travisp

21 ms·

181.
by travisp 14y ago
I was also using chrome stable, Mac OS 10.8. The left column doesn't disappear when I scroll down in Firefox (although also much more jumpy than I'm used to). But, I guess it seems to only affect me. I do have a retina display and they are
182.
by travisp 14y ago
I love the idea, but they've made an odd choice in the way they've styled the page: I can't scroll down to read all the text. Page scrolling is jerky and the text disappears for me before I reach the bottom of the text. I had to inspect the
183.
by travisp 14y ago
I sold my car -- it wasn't worth spending $300+ on parking plus insurance and gas just in order to have to spend hours of my life to bulk shop and crowd my apartment. But, everyone has different priorities.
184.
by travisp 14y ago
Perhaps this is the difference in where we live. I live in New York. Never is anything more than an expensive small gourmet grocery store or a pharmacy possibly "on the way." Things also tend to be much more expensive than average here. Cos
185.
by travisp 14y ago
Assuming retail stores that have to pay for more expensive real estate and employees can compete on price, I think there's actually more to price for reasons to shop at Amazon. First, a retail store is not really immediate gratification --
186.
Determining the right MVP(travispew.com)
2 points by travisp 14y ago|0 comments
187.
by travisp 14y ago
> Its very unlikely that you'd see any issues on your own sites if another customer's app was compromised. >Hmm, very unlikely but still possible. I think this is a fair statement as far as I can tell: If it were possible for a com
188.
by travisp 14y ago
I can't edit any more, but I thought it might be helpful to others if I add this: I'm not really disagreeing with you either: I agree that the conclusion of the paper is mostly obvious, but it's valuable because it is important to show that
189.
by travisp 14y ago
The research mentioned shows that the correlations are close to 0 even within similar work (there aren't many surgeons doing the equivalent of CRUD PHP webapps), which would imply that it's a filter that doesn't actually do you any good. I
190.
by travisp 14y ago
Yes it's beta and yes it's what's expected, but the hedge fund industry has historically claimed that returns are coming from alpha (investor skill) rather than beta (riskiness). There's the claim now that they are picking the right kind of
191.
by travisp 14y ago
This shouldn't be too big of a surprise. Most academic research about hedge funds show that the majority of them don't outperform the market. When they do, it appears to be because of greater exposure to particular risk factors rather than
192.
Yes, it's better to succeed than fail. So what?(travispew.com)
1 points by travisp 14y ago|0 comments
193.
by travisp 14y ago
It's worth pointing out that Coulton claims that he bought a license to distribute his version . Source: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2013/01/18/baby-got-back-and-...
194.
by travisp 14y ago
Further, it can't just be metabolism. It is unlikely that it's simply the metabolism of some tortoises, lobsters, and hydras that causes them to not actually age. It's not that they just have extra long lifespans, their death rates do not
195.
by travisp 14y ago
Are you suggesting telomeres or telomerase activity correlates with the size of the species? It's unclear what exactly is the role of telomeres in aging. Your article says "it is currently unknown to what extent telomere erosion contributes
196.
by travisp 14y ago
The actual paper really just applies to plants. But there are also far more exceptions than just humans. Giant tortoises have effectively no known life expectancy, at least as a result of aging -- they do not age: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
197.
by travisp 14y ago
Wasn't the example the MLA gave a pretty good one? It was a tweet by a resident of Abbottabad noticing a helicopter, which later turned out to be US Special Forces coming to kill Osama Bin Laden.
198.
by travisp 14y ago
I agree that your contribution to the government is small, although it's not zero. I assume North Korea wouldn't be allowing Western tourists to come on these trips otherwise; they clearly see an advantage to your visit (unless they are jus
199.
by travisp 14y ago
You might have been able to do that in Burma. I know people who have travelled to Burma, Cuba, and other places and made similar arguments that I sympathize with. But you can't do that in North Korea: you can't go stay in small family estab
200.
by travisp 14y ago
This was an interesting read and very much in line with other travelers' reports. However, I do wonder about this part: >Go to North Korea if you can. It is very, very strange. Is it really a good idea to go if you don't have a particul
201.
by travisp 14y ago
If you're sure the price is being manipulated low or high in the short term, then you have a very easy money making opportunity.
202.
by travisp 14y ago
Quite possibly true. However, I'm not talking about everyone who didn't vote, I'm talking about people who would vote if the system were different or if the outcome of the election in their area were more likely to be different. This can ro
203.
by travisp 14y ago
>More than 50% of voters voted for Democrats in Congress (even when you discard seats where there was only one party on the ballot, still over 50% voted that way), and a large majority in polls want Congress to become less partisan. The
204.
by travisp 14y ago
I have to agree. If the company had wanted to outsource this job to people in China, it would have done so. Obviously, it felt it had a reason not to, and that reason may have had to do with more than just the quality of the work.
205.
by travisp 14y ago
Many banking features are not. For example, USAA's mobile deposit requires that you either have or be eligible for their insurance.
206.
by travisp 14y ago
Generally you pay taxes where you do business, not where you are incorporated, so probably.
207.
by travisp 14y ago
I'm still getting "undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass" in "lib/modules/google_count.rb:22:in `search_count'"
208.
by travisp 14y ago
Actually, with Stripe and Amazon they will just hold on to the information and not authorize/charge so you can wait much longer (like Kickstarter). The downside is that you aren't guaranteed to be able to charge the amount at the end, but I
209.
by travisp 14y ago
Some of the reviews of 4K projectors have mentioned some fairly good upscaling for HD content, however, so that would help bridge the gap somewhat.
210.
by travisp 14y ago
I would hesitate to actually get paid up front unless you really do have something coming soon, but it's quite trivial with many of the payment networks to collect the information and not charge until you're ready. If you truly have no prod

More ›