jcstauffer

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by jcstauffer 2y ago
I always think of the building (and brutalist architecture in general) as absurdist architecture, and I find City Hall to be quite humorous in that light. The general shape lifts up and is trying to appear as if it's floating, in contr
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by jcstauffer 2y ago
My family had one of these when I was growing up (in gray - not the great blue color you linked to). When I was 11-12 and didn't have a computer, I used it to type up BASIC programs that I either took to school to type into the Apple ]
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by jcstauffer 3y ago
I would hope that there is more process in place protecting against downtime than code review - for example automated tests across several levels, burn-in testing, etc. People are not reliable enough to leave them as the only protection aga
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by jcstauffer 4y ago
I'd like to get a heat pump to replace my existing baseboard hot-water system (currently powered by an oil furnace) without converting to a heated air system. From what I've read, that's not quite feasible yet, since current
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by jcstauffer 4y ago
It seems endemic to the sector. For comparison sake, Bank of America was penalized almost 4X ($83,354,221,356) in the same time period: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/summary?parent=ba...
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by jcstauffer 4y ago
I particularly like how they neutrally listed all the assets and lines of credit of Voyager Digital (the loan holder) without mentioning that they add up to just $655M (< $670MM), meaning that they are now insolvent.
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by jcstauffer 4y ago
When I registered for Lufthansa FF, the form was just numbers. My birthdate has two single-digit numbers in it, and I ended up with Month-Date backwards (US vs. rest of the world conventions - e.g., 4/8 is either April 8, or Aug 4). It
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by jcstauffer 4y ago
Windows may still dominate, but 75% is far below the 90% it was 10 years ago, while MacOS has nearly doubled in the same timeframe. As someone who can remember this never changing, that's a pretty steep slope...
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by jcstauffer 4y ago
I recall when they didn't put them on the passenger side.
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by jcstauffer 5y ago
When my son was a toddler, he referred to all heavy equipment (bulldozers, etc.) as "Err-err"'s - referring to the primary sound they make. One of my fondest memories of this time was him walking backwards down the hall makin
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by jcstauffer 5y ago
The few most recent episodes of the "Darknet Diaries" podcast, which are relevant, including interviews with CitizenLab, descriptions of how NSO works, Black Cube, and the market for buying exploits from Argentina. https:/&#
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by jcstauffer 5y ago
In fact, as noted above, the article was originally written in the 90s, and this line about Trump was in the original version written long before even Apprentice days. Trump has been a punchline since long before he decided to run for presi
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
As others mentioned, I've also heard this as a lawyer taking claim from the chaos. I also heard this from a friend that heard it from Ronald Reagan, who claimed it was his favorite joke.
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
Or Blondie?
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
Meta comment: this thread has over 600 comments after 10 hours (one comment per minute) - most of which are of the form "I use it this way", or "here's a better way to do that" - thus proving the point of the articl
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
I'm not sure how that's a benefit for users (multiple app stores). What he wants is the right to build his own App Store so that he can charge his own "tax" and (hopefully) become a monopolist.
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
I find that completely unrealistic... It will almost certainly be found on an unsecured S3 bucket
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
This article falls prey to a very common pattern of defining waterfall as "anything that doesn't meet my narrow definition of agile". Since everyone knows that waterfall is a fiction that doesn't work, my opinion is corr
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
It may be a good idea to fire someone who participates in that behavior, but there isn’t a legal obligation to do so (IANAL). If the behavior is because of your race and they aren’t fired, you can (successfully) sue your employer. That’s th
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
Note that "hostile work environment" is a legal term related to a pattern of behavior taken to intimidate someone based on a protected trait (e.g., age, sex, religion, race, disability, etc.). Notedly, political viewpoints are no
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by jcstauffer 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: the 30% that Apple charges includes customer acquisition cost. As a thought experiment, if Hey adds In-App Purchase for subscriptions, but everyone who downloads the app has first signed up for their service due to their
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by jcstauffer 7y ago
> Almost certainly, the video glosses over (read: ignores) the likely fact that the 47.2bn is over that 15 year average, and the 3.4bn is over the 15 month average, so this doesn't necessarily represent a shortfall in the long term.
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by jcstauffer 7y ago
Even if she were 18 or 25, it wouldn't really change the morals of the issue - maybe the legality, but forced sex is wrong regardless of the age of the victim, and it's not in any way reasonable to argue that he wouldn't ha
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by jcstauffer 7y ago
Hmmm - couldn't you also say that Elasticsearch is a great example of a modern microservice?
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by jcstauffer 9y ago
In addition, the machines didn't have so much control of our news input and conversation the last time around.
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by jcstauffer 10y ago
Great! Any benchmarks on whether the Scala compiler runs faster when compiled to native?
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by jcstauffer 11y ago
re: your parenthetical, this Planet Money episode ( http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f... ), describes Brazil's real, which was introduced as essentially that - a
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Initiation to Code(alistapart.com)
3 points by jcstauffer 11y ago|0 comments
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by jcstauffer 13y ago
However, if they're trying to sell to people who are willing to pay for READING content, maybe it's best to have a written description. I, for one, rarely watch videos, due to the disruption of a soundtrack to those around me (get
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by jcstauffer 14y ago
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