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by patja 7y ago
I agree that the aggregate standards and quality of life are much improved over 20, 40, or 60 years ago, but I don't share your satisfaction with the status quo. I would prefer we made some changes that enabled the poor to be housed a
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by patja 7y ago
One of the best examples I can think of is when a really great technical individual contributor switches to a management career path because in many organizations that is the clearest path for career growth and higher compensation, even whe
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by patja 7y ago
I was thinking it could be pre-loaded with tons of relevant media and reference materials. Plus being a general purpose tool. I could see distance sailboat cruisers packing one away, similar to how they would pack some redundant spares of
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by patja 7y ago
I think this is a Canadian thing. Friends who emigrated to Nelson BC comment on how in the library, every book by a Canadian author has a maple leaf on the spine. Canada seems to have a bit of an underdog complex about maintaining its cul
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by patja 7y ago
This is the one I've been using to good effect: https://github.com/IgnoredAmbience/yahoo-group-archiver no Mongo database required, just plain old .eml files You do need to pull some cookie values out for the aut
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by patja 7y ago
You need to add some parameters for the Yahoo authentication cookie values. -tc and -ty should be set to the cookie values from your browser, after logging into Yahoo. It also needs some try/except handling to be added for all the cas
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by patja 8y ago
Paypal will happily process credit card charges without needing the customer to have a Paypal account. They call it DirectPay
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by patja 8y ago
You can implement Stripe such that the merchant never sees the credit card number.
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by patja 8y ago
That would be consistent with everything I've seen from them as a developer. One of the most common recurring requests on the Facebook Developers Facebook Group is when someone has all of their privileges for app development on the FB
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by patja 8y ago
Biggest tunnel boring machine ever and we end up with a tunnel that has the same number of traffic lanes as the old. Progress! It does have improvements such as a small provision for emergency vehicles to squeeze by or pulling a disabled v
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by patja 8y ago
Sounds like you might be looking for C#, but I'm sure you've considered it already.
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by patja 8y ago
That does not include a request to approve the read_mailbox permission, which I think should be required to query a user's private messages. This permission was deprecated in 2015. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018&#
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by patja 8y ago
Permission to post on behalf of the user and read posts from the user's feed does not grant access to messages to any other app getting these permissions from a user. If they were getting access to messages, it was a special stealthy
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by patja 8y ago
That's not how it works. I've built a FB app in the past and had offline_access permission. It does not expand the scope of what data you can query. It just allows you to use the permissions granted whether the user is logged i
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by patja 8y ago
That just shows which apps have which permissions. I think what is desired is a log of date and times the app accessed specific bits of data. For example, do they poll every day and hoover up all of your recent data for everything they ha
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by patja 8y ago
Tough problem, but it seems incomplete without covering long term visas for example 6 months
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by patja 8y ago
Have you tried? I had a tough time buying a used CPAP on eBay. I had a saved search on file for over a year before I was successful. Every listing that came up, eBay would quash because of the prescription requirement. I finally got one
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by patja 8y ago
I was on a bit of a Facebook diet and considering getting rid of it. Then I got a 3D printer and joined a few Facebook groups focused on owners of that printer, and it breathed new life into my Facebook experience. It can be a great infor
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by patja 8y ago
I teach coding and robotics to kids age 10 - 14. I'm constantly having to tell them to fill in the birthdate field accurately when signing up for things like Scratch or TinkerCAD because I know it triggers a different account creation
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by patja 8y ago
"I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line." IIS has significant market share. I'll bet most web developers who deploy on it get away without having to use the command line interfac
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by patja 8y ago
Since it is not using the Facebook platform or API, what is Facebook's recourse? If it was using the API and there was a developer with a Facebook account they could "hold accountable" then they could do something, but there
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by patja 8y ago
It is a good one, but my experience is that the customer service on the card is not so hot. Namely they are overly aggressive with fraud detection, which combined with slow card replacement can be problematic. They canceled my card once b
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by patja 8y ago
Vanguard is great as long as you don't ask much of them. I used to have my accounts split between Fidelity and Vanguard. But after several botched transactions where Vanguard reps gave me inaccurate information about their own process
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by patja 8y ago
I used to think so too, but you get a lot of value for the price, especially when you consider the variety of projects you can build, the relatively beginner-friendly programming toolset, and the number of videos, books, and other supportin
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by patja 8y ago
Lots of data here: http://www.metrovancouver.org/services/regional-planning/Pla... to answer many questions about Vancouver housing. They average about 20,000 new housing units per year.
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by patja 8y ago
Isn't it just a question of tuning the dials for taxation levels? A billionaire values my home at $10 million when I value it at $1m, I need to sell it to them at $1m but then to protect it they need to pay taxes on a $10m valuation.
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by patja 8y ago
I listened to that podcast episode and had the same reaction. Their counter-argument is to start with markets where there is not so much personal emotion wrapped up in the price setting and valuation, such as broadcast spectrum rights. The
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by patja 8y ago
"Oddly, those same single family home owners would become rich if they could subdivide their properties for intensive development. I have never understood this paradox." They are already rich by virtue of the property they own, so
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by patja 8y ago
I just got back from a week on my sailboat in Barkley Sound, which is the sound just to the south of Tofino on the west side of Vancouver Island. Maybe it is a local culture thing, but I was very surprised by how few boats had AIS transpon
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by patja 8y ago
Have you looked at Microsoft's product? Whatever label they have put on the stuff they bought from that company in Fargo...Dynamics?

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