek 12y ago
Voters: please do your due diligence and don't upvote content farms
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by jarek 12y ago
There's luxury and then there's halo-brand luxury. Check the margins on a 7 Series or an S-Class.
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by jarek 13y ago
Anecdote: I've been using ungrounded (two-prong) genuine Thinkpad power adapters for close to a decade now with no issues.
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by jarek 13y ago
private git repo on bitbucket is a decent alternative
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by jarek 13y ago
Then you've learned a valuable lesson about how to design applications that are mission critical for your business.
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by jarek 13y ago
Rephrased: people upvote because of who said it, not what was said
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by jarek 13y ago
Curious what you find wrong about using a spreadsheet for this? I've used it a couple of times in the past when I had lots of applications and interviews going and found it worked rather well. It doesn't really use spreadsheet cap
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by jarek 13y ago
I know some people have a rather low opinion about SFU academics, but maybe calling it a college is a little harsh ;) U of T did you one better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Robarts_Library.JPG
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by jarek 13y ago
In practice, that's just not an issue these days. Most crashes are due to human error or complex system problems that often include already known issues rather than a single thing failing catastrophically. Airbus put out a maintenance
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by jarek 13y ago
This is the least difficult part of the whole scheme. A program looking at all incoming data and picking out extraordinary data (in AF 447's case, for instance the stall warnings) to flag for a human operator to inspect would help grea
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by jarek 13y ago
> it could be of great value to have instant access to events just prior. Why is it a significantly larger value than having access at worst two years later? No plane went down due to the same problem while they were looking for the AF 4
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by jarek 13y ago
Presumably you've read the story of what went on in the AF 447 cockpit - do you suppose adding one more voice to the cacophony of warnings would really have helped? Two seasoned pilots that were in the cockpit didn't fully realize
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by jarek 13y ago
"Missing" is an euphemism for "very likely crashed" here. They won't say crashed just in case it is later found with people alive, but not communicating and gone from radar over the sea usually ends only one way. It

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