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by mildavw 13y ago
I worked on a cruise ship as an entertainer and can confirm this. Except for the gun part. We had lifeboat assignments and had drills each cycle before the passengers arrived. We were trained on getting people in, not what to do once in the
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by mildavw 13y ago
I love Weebly for quick and dirty sites that I can hand off to a non-techie to fill in the content. For example: http://mhsp75th.weebly.com It's very fast to get something decent looking that has forms (and easy access to t
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by mildavw 13y ago
I live, and bike commute year round, in a bike-friendly city (Portland, OR). I don't attribute my pleasant ride to bike infrastructure but rather to the work the city did in the late 60's to fight urban sprawl with a thing called
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by mildavw 13y ago
Cucumber is part of our workflow and, although I don't have a control for this comparison, I think it makes us more efficient. Our product owners write in Gherkin (non-technical != illiterate btw) and can essentially throw the feature
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by mildavw 13y ago
Here's one for free: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6203196
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by mildavw 13y ago
I don't have it in front of me, but I recall the fine print on my policy stating that if they cover you, they will only bring your income up to 60% of your salary. If you are receiving other benefits, like social security disability,
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by mildavw 13y ago
It's inevitable that the rich/powerful will use it against each other too. I guarantee that because of Snowden's actions, the next presidential election will see campaigns treating electronic communication as untrustworthy an
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by mildavw 13y ago
Once you have the endpoints, you can return any data you can get your hands on; map with route, transit options, bike paths, turn-by-turn, etc. And yes, instead of generic directions "From I-5: take exit 999..." you can have a lin
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by mildavw 13y ago
Here's an idea that has been on my list for years that is doable in a short time but I just haven't gotten around to it: Build a URL shortener for directions to physical addresses. Huh? 1) get a domain, say http://right
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by mildavw 13y ago
Hospice - helping people navigate their own impending death gave me some perspective. I did it for a few years in my early 30s and had both elderly patients and some younger than I. Pretty intense but the training was great, I was highly va
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by mildavw 13y ago
I would skip the auto-validation and let the user hit the always-enabled "Confirm Donation of $xx" button to validate the form. Tried and true and catches the auto-fill cases.
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by mildavw 13y ago
My first one was $12 piece of melamine sitting on a cheap desk and 4 monitor boxes. And yeah, it wasn't much different than the version I have now. I leave mine up, but others, who move them up and down, do appreciate the electric moto
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by mildavw 13y ago
I've been standing all day for three years. It takes a few months to get your legs used to it. Our office has 20 of these: http://www.ergodepot.com/Ergo_Depot_adjustable_desk_AD127HD_... There are a few exercise balls
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by mildavw 13y ago
Congrats! We built contractor finders for several cities/states as contract work. E.g. https://energyupgradeca.org/county/los_angeles/vendors#h-v=2... This is not our focus so we haven't pursued more lik
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by mildavw 13y ago
I have a weekend project that is in "private beta" (still a few weekends from launch) that combines computer generated art and one-off T-shirts. I've been working with http://printaura.com/ . I like the idea o
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by mildavw 13y ago
I've worked 40-50 hours/week at an adjustable stand-up desk for three years now. No chair. I rarely move the desk from it's highest setting. I do get tired on a rare occasion and sit in a recliner with my laptop on my lap.
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by mildavw 13y ago
At age 32 I sold those that had still had any resale value. Recycled most of the rest, and hung on to three with nostalgic value.
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by mildavw 13y ago
Lately, we've been using the incredibly poorly named Ruby ORM Sequel. Since, in our office, SQL rhymes with "equal," Sequel rhymes with either "seek well" or "neck will". Oi.
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by mildavw 13y ago
Agreed. It depends a lot on the team and the project. Our team of six devs had stand-ups every 90 minutes all day every day for 9 months when were all touching the same app. It was appropriate and we got a lot done. When the nature of our w
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by mildavw 13y ago
http://www.pairprogramwith.me/
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by mildavw 14y ago
We hired a guy who had recently finished 7 years in the clink. After he got out he was freelancing in a shared office space. Worked with other devs there whom we hired or knew. They vouched for him. He's a great dev, good friend, recently f
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by mildavw 14y ago
Cool! Are you printing and shipping these yourself or do you have a fulfillment partner/service?
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by mildavw 14y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the detailed response. I guess I can always naively assert that traders would figure out how to manage that bit of risk (that more of their trades would execute than they really wanted) but your explanation makes sen
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by mildavw 14y ago
Yes, I am admittedly absolutely naive to the inner workings of the market. So what would happen in the press conference case? You would make your move based on the news knowing that sometime in the next 10 minutes it would be executed. No o
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by mildavw 14y ago
To make shenangins more obvious, what if 1 minute were the maximum resolution that any trade could happen? Say, every order gets a random number of seconds between 0 and 60 added to it before it is executed. Or even longer. What would happe
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by mildavw 14y ago
Survey: Do you depend on RubyGems for every deploy? Or do you have your own gem server? Or cache them at some point earlier in your pipeline? We rely on RubyGems and had a meeting yesterday about changing that when one of the gems we use ha
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by mildavw 14y ago
I'm surprised too. It's baffling that none of the big boxes are competitive online yet.
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by mildavw 14y ago
So Amazon will take out Wal-Mart? Not without a fight! I know a couple of developers who recently signed on with Wal-Mart. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-29/why-wal-mart...
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by mildavw 14y ago
I'm not joking, but my point is lost in some confusion, so I'll add this caveat: If your audience does shop at Walmart, or knows people who do, then pointing out Walmart's jaw dropping numbers will not be a good device for illuminating th
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by mildavw 14y ago
It depends on your audience of course. I probably wouldn't point that out in rural areas, where Walmart has more penetration.

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