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by njovin 10y ago
You're assuming that losing a $10,000 bet is the same as experiencing some side affects years after having Lasik. It's not that clear-cut - you don't go blind. A fairer comparison might be a $10,000 bet only paying out $9,0
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by njovin 10y ago
According to PayScale [1] he's making 3x the median for a CIO. In understand that $150k seems crazy low but even at the high end of those numbers he seems overcompensated. [1] http://www.payscale.com/research/US&#x
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by njovin 10y ago
It doesn't sound like they're doing anything that gmail + VPN doesn't do.
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by njovin 10y ago
You're right. He was told to 'pass behind that aircraft.' and since the report stated that the 777 saw the Cessna turning to avoid I sort of conflated the two things in my mind.
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by njovin 10y ago
There's always room for improvement, but even the first incident outlined in the article shows how far we've come and how safe air travel is. - The 777's TCAS alerted them to the problem and recommended an evasive action, whi
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by njovin 10y ago
This is how it should work, in theory. However, in practice, with ES whenever a single node went down the whole cluster would fail. Trying to add a new member to the cluster never worked, nor did trying to recover the failed node, hence th
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by njovin 10y ago
That's if you have a qualified sysadmin on-staff to manage it. We tried managing our own ES setup for a little over a year before giving up. Despite our simple needs and low traffic volume we regularly had difficult-to-diagnose issue
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by njovin 10y ago
Pure doesn't have any SASS/LESS support, from what I can see.
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by njovin 11y ago
It goes beyond access to your data. With an account and routing number and access to ACH protocols anyone has essentially unrestricted access to your money. I ran into an issue last year where I was unable to get an insurance company to st
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by njovin 11y ago
I've worked with the new Chat SDK and our customers' use cases aren't geared toward forcing (or even encouraging) users into using Facebook Messenger. Most of them are just trying to meet demand from their customers. In our
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by njovin 11y ago
Rollbar (rollbar.com) dedupes error occurrences. It automatically integrates with JIRA and github but you could probably tap into their API to integrate if with unfuddle.
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by njovin 11y ago
This is my favorite feature of the service (Spotify has this, as well). The best part is you can pin a playlist and it auto-updates when you add songs. When I'm going out of the country I'll create a 'Trip to XX' playli
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by njovin 11y ago
My district already does this, but there's more than 2 tiers: http://www.sandiego.gov/water/rates/rates/
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by njovin 11y ago
Which is how Stephen King ends almost every book. He writes characters better than almost everyone I know but almost every one of his books ends with some weird coincidence that saves the day.
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by njovin 12y ago
"You agree to only create petitions consistent with the limited purpose of the We the People platform, which is to allow individuals to petition the Administration to take action on a range of issues — to address a proble
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Show HN: Medvigilant – SMS-based blood-glucose logging and reminders(medvigilant.com)
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by njovin 12y ago
Sounds like someone is likely to never be employed by a software company ever again.
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by njovin 12y ago
Check out Wedgies - they've got a pretty slick product.
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by njovin 12y ago
> Essentially, Netflix cannot afford to buy the rights to all the movies you want to watch. This isn't a Netflix problem, it's a licensing problem. If the rights-holders aren't willing to sell the rights to their films at
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by njovin 12y ago
The price goes down with volume. They should also look at alternative providers. Nexmo and Plivo both offer free inbound SMS and have APIs similar to Twilio's.