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by afiedler 7y ago
Autodesk Construction | Windows Engineer | NYC, Portland, SF or Remote (US & Canada) | Full-time Autodesk Construction Solutions is on a mission to build the future faster by creating beautiful software for construction, one of the olde
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by afiedler 7y ago
There's a fantastic Planet Money episode about the Universal Postal Union[1] and why this is a problem. Basically, the UPU assumes that a country will send about the same amount of international mail that it receives. There may be an i
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by afiedler 9y ago
Ruby's standard library does this. Here's the code: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/lib/set.rb
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by afiedler 10y ago
The zero interest rate definitely does contribute, but a bigger deal for mortgage rates is that the Fed continues to buy $24-26 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities. It is keeping its total holdings of MBS constant, but since total
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by afiedler 10y ago
Facebook's draft.js[1] tries to solve a lot of these problems and uses React under the hood to maintain a mapping between the model of the document that you are editing and the DOM. I have only played with it, not used it in production
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How Hillary Clinton Helped Build WhatsApp's Encryption(foreignpolicy.com)
2 points by afiedler 10y ago|0 comments
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Apple mulling iMessage port to Android, sending encrypted messaging mainstream(zdnet.com)
2 points by afiedler 11y ago|0 comments
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by afiedler 11y ago
The TSA doesn't use backscatter x-ray machines any more. They were all removed because the company that makes them (Rapiscan) couldn't figure out a way to mask the naked images. Now they just use millimeter wave machines, which ha
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by afiedler 11y ago
Realistically, not much for a while. The FED still doesn't think inflation will hit its target until 2018, so low rates are here for the time being. The two things you might notice: - Slight increase in rates on CDs, money market accou
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by afiedler 11y ago
As a DC resident, this project is really ridiculous for a few reasons. First of all, it is no faster than a bus because it still does not have a dedicated right-of-way. It also follows the side of the street instead of the center, so it con
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by afiedler 11y ago
One of the biggest advantages that I know of is that VSC has a very good NodeJS debugger for Javascript and Typescript[1]. Having the debugger integrated into the editor is huge improvement over Node Inspector. Last time I tried Atom's
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Where should I host my single page app?(andyfiedler.com)
2 points by afiedler 11y ago|0 comments
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by afiedler 11y ago
I was a little disappointed about this too. It could be that their distribution center is close to BWI, and traffic between BWI and DC is epically bad during rush hour. Many of my packages seem to come through BWI over Dulles. DC is relativ
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by afiedler 11y ago
This is great. I think the option to revert to a perpetual license will be a nice amount of market discipline for the team and keep them from stagnating. I actually appreciate the subscription model and I hope that it will enable them to su
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by afiedler 11y ago
These types of bonds do exist. They are called "linkers" and many governments issue them. In the US, we have TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) and some savings bonds that are linked to the CPI. One major issue with th
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by afiedler 11y ago
Hey antigen8, I am working on something very similar with a non-profit in NYC, for NYC schools. It's very exciting, we are building on NodeJS and MongoDB, and already have some data syncing set up with the DOE's systems. Can you s
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by afiedler 11y ago
The title about 'warning Washington' is almost certainly a heads up and not a threat. The Treasury needs to understand market dynamics to have smooth auctions for new treasuries, which is in everyone's interest. Prime dealers
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by afiedler 11y ago
It's extremely likely to pass. Since this isn't technically a "treaty", Congress can only pass a bill to disapprove of it [1]. Obama can then veto the disapproval, and there are enough Democrats to override the veto. [1]
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by afiedler 11y ago
How did you guys drop down to a read-only connection on Heroku Postgres? We directly connect DB clients like PGAdmin to a reporting DB on Heroku, but Heroku only seems to support credentials with full access. I don't want an analyst to
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by afiedler 11y ago
Two things I've done: 1. Try your best to move more during the day. Standing desks can help, but standing for 6-8 hours is probably just as bad as sitting. Do walking meetings if possible, and take frequent breaks. sSometimes I'll
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by afiedler 12y ago
The Fed also releases all of the memos that are used by the FOMC to set monetary policy. It just releases them with a five year lag. It also releases transcripts of all FOMC meetings and conference calls, plus all presentation slides used [
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by afiedler 12y ago
(Disclaimer: IANAL) Reading through the history of the case[1], it looks like the District Court ruled that the Federal TSA officers involved were entitled to qualified immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The reasoning was that th
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by afiedler 12y ago
This is pretty bad, but I believe it is only possible to get an access token if you also allow malicious/non-trusted users to either create new OAuth client registrations (`Doorkeeper::Application` models) or modify the redirect URI of
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by afiedler 12y ago
One thing that is interesting is that Congress usually blocks funding for DC laws by restricting how we can spend our local tax dollars (through the appropriations process). When DC decriminalized possession, Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland tr
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by afiedler 12y ago
I have had good experience using HDF5 to store time series data, but just research datasets and nothing that has been put into production. I don't really know how well it works with threading, for example. It does work very well with P
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by afiedler 12y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote This project is to create a Windows desktop application (compatible with Windows 7) that will connect to IQFeed ( http://www.iqfeed.net/ ) and request streaming stock ticks for about 5000 stocks. W
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by afiedler 12y ago
Oh man, I wish this was around about a year ago. I actually coded most of this for a client and it was extremely painful to get correct. We are using the Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem which uses slightly different tokens and has some different feat
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by afiedler 12y ago
This is pretty cool, I didn't know about window functions in Postgres. Most of the time when dealing with time series data I end up dropping into Python (pandas) or R (xts package), but it is nice to see how to do a lot of analysis rig
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by afiedler 13y ago
There already is in the DC area. These ads have been all over Metro at the Pentagon station and areas where lots of other defense/government workers get on/off: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/
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by afiedler 13y ago
I second "Ruby", but I'm deep in the web app development world. Despite the trend towards single page apps, there is still a large market for apps being developed with Ruby-based APIs. Excellent Javascript skills are in high-

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