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by pythonistic 8y ago
Related, don't miss the Reason feature on Larkin and Lacey. They purchased the Village Voice in 2005 and had a solution for the classifieds problem, Backpage.com. Unfortunately, they ran afoul of some young politicians/prosecutor
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by pythonistic 8y ago
We're trying to change the dynamic in my employer. There is still company-wide centralized planning, and our parent company still sets overall goals and expectations for profitability, but we're something of an experiment in se
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by pythonistic 8y ago
I had to disable Privacy Badger to get the other charts to show up. Disabling uBlock Origin didn't help (or hurt).
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by pythonistic 8y ago
It's not just what you make of it: a lot of your experience there is going to depend on your manager. I had three: the first was awesome, so he left for another company; the second was good, but he cared too much and went back to his
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by pythonistic 8y ago
Most of the US cities I've lived in have poorly laid out bus systems; Seattle is a notable exception with plenty of cross-town and downtown routes, and riders are never more than a couple blocks from the nearest stop. Most cities are l
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by pythonistic 8y ago
Yes, I'd rather just be alone. Some weeks I manage to get as many as four days in a row working from home, but most I end up just taking Friday as a WFH day so I can focus on getting things done. As I type this in my open plan office
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by pythonistic 8y ago
I'd tell you to get in touch with an Senior Architect but that's no guarantee that you'll get a good result. From my experience . . . IBM sold a big outsourcing package to a major European insurance company: they would move
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by pythonistic 8y ago
The US and it's relations with the UN were a focus of one of my senior seminars in History (1995). I'm a programmer, not a political scientist or attorney, so read this critically. In short: * The UN Human Rights Council declare
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by pythonistic 8y ago
The underlying types are exposed to you, like C. Go isn't adding sugar to handling numeric types: it's not autoboxing to help you with conversions, and it's not hiding the implementation like a scripting language. I'll
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by pythonistic 8y ago
Over the years, we've seen reddit increasingly turn into an echo chamber. I've been personally voted down for telling people in a general subreddit that the anger they feel about ${Political Party A} is the same way that the oppo
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Third Avenue downtown, yes.
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Former Seattle (now Las Vegas) resident here. To make the buses run on time, the planners build in "time stops." These are locations where the bus should go through at specific times to not be too early for the rest of the sched
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by pythonistic 9y ago
I think I first saw one of those nearly a decade ago: it was definitely high-end, catering to men, and all designer labels. I honestly don't know if it survived or failed because the category isn't interesting to me. Returns are
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Working at an on-line shoes, apparel, and accessories retailer, my understanding is that there are four categories of people regularly returning items: * Stylists - they buy for a client (celebrities, wealthy people) and send back things th
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by pythonistic 9y ago
The Dark Ages were named such, in retrospect, because of the loss of knowledge and recording of history of that period. Western Europe suffered from a split or break in government (the Eastern Empire was significantly more wealthy), a colla
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by pythonistic 9y ago
This is purely anecdote, but I found Seattle to be significantly less diverse than Cincinnati or Columbus. The larger cities in the Midwest tend to have governments with goals that are hard to distinguish from any of the Democrat controlle
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by pythonistic 9y ago
It sounds like an X12-style EDI format. They'll frequently have fields (or parts of fields) that can enable alternative blocks that may be of a different size. I had to write and maintain EDI interfaces for four years at a major reta
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by pythonistic 9y ago
I could argue that Mr. Lynn is crying "sour grapes" over this, but he also came very close to a point Bryan Lunduke made recently about Google[1]. Google has the power to stop people using their products from making a living, and
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by pythonistic 9y ago
You don't have to go too far to find dark skies. My wife and I rented a cottage at Sheep Dung just outside Boonville, CA, a few years ago. Ukiah was on the far side of the hills to the east, another range blocked the coast to the west,
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Only if you create a channel with no buffer: then it becomes blocking send or receive. Go channels block when they have nothing to do, either no room to send anything (in the case of a default channel with no buffer) or nothing to receive (
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by pythonistic 9y ago
This does make me wonder if it makes it impossible for those companies to be considered "common carriers" or able to enjoy "safe harbor" laws. By acting to censor legal (however distasteful) content, they could be consi
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by pythonistic 9y ago
I had bench time when I was a "consultant." I used it for skills improvement (like learning a new framework or billable service), creating and presenting training materials for formal courses we offered, interviewing candidates, c
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Note that this page is separate from a landing page (like the front page or a category) and a product page. Those have very strict requirements for how long a page component can take to render. This one is allowed to break the rules. I wo
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by pythonistic 9y ago
This front-end is new, but they've been crunching sales hourly for each category for over a decade. They've made the bestseller list both more prominent and less specific (you can infer less data from these charts than you could
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by pythonistic 9y ago
It looks like a new front-end on Zeitgeist (which looks like it's completely disappeared from the category pages).
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by pythonistic 9y ago
I'm using Google Fi as my voice provider. It's not an awesome solution and requires a very specific phone, but I do get three things that really help with the spam calls: * I can manage a list of spam and blocked callers online i
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by pythonistic 9y ago
My Subaru Outback is technically a station wagon, even if it resembles a SUV. The significant differences are fuel economy (+3 MPG for the Outback), headroom (+0.6" for the Forester), cargo capacity (+1.4 cubic feet for the Forester
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Go 1.7: 1.05 MB (statically bundles a stdlib; target Linux, amd64)
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by pythonistic 9y ago
I'd forgotten what search engines were turning into before Google. Excite is a real blast from the past.
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by pythonistic 9y ago
Firefox Reader view has been my savior both on laptops and on my mobile phone. It doesn't work on every page, but where it does, it removes the styling and JavaScript and I get to concentrate on the content.

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