martin

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by martin 6y ago
Skytap | Full-Time | REMOTE (US/Canada) | Mid/Senior Full Stack Engineer (Ruby/Rails/JS/React) Skytap, a cloud infrastructure startup based in Seattle, seeks a talented, mid-level or senior Rubyist for a full-time,
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by martin 8y ago
Yep, I've had it for about 2 years. Biggest complaints are that the buttons are on top and easy to press by accident (although there's a lock button on the side), and the lowest setting isn't low enough for me (5'8"
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by martin 14y ago
If you wanted mobility around the house while avoiding WAN latency and reliability issues, you could buy a server and keep it in your house, rather than renting it and accessing remotely. Then get the Air and use that to RDP, SSH, etc. to t
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by martin 15y ago
I've heard this many times, but interestingly TurboTax says it's not true. http://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Business...
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by martin 16y ago
People who have equity in their homes don't typically foreclose, and owners in NYC typically still do. Two reasons for that. First, property values in NYC haven't dropped as much as in other areas. Second, co-ops constitute a very large per
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by martin 16y ago
Also, the fact that they (okay, we) are concentrated in large cities like New York where wages for professional jobs are above national averages could drive the numbers up.
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by martin 16y ago
I was looking into this a while back, and I'm curious: does anybody know whether it's even possible to develop a sophisticated add-in for Mac Office? MS added VBA support back to Mac Office 2011, but VBA can only do so much. On Windows, sop
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by martin 16y ago
Really? Since when? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html : "FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html : "And since FogBugz g
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by martin 16y ago
I'm not saying that simultaneous voice/data isn't useful. I'm saying that decent network coverage is more useful.
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by martin 16y ago
I'm pretty underwhelmed by that argument, given that my iPhone 3G on AT&T's network in NYC can barely do voice OR data, let alone both at the same time.
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by martin 16y ago
You just blew my mind. Thanks!
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by martin 16y ago
* Dual-monitor remote desktop! Please??!! * What are you guys doing with Windows Installer (MSI)? You create this installation standard which everyone adopts, then you stop supporting it yourself, making people install Office 2007 and Silve
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by martin 16y ago
I worked in IT at GS for a couple years. 15-20% was about right for bonuses there, on average. In 2006, I got almost a 50% bonus, but that was an exceptionally good year.
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by martin 16y ago
Something like this is required as part of the recently enacted CARD act (in the US): "Credit card issuers must disclose to cardholders the consequences of making only minimum payments each month, namely how long it would take to pay off th
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by martin 16y ago
This is a question that interests me as a Varnish user with a several-hundred-line VCL. We exclude certain URLs from caching altogether, drop certain cookies but not others, drop certain querystring params but not others, cache separate ver
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by martin 16y ago
Moving from car ownership to Zipcar does introduce other burdens, though, especially around scheduling. You have to make a reservation in advance -- in my neighborhood, a couple days in advance for peak times -- and you can't cancel beyond
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by martin 16y ago
Also, people don't usually sell their house and buy a similar one in the same place -- they either upgrade or downgrade, or move to a different neighborhood or city, and in either case, the prices are likely not to have moved in the same di
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by martin 16y ago
27" i7 iMac with 8GB RAM, attached to a 30" Dell display (3007WFP). I switched about a month ago from a MacBook Pro (attached to the same Dell display), and it's phenomenal. It's the first setup I've ever had that actually feels fast enough
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by martin 16y ago
That's not necessarily true, because the RS Cloud rates don't include any bandwidth while the Slicehost rates do. Depending on your usage, Slicehost can be cheaper.
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by martin 17y ago
Yeah, a lot of companies do this. As somebody who went to a mediocre state school, I obviously don't care for this practice, but as somebody who does hiring, I understand. In addition to advertising our positions at good schools, I always p
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by martin 17y ago
I was on site at one of my clients, a top investment bank, and was surprised to see the guy I was visiting was using Google Apps for his work email. Turns out they were piloting it as a potential replacement for Lotus Notes (yikes). I don't
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by martin 17y ago
I live in Queens, NY and the B&N in my neighborhood has basically zero seating. It's actually the only B&N store I've ever seen like that, and I emailed them to ask why. The response: "As our stores and selections have expanded over
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by martin 17y ago
I don't know about this person's specific situation, but state laws do make a difference. In some states, the high-deductible coverage can be obtained by a single 20-something for $60ish a month. Here in NY, we have this goofy community rat
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by martin 17y ago
DabbleDB is one of those products that I will probably never get to use despite being potentially very useful. Why? Because my company won't let me store proprietary information on somebody else's servers. If you continue with this project,
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by martin 17y ago
Eh, it doesn't really work. I was looking for a book recently, and the B&N web site said that 4 stores nearby had it. I called to confirm, and it turned out only one of them did.
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by martin 17y ago
If all you want to do is attach a header and footer to an otherwise static HTML page, why not just use SSI? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html
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by martin 17y ago
For any This American Life fans here, there's a great episode about these guys: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=3...
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by martin 17y ago
You might be surprised. Keep in mind that developing for IE6 isn't necessarily difficult if you don't care about standards compliance or cross-browser compatibility. In a corporate environment where IT is a cost center, it's often acceptabl
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by martin 17y ago
I stopped reading at the point he described the existing solution as "a custom blend of C# and .NET programs." He obviously doesn't have a clue about the platform he's bashing.
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by martin 17y ago
I've hired a couple of people recently, and personally I use cover letters to see how people write. Not every hiring manager cares about this, but I will not hire somebody who can't write half a page of text without making egregious spellin

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