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by wildwood 17y ago
There's a great quote from the article: "most of your peers wouldn’t even get into the game due to some unspoken belief that in a meritocracy, good things will come to those who wait. Perhaps if you have a union job based on seniority, but
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by wildwood 17y ago
The sad thing is, even if it led to a net increase in death and injury due to the causes you described, the traffic regulators would likely still see it as a gain, because it would reduce the number of "traffic deaths". (Even if it lead to
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by wildwood 17y ago
"Sharding kills most of the value of a relational database." I can appreciate the point the author makes about partitioning schemes requiring heavy integration with the business logic, but I disagree with the claim that sharding doesn't wor
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by wildwood 17y ago
I think this would make a lot of sense for digital frames. The need for a power cord has always been the main thing keeping me from getting them.
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by wildwood 17y ago
I've been in a similar job before, as the lone tech guy, and one small step that really helped me was to require that all work requests be sent by email. I put a sign on the door to my office/server room that said "Verbal requests will be
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by wildwood 17y ago
I absolutely agree - if I'm trying to gauge whether an applicant really knows as much as they think they know, I would ask questions where the interviewee might think "google it" is acceptable, but that would make me trash the application.
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by wildwood 17y ago
In addition to making emergency treatment more efficient, you're also providing valuable decision support to people in some of the most stressful moments of their lives. Anyone who is scared enough or in enough pain to be considering an ER
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by wildwood 17y ago
or any of the varied Amazon payment systems? https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business
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by wildwood 17y ago
Even if those ten titles are at the top of the NYT best-seller list? There should be a limit to how many sales are attributable to the Kindle version, which would keep the percentages lower. It would be nice to see the unit sales percentag
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by wildwood 17y ago
Exactly. Reading this article, I kept thinking of the 2000 NCAA tournament, where Florida was pressing hard and winning, and seeming unstoppable. Until MSU stopped them pretty emphatically.
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by wildwood 17y ago
Hopefully Apple won't forget that battery life is also key.
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by wildwood 17y ago
That's funny, I see just the opposite. Apple, as I recall, barely breaks even on the music part of the iTunes store, and makes all their money on iPods. Has that changed? Selling a high-end, upscale device that plugs into Amazon's online
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by wildwood 18y ago
Since Amazon was paying these associates a percentage of sales, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that Amazon financed it?
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by wildwood 18y ago
Frugality is probably relative to the industry you're in. Amazon is a retail company, where margins are low, and the overall health of the company can hinge a lot on managing all the seemingly small expenses that crop up in running a busin
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by wildwood 18y ago
I've heard of people getting "cease and desist" _letters_ (i.e., from the competitor's lawyer) for this behavior, but never an actual C&D order, which is a court order. The general approach seems to be, unless the trademark holder speci
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by wildwood 18y ago
Also, even if StumbleUpon provides targeted advertising, it's still quite likely to be very poor-performing traffic. If you're exposing people to things they were unaware of before, then, by definition, they're going to be very early in th
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by wildwood 18y ago
Re the Mini - that was my experience, too - I'm more than willing to get out the screw drivers to do my own RAM upgrades, but when I need a putty knife just to open the box, I start to get squeamish.
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by wildwood 18y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but the pseudocode looks funky. Is he really assuming at most one key per bucket? This code seems like it fails when the number of keys in the table exceeds the number of buckets. Assuming that 'table.size' re
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by wildwood 18y ago
Yes, that would be a good argument, but that wasn't the one made in the article. Ehrenreich had a job in Minnesota, which is slightly cheaper to live in than Phoenix, by most standards. Should she still have moved?
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by wildwood 18y ago
Oddly enough, in a recent episode of 'Burn Notice', they caused all of the phones in an office to ring simultaneously in order to make their escape during a con. They presented it more as a PBX hack, but it does sound a lot like the securi
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by wildwood 18y ago
Yeah, 'vigorous' is about the nicest word I can think of to describe it... :) People who can barely make ends meet should move to the sun belt to save on clothing? If you can't afford the deposit on an apartment, it's your own fault, becau
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by wildwood 18y ago
Also, Ehrenreich didn't just work at a Wal-Mart - her focus was on trying to make ends meet on a minumum wage. She tried finding an apartment and a lifestyle that she could afford on a Wal-Mart paycheck. Since this blogger talks about goin
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by wildwood 18y ago
From that page: "The Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript." I've never understood why they call that an API. It's not. It's a web 2.0 widget. Google used to have a SOAP-based API for natural
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by wildwood 18y ago
Agreed. I think this kind of attitude stems from thinking that unit tests are for TDD, instead of for regression testing. This post seems more reasonable if re-stated as, "Here's the unit test that will keep that from ever happening again"
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by wildwood 18y ago
The docs for Amazon S3 state that a bucket can either be kept in the US or in the EU. How precise a location are you needing? (They're not going to have multiple data centers per zip code.) Aside from that, I'm not sure what role you woul
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by wildwood 18y ago
I wonder if the 'timelessness' of Cook's Illustrated will become more of an issue, as time goes on. Can they really keep coming up with a new Thanksgiving turkey recipe every single year? Or will they eventually end up competing with thei
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by wildwood 18y ago
The part that grabbed me most was him giving out referrals for people who need work outside his expertise. I bet he'll see some good reciprocating referrals from that some time in the near future. Not only is he getting his name out there
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by wildwood 18y ago
hmmm... the text gets fainter and fainter the more a post is down-modded, but the urls stay just as dark as any text. Is that deliberate, or a bug? Shouldn't the urls fade out, too?
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by wildwood 18y ago
Well, 7 million USD would be over 60,000 notes... so unless your carry-on weighs over a hundred pounds, it's probably not true.
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by wildwood 18y ago
Any idea what kind of battery life TC figured, for their spec?

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