nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 14y ago
As are all the other stories. I've yet to see an sort of comprehensive statistics on app store rejections. (Which would be kind of awesome.) For the time being it's all anecdotes, and we choose to believe based on our personal histories (w
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
It's not a screensaver it just looks like one :) Screensavers aren't saving any screens these days - their function is merely to provide pretty pictures. And xscreensaver provides LOTS of pretty, if retro, pictures.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
But the Chicago Manual of Style encourages its use - this isn’t a closed book. Which the wikipedia article points out.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
The sub-article, linked to by this post is better I think: http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/profiles/blogs/should-err... And I tend to like the idea - a good percentage of the time when my small underfunded/staffed projects have encount
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I personally never read my twitter stream - it’s too noisy and to much of a pain to cull. I read it by proxy prismatic, and news.me. And I mainly use it to post - for those who do read twitter, to the widget on my blog, and to Facebook. I
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Have you ever done that? Does it work? I’ve always been to flustered to get a medallion number when things are going south. And I always figured that it didn’t matter anyhow.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
To connect some dots that were not clear to me: The user photos, are from twitter, and are collected from links listed in your profile's about box. Simple - but it took me a minute to connect all the dots...
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I like that all times are reported in PDT for an event that happened on the east coast - it says something about priorities.
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
That tutorial is truly excellent - I’ve been looking for something to replace Hiccup, and this looks to be it!
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This was the main thing I got from this article. When I walk into a store, try something (expensive) on and leave with a picture it doesn't mean I'm buying that thing online. It means I'm going to another store down the block - expensive c
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
They are not obligated. However, I'm fairly sure banks aren't obligated by law to send you statements* - they certainly aren't obligated to let you download them in, say, quicken format (who could be seen as a competitor). It's just such a
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
In my business float is the big one - we pay our contractors at completion of work, which means if our clients pay us when they receive the goods, we’ve got to come up with the money to pay the workers before we’d gotten paid. This can get
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
I’ve not used Stripe, but I’ve used Braintree for a while. Braintree is an older company, and it seems to have a bigger, lower level API. Stripe’s is much higher level, and looks like it could be both simpler and easier to use. This is
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Working with Lamson is a very good experience. Our Lamson project has been running for 3 years. It was fun to write, it stays up when we need it to - and it’s easy to modify when we need new features. This is the only piece of python we ha
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
This was my problem with file picker.io as well. The blog entry mentions donation - but I did not see that option. What I did see was a hosted service, that has a very startup-y feel. Which means to me that charging for this service is pr
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Show HN: Filepicker.io - dead simple file uploads - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3864615
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by nmcfarl 14y ago
Ok that’s a scary page.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
My questions is of course - Why not Jekyll? Is this just for people who have a JVM, but don't have ruby on their box, or are there significant advantages other than just the programming language and environment?
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Well that link just got mailed to everyone I know in West Seattle. Definitely more useful to my demographic than the product being discussed. :)
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
My experience with AT&T is they've always given me a new SIM, when buying a new phone from them, but I've also bought raw sim's from them with no problem. I think they just write the "New Phone" script for their employees, with a new s
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Not to mention that Mayors go on to be US Reps and Senators. It may take a decade, but it sure seems like making politicians lives hard is a sure fire way to end your industry.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
This is what gets me - the time. In things like Payroll, or Merchant Accounts, where I have a ton of options, I could spend all week on hour long con calls, just to get pricing ball parks from all of the viable vendors. I don’t even need
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I like the content - but not the tone - it’s just a bit too snarky to send to a designer that you have to work with. Particularly if she’s getting much of it right - and you’ve clashed over this stuff before.
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I would really like to see a sane analysis of this law. From this article it could merely require registering your copyright to use it, if it's more than a decade old. Which I personally would consider a sane way out of the current mess wh
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
This is maybe true some of the time. But some of the time you are banned for the actual words in your post. This account was hell banned for a while because I used the name of a brand of shoes in a post (on an article about an IP suit aro
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I really don’t think I am - at least not by (lower-48) US standards. I’m probably just thinking that /very/ large sacrifices may be needed, even just for diagnostics. -- Heavily edited
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
You are right - she doesn’t. My wife, a 4th year med student blanket opinion of self-diagnostic websites for the general public is they are trying to kill their customers. And more and more I agree. If you are ill and you don’t know what’s
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
Clickable link: http://www.verelo.com
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
This is probably a style thing - I shop 3-5 days a week on my way home, which means I never buy more than a bag or 2 of grocs and the automated machines are always faster. It also keeps things lighter on the walk home, and food fresher. Thi
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by nmcfarl 15y ago
I’m wondering how much this will alter http://experts-exchange.com 's rank. Although the questions are above the fold the vast majority of the content is well under the fold (for the purpose of hiding it, and getting you to pay.) It see

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