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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
There was a questionable execution in Texas in 2004 that's still shows up in the news occasionally[1]. If you are looking for a previous case that might help you guess how much this could be in the news, I'd look there. It is a
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I suspect that all state universities in locations that have cheaper cost of living that the national average (Texas, for instance) are hampered by viewing the data in the way it is being shown.
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I'm not an airplane engineer, but I think a fair amount of it is technical debt, not the quality of the DC-9 design. For example, the 737 - a competing design that came out around the same time - is not only still being made, it's
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
Seems pretty standard. Economists are usually very good at predicting 11 out of 4 recessions/bubbles ending/whatever.
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
I'm honestly wondering if half the point of this lawsuit is just to keep Zenefits' professionalism and Parker Conrad's mouth in the news as much as possible. ADP might lose this lawsuit (I have no idea), but Zenefits is alrea
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
The article makes it sound like "That is no excuse" is referring to taking time off work to see your child born - in other words, there is nothing that could excuse someone taking off time for that. It's possible that he&#x27
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
It's just an outgrowth of the fact that I find commercial aviation fascinating, really. I'll occasionally pull up flights near where I am, but I usually use tools to track whatever flights I find interesting for other reasons (off
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
Since, for whatever reason, I enjoy tracking flights as a hobby, here's a couple of extra tidbits: 1) If you are in the right area, Flight Radar 24 might actually give you the equipment for free. See here: http://www.flightr
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by sjm-lbm 11y ago
Interestingly, owning the market in developer tools and programming languages is how Microsoft got their start in the 70s/very early 80s. Not only is this strategy a reasonable one (at least to my uneducated outside opinion), it's
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
Probably not helpful, but after reading this I can't stop wanting to make a device that appears to be ~20-30 devices by randomizing its MAC address quickly and causing extra staff to be sent to my line any time I was at a place that us
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
I'd actually disagree with this. A lot of what is remembered about the first SW trilogy is sanitized a lot by the many re-releases Lucas has made over the years. Off the top of my head, for example, in the original original trilogy,
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
I would assume that a large amount of the public actually feels comforted knowing that there's a real human up in the room with all the buttons making sure the airplane stays in the air. Given, I'd doubt very many of those people
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
Unless I'm missing something, this article really seems unreasonably harsh. He cites two bad updates within the past months (one for Windows 7, one for Exchange) that have had to be pulled due to issues, but it seems like well over hal
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
Yeah, that's their problem. They've actually tried somewhat to stock parts that maker movement-types might want: I was in an RS recently, and I was shocked at how much Arduino stuff they had on the shelves, for instance. When you
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
Last weekend, I needed a 10 Ohm resistor and breadboard for a small project - I'd ordered everything else I needed online, and thought I still had spares of those two parts that I couse use. I was somewhat surprised to realize that Rad
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
I couldn't find a mention of this in the IEEE article, but a story on NPR on this topic this morning specifically mentioned that the penguins "sang to it and seemed disappointed that the rover wouldn't peep."[1] So, yes,
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by sjm-lbm 12y ago
FWIW, though DFW is a very big airport, there are no direct flights from Africa that land there. If they ended up in Dallas, they at least stopped somewhere outside Africa before they got there.
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
Almost all of my flying experience is on American, so I'm not sure how much this applies to the others, but I think all US majors technically board back to front. The problem is that there are so many ways so "cut" in line th
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
Ha, fair enough - that statement was excessively cynical. Thanks for being a voice of reason on this issue.
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
Thanks for your transparency, but can you be more specific about when the switch from SHA-1 to bcrypt occurred? If it was 6 (or more) months ago, then I think you'll find at least some sympathy here - "break things" sometimes
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
It's worth noting that desktop computing is being relegated to the groups that you mentioned only because they are the only groups remaining that have a compelling use for a full-sized desktop, not because of some innate laws of the un
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
Anecdotally, my experience is the exact opposite. Since Netflix does not attempt to sell devices (like Kindles, for instance) itself, their streaming app is on literally every device I own that is capable of running it. Lots of Amazon strea
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
As a hobbyist photographer, I can tell you the problem with this will be optics. The discussion here (and the article itself) seems to act as if sensor pixel density is the primary limiting factor on resolution at this point - and it's
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
There's a sizable portion of the country that has Verizon Fios - in a random suburb of Dallas, I can get 75/35 for ~$80 with no data caps. It's not amazing, but it's not horrid.
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
> I'm not just amazed by how many people can't do FizzBuzz, but by how many people haven't even heard of it before I ask it. This is very true. I've often thought of pulling it from the list of questions just because
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
I FizzBuzz all new developers I hire. Frankly, if you aren't prepared to spend the 5 (at most) minutes it takes to put FizzBuzz down in a language you say that you are an expert in, I'm ok with you walking. Being a productive team
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
This project does seem to play to their strengths more - during the Uru era, they got hugely involved in the technical side of things (running an MMO game, creating their engine in house, stuff like that) - and their major successes were al
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
IMHO, the thing that makes the post compelling isn't what they claim they aren't hiring (hackers, of course), but the detail they go into about who they want to hire. It's annoying to me when job descriptions like "hac
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
I was unable to reproduce this using a Sprint HTC One running the newest software release (Android 4.3, HTC SW Version 3.04.651.2) - admittedly, timing does seem tight, but I tired it several times before giving up. It'd be interesting
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by sjm-lbm 13y ago
FWIW, they've changed the menu - there's still a "Flight Pass" that's within a dollar or two of what it's always been, but you have to do some more hunting to find it. It's annoying, because every flight n

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