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by sturgill 7y ago
Or they already rely on FB login and are now _obligated_ by Apple to implement this feature. I work for a company that has allowed people to create accounts with FB login (meaning we don’t have an internal password associated with them). Th
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by sturgill 7y ago
But this explicitly doesn’t work as an SSO. How can I tie that back to the actual email address they would have used to create an account using their FB / Google account? This sounds like a tremendous headache that I really don’t want
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by sturgill 7y ago
Maybe I’m an outlier, but I actually like the unwritten rules better than the written ones. Every interview I’ve ever had I make a point to ask what would be expected. At my MBA program (yes, I’m one of those guys) we had to wear slacks and
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by sturgill 7y ago
Which, at the end of the day, was the original value prop of EC2. Capacity planning is a challenging problem, no matter the industry.
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by sturgill 7y ago
My dream is to be independently wealthy and become a high school math teacher. I love math, I enjoy teaching, and I’m pretty good at it (I spend a good deal of time tutoring various youth in our church group). Why am I not a math teacher? B
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by sturgill 7y ago
Here’s a pretty solid write up. The emergence of MLK on the national scene even had its origin in this boycott. There isn’t a figurative interpretation here: the black community in Montgomery refused to ride the bus until it was desegregate
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by sturgill 7y ago
As another comment points out, I was referring to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I live in Alabama and that is a lesson we teach our kids (there’s a wonderful book introducing these very harsh themes at a level even young kids can understand:
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by sturgill 7y ago
My very short opinion on this: politics is the process of working within a system; protesting is the process of removing oneself _from_ the system. The story of the Civil Rights protests would have been very different had African Americans
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by sturgill 8y ago
With an important caveat: it’s almost completely eradicated _for now_. Civilizations come and go. Perpetual human progress is only possible if that’s what the strongest group of people want and are willing to fight for it. “Live free or die
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by sturgill 8y ago
Yes. $15-30 per chargeback independent of whether you win or lose. So even if you “win” a dispute over a $5 charge, you’re $10 in the hole.
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by sturgill 8y ago
There can’t be a generic solution to “am I done loading everything” (see the halting problem). And tightly coupling every request to a list feels awfully fragile. I think the real problem is making 100 api calls to load a page...
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by sturgill 8y ago
I wanted to switch back to Firefox, but it seems to consume every resource on my machine. I’m currently using Safari and miss FF of old (I used FF exclusively from 2005-2013; switched to Chrome; and just can’t seem to like FF again).
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by sturgill 8y ago
The thing is, the screenshot _has_ labeled days. The calendar helpfully labeled February 2 as a Thursday.
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by sturgill 8y ago
The web has always been sad. Pop ups, pop unders, blink tags, etc. All things old are new again (here’s looking at you, animated gif!).
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by sturgill 8y ago
I haven’t researched recently, but Excel used to run on a single core on the Mac. So any decent sized file would cause tremendous issues. I used to run Windows via Parallels just to use the Windows version of Excel. Edit: it looks like mult
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by sturgill 8y ago
Which I have in place for any email from my mom with a forward in the subject line. It helps maintain our relationship...
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by sturgill 8y ago
Paid for by?... I distrust free anything. VCs aren’t free money; healthcare is paid for by someone; professors have a salary even if tuition is waived; UBI requires cash to materialize from someone’s efforts... Further removing people from
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by sturgill 8y ago
The question is if enough people “agree and pay for its fair value” to justify the existing market cap. And Apple just told investors, “nope.” -typed from my iPhone...
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by sturgill 8y ago
I shared this experience before on HN, but I once cut my leg quite severely playing ice hockey. Ended up at the ER dripping blood everywhere. I went to the desk and asked if they took my insurance. Said I was only interested in treatment if
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by sturgill 8y ago
I currently use hospital billing as an example when explaining the halting problem. You’re never sure if you’ve paid off an incident or if another bill will show up in a few months...
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by sturgill 8y ago
> [I]s it necessary to force him to expand his culinary horizons? I don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows. But I’m guessing yes. There’s a natural internal conflict between curiosity and the comfort of routine. Every person (and thus ev
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by sturgill 8y ago
> I think that -- respecting a person's right to control what goes in their body -- is an excellent policy. This sounds great but breaks down at implementation. My 5 y/o is not yet equipped with the mental discipline to have th
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by sturgill 8y ago
#1 reminds me of the initial hesitations of buying clothes online. “The internet is fine for buying gadgets, but I need to try clothes on before purchasing them to make sure they fit right.” We’re still at the early adopter phase of online
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by sturgill 8y ago
I’m a father of three. I’ve had my kids in schools in four different cities. If we’re playing anecdotes, growing up my elementary school started at 8:00. My kid’s have had school start around 7:45. I don’t think that 15 minutes is the issue
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by sturgill 8y ago
I don’t see a lot of evidence that elementary schools have started classes earlier as more households have relied on both parents working. I _have_ seen an increase in after-school programs to make up the gap between school letting out and
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by sturgill 8y ago
> I don’t want cheaper food, I want better food. Say what you want about Big Ag, but the very fact that this is a reasonable position (and it is reasonable) is a tremendous testament to our progress as a species.
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by sturgill 8y ago
Pencils scare me. Mutable paper trails seem less than ideal. I think I prefer a pen along with an option to request a new form in the event of a mistake. Optical scan for counting along with a paper trail for random sampling. I don’t know t
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by sturgill 8y ago
Paper ballots aren’t immune to issues. Like the Al Franken election and ballots in the trunk; hanging chads in Florida; etc. I don’t know what the answer is here. I do not trust electronic voting machines. Paper isn’t immune to issues. Pers
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by sturgill 8y ago
I once got cut by a skate playing hockey. Showed up at the hospital pulsing blood from my leg. My first question to them, “Do you take X insurance?” Only after they assured me that my insurance would be accepted did I drag my bloody leg int
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by sturgill 8y ago
There's a mix of being over-cautious and buying all the things you were ever deprived. But really it means that I don't really fit in socially. Really the only people I tend to enjoy for long periods of time were others who came f

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