DrewAllyn

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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
> If they can't do that, the mediator will quickly gain a reputation as being unreliable and to be avoided. I'm not saying you are a libertarian, but this is an argument that libertarians use a lot. I don't buy it. Look at
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
I've found that the places that typically charge fees or have minimums in Canada are the tiny asian restaurants run by immigrants, and the small corner stores. Similar places in the US are the ones I find that take cash only a lot of t
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
If you said the word 'polytechnic' in Canada, nobody would know what you mean. In Canada, we use the word University, and College, but they mean different things.
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
I'm a Canadian who is temporarily in the US, and it seems so backwards to me. A signature? You mean writing on a piece of paper that probably never gets looks at allows someone to take money out of my bank account? Chip+Pin at least ha
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
People may want the occasional experience of being a cook, without being super dedicated. It's like getting the occasional riding lesson, but never buying a horse. Horse enthusiasts say that caring for the horse, raising it, selecting
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
The "given" symbol should only appear once in any probability statement.
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
The price war doesn't benefit the consumer if too-low prices cause the company to go under before shipping any product.
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
> Note that at e.g. apple the standard procedure when they find out that an employee is looking for a job is to escort them out of the building right then and there. Do you have a source on this? I couldn't find anything with a quic
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Gmail begins accepting accented/non-latin characters in email addresses(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
3 points by DrewAllyn 12y ago|0 comments
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
If its miserable, than it is burnout.
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
> Do you want to turn it into a product? Probably, they don't want to turn it into a product. Probably, they just want to use it themselves. In this case it makes total sense to improve speed of development despite increasing unit c
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
drew.a.gross@gmail.com
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We are launching a business designing kits for use with a 3D printer.
4 points by DrewAllyn 12y ago|2 comments
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by DrewAllyn 12y ago
For small transactions, it is safe to give the purchases after 0 confirmations. In order to pull off a double spend with 0 confirmations, you need to ensure that the store (or whoever processes payments for them) receives the "wrong&qu
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
> So customers actually requested that you collect personal information on them? "My kid can't walk, so I'm not interested. Please don't try to sell me this again."
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
But why not let the programmer opt in to manually ordering the field, and let the compiler do it the rest of the time? Similar to how the inline specifier works for functions, the compiler can inline things that it thinks will be faster if
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
The difference between bitcoin and online banking is that your bank will protect you if you are a victim of fraud.
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
False positives can have a ton of very negative effects. There is the monetary cost of further testing, which can be high depending on what is being tested for, and most importantly, telling a bunch of people that they have some particular
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
It shouldn't because it doesn't? That seems like a circular argument. Home technology would evolve much faster if we invested more into it, and it we rebuilt homes every 30 years, we would be investing a lot more into building...
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
Unicycle: 1. Lean forward and backward 2. Lean side to side 3. Twist 4. Pedal Bicycle 1. Lean side to side 2. Twist handlebars 3. Pedal
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
We tend to trade back and forth with Stanford for top at Apple too.
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
In theory that sounds great, but as we've seen with make, the end result is that the users of make just didn't upgrade. If that's not a desirable outcome for you, then it's on you to prevent that. No else is going to.
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
Just installed it, seems awesome so far. Hopefully I don't get annoyed by the additional transition time.
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
It might not be the best or most efficient way, and you might not be able to access all the features of your hardware but its certainly possible to write an OS kernal in pure C. We even did in our Operating Systems class. We did use exactly
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
He already did clarify that he is specifically referring to accents that make the person unable to communicate clearly or easily.
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
The people who complain about how things work are the people who make things better. If everyone was satisfied with jQuery and felt that JS development could stop after that then we wouldn't be where we are today, and if everybody thin
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
You get alerted... on your phone?
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
Despite the primary purpose of languages being communication, they occasionally fail at it. Does this surprise you? Have you never heard someone say something and completely misinterpreted them?
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
For QR codes generated on the fly on another screen, that is obviously impossible. For QR codes on posters, I think the effort required to actually go about making stickers far outweighs any potential gain from hijacking a QR code.
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by DrewAllyn 13y ago
I'd imagine internationalized gamed would be a big one, although I'm not a games programmer or a lua user myself.

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