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by steveax 11y ago
Wow, where were you commuting to? Taking the Max Blue line end-to-end (Gresham to Hillsboro) only takes 100 minutes: http://trimet.org/schedules/w/t1100_1.htm
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by steveax 11y ago
Kai's Power Tools, well that's a blast from the past! So many great graphics tools - remember Convolver [1] [1]: http://www.mprove.de/script/99/kai/2Software.html
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by steveax 11y ago
Brings to mind Smedley Butler's War is a Racket [1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
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by steveax 11y ago
Shady? How have we gotten to a place where carrying a modest amount of cash like $11k is "shady"? I suspect you're not familiar with how many unbanked people there are in this country, or what kind of predatory fees for banki
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by steveax 11y ago
Yep, was alway a treat when a thermometer broke, you'd get to play with the Mercury. Coating copper pennies with it was especially fun! Little did we know.
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by steveax 11y ago
Most of my important things (and all the things that need to keep a history) live in repositories on Github and/or Bitbucket. All the system configuration is done via Boxen. I have 2 rotating clone drives (weekly) for quick disaster re
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by steveax 11y ago
What a terrific article. Well organized, clear, just enough detail to support the important points and on top of all that, a fun read. Thanks!
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by steveax 11y ago
I always took them as intentional and think Yogi's humor has a lot in common with Groucho's [1]. Compare: "I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER" "Nobody goes there anym
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by steveax 11y ago
Ha! Anyone remember PrintPaks [1]? A Portland OR company that HP invested in. The model was to churn out "Create a <foo>" kits that were all about using ink. Disclaimer: I worked at a PDX company (ImageBuilder Software) in t
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by steveax 11y ago
Certainly not always. Your memory (or experience) must be short. HP workstations (and servers) were excellent up until at least the late '90's. I was doing 3-D work during the '90's and lusted after an HP workstation to
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by steveax 11y ago
They pre-heat the tires as that will naturally happen during a race and the compounds are formulated for racing temperatures. Modern climbing shoe rubber is another example of amazing friction. As Charles Cole (Five Ten founder) explained t
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by steveax 11y ago
Yep. I force push frequently to feature branches on my remote when preparing pull requests. Being able to protect against this on the canonical branches of the main repo is a nice addition.
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by steveax 11y ago
I used to use root@localhost but sadly that rarely works anymore.
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by steveax 11y ago
It's not just the water that cattle consume directly, it's the water that is used in the grain that fattens them up in that year before they are butchered. The latter dwarfs the former.
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by steveax 11y ago
You give the voter a paper ballot that they can visually confirm and deposit, themselves, in a ballot box, that can then be consulted to verify the electronic tallies in the event of a challenge. Honestly though, as an Oregon resident, I do
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by steveax 11y ago
The full story details some of the tech. It was pretty well thought out. IIRC, the device communicated periodically via sat phone and would cache geodata so that if the sat phone ping failed, it could transmit previous location.
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by steveax 11y ago
"Hills make you strong; wind makes you mean." Not sure where I first heard this, but I always think of it when facing a headwind.
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by steveax 11y ago
Nicely structured AppleScript (which is not an easy feat).
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by steveax 11y ago
Yes, super happy the core team keeps as a priority minimizing the pain of tracking new releases while continuing to evolve Ember. Kudos to the core team.
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by steveax 11y ago
And sadly, such a wasted opportunity with such a terrific author. Of all the interesting question the columnist could have asked, sigh.
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by steveax 11y ago
More anecdata... I was never afraid of snakes as a child (much to the dismay of my mother) nor am I now, but the times I've heard the rattle of a rattlesnake caused me to react in a way that was undeniably involuntary. Seemed pretty pr
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by steveax 11y ago
Made me think of Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserve and the 2012 heist [1] [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/why-does...
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by steveax 11y ago
And still, www forums lack the most basic filtering and killfile capabilities that a usenet reader had 20 years ago.
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by steveax 11y ago
Am I the only one that thought the link for this headline would go to The Onion, not The Grey Lady?
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by steveax 11y ago
Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown [1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
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by steveax 11y ago
First, my condolences to friends and family. Josh clearly touched a lot of people in his life. And Yes, it's a terrific custom. Remember there will probably be many folks who knew Josh that might stumble into this discussion (I hope so
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by steveax 11y ago
Or as a friend says: "the worst dancer in the world is better than the best non-dancer"
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by steveax 11y ago
Yep, the one that became public 5 days ago [1] [1]: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/adobe-to-patch-hacking-t...
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by steveax 11y ago
Screen readers a JavaScript get along just fine if a site is coded well. A SPA can be perfectly accessible. The Section 508 refresh is well underway and will essentially be WCAG 2.0 AA [1] [1]: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCA
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by steveax 11y ago
Yep, I know about the title attribute and the hover display. I still disagree with the choice. Why make the user hover to get the precise date? The worst offender is the commits screen. I know that each day's commits section has the f

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