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by zyxley 12y ago
My only experiences with normal taxis have all been ones where (a) nobody at the dispatch offices of any of the major taxi companies in my area ever actually picked up, (b) the driver didn't actually speak enough English to be comprehe
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by zyxley 12y ago
Seconded. This is a guy whose total sales of games were low enough under his original model that one of them sold about 4,000 copies total since its release ( http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-heres-how-many
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by zyxley 12y ago
> dishing out unreasoned mandates to solve things one way or another This is the problem I've run into most often with management: the command to do things using method or technology A instead of B, not because A is better (in fact,
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by zyxley 12y ago
How did you get from "less or no prosecution of drug crimes" to "the police will stop enforcing law entirely, turning the inner city into a Plisskenian hellhole"?
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by zyxley 13y ago
My reaction to more ST development these days is kind of "meh", given that Atom is undergoing actually-active development (what with changelogs longer than four items over whatever number of months), doesn't require mucking a
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by zyxley 13y ago
This gives me major flashbacks to reading through the case study of London Ambulance Service's tech upgrade failure in 1991: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/papers/lascase.... A lot of major
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by zyxley 13y ago
> In all, the scientists say, “the Egyptians were probably aware of this handy trick.” Wheelwrights hate him! Use this one weird old trick to make your pyramid bigger!
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by zyxley 13y ago
This is exactly what I thought. The question isn't really "are smart drugs ethical to use" (nobody objects to worldwide mass consumption of caffeine), it's "are the side effects ones that won't negatively impac
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by zyxley 13y ago
Some assorted nitpicks: Why is the box with "Annual Savings" and "Average Monthly Price" at the lower left where it's obscuring the content instead of at the lower right where there's a bunch of empty space? Th
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by zyxley 13y ago
The 2010 US Census was a good example of this sort of dysfunctionality (I worked in one of the offices for it). Hiring anyone for field jobs was a process something like: * field operations clerks arrange application/testing sessions a
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by zyxley 13y ago
This is the first thing I thought. Given the mild but noticeable hassle of converting USD to BTC, and the position of BTC in the eyes of many ("hang on to all of it, the value will keep going up!"), there may be potential impulse
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by zyxley 13y ago
I think the Pioneer Place mall in Portland, OR would be another interesting example. It's made of four separate buildings in the middle of downtown (underground parking only), connected by underground sections and skywalks, and directl
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by zyxley 13y ago
I think you mean "moot", not "mute".
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by zyxley 13y ago
Agreed Given the "[a]t first, Withrington accepted Inge’s presence", I would think that if she'd been a clean and polite tenant it's entirely possible the new landlord would have had no motivation to evict her. There may
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by zyxley 13y ago
This is pretty much what I was thinking. $1300 a month isn't a lot, but I would be really surprised if there's not somewhere in the SF bay area or a nearby city (Sacramento, etc) where it couldn't cover a small apartment or
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by zyxley 13y ago
Coffeescript has similar functionality. From the Coffeescript docs: OPERATOR = /// ^ ( ?: [-=]> # function | [-+*/%<>&|^!?=]= # compound assign / compare | >&gt
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by zyxley 13y ago
From getairhelp.com: > The Power Of Attorney - POA for short - authorises AirHelp to undertake all appropriate legal (judicial and extrajudicial) measures to collect the compensation from the airline on your behalf. It's a bit weird
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by zyxley 13y ago
Given that I started using Slack (slack.com) last week, what in Hum would tempt me away from it? Slack fits pretty much everything I would want in team communication (being more or less private IRC with persistent history, full history sear
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by zyxley 13y ago
In my case, the general idea draws me because I have a kitchen the size of a shoebox with poor ventilation and a fire alarm that goes off at the drop of a hat. Cooking an even fractionally complicated meal quickly becomes an exercise in fru
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by zyxley 13y ago
It would be good to have more information on what these taste like, what the mouthfeel is, and, possibly most importantly (since it's a prereq in my mind to ever buying any at all), how long they last in the pantry or refrigerator. Tha
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by zyxley 13y ago
Is this a houseboat, power boat, sailboat? I've heard benchmarks of general maintenance for sailboats (even freshwater, ignoring the additional corrosive effects of salt air) that add up to several thousand dollars a year even when bra
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by zyxley 13y ago
My experience is only anecdotal, of course, but I don't have a television (and I haven't for some seven or eight years). I don't watch cable or local TV, and I don't have furniture or equipment arranged for "ten-foo
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by zyxley 13y ago
This really needs actual docs instead of just videos. Also, there's apparently no way to delete any properties or actually manage collections using the kimonofy GUI, which is pretty annoying.
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by zyxley 13y ago
Also, if you want to log into the site on your phone, you need a second phone.
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by zyxley 13y ago
Why not put a keypad on the box, then generate limited-use codes that delivery people can use? Then it can be used with local delivery services and the like with no extra work needed past a "put it in the lockbox at the front, code is
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by zyxley 13y ago
What happens when you have to deal with a crazy pop star with a " in his (real, legal, you-are-the-unreasonable-one-for-demanding-something-else) name? (This is ignoring the myriad of issues that come with parameterizing names into &qu
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by zyxley 13y ago
For me, this cliff came with discrete mathematics, where the appearance of proofs, induction, set theory, and so on left me completely foundering for some time. They were all topics that I had literally never touched before except in the mo
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by zyxley 13y ago
Well, that's why I said subtly . It's not blatant about it, but it is a deceitful approach. These kind of tactics are familiar to me from previously working in the web hosting industry, where the tricks of "the eye-catching
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by zyxley 13y ago
This is definitely my view. I'd honestly be happy just to see a service in the "use us as your mailing address" market with lower and less byzantine pricing than Earth Class Mail ($20/mo plus $5/mo for searchable PD
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by zyxley 13y ago
I generally like this, but it needs to ditch the weird animated background of the first-startup screen and the wood-grain background of the control settings screen.

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