awshepard

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by awshepard 5y ago
One question I have on this - if rail travel became more ubiquitous, would it become a more enticing target for malevolent actors and/or a higher priority for security screenings, etc? We marvel at how easy it is to walk on a train tod
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by awshepard 6y ago
Another tool to look at might be Dendron[1]. It's a VS Code plugin with similar functionality to Obsidian (according to the docs, it actually evolved from being a standalone app like Obsidian into the plugin form). My understanding is
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by awshepard 7y ago
Have to second this comment. The Audible version of it had me riveted. A great story well-told, with a raft of good quotes, such as "People didn’t like game changers in the 90s anymore than the owners of of the Erie Canal liked the tra
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by awshepard 7y ago
> Raw materials are also not a problem Knowing very little about the topic, I recently saw an article talking about how the first wave of wind turbine blades was starting to be decommissioned, and running into difficulties with what to d
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by awshepard 7y ago
Many publishers and exchanges these days are using the OpenRTB format, which you can find e.g. here for MoPub: https://developers.mopub.com/dsps/integration/openrtb/ The call out to make are the fields device
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by awshepard 7y ago
Without meaning to quibble with the numbers in the article, they point out that the bottom 50% of income has gone up $8,000, while the top 1% has gone up $800,000, which is indeed a 100x difference in absolute numbers. But on a relative bas
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by awshepard 7y ago
I agree a data diff would be challenging, especially at scale, but one tool I think is lacking is schema diffs. For sure one can see the sequence of migrations that were applied, but if all you have is a series of sql files that add/re
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by awshepard 7y ago
Does that sort of regulatory capture accomplish the same effect though? If you're a competitor in the space, you'd either a) not have any access to an ingredient you want, or b) would have to go through the trouble of finding a ne
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by awshepard 7y ago
Often, at least in the US, and perhaps other places as well, money is a pretty strong proxy for power, and so concentrating wealth can end up concentrating power as well. I can appreciate the semantic difference between the two, and concept
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by awshepard 7y ago
At least a few years ago, Facebook did publish about partnering with Twitter and Microsoft to build tools for sharing image/content hashes [1], presumably to better aid in removal or prevent dissemination of certain types of content. I
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by awshepard 7y ago
Great analysis and comment. A question though - was MoviePass's flameout ("dictate terms to suppliers ... didn't exactly turn out well") because Hollywood/the movie industry is far more consolidated and cartel-like
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by awshepard 7y ago
Yep, that's the one.
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by awshepard 7y ago
If you have a chance to watch the video, I'd recommend it (it's about 1h, as a heads up). It is certainly mature themed, so may not be suitable for younger viewers, but it is a news station-produced segment/doc (KOMO in Seatt
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by awshepard 7y ago
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by awshepard 7y ago
I heard from a customer service rep at a bank that they did that based on customer feedback. The general reasoning being that large amounts were most likely to be things like housing payments and car payments, where missing payments would i
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by awshepard 7y ago
> As to why buses come to the mall? Really? This is a good point, and one not well-explained in the article. I agree, what's the big deal? The Columbia Mall in Howard County, MD (the 3rd wealthiest county in the US) has the Mall as
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by awshepard 7y ago
Yesss, I've been thinking about this sort of thing lately! Do for privacy-conscious users what Wordpress did for blogs. Users can (effectively) point-and-click to install apps to their personal clouds, data is end-to-end encrypted. Use
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by awshepard 8y ago
"The Phoenix Project" references this - when a particular resource (expert) is the only person who can get some task done. Of course that means that person is at or beyond 100% utilization, which means their queue length (or wait
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by awshepard 8y ago
I thought Gen-Y is the Millennial generation? At least, according to Wikipedia it is [1]. To your point, there certainly is a broad range of exposure to technology within the generation. (And I wonder if that holds in every generational c
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by awshepard 8y ago
I really like the phrase "anti-consumerist undertow!" but I also visualized it in the opposite way - consumerism as the undertow, and "Tidying Up" as the "swim parallel to shore until you're out" advice.
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by awshepard 8y ago
Just an extra nugget of food for thought - I'm all for "seeing [something] through to the end," as it shows a lot of grit and determination. But in your quest for being more decisive and deliberate, you can also give yourself
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by awshepard 8y ago
Another translation for Creativity - "The best ideas come when you walk home from work and your brain just cannot stop thinking about the exciting problems you are working on." ==> "My developer should live, sleep, breathe
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by awshepard 8y ago
Is it economically rational, or irrational, to pass costs on to someone else if one can? It seems a little odd to pass costs to one's grandchildren, but hey, then it's "not my problem!" and they can vote to pass the cost
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by awshepard 8y ago
I also like a similar version: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png
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by awshepard 8y ago
I'm slowly getting towards my ideal with my latest addition of a treadmill, motorized desk, and 4k monitors. I definitely could use more above-desk power though. I enjoy having oversized desks that are large enough to stretch my legs o
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by awshepard 8y ago
Ditto on the treadmill that is easy to get out of the way. Best I've figured out is to flip it up on its side when I want to put a chair in.
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by awshepard 8y ago
I've had similar experiences, though can't claim whether or not it's a scam or artificially inflated. When we shop and scan our loyalty card I say "we saved X dollars!" and my wife replies, "you mean, we avoide
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by awshepard 8y ago
Not OP, but worked in the field for a time. Trafficking usually means configuring your ad in the campaign management system. What are your targeting parameters, what are your tracking tags, uploading the ad itself, entering in lots of custo
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by awshepard 8y ago
I think Socrata (now acquired by Tyler Technologies) was maybe tackling some of these challenges?
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by awshepard 8y ago
Hazarding a guess, it looks like it might have been Monodraw, or something similar.

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