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by showerst 11y ago
Here in DC (One of the most expensive US metro areas), it's super common to rent a room in a 'group house' in your 20s with 2-5 other young professionals or students. I'd say the majority of my 25-35 year old friend grou
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by showerst 11y ago
One of the big critiques of the SAT in the past has been its 'studyability', because it tends to mean rich people can hire SAT tutors for their kids and memorize exactly which equations/wording templates will be on the test a
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by showerst 11y ago
It's well known enough that the times did an infographic on it, which I learned about from one of Tufte's books: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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by showerst 11y ago
The thing about metro is that 98+% of the time it's quite good, but when it's bad it tends to _really_ melt down. When the New York subway has a bad day, you're 20 minutes late. When Metro has a bad day you can be 1-2 hours l
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by showerst 11y ago
Is that a version of a Zero Knowledge Proof problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
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by showerst 11y ago
It looks like there are some wordpress plugins that let you check and at least fix the links, but I don't see anything that takes the extra step of archiving. https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/
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by showerst 11y ago
Don't these come from some kind of base grammar? I'd assume they'd just have something like: 10. - Bitten By 11. - Struck By ..and a12 - Orca b36 - Macaw So 11.a12 'struck by orca' would just be a funny consequence
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by showerst 11y ago
A total blackout has happened to a US Navy Ship in recent memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_shi...
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by showerst 11y ago
Sakana restaurant in DC has really cool placemats that are tiled with these. They look similar to http://www.zazzle.com/kamon_pattern_cloth_place_mat-19322318...
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by showerst 11y ago
Most stuff does indeed get around the US by truck: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub... I've also heard our freight rail infrastructure described as excellent through, so
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by showerst 11y ago
In the 60's the government enlisted two fresh physics PHDs to see if they could design a plausible bomb, as a stand in a random country. In they end they succeeded in creating a detailed plan, and it didn't even take them that lon
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by showerst 11y ago
Regulations are often extremely complex and cover deep technical minutia. There are 535 congresspeople. Counting staffers and organizations like CRS and you're looking at single-digit thousands of people to form the whole body of exper
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by showerst 11y ago
Searing is just one step in the process. I have a pricey high tech anova sous-vide circulator which is great for getting steaks to the perfect done-ness, then I use a decidedly low-tech $15 lodge cast iron pan to get that perfect finish. Ri
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by showerst 11y ago
Something I don't see in the docs, is it possible to mount rsync.net storage with something like sshfs and use it like a filesystem? If possible, is there anything stopping it from being a good idea? I'm looking for an EBS style m
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by showerst 11y ago
I'd bet 15g of explosives right at the rotor of a helicopter or intake of an airplane would be catastrophic.
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by showerst 11y ago
Traditionally at newspapers, the 'graphics desk' handled any charts or data viz. Many journalism organizations (including bloomberg and NYT) have kept the nomenclature for their special feature and 'interactives' groups
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by showerst 11y ago
Yeah now that I google it apparently there are a few. Sadly they're all exactly the product I _don't_ want: One more way to receive notifications, or try to interact with my phone from a really small device. I was thinking more in
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by showerst 11y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a 'smart' ring before. It seems much more convenient than carrying around a fob or smartcard, if they could make it low profile enough.
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by showerst 11y ago
I think the opposite, they need to get this right the first time, or people will try it once, get a little dizzy or disconnected and decide "Oh VR makes me sick." With the recent bumps in the specs, I think it shows that you need
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by showerst 11y ago
I would be cool to pull the SEC filings at the time of IPO, then grab the Open/Close data and build a tool to generate those automatically, but i'm not sure if the ownership section of the filing is well structured enough.
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by showerst 11y ago
That was a fix to PHP's composer system that drastically reduced memory usage.
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by showerst 11y ago
Searches for "Washington" and "Washington, DC" found nothing for me. When I browse I see "District of Columbia", nobody actually calls it that.
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by showerst 12y ago
On the homepage, your pricing link is buried in the footer. (I see it's in the subnav on internal pages). Maybe consider promoting that link to the main navigation?
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by showerst 12y ago
If anyone from taskpipes is reading this, check your CSS in windows 7/chrome. Your fonts are virtually unreadable[0]. It looks fine in firefox/IE. https://www.dropbox.com/s/fw0zdexz9ic19gs/taskpipes.png?d
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by showerst 12y ago
This might be interesting for something like Drupal, where you don't always have control of the queries being generated.
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by showerst 12y ago
Definitely read kafka on the shore or wind-up bird chronicle next. Most of his short story collections are excellent as well. I'm a huge Murakami fan but his style hasn't evolved hugely, so I'd recommend against binging on th
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by showerst 12y ago
We're not loading any google fonts but we've seen them block over our commenting system (livefyre) or our political content before. Interestingly it's usually not a domain-wide ban. If you'd be willing to help me diagnos
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by showerst 12y ago
Tech director at FP here, is the whole site blocked or just that article? We occasionally have to play whack-a-mole with Chinese (and other nations') censors, so I'd love any info you could provide. tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
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by showerst 12y ago
No prob. Not sure what your exact skills are but anybody with even basic data scraping/munging/analysis skills, and any data visualization stuff (especially d3 knowledge) is super employable valuable right now. There probably aren
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NYT is the big guy in the space but there's actually a lot of action right now, with the Post, Vox, and some big traditional organizations like AP doubling down on it over the past few years. Pay is generally in the 'low for a pro

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