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by noer 11y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you use suggest using github in this book, but bitbucket in rails tutorial?
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by noer 11y ago
I'm a fan of the "Learn Enough..." series. I've found them to be written in a really approachable way, ditto on rails tutorial. Great job!
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Inside the vault: A rare glimpse of NASA’s otherworldly treasures(arstechnica.com)
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In Defense of Learning Code the Hard Way(motherboard.vice.com)
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by noer 11y ago
Isn't it easier to just use Lynx as a browser?
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> For what's it's worth nearly all the excellent executives I've met over the years didn't have an MBA and nearly all the worst ones did... I sort of draw a comparison between that and something I heard the director o
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by noer 11y ago
Microsoft probably doesn't buy the house directly. A relocation company buys it from you and holds onto it until it can be sold for a profit.
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by noer 11y ago
Well, I'd assume it's faster than using a a bike and cheaper than using a car or his own moped. I wonder if he's not saying that he's hacking the system by signing out a moped when he's going from restaurant -> c
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by noer 11y ago
Some of that payment is passed on to the customer, some of it is passed on to the restaurant. I think most places deliver for $5-7 and the restaurant pays the other $5-7.
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by noer 11y ago
That's how it works for the most part on Grubhub/Seamless & Delivery.com (if it still exists). Seamless defaults to a 10% tip or $2, whichever is greater. Grubhub & delivery.com both asked the user to enter a tip amount or
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by noer 11y ago
Not all of it, BNSF & UP only operate the services with their names in the lines, Metra operates the remainder of the services.
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by noer 11y ago
I read about this over a year ago (I think it may have been on HN, though the article was different). It seemed like it might be a security flaw and that it would get resolved, but I guess not.
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by noer 11y ago
They're a company you can contact to dispatch a car to take you where you want to go that charges you by distance traveled. If that's not a taxi, I don't know what is.
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To make you pay for cloud storage?
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by noer 11y ago
Really interesting article. Even more interesting is Bridge Nine and FSU being referenced in HN comments.
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by noer 11y ago
thank you!
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by noer 11y ago
I had a similar thing happen, though on a much smaller scale. I used to have to send letters that needed tracking & delivery confirmation and for whatever reason fedex was the cheapest. An evenlope I shipped from Queens, NY to Brooklyn,
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by noer 11y ago
500m is a little over a quarter of a mile and can be walked by an average person in just over 6 minutes, if the author extended those radii by 250m to 750, it would be closer to half a mile, which a person can walk in about 10 minutes and,
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by noer 11y ago
That particular link has a paywall.
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by noer 11y ago
and how much does the OP weigh?
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by noer 11y ago
I think it's mentioned in other comment threads, but IIRC, you can go to pretty much any firehouse and ask for sprinkler cap for a hydrant
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by noer 11y ago
I wonder if the author subtracted his expenses
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by noer 11y ago
There's a paywall from that source as well.
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by noer 11y ago
I looked at my own spam folder, there were 51 messages. ~15 of them were from recruiters and probably meant for me, ~20 of them were newsletters I had probably signed up for, but didn't miss at all and the rest were split evenly for pe
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by noer 11y ago
Groundwater is bad in Greenpoint but that's not where tap water comes from in New York. Nearly all drinking water in New York City comes from reservoirs & lakes upstate. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html&#x
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by noer 11y ago
There's a building in lower manhattan that was designed for that purpose as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street Technically there are two buildings built for telephone switching, but I don't
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by noer 11y ago
Not so much programming tutorials, but there's www.growthhackers.com for marketing article sharing. It's divided into categories (Paid, SEO, Content, etc.) though the content of the posted links usually isn't too great. I&#x2
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by noer 11y ago
I worked in a place that did that, it was terrible. When I started, it was part of the culture to have small conversations throughout the day and the team that I worked on had 3 people. The people that talked throughout the day left and eve
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by noer 11y ago
I think it's more that free agents don't want to deal with being under the microscope of the Toronto media.
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Isn't the goal for "sharing economy" businesses to pass off all of the risk to someone else while keeping all of the revenue/profits? Sounds like a genius idea to me.

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