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by thedufer 13y ago
Amtrak's NE Corridor is wonderful (I also do the NYC<->DC regularly) but elsewhere its a lot worse. I also did DC<->Norfolk a lot, and that (a 4-5 hour ride) was often delayed 2-4 hours and sometimes as much as 24.
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by thedufer 13y ago
I would be willing to bet that they aren't running an installer on each person's machine, though. If they created multiple disk images - one with FF, one without - and are charging to use the one with FF, then it looks like they&
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by thedufer 13y ago
As soon as possible during startup, create a domain and enter it. Because entered domains form a stack, this will be a fallback if an error occurs at a place that isn't covered by any other domains.
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by thedufer 13y ago
We had the problem you're describing for awhile, but have since figured out how to avoid processes going down and interrupting other reqs. Essentially, you attach a global domain, and when that domain catches an error you stop accepti
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by thedufer 13y ago
My company does the no-negotiation thing (and has done so for about 13 years now) so I'm surprised to learn that its a completely unreasonable model. On a more serious note, the way we choose a salary is to look at various similar comp
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by thedufer 13y ago
> As an employer, how do I calculate this ahead of time? Then how do you decide how high to go in negotiations? Its exactly the same thing, except you start there.
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by thedufer 13y ago
You're misunderstanding what I mean by "good faith". If you don't allow negotiations, a good faith offer is exactly what that person is worth. This is why employees should prefer no-negotiation employers - either you&#
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by thedufer 13y ago
> you think the extra 10k I'm asking for will be more than offset by the productivity gains I'm bringing to the table Then your initial offer wasn't made in good faith. No-negotiation forces the person making the offer to
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by thedufer 13y ago
That's a terrible counterexample. How can we possibly draw parallels between Twitter, which has very specific high-education employment requirements, and TJs, which is exactly the opposite? TJs has no need to import labor when it ope
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by thedufer 13y ago
> If you have a great app and price it at $10, if you get a third of the downloads you'd get at $3, you're still ahead. The problem is that the way the app stores work turn it into an all-or-nothing game. If you get a third of
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by thedufer 13y ago
Interestingly, I just migrated my Sorting Visualizer off of GAE this weekend. Its kind of similar - more customizable, much less attractive: http://aarondufour.com/
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by thedufer 13y ago
> I'm not sure where they came up with the "marijuana causes drinking" scenario, though. The link between alcohol and marijuana use is very complicated, to say the least. For example, a decrease in price of marijuana lead
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by thedufer 13y ago
We're talking about timezones. The whole article is about timezones. The map has no purpose except to show timezones. I cannot emphasize enough the point that timezones are the relevant unit of measurement in this article.
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by thedufer 13y ago
I haven't used or looked at Erlang, but bear with me. * no package manager This is _huge_. For example: I currently work very heavily with node.js. I understand all of the many, many problems with javascript. NPM single-handedly mak
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by thedufer 13y ago
> what's the difference? School hours, public transit hours, business open hours (banks, law-mandated bar closing times, etc.), friends who work at enforced hours (most people, in my experience).
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by thedufer 13y ago
I don't think that's confusing anyone. Greenland appears to span 5 (hour-wide) timezones, because it does, and NY and LA are almost as far apart and span four (almost 5). This is exactly what you'd want to see in a map abou
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by thedufer 13y ago
Many military aircraft are designed to not glide well, because gliding well means that a plane is less agile. Most modern fighter jets go almost immediately into a tumble if they lose power, since they require constant computerized correc
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by thedufer 13y ago
Is there some sort of regulation going on there? In a normal market I would expect rent to rise until the wait time was down to something reasonable. You can always find an apartment within a week or so in NYC - its just going to be reall
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by thedufer 13y ago
What about the actual building wiring? It doesn't matter whether there's fiber to the building if cable has enough bandwidth to fill the copper between the cable box and the apartments.
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by thedufer 13y ago
Vacancies in NYC are incredibly low, so a landlord doesn't gain much by being able to advertise fiber internet. This, added to the expense of wiring the old buildings, means that its not a worthwhile investment.
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by thedufer 13y ago
One person can only play that particular lottery maybe half a dozen times (more likely 2-3). That isn't nearly enough for the law of averages to even things out, so if you don't have a lot of room for risk, the rational thing is
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by thedufer 13y ago
Where are people getting DeflataDollar? You've pitched it as a nearly constant-yield zero-risk investment. Circulation quickly falls to nearly 0, and we're back to having just Dollars (plus people who could afford DeflataDollars
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by thedufer 13y ago
Its been edited since I posted. There was originally a space in the middle of blogspot.
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by thedufer 13y ago
We allow people to trade futures i.e. the next of a particular resource they get must be handed over. This means that they don't clear within a turn, but leads to interesting economics - you can trade away risk, usually at a significa
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by thedufer 13y ago
> the placement of the numbers on the tiles is deterministic Not quite; the random placement of the desert tiles affects it, and you choose at random where to begin placing. That said, its still impossible for there to be adjacent 6s&#x
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by thedufer 13y ago
To go a little off topic: this is the same style of poison that causes MOBAs to have such toxic communities, exacerbated by almost complete anonymity. At the lower levels, easily 95% of games are decided in the first 10 minutes but last 30
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by thedufer 13y ago
There's a short list at the end of the post about Trello4k: http://danlec.com/blog/trello-in-4096-bytes
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by thedufer 13y ago
There's an extra space in there. Fixed link: http://johnkcurriculum.blogspot.com/2009/12/preston-blair-le...
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by thedufer 13y ago
Our use-case for domains is to allow the process to finish serving its other in-progress reqs before crashing. When an error occurs, we stop accepting new connections in that process, give them 10-15 seconds to complete, and then do the cr
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by thedufer 13y ago
> No null references, for example? We write in CoffeeScript, where a null reference check is so astonishingly easy to write that you use them everywhere you might get a null. I'm not sure what other exceptions you're seeing.

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