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by steveax 12y ago
It's not that the Steck Salathe (and other long traditional climbs) are mis-graded, it's the breadth of competencies required by them.
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by steveax 12y ago
Yeah, and it's more than just the grade too. The Steck Salathe [1] is "only" 5.9, but I suspect it would rebuff ~60% of "5.12 climbers" [1]: http://www.supertopo.com/rock-climbing/Yosemite-Valle
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by steveax 12y ago
Every grade at some point is considered the hardest, but what I suspect you're referring to is the Yosemite Decimal System [1] which postulated 5.9 as the hardest grade possible (5.1 and 5.10 are the same from a numeric point of view).
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by steveax 12y ago
> But what about the app built using 20 npm libs. What do they do in 10 years? Read the code, just like they'd read the PHP/Ruby/whatever? Not sure I understand what problem you're suggesting.
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by steveax 12y ago
Very easy to increase margins? Historically, this is very difficult for companies to do. What makes Xiaomi special in this aspect?
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by steveax 12y ago
The high levels of ethanol in spirits slow the oxidation down tremendously. Unless you're taking over a year to go through a bottle I wouldn't sweat it. If you're worried about it, you could always transfer the spirits to sma
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by steveax 12y ago
In Portland (where I was and still reside) it was pretty ugly. Pretty much everyone I knew in tech was unemployed for long-ish periods. I gave up hunting and started my own business freelancing - did that for over ten years. That gradually
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by steveax 12y ago
Did Johnny get anything from Operation Nifty Pachage [1]? [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nifty_Package
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by steveax 12y ago
24 is a terrifically evil show and helped sell torture by showing Jack routinely torture people and get the right actionable information every time without any ramifications.
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by steveax 12y ago
My personal experience is that the VMware provider is much snappier - and more stable too. The provider is what, $80 US? Not sure I'd call that an expensive gamble b
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by steveax 12y ago
I really admire how Steve has remained independent and continued to create fun, imaginative games year after year. Truly one of gaming's greats. For those who might not be familiar, a fun episode from SJG past... http://en.w
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by steveax 12y ago
And in addition to the externalities that are not borne by the producers, how bout factoring in the portion of the US military budget that is devoted to ensuring access to oil around the world?
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by steveax 12y ago
God I miss Carlin.
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by steveax 12y ago
Yeah, but it'd be nice to be able to bail down to solid ground ;-)
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by steveax 12y ago
A 70m rope (depending on the building) should manage 7 floors with a double strand (only just, and you'd want to use some webbing to anchor to the edge). The fact that he mentions a tibloc indicates he was rapping on a single strand th
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by steveax 12y ago
I like Carlin's solution [1] "... But getting back to low-cost housing, I think I might have solved this problem. I know just the place to build housing for the homeless: golf courses. It’s perfect. Plenty of good land in nice nei
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by steveax 12y ago
Photoshop CS6? Well that's not surprising. Adobe abandoned that and it isn't even supported on 10.9. Why are you surprised that there are problems on 10.10? You can hardly blame Yosemite for that.
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by steveax 12y ago
Really? Let's say I'm a fly fishing lodge... What do you think I'd pay more for: 1) someone who visits fishing websites 2) an individual who purchased (verified by credit card data) $5K worth of fly fishing gear
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by steveax 12y ago
> an advertiser doesn't care about you, specifically Of course they do. They just haven't figured out how to personally market to individuals without running afoul of regulations or public sentiment. Removing those impediments
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by steveax 12y ago
Look no further than BBEdit, which has superb scripting support and is both recordable and attachable.
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by steveax 12y ago
The best documentation is Matt Neuburg's _AppleScript: The Definitive Guide_ [1] although it may be a bit dated now. Matt is one of the most talented tech writers out there. [1]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/978
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by steveax 12y ago
Not to mention Userscript (Frontier) which was dreamy to work in in comparison to AppleScript.
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by steveax 12y ago
Ugg, set top box debugging. I feel you pain. Have you looked at weinre[1]? [1]: http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/
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by steveax 12y ago
Rounded corners and gradients can both be handled without images these days, but even if you use images for things like that, that bandwidth (certainly) and number (probably) of photos dwarfs them.
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by steveax 12y ago
Not that I'm against improving vector graphics, but The majority of images on the web today are not suited for vector formats (photos).
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by steveax 12y ago
> Casper...I think that's a headless web browser. It's an abstraction and utility library that sits in front of headless web browsers.
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by steveax 12y ago
My secret: short story podcasts. Engages my brain just enough to help turn off the competing thoughts. There really is something to that bedtime story thing!
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by steveax 12y ago
Yeah and a good thing too, otherwise we'd have Comcast/NBC/TimeWarner, oh, wait...
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by steveax 12y ago
It's apparently common for CCA (and other private prison operators) to attempt to get this clause in contracts. In some cases, they do: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/19&
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by steveax 12y ago
So pick another index. How about the Billion Prices Project [1] from MIT. Oops, that pretty much tracks the CPI. Guess maybe the CPI isn't intentionally understated. [1] http://bpp.mit.edu

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