TWAndrews

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by TWAndrews 9y ago
I grew up in Fort Collins, and live here now after an itinerant period, and I'll say that overall the city government has always been far-sighted, a good steward of the tax money they get, and provided good public services. I'm pr
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by TWAndrews 9y ago
I live in Fort Collins and can confirm that we were absolutely inundated with mailers, and other forms of ads.
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
This is definitely true for my 7 year old daughter. She's an avid reader, but even when I buy a book she is very interested in reading (typically the next in a current series) on a Kindle rather than getting her a hard copy, she'l
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
You can mostly trust Swiss people to be that honest. It doesn't work like that everywhere.
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
True, but it's plausible enough that 7 year-olds can connect the dots from existing or close-to-existing technologies.
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
We got an Echo over the holidays, and watching my 7, 5 and 3 year old daughters interact with it has given me a glimpse of what bringing home a black-and-white TV in the 50s must have been like: Objectively it's pretty limited, but it
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
Swiss culture is very small-c conservative, with heavy value on making rational, pragmatic decisions. It is no surprise that they have a system which reflects that, and performs well for that population.
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
Right, but all those are inherent to the people of Switzerland. The same system in, say, Italy wouldn't get those results.
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by TWAndrews 10y ago
Yes. My nephew is a Junior and starting to look at schools and my main message to him is "wherever you can minimize your debt."
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
The NSA cracking the Secure Enclave is not the same as the FBI cracking the Secure Enclave.
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
If you've already got the SQL handy, this is pretty useful.
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
or very little of it for a lot of money. Website design suggests the latter In the BI market, Tableau is very much one of the low-cost, high volume players. They've done a great job getting into lots of people's hands, the quest
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
If you'd ever tasted poverty, you might think better about the pursuit of money.
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
Then you're really unfamiliar with the dynamics of domestic abuse. I'd be more surprised if violence was not the result of this.
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
I was able to get checked in via the United android App around 9am ET.
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by TWAndrews 11y ago
This would be great until one of my kids pushed it like 50 times.
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by TWAndrews 12y ago
Very lucid description of the technical reasons that email is a PITA.
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by TWAndrews 12y ago
Loveland, Longmong and Niwot are all relatively close, and have similar quality of life properties, but are quite a lot cheaper--they don't have the university, which can be a bug or a feature depending on your perspective. Fort Collin
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by TWAndrews 12y ago
It's definitely not a suburb of Denver. It's relatively close, but it's a different place. It's a lot like Ann Arbor, Madison, or other cities of about 100k which have a large university in town. It's actually got
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by TWAndrews 12y ago
I interpret this as a signal that Tesla will be willing to enter into no-cost license agreements for companies wishing to use their technology, and won't pursue cases against companies who make technology that is related, and where inf
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by TWAndrews 12y ago
It seems like there's a bot who's replying to comments with a handful of canned responses. I'd be interested if you could get the same responses from the CBA twitter/facebook accounts.
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
And most of the most appealing-to-business sub-populations in a lot of these countries read english well enough that an English-language product captures a lot of them.
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
Yeah. My baseline assumption is that people need 1-3 years after graduation before just getting their heads screwed on straight--there are definitely exceptions to this, but not as often as the average 24 year-old would have you believe. S
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
When you say you aren't learning, are you referring only to your development as a software engineer, or are you also referring to your skills as an employee? Learning how to operate in a moderately large company is a skill, and require
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
Really sorry for your loss.
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37signals is now Basecamp
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
That's odd. I made the same switch, but when I turned off iMessage on my old phone, texts from contacts with iPhones are sent correctly to my new android device.
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
I recently made exactly ths same switch, and unsurprisingly had exactly this issue. I resolved it by turning on my iPhone, putting it in airplane mode, and turning on wireless. I then went into Settings >> Messages and turned off iMe
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
Interesting, though I'm not sure I'm up to a year's worth of daily meditation on my death.
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by TWAndrews 13y ago
It's also the stark differences in the consequences of misuse. Google can use my information to serve me diabolically targeted ads. The government can put me in jail. It's not that I trust Google more, it's that they have v

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