davidblair

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by davidblair 7y ago
Essential Craftsman is fantastic. For anyone who doesn't know, the concept is that he is building a spec house and walking you through every step of the process, from surveying the site, to getting permits, all the way through building
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by davidblair 8y ago
One of the strangest business practices Greyhound has is the $18 Gift Ticket Fee [1]. Want someone to buy a ticket for you online? That will cost an extra. Think you can avoid it buy going to the station and buying it in person? Nope, the f
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by davidblair 9y ago
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20170721121215/http://www.wescot...
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by davidblair 12y ago
Last month the network CEO and Mayor of Chattanooga did an AMA where they discussed setting up the fiber network and how they overcame cable operators attempts to block the network. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/co
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by davidblair 12y ago
Deposits have been restricted at this time, not withdrawals.
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by davidblair 15y ago
Perception is far more important than reality. When online sales first took off, credit card theft was a huge concern. Even though nothing would go wrong for the vast majority of people fear was enough to make users and vendors go to great
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by davidblair 15y ago
The reason Blackboard doesn't have competition is due to the patents they hold. They have made a commitment not to sue free, open source projects, but as soon as you start charging money they are ready to protect their IP rights.
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by davidblair 15y ago
The FCC strictly prohibits this I believe.
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by davidblair 15y ago
I've never run into this issue and have booked many tickets (on the northeast line).
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by davidblair 15y ago
The app still works as of 8:00 PM ET on my AT&T iPhone. Based on what I've read about others tethering apps, Apple will not remotely disable Tether. The only major downside is that I will never see any updates. It's only a matter of tim
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Steve Wozniak and Jobs, old friends.(woz.org)
1 points by davidblair 15y ago|0 comments
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by davidblair 15y ago
I phrased that poorly. You are absolutely right, peer reviewers are unpaid. I also have a big problem with the fact that journals receive a perpetual copyright to the work instead of it becoming an open license 6-months to a year after publ
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by davidblair 15y ago
arxiv.org has >700,000 open access articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. It's a great resource. The major cost of a journal is the peer review process, editing, an
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by davidblair 15y ago
I have seen substantial Federal grants that restrict overhead a university can take to ~20%. These grants were tied to the PI and the money follows the PI if they change institutions.
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by davidblair 15y ago
Amazon limits you to 100 Spot instances per region without contacting them to change the limit for your account. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run...
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by davidblair 15y ago
I was a talk by Stephen Wolfram at MIT in fall of 2010 about Wolfram Alpha. Never spoke to him personally. When Wolfram answered questions he was always direct and gave grounded answers -- not dreams. More than once he had to remind people
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by davidblair 16y ago
The story comes from a friend who was involved in the project. If you have any specific questions I would be happy to ask them on your behalf. A quick google search returned a news item posted on the corporate website of Coinstar which clai
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by davidblair 16y ago
Coinstar is a great example of this. The machine is able to calculate the total change deposited almost instantly. Yet, during testing the company learned that consumers did not trust the machines. Customers though it was impossible for a m
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by davidblair 16y ago
In some respects HN is a Gopher server adapted for today. Focused on content, links to information, and just enough detail to keep you going. As a protocol, Gopher is straight forward. Whenever someone talks about the "semantic web" I'm alw
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by davidblair 16y ago
Caller ID is really important for me. Unless I know who is calling I will probably ignore my phone. Spoofing the phone number of the actual business would be really handy and greatly increase the chance that I take the call. I can't tell fr
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Digg Vs. StumbleUpon: Is there a difference?(mixthenet.com)
1 points by davidblair 16y ago|0 comments
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by davidblair 16y ago
Either the topo data is wrong or something is not rendering right. Take a look at http://kosmosnimki.ru/3d/index.html?x=-13348730&y=472501...
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by davidblair 16y ago
What do you use as your p-value cutoff? I've heard many arguments for .05 being the highest acceptable for research but it seems like you have found an acceptable p-value that is out of that range by quite a bit.
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by davidblair 16y ago
The problem with the 100 "normal" users is the number of support calls they generate. It's a tough trade off to make. The way I see it is that you can plan for the increase in data usage and save lots of money on support staff. The commodit
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by davidblair 16y ago
I hate the nickle and dime approach to productivity. In fact, the happier I am the more I get done.
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Markdown, Block Parsing and the Road to Hell(cforcoding.com)
2 points by davidblair 17y ago|1 comments
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Doom Iphone code review(fabiensanglard.net)
56 points by davidblair 17y ago|0 comments
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Network Naming Schemes(namingschemes.com)
4 points by davidblair 17y ago|0 comments
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Switching to a Zsh Shell(stevelosh.com)
35 points by davidblair 17y ago|12 comments
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Book Review: Coders at work(dfectuoso.com)
31 points by davidblair 17y ago|6 comments

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