tanseydavid

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by tanseydavid 7y ago
My experience with this book and my opinion of it -- both highly positive.
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin is really a great read -- much of the short book focuses on the weird process of experimenting and refining as he developed a new style of comedy (at the time).
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
It astonishes me that you refer to Negative Interest Rates as "sensible monetary policy."
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
City streets are dangerous -- this is a fact. Can you provide a example of these 'engineered streets' that you are talking about? I truly don't what you mean here.
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
"I can usually leave on a Saturday at 8am, get to upper North Bay (Novato, etc), crank out a 5+ mile hike, grab lunch, and be back at home by 11:30am without hitting any traffic." Surely you must be exaggerating? How quickly do yo
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
It was an analogy and you are leaving half of the analogy out of consideration. The analogy was not a comparison of methadone and vaping.
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
How do you feel about Keurig K-Cups?
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
A short and sweet adage that I have always appreciated is: "USE before REUSE ". I cannot recall where I read it though -- it was quite a while back.
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
When done properly, a function/method should be clear in terms of intent at the point of call . I will be the first to admit that proper-naming is most usually rather challenging .
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
"...this isn’t an unfortunate one-off...a pattern of behavior ...Microsoft’s storefronts are always a snarl of broken technology with horrendous usability" That sums up the situation so well. I never cease to be astonished by thi
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
Bill Hicks on Marketing and Advertising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Mn2NbjlqU
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by tanseydavid 7y ago
Also requires WIN10 SDK to build.
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
> Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten if we look close enough? This arbitrary and dangerous thinking. But if you really feel like it by all means start looking closely at as many billionaires as you
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
Whoever told you that your dollars are worth more than in 1831 should not be trusted...
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
The multiple bombings that occurred in Sri Lanka hardly seem "stochastic".
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
I will have to agree, the search feature in Slack is nearly useless. Or, perhaps 'I am using it wrong' to join in the chorus.
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
The term and concept go back to the Middle Ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Night_of_the_Soul
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
America Online buys TimeWarner!
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
It depends which toolset the 2 year old is currently using.
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
The article has the following sentence: "Imagine the Fed printed dollars and bought all the T-bills in the world at market prices. Would this cause inflation? No. No one’s balance sheet has changed a bit (since the t-bills were bought
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
You have put it into perfect terms. Thank you for noticing that.
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
I was never able to get it work using folder exclusions or application exclusions. Turning off REALTIME protection is the only thing I am to use to get relief from this problem.
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
I thought it was going to make me rich with a 32x32 icon. :(
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by tanseydavid 8y ago
...and I can quit anytime I feel like it. I just don't feel like it just yet.