jmccree

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by jmccree 12y ago
Yep. I think that applies to most things in life. It's like a separate category of emotion opens up of appreciation instead of things being pure enjoyment/entertainment after you know the work that goes into something.
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by jmccree 12y ago
That's interesting. After getting into game modding, I lost most interest in single player games other than modding them/playing with mods. Multi-player FPS was still fun, but playing Crysis after tweaking some LUA files so you we
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by jmccree 12y ago
Ok, I'm glad you clarified that. It looked above as if programming would count as screen time. My parents never limited my computer access since we got a 286 when I was two, but I also never had youtube as a temptation. At age 11 I was
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by jmccree 12y ago
This. Plenty of citations backing it up here: http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=reading-to-young-chil...
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by jmccree 12y ago
So the generation that grew up with free love and drugs did everything to prevent their children from experiencing the same, and the generation that grew up with free tech does the same with tech. The cycle continues.
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by jmccree 12y ago
What I don't understand is that in my locale (Atlanta, GA) the licensed regulated taxis are absolutely awful and attempt to rip you off in every way possible. They take for ever to show if you call, if they even do. They never will tak
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by jmccree 12y ago
An old coworker tipped me off to the Bunn STX 10 cup maker that was $150 or so, I bought one, and ended up buying my parents one too. Makes an entire (great tasting) pot of coffee in 3 minutes, and thermal carafe keeps it warm for hours wit
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by jmccree 12y ago
Experience matters much more than degree in the web dev/ops field. The tricky issue with foregoing college is you have to get experience first, and without experience you likely won't get a corporate position. Networking, open sou
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by jmccree 12y ago
The original Alexa trademark Amazon acquired was based on the Library of Alexandria. So, it is in fact a coincidence. :)
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by jmccree 12y ago
It's likely the easiest applicable trademark Amazon had available, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet .
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by jmccree 12y ago
I can only offer anec-data from the Atlanta area, but I know multiple people (including myself) that either sold a car or removed buy a car from their plans solely due to Uber. I've heard a lot of people state they used to risk a DUI d
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by jmccree 12y ago
In the US only items bearing USPS postage may be placed in mailboxes. Many pre-built mailboxes have a separate open receptacle for newspapers etc. FedEx and UPS generally deliver to the doorstep, even for envelopes.
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by jmccree 12y ago
If you have less than $x balance or $y/mo in direct deposits, most banks charge a fee. Because what someone who makes less than $1,000/mo really needs is to pay over $100/year for a checking account. That's not including
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by jmccree 12y ago
Like many school districts across the nation, the school district has it's own police force: "San Diego Unified School District Police Department". Of course many now want their own SWAT teams. For the children!
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by jmccree 12y ago
I don't think Ponzi scheme applies at all. In this case, the value and price of a share is based on the actual revenue growth of amazon from non-investor provided income. If amazon was taking on new investors to pay out money to old on
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by jmccree 12y ago
Because you can sell it for more than you bought it for. Look at Warren Buffet's Berkshire: You would have doubled your money in 4 years if you bought in 2010. They've pretty consistently increased the value of their shares withou
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by jmccree 12y ago
If the company can increase the value of your share by spending the money rather than giving it back as a dividend, why would they not? Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is famous for never having given a dividend. Amazon is still seeing goo
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by jmccree 12y ago
And salt will even output the command results for you in JSON. There's massive potential there for using salt for monitoring not just deployment.
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by jmccree 12y ago
This contributes nothing to the conversation, and I don't understand why people feel the need to continue posting the link to a two year old article on every post related to PHP.
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by jmccree 12y ago
Interesting idea. A well funded competitor could astroturf a "DDOS" outrage attack and prevent a company/org from ever choosing/having a functional CEO.
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by jmccree 12y ago
This is pretty neat. I've taken a similar approach in writing an irc bot using evented PHP and phergie-irc-client-react using redis to pass JSONed messages back and forth between services. It's surprising more IRC bots aren't
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by jmccree 12y ago
One of the example "traditional city" photos is actually of a touristy shopping center in Gatlinburg, TN. Taking a photo looking the other direction would show a 4 lane highway running through the middle of the tourist strip.
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by jmccree 12y ago
Historically, these rural areas have been overlooked by the major private utility companies, and communities have had to DIY if they wanted electricity, telephones, etc. One thing people miss is the reason these areas have municipal electri
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by jmccree 12y ago
To be fair, rural areas are insanely cheaper to service with fiber actually. You have cities like SF where NIMBYs are demanding all fiber equipment boxes be buried underground out of sight, and all cabling has to be tunneled. In rural areas
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by jmccree 12y ago
Perhaps they are including Hong Kong which has a huge number of cable landings.
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by jmccree 12y ago
I think full numpads only make sense on 17" and above. There's no reason not to have home/end/pgup|down though, all of my 15" thinkpads have had that.
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by jmccree 12y ago
The subject is eating well, not avoiding eating entirely. You don't eat Soylent, you drink it. A lot of people still would like to eat.
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by jmccree 12y ago
I live in downtown Atlanta and Uber is huge among the intown population. I know people who have sold their cars solely because Uber X was introduced. Perhaps intown Atlanta is in a similar position to SF of density and lack of transit. Cabs
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by jmccree 12y ago
As far as I know, there has been no claim that Level3 pays Verizon for their peering. The Verizon-Level3 peering is settlement free as both are large Tier 1 networks. What verizon is refusing to do is upgrade the size of the interconnection
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by jmccree 12y ago
Please remember that Verizon is also a Tier 1 transit provider! They own (via Verizon Business) the old MCI/Worldcom/UUnet backbone that was one of the largest transit providers. Level3 and Verizon are both transit providers.

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