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by ticmasta 8y ago
You can go for natural hard surfaces like stone, brick, gravel mixed with native plants and grasses. Native trees typically do a good job of crowding out the ground by consuming all the resources but will help fight erosion; trimming a tree
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Outside of your 100+ acre "compound" in the middle of nowhere, restrictions on the aesthetics of your property are the norm, ranging from reasonable "you can't pave your front yard and use it as a parking lot" to th
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Most commercial buildings have extensive landscaping but try to limit huge patches of green grass as it's hard and expensive to maintain - unless they're using it as a signal for wealth and opulence (like a fancy hotel) or labour
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by ticmasta 8y ago
If you can put up with the dirty looks from neighbors and resist the peer pressure, cultivate crabgrass! it's drought-resistant, grows low so never needs to be mowed and still green. I'm quite the crabgrass cultivator - my main te
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Check out the various fairies series by "Daisy Meadows" - there has to be at least a thousand of them. They mine a theme/set with a book for each element (the seasons, rainbow colors, precious gems, etc) and they follow the e
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by ticmasta 8y ago
My family has been in commercial property rental for a long time, but never residential. Residential is seen as an easier path to being a landlord because the capital requirements are lower, but I caution everyone considering buying a renta
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I love Silicon Valley as much as I loathe Big Bang Theory. Talk about a show that plays to what "regular" people think nerds are like. I am absolutely dumbfounded how popular it is. Then again, Chuck Lorre has a track record for t
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I really like the historical/tech story lines but the soap-opera interpersonal relationships wrecked it for me. The whole "broken imperfection" thing often goes to far and really detracts from the story.
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>> the only dependency you have is the browse HA! maybe this is technically true, because in the end that's where it runs, but have you looked in your modules folder at any substantial project lately? The dependencies run deep
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especially for new developers and organizations. You have a choice between a wide-open landscape and a script that you're deathly afraid to eject because you can never go back. Neither is great for someone considering adoption for a ne
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by ticmasta 8y ago
>> he bucket's start out __private__. Except one of the biggest initial selling points is hosting static websites, which requires the bucket to be public. They even have a shortcut UI for setting this up, but then they highlight
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by ticmasta 8y ago
OT: a friend & former coworker and I have a pact that's been running for a long time: whenever you hear the word "synergy" you are required to make a hand gesture sliding your index finger on one hand into a ring formed
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by ticmasta 8y ago
So, what's the name of your hero? I guarantee I can dig up some less-than-noble aspect about them, or cast a past action in negative light. People are pretty complicated, multi-faceted creatures. We're allowed to be grateful for t
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by ticmasta 8y ago
from my experience you'll take a sizeable hit in salary moving from Seattle to Vancouver, before the exchange rate. The cost side is more comparable
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>> Vancouver has an insane housing market but it is still possible to buy a nice 2BD condo in a concrete high-rise building for a relatively reasonable price, that a couple with two professional level salaries can afford. Yes, but is
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or you could go and, GASP! leave your phone at home...
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by ticmasta 8y ago
but they won't look at cloud storage (honest - the law even says so) so why don't you just leave those plans on the server until you're through customs - of course than you have to go to all the trouble of, ya know, clicking
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Right off the bat they compare the production output of their robot interior farm with a comparable exterior farm "5 times the size" - which is another, more subtle, form of BS - how does it compare with a standard "meat powe
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by ticmasta 8y ago
Calgary here Pros: * young, positive population with drive & ambition * outdoor & health focus * expanding cultural diversity, western hospitality * no sales tax * Calgary Stampede Cons: * focus on Oil & Gas masks other opportun
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I'd expect millennials to have more mutual, non-contested divorces based on the advertising trends I'm seeing and anecdotal evidence. So lawyers are still getting paid but not nearly as much!
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by ticmasta 8y ago
You need to look beyond just profitability as product vs. consulting businesses grow in very different ways. Do you have a pipeline of quality potential hires? consulting headcount grows more in line with workload than product, which tends
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by ticmasta 8y ago
If I remember my contract law, you're not 100% correct. Errors in the contract can be used as cause for severability or termination in some rare cases, but errors in execution are generally not. They're one of the reasons we have
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Lots of grocery stores give you the product for free up to a limit (say $10) if it is priced incorrectly or rings through different from advertised
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Reminds me of the story from SparkFun's founder where a nightly currency conversion batch process failed and set all prices to $0. If you had ever bought anything from them before I believe they honoured the purchase and sent out the o
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by ticmasta 8y ago
I think you need to use basic supply/demand economics; the original sales price needs to be near the limit people are willing to pay scalpers. There's no secondary market if the scalper needs to pay near the maximum value of the s