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by steveax 12y ago
Reminds me of Lynn Hill (one of my climbing heros) advocating that men and women should compete together on the same routes [1] [1]: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/31/magazine/cliffhanger.html?...
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by steveax 12y ago
When you become a cop (and I use that word loosely to mean anyone who is empowered by the broad law enforcement system) everyone else becomes a potential criminal.
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by steveax 12y ago
Which is to say that proposition 13 was a boondoggle.
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by steveax 12y ago
How about exiting the highway and calling the police? Seems like the most prudent course for everyone.
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by steveax 12y ago
Indeed. I continue to be impressed at how painless keeping current with ember in our application has been.
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by steveax 12y ago
Indeed. I saw Sin City (an exceedingly violent movie) in a theater. A woman (presumably the mother) and two young boys (~8 and 11) were seated in the row in front of me. She didn't bat an eye at the violence, but yelped and shielded th
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by steveax 12y ago
Don't get used to it. This winter has been historically dry and warm in PDX. Snowpack in the Cascades is ~11% of normal this year.
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by steveax 12y ago
Homeowner's insurance, or mortgage insurance? The former is cheap, the latter, not so much.
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by steveax 12y ago
I don't understand the appeal of touch screens (really, not trolling). What sort of tasks do you find one superior for?
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by steveax 12y ago
The very first cut (the "foreshots") really smell like something you shouldn't consume due to the presence of acetone and some other compounds that are detectable in very small concentrations.
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by steveax 12y ago
It's mostly a myth that relying on JavaScript makes a website inaccessible (partially propagated by the woefully out of date Section 508 requirements in the US - the update is currently in progress and will be very close to WCAG 2.0 [1
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by steveax 12y ago
Here's a few... Build something, anything. Then set it aside for a while, come back to it and improve it. Reading code you wrote a couple of months ago will highlight very quickly the parts that are clear and concise and those that are
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by steveax 12y ago
I think the outdoors can be a great teacher - I know it has been for me about things like this. Many years ago a friend and I went to Yosemite to do a climb on Half Dome. Day one we were humping up to Little Yosemite Valley. It was a hot da
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by steveax 12y ago
Hass may not be the tastiest avos, but they are superior to what was the dominant commercial variety (fuerte) before they took over. Related: the Hass "mother" tree: http://articles.latimes.com/1992-03-29/loca
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by steveax 12y ago
How do you square that with high school football, where the participants are minors? Would there even be a NFL without high school leagues?
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by steveax 12y ago
And the beauty of using ES6 is when the browsers you need to support handle, you just remove the transpiling step.
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by steveax 12y ago
Also, Bookshare [1] has 300k+ accessible titles. [1] https://www.bookshare.org/
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by steveax 12y ago
Good introduction to screen readers from Victor Tsaran of Yahoo [1] also shows his normal speed for browsing. [1] http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/05/14/video-intro-to-screenread...
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by steveax 12y ago
There are automated tools, but in my experience they mostly pick up the easy things (missing alt attributes, etc.) The harder bits are focus and notification in SPAs. Read the WCAG docs [1] and the and WAI ARIA docs [2] stick to them. Then
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by steveax 12y ago
And the text is just wrong: "The tricky part is that it will be absolute to the parent element that has a position of Relative or Fixed." Should be: "relative, absolute or fixed" (or more simply: position other than stat
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by steveax 12y ago
Great episode - I highly recommend it.
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by steveax 12y ago
The other thing that is worth preserving for is a climber bolder than you who is willing to climb it without drilling that bolt ;-)
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by steveax 12y ago
My experience is that most relatively fit folks can follow a face climb in the 5.7-5.8 range their first day out - some might manage 5.9 or 5.10. Again though, that's for face climbing which feels more natural and doesn't require
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by steveax 12y ago
It's entirely dependent upon both the difficulty and the relative risk of the climb. The Edge at Tahquitz Rock [1], at "merely" 5.11a (R) has seen far fewer ascents than most 5.14 climbs. Similarly, the Bachar-Yerian at 5.11c
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by steveax 12y ago
Beating pins in and out is a lot different that placing and removing a stopper. The only rock that is significantly damaged by clean climbing gear is (soft) sandstone and the like.
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by steveax 12y ago
First time by that route. The Salathé Wall was freed in '88 and Lynn Hill freed the Nose in '94 and did the Nose free in a day in '95.
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by steveax 12y ago
Important to note that Robbins changed his mind and stopped chopping bolts 2 pitches into the 2nd ascent as (according to Lauria) "the quality of the aid climbing was much higher than he had ever expected of Harding or Caldwell and, o
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by steveax 12y ago
Modern equipment has taken us a long ways from "the leader must not fall" but how forgiving a leader fall will be is still highly dependent on the route. For instance The Bachar Yerian [1] in Tuolumne Meadows (the Yosemite high co
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by steveax 12y ago
Indeed, the scale really is mind bending. If you start in EL Cap meadow and hike towards the base, you'll notice that the base keeps being farther away than you thought it was because the height is much greater than what you thought. T
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by steveax 12y ago
Previous discussion of the effort [1] from a NYT article on January 5th [2]. I think this was mentioned in the previous discussion, but Tom Evans is doing a great job covering this on The El Cap Report [3]. [1] https://news.ycomb

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