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by rpicard 14y ago
That was my first thought, but then I think we'd see a larger drop on the 30th as well, since that's the last day of the month sometimes too. Someone suggested doing a graph with "days until end of month" on the X-axis, which might be inter
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by rpicard 14y ago
That's an interesting observation!
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Great point! Dividing by expected would have been a much nicer solution. I think the method I used still works though, just not as nicely. Am I wrong?
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by rpicard 14y ago
That's an interesting idea, but I don't think that there were enough speed cam records to do that. If you notice the graphs before and after I discarded them, they are pretty much identical.
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by rpicard 14y ago
I agree! That might be a good reason for an update.
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I was originally thinking that the drop on the 31st could be explained by the last day of the month not counting for quotas, so they could be tallied or something. Then I realized that the last day of the month varies, and that it if that w
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by rpicard 14y ago
1) Yes, there were far fewer tickets in the data for 2009 and 2010 than 2011. 2) The fact that the normalized numbers were so small was very unintuitive to me at first too, but the important thing to realize is that in that formula, you're
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by rpicard 14y ago
I think you're right in that the question of the title is really two questions. I tried to make that distinction clear in the analysis and conclusion sections. I didn't actually try to find information on quota policies (specifically for Ba
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by rpicard 14y ago
Thanks. There is so much more that could be explored here. It's difficult to really come up with an answer with so many different factors, which is why I'm reluctant to point the finger at quotas in my conclusion.
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by rpicard 14y ago
Just from a brief look at a calendar for 2011 and 2010, it seems like the days were pretty evenly spread out over the week.
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by rpicard 14y ago
I'm playing around with the data[1] and it looks like you may be on to something. October 31, 2010 (Halloween) had 122 tickets, while August 31, 2010 had 531! [1] https://data.baltimorecity.gov/Financial/Parking-Citations-2...
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by rpicard 14y ago
That was actually compensated for in the "Correcting for more frequent dates" section. The first graph of that section shows what you would expect the distribution to look like, since not all months have the same number of days. The followi
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by rpicard 14y ago
That's an interesting thought. It looks like they were spread out pretty evenly throughout the week in 2011 and 2010, though. > as well as for the dates that only happen in a few months out of the year That actually was compensated for.
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Do the police give more tickets at the end of the month to meet quotas?(robert.io)
104 points by rpicard 14y ago|89 comments
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Dr. Edward and Mr. Allen(robert.io)
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by rpicard 14y ago
I don't think the "Did you mean [...] ?" popup should block the password box. Maybe it should appear on the top instead? My email address uses a .io domain and it suggested the .com domain. Since it blocks the password box, it seems like it
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by rpicard 14y ago
Is it necessary to associate feedback with the user's email address after you've confirmed their identity? If you don't associate their information with the feedback, I think users would be a lot more confident in your promise of privacy. Y
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by rpicard 14y ago
If the problem is that you have to change email addresses when you switch providers, I think the easiest solution is to use your own domain. Then you can use whatever mail client you prefer, and switch between them freely; you really own yo
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by rpicard 14y ago
> Information has been limited, but it doesn't appear they have any formalized Linux plans at this point but are actively monitoring the space. tl;dr - No, Blizzard won't be bringing their games to Linux.
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by rpicard 14y ago
It works with the &hl=en parameter. I'm using a Swedish VPN so I ran into the same problem.
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by rpicard 14y ago
On the other side of that, I'm in the U.S. but I use a VPN in Sweden so I can only see it in Celsius. It might be cool if you could click the text, "20 ºC," to switch between the two.
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by rpicard 14y ago
I couldn't really think of it, but ended up going with yellow.
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by rpicard 14y ago
You can also enter command mode in Vim with ^[. I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to give you this feedback before I saw your comment here. Maybe you should list an email address or have a contact form somewhere on the site. Th
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by rpicard 14y ago
Very interesting article! Just FYI: In the top left corner of the iPhone screen on the giveaway page [1] I see, "Receivd." Is this a typo? [1] http://kicksend.com/iphone_giveaway EDIT: Nevermind - I saw "Receivd, Inc." in the footer.
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by rpicard 14y ago
I think that the window manager is a little lower-level than what you're thinking of. If you're running a Mac, you would already have whatever proprietary program Apple uses in OS/X to display windows and the desktop environment. This is my
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by rpicard 14y ago
That's probably a good opportunity to make sure that they're comfortable with being used to promote the petition too. The script / using big names to promote the cause is a pretty smart idea.
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by rpicard 14y ago
This doesn't seem to account for the fact that multiple people can have the same name. I don't play hockey, nor am I Canadian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Picard
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by rpicard 14y ago
They have lesson plans on the site: http://www.teachwithportals.com/?cat=3
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That is such a good idea! I really hope that catches on.
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by rpicard 14y ago
Just a heads up that this link is broken on getblimp.com: http://bootstrap.getblimp.com/

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