nmcfarl

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by nmcfarl 11y ago
Getting it done right with a bunch of tests to rule out 1 in a million chances is a lot more expensive than getting it right without tests (and wrong 1 in a million times.)
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
I skipped reading the article, as I thought there was no way MI6 existed in 1916 when Rasputin died. But just to be fair I decided to Wikipedia it - and discovered it was founded in 1909 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
Also truly stunningly beautiful place to visit - though a bit difficult to get to. And it certainly has significantly more decent hotels than just that one. Tourism is definitely it's biggest industry.
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
I’m willing to accept the claim that there’s not a lot of nuance to WWII era Germany’s actions and motives, etc. ("Schindler’s List" notwithstanding.) But to claim theres no nuance to the people fighting against Germany, seems ah
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
When to pull the plug is feels the hardest thing to figure out. My feeling from the story is that you almost have the product the people want to buy – or your marketing wouldn't of worked as well as it did. You're just a little bi
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
Some file uploaders have a tiny flash backup today - and some of the ones from just a few years ago where little more than a button image with a flash backend. http://caniuse.com/#feat=filereader
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
That is stupid scary. How does it square with your murder statement above?
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
I kind of thought the generally consistent law was the way you describe it – however my not a lawyer understanding was if the contract requires X which violates the law in a very specific circumstance in a very specific way that particular
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
The "you can't use the service" because the TOS conflicts with the laws in you locality bit isn't necessarily true - it varies a lot by country. Plenty of places just invalidate the parts of your TOS (or any other contr
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
I think this depends upon who you are, giant multinationals have no problem filling out the paperwork for day laborers. Some guy who want some help with his yard-work one Saturday, probably is just going to skip hiring a day laborer if he h
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
My personal work email flow involves clicking a lot of links. Email is quite tied to web browsing for me, so if I wanted to make sure that all of my browsing was done in a VM, and I wanted to make it convenient, I would do my emailing from
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
And the same resentment can happen if the founders are full time. This has happened to me 2x: The first the sole founder was seen as fiddling while Rome burned, long lunches on with rich friends and always on the phone, never doing anythi
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
Hugh
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
My guess as to the reason for not using inline html, is that according to the markdown spec, block-level elements can’t have markdown inside of them. So his DIV buttons couldn’t have markdown formatting inside them otherwise.
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
Cushy set
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
CDPATH is not a very good bookmarking system, as you can't bookmark several directories that have the same name, and you are forced to bookmark all the siblings of the item you wish to bookmark, which can be a problem with flat hierarc
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
This is definitely a thing elsewhere. The amount of rudeness that I received from cab company dispatchers in Seattle is astounding. I would much prefer to deal with nearly anyone - Comcast, traffic cops, DOL - than a cab company even today
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
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FiraCode: a monospaced font with programming ligatures(github.com)
3 points by nmcfarl 11y ago|0 comments
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
I use swarm, and the reason I use it is timehop. The ambient social networking is a side benefit, that ramped up following my adoption of foursquare, and is slowly tailing off as everyone drops swarm. It's nice as a source of real time
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
It's fantastically useful as a touch point. It's a point that, retrospectively, the road forked and it changed who we are and what we do, and sort of defined our values. We compare ourselves, and our competitors, to the theoretica
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by nmcfarl 11y ago
I’ll bite and say my firm CastingWords ( http://castingwords.com ) Even though just existing 9 years after the interview would have been a failure condition for our build to flip mindset at the time - but today it’s paying the f
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by nmcfarl 12y ago
The problem here is that it wouldn't necessarily be bleak. Housewives by choice, college kids and those just retired at 35 (or 65) are good things - these people are doing what they most want to do with their lives, and are having all
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by nmcfarl 12y ago
I'm a big startup advocate, and for roughly GolfyMcG's reasons. But all things depend on the individual companies, in some startups you won't get to hire. And for my luck, of the 2 large companies where I worked there was no
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by nmcfarl 12y ago
The latter half is true, I think. But I’d say there’s a significant chunk of folk* who will not hit on people they know are in a relationship. In the first month of your subscription this probably won’t have an effect, but by the sixth mon
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The Ethics of the Singularity(npr.org)
1 points by nmcfarl 12y ago|0 comments
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by nmcfarl 12y ago
I use both, and uber in Seattle. But my pattern mainly involves going out at night in Cap Hill, and for that car2go is much cheaper, but uber means I don't have to drive, so it's car2go out and uber back, if I've had anything
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by nmcfarl 12y ago
I completely agree with this comment in every point. However I’ll add that it’s my experience that free customers are the worst, by far for customer support, and that as such rwhitman probably got burned disproportionately. A percentage of
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by nmcfarl 12y ago
I don't have them in front of me right now but the hex is long. I have no clue if they encode something, but I remember thinking "UUID".

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