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by jboggan 12y ago
Ok, I believe you, I have pulled in several coworkers who haven't seen it yet and I am convinced that they are not trolling me. Half of us see white/gold (including myself) and half see blue/black. We are arguing.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Is it possible that different images are being displayed randomly depending upon cached media or something strange like that? I don't favor a physiological explanation, this seems like a technical issue.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Less good? Infrastructure breaking because of load is one thing (concurrency/DB issues) but nothing like this should ever be exposed to the user on general principle.
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by jboggan 12y ago
I'm glad to know Stripe's API is sane but you cannot ever rely on that when designing something like this!
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by jboggan 12y ago
Edit: they've fixed this now. I'm not joking, click on it and try to pay. It shows an invoice of ($5,000), a.k.a. $5000 negative dollars. I didn't enter real payment information to see what happens next because of really id
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by jboggan 12y ago
If you visit this link, they can pay you $5,000: https://magic.bettir.com/?p=-500000
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by jboggan 12y ago
I live in Santa Monica, which by one metric has the most expensive hotel rates in the state of California [1]. The result? Multiple people either buying or renting multiple properties to AirBNB them and the availability and price of reside
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by jboggan 12y ago
I disagree with the notion that 5.45x39 out of a roughly 12-inch barrel would be that great against bears. I thought they would at least issue slugs for the shotgun barrel (which is somewhere in between the small 28-gauge and a .410 shotgu
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by jboggan 12y ago
It seems like their long-tail data is full of misspellings. Try typing in "vacillate" and looking at the other words on the graph in relative frequency, for example.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Thanks, I hadn't seriously considered them.
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Ask HN: Tax issues with failed startup?
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by jboggan 12y ago
I'm not a wildlife conservation expert by any stretch, but it was my impression in 2006/2007 (before wolves came in significant packs to the Idaho panhandle) that the elk population was stable and on sustained slight growth withou
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by jboggan 12y ago
I hunt elk in the Idaho panhandle and have witnessed the changes that the wolf packs have brought to the area over the past ten years. The current situation with controlled hunting of the wolves is vastly preferable to the previous state of
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by jboggan 12y ago
I like it - keep going.
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by jboggan 12y ago
The shooter still needs to physically point the weapon and pull the trigger; it's not on any kind of tracking/stabilization platform that could make it independent of a human being. It does however do a marvelous job of computin
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by jboggan 12y ago
Having recently read the Akallabeth [0] this upsets me somewhat. 0 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akallab%C3%AAth
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by jboggan 12y ago
I almost guarantee that any HN reader lives in a section of California that is radically unrepresentative of the state as a whole.
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by jboggan 12y ago
We've discovered digital homeopathy.
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by jboggan 12y ago
The flip side of this (at least at an American research university that I have witnessed first hand) is that professors bringing in large amounts of money with R01 grants can get away with nearly anything they want. This intersects with th
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by jboggan 12y ago
Been there, done that. Had to make the choice between paying Heroku or my landlord, I moved out and started couch surfing and crashing with my parents. Eventually that wears thin - actually immediately that wears thin. You have a highly i
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by jboggan 12y ago
I read Ready Player One first and found it really compelling and interesting, I highly recommend it. Then I picked up Snow Crash and found it too preposterous in its delivery, physics, and libertarian social narrative to make it more than a
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by jboggan 12y ago
Anecdotal support; Uber is keeping me from purchasing a car. I have an inexpensive motorcycle that handles 95% of my rapid transportation needs, and I try to live in areas where walking or mass transportation solve my "slow transporta
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by jboggan 12y ago
Why? It's not impossible to think that there is an engineer somewhere out there contributing seven figures a year to a company's bottom line . . . why shouldn't they capture a significant part of that productivity?
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by jboggan 12y ago
I just want to say I've been playing for the past week and the first actual order resolution will be happening in a few minutes. I'm very excited and the platform has been fun to play with so far. I love the sandboxes.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Not really anymore. This was the case with many of the much older OS/2 based machines but the days of dedicated lines are drawing to a close. Most ATMs I serviced were either directly plugged into a bank's network via ethernet c
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by jboggan 12y ago
There's a big difference between an "ordinary ATM" machine and the NCR/Diebold machines that the large American banks deploy. Sure, you can get a Hyosung/Triton/Wincor/$whatever machine and it will techni
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by jboggan 12y ago
The physical security on units such as these, or the majority of newly manufactured Bitcoin ATMs, is a joke. There's a good reason to build a large, heavy safe into an ATM, and all but the very strongest and most expensive can be brok
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by jboggan 12y ago
LA is cheaper to live in than San Francisco but it's not that much cheaper. Silicon Beach in particular (Santa Monica/Venice area) has been experiencing some pretty steep rent inflation in the last two years. Even $70k isn&#x2
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by jboggan 12y ago
As an illustration of the above point about Home Depot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCP2Og__Go#t=94
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by jboggan 12y ago
A lot of the nitty-gritty data munging and processing often gets discarded after a project or never included in the project repo in a meaningful way. I like Drake [0] because we used it a lot at Factual and it really made data generation a

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