jdvolz

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by jdvolz 13y ago
I use the 4000 and have for the last 8-9 years. They break or otherwise fail to wear or spillage but I've had 4 of them and my hands and wrists don't hurt. If Microsoft ever stops making them I fear for my wrists. Every time I get
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by jdvolz 13y ago
I'm starting to wonder if all this developer time we're saving by using Ruby is leaking out in other places (chiefly, deployment and performance optimization). I'm new to Go, but it seems to me that deployment and optimizati
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by jdvolz 15y ago
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Don't forget about the true rent-seeking, taxpayer gouging insurance companies. I find that by the time I've paid my $950 a month in insurance, paying another $40 copay to the doctor just makes me angry. When the cost to have semi-decent
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by jdvolz 15y ago
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I would like to echo this sentiment. Further, having read the author's book 3 weeks ago, I'm confident even he wouldn't say the uneducated are going to save America. His book is about the alternative education that you can give yourself i
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by jdvolz 15y ago
As the father of a near 3 year old the educational questions weigh heavily on my mind. While this is a great thought experiment ("How could we make it better?") it's scary when given a concrete example that is near and dear to your heart.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Maybe they only do the genotyping and other people can handle other aspects of disease prediction and prevention. Knowing something doesn't predict something else is just as good as knowing it does. In either case you need more informatio
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Horrible headline. I'm now more inclined to buy from 23andMe than I was before because I know they are doing legitimate science and reporting the results without prejudice. Questions: [1] Wouldn't it be worth funding this company just to fi
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by jdvolz 15y ago
"tasty, weaponized ice cream treats" - I didn't need more convincing.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
That was exactly my point. Just because the Terms of Service of some place says something doesn't make doing that action illegal. The cops won't come to enforce someone's terms of service.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Yeah, I was laughing about how an Acer laptop took down their service and did damage to their network. If I was JSTOR, I wouldn't prosecute just because it makes our company look ridiculous.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Am I the only one who is bothered by the comparison here of "I could be sued for" and "it's illegal for me to"? Just because someone can sue you for it doesn't mean it's illegal. In fact, if someone is suing you, it's likely that it's ent
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I second MVPs. The customer acquisition strategy is usually harder than the actual application. I am guessing, and patio11 can back me up if he agrees, that it is much harder to get a teacher to your site in a cost effective manner and th
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I think the idea is to get them to the point where you would take their credit card number, and instead say that you're developing the product and ask them if they want to leave their email address. That's how I've read these experiments i
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by jdvolz 15y ago
First, subvert the law. Second, make it public (blog post is a good start). Third, start contacting your congressmen. Fourth, attempt to contact Google and indicate that you're getting ready to talk to reporters. Past that, I'm unsure.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I'm mostly okay with the law covering this specific situation, but the law could reasonably be amended to allow for an easy way for parents to give consent - instead of companies just denying access based on an arbitrary age. If they can re
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I agree with you that you not only have to break the law but publicly flaunt it. I think the blog post is a good first step in an overall plan, which may include the production of letters to members of congress, or other political persons
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Am I the only person who thinks this is a great way to teach your son about civil disobedience? It's clear this law, while well intended, isn't meant to cover this specific situation. I would argue this type of civil disobedience is the f
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Thanks for the info, I'll check into it. I agree there are lots of complexities here and finding the "lowest resting state" economically is difficult. Maybe someone should write a program that does this ...
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by jdvolz 15y ago
As someone who is living in Las Vegas NV (no state income tax) I am struggling with where I should move. I just checked and the CA state income tax is 10% for my earning bracket. That's a 10% premium (>$10k per year) when compared to
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Calufa, next time you're in Vegas, send me a message and we'll get a beer. Thank you. You just made something I'm doing vastly more awesome.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I'm eager to hear about the results of your experiment. Is anyone else going to do something similar with a different framework or language?
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by jdvolz 15y ago
Which is strange because I'm pretty sure I watched the Al Pacino version of Heat on Netflix instant in the least 6 months. Edit: I just checked and it's not on instant, but I'm pretty sure I watched it on instant recently.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
You might want to double check "Gladiator" because I'm pretty sure the one on IMDB isn't the one available on Netflix instant. :) I told my wife this was one of the most important web pages I'd looked at in a long time.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I'm leery of building anything on top of someone else's API. I built on top of an API while also keeping in active contact with the company to let them know what I was doing, going as far as talking directly to their legal department, and
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I did and I found some options that have to do with alternative keyboard layouts, usually folding the keyboard in half using a hot key. I was lucky in that I had partial use of my hand and since my injury and surgery were so high up on my
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by jdvolz 15y ago
What industry do you work in?
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by jdvolz 15y ago
As a programmer who tore my right distal radial biceps tendon and had surgery to repair it, I approve this message.
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by jdvolz 15y ago
I have been using it myself. I'm also looking into using it for other people as a service. I'm not sure how clever the software itself is but increasing the throughput was fun across as many as 8 slicehost slices. I did discover all of t

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