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by showerst 12y ago
Minor nitpick that doesn't dispute your point: Bud is 5% abv and Natural Light is 4.2. Most craft beers aren't rocking 8+% alcohol, unless you're a big fan of imperial stouts and skullsplitter =).
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by showerst 12y ago
Corollary to that I once heard: "Any business idea too complicated to sketch on the back of a bar napkin won't work."
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by showerst 12y ago
The initial steps (decriminalization, medical marijuana) were taken in the council though, and those set the stage. Your question re:ballot initiatives interested me so I looked it up; signature-wise it takes 5% of DC voters distributed thr
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by showerst 12y ago
Still yes; DC has a 14 member city council that meets frequently with a long legislative session, and a mayor. Even the smallest states have a few hundred legislators in 2 houses, and much shorter legislative calendars to get things done in
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by showerst 12y ago
Oops you're right, I thought the initiative had a provision for the dispensaries to sell to everyone, but that will have to happen in the city council. Grosso has a bill pending for it, but media doesn't seem to think the council
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by showerst 12y ago
I think in DC the situation will be that private individuals can't sell it, but there will be licensed dispensaries. That's pending congressional approval though. (Really it's pending congress not striking it down, which they
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by showerst 12y ago
Oops, edited. Thanks!
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by showerst 12y ago
At this point, isn't it more effective to have a virtual machine image with everything set up? Virtualbox runs on tons of platforms, and I imagine you could build a 'CS' box with most of the tools installed and just update it
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by showerst 12y ago
For the curious, the (max) price of those instances is $6.82/hr, so 206 * 6.82 * (23/60) = $538.55 --If they did it with non-reserved instances in US East. If they used reserved instances in USEast, it drops to $181. Obviously the
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by showerst 12y ago
I switched from a normal roller-bag to a weekender for that exact reason, it's a bit easier to carry around the city.
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by showerst 12y ago
If you're going from NW DC to Manhattan the Accela is usually faster door to door from DC, because you're going from Union Station to Penn, as opposed to going to National, going through security, and then arriving at the outskirt
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by showerst 12y ago
Those systems are set up so that responsibilities are split; one person alone doesn't have the knowledge to knock everything out.
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This suggests that they gained access by some mechanism other than having the legit password.
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Not at any decently functioning company, but during a huge operation like a data center migration or a core technology change, having all hands on deck during non-business hours is fairly normal.
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Looks like they're using a bunch of websockets for something. Probably that live player count up in the navigation.
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by showerst 12y ago
You can counterfeit money on traditional printers, but we didn't ban printers (not as serious as building a deadly weapon, but still a huge crime in our society). The current solution is that big-league photo editing programs, copiers,
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by showerst 13y ago
"Here’s the thing: if Slate were to make their existing experience better for people who don’t pay…by removing pagination and making the commenting system better, they would grow their audience faster and garner more readers. Easier ac
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by showerst 13y ago
I'm not trying to start a flame war over the use of the word open, and I think it's great that they're releasing code that others can learn from. It's just that making a big press release and blog post that brags about o
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by showerst 13y ago
From the "What you'll need" section of the first tutorial - A Mortar account. You can sign up for a free Public account with Mortar here. If you want to keep your customized recommendation engine code private, you will need a
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by showerst 13y ago
I think of this as the statistics version of PHP's <? $paragraph = 'hello world'; echo '<p>'.$paragraph.'</p>'; ?> It makes a basic tasks super easy, which allows people who don&#x27
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by showerst 13y ago
I think this has a bit to do with what a media organization's strategy is. If you're going for 'advertising supported, big pageviews', then it's critical to share that info with writers. The logical consequence of t
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by showerst 13y ago
those are standard google analytics campaign tags, they probably (automatically?) built the link that way before they originally shared it on twitter, and then someone cut & pasted that link to share on HN.
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by showerst 13y ago
Nope, thanks for the tip, this looks promising!
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by showerst 13y ago
I've tried a number of them, the biggest issues are always service integration and keeping a history. Having one dashboard that integrates all of our different analytics, business, and project management systems and keeps a decent hist
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by showerst 13y ago
I prefer ansible too, but FWIW DigitalOcean has a pre-configured gitlab droplet as well. You can literally have it live in < 5 minutes, including registering and configuring a domain.
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by showerst 13y ago
There are 4 avenues I think you can take in this market - 1) Price 2) Scalability/API (As in AWS style of instant spinup/spindown) 3) User experience for the dashboard and creation process 4) Configurability of your instances DO i
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by showerst 13y ago
If it's used as a drop-in replacement for dirtier sources, and doesn't stop any cleaner sources from being developed or used, isn't it a strict win? Maybe switching to a somewhat cleaner source would slow down movement toward
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by showerst 13y ago
Udvar-Hazy really is amazing, the scale of the place is just mind blowing. At one point you can swing a left and see a jet, which looks decent sized but not particularly special compared to planes around it, until realize that it's a f
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by showerst 13y ago
They get a huge payment from google and other search engines for being in the search engine list in firefox, which constitutes most of their revenue. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2012&#
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by showerst 13y ago
Amazon Prime and Craiglist for two. Nowadays Ebay is still the place to buy and sell specialty items, which will always be a multi-billion dollar market, but they've lost their position as the marketplace of the internet. If I were Eba

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