mattw

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by mattw 10y ago
http://legacy.sweetmarias.com/stovepopmethod.php I've been roasting coffee stovetop for about a year. Takes me about 10 minutes to roast 12 ounces, the result is great, and it only ends up costing about $1/lb more
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by mattw 14y ago
If you completely ignore risk then what you say is true (especially with interest rates so ridiculously low). However, if we're talking about improving lives, I personally find value in eliminating debt (including the mortgage) as quickly a
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by mattw 14y ago
Because a) it's the default, b) nobody remembers (or knows) to change it, and c) only folks like us even care.
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by mattw 14y ago
Server also can be hit-and-miss if you've got any irregularities in your setup...I had a rough upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04 a few weeks ago (died halfway through, system left in half-upgraded broken-but-bootable state). In the end it turned
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by mattw 14y ago
The owners might also have to pay the piper with regards to their mortgage holder unless they own the property outright - I'm pretty sure my mortgage prohibits commercial activity like this without prior approval, similar to what a lease ag
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by mattw 15y ago
For the record, I switched to DDG in part because of the duck. (All right, so it was a very small part, but the point remains--the duck is awesome.) :)
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by mattw 15y ago
Slight nitpick - the article said that the collision and missile test increased the amount of debris by 60%, not that they were responsible for 60% of debris in orbit. Still a lot, but not more than half.
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by mattw 15y ago
The effort required to photoshop such an image (or paste your own picture on top of a stolen ID) is trivial compared to the effort required to forge or steal the ID in the first place. Thus, I don't understand how this would be anything oth
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by mattw 15y ago
I don't know much about replication, but I'd like to learn. Can you recommend any books/courses/tutorials that address the sorts of design decisions you're talking about?
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by mattw 15y ago
Nor lambdas (in all editions). (Here's why: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaredpar/archive/2009/08/26/why-no-l... )
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by mattw 15y ago
First one was in 2002 and I was 20. Last one was about 21 months ago. I've heard that a lot of rules have changed as well, but I don't know how much changed after I got the last one. Some changes definitely affected me at that time, but the
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by mattw 15y ago
Everybody says this, but I've obtained three different mortgages in my lifetime and never had a credit card. In lieu of credit history, the bank has just asked for other evidence that I pay my bills, like statements from the utility company
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by mattw 16y ago
I would have been very interested if this had gone to court to test the GPL purely in the context of themes/plugins, because to me that's the grey area. As it is, I wish (for the sake of both parties) that the matter could be settled withou
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by mattw 16y ago
True, which I originally pointed out. Although I don't have my mortgage contract in front of me (and am open to correction here), my recollection is that a foreclosure is the defined consequence of me breaking the contract I agreed to - tha
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by mattw 16y ago
It seems if one were to listen to those social experts, all of society would become a game of incentives and disincentives where the goal is finding the mismatched pairs (i.e. action where incentive outweighs disincentive, regardless of wha
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by mattw 16y ago
I thought of this. However, I think in the abstract that's not a material difference, because (at least in theory), the "punishment should fit the crime"...society agrees that X punishment is sufficient tradeoff for Y crime. Granted, the st
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by mattw 16y ago
Ethically. I'm ok. This is because a mortgage has pre-arranged clauses in the contract that outline what the exit criteria are for the bank and the borrower. It's a contract with a pre-negotiated process around a divorce. A prenuptual if y
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by mattw 16y ago
Note: despite the title, this is not actually about hosting sites on a box out of your basement; it's about VPS hosting. (I was looking forward to seeing what kind of bandwidth he had at his residence and how much it cost...)
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by mattw 16y ago
In these situations the expiration date idea wouldn't work either because they would either find a workaround or refuse to install your software at all, knowing that it forces them to go through the upgrade process in the future (and on you
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by mattw 16y ago
I think that while these extreme cases certainly exist, there are actually a lot of "normal" companies out there. I've worked for three (two small and one big), and while none were my "dream job", none of them treated me unfairly either. I
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by mattw 16y ago
Did you put it on textured walls? From their video, it looked like the material was very thin, so I wonder how well it works on any but the smoothest walls.
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by mattw 16y ago
I've been in their shoes, so that's where my arguments are coming from. For context, I'm in Washington state. To address your points: Regarding speeding: that's a good example. Yes, it seems they're held to a lower standard. However, it's n
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by mattw 16y ago
I agree that it certainly should be legal to record public servants in their duties, but let's get a grip here. There's zero punishment to them for abusing authority - I mean they can even shoot/kill someone and often get away with it, inc
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by mattw 16y ago
> Yes, if you don't put anything too private [on Google Docs], it's ok (according to him), he also said in another interview that it's ok to use Facebook as long as you don't put any private stuff there. Actually, he says the opposite.
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by mattw 16y ago
Thanks for the link. What I take away from it is that Stallman's full opinion on SaaS is internally inconsistent, either that or I am completely misunderstanding him. The "Distinguishing SaaS from Other Network Services" section was excepti
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by mattw 16y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean about it collapsing into a single-line breadcrumb. I just meant exactly what you're doing, but without the extra parent categories so that once you get down to a "leaf" category it only shows one line: "Pare
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by mattw 16y ago
Great job! I like the simple site design. It gives it almost a craigslist feel (in a good way). * Drilling down into categories was a little confusing at first. It might be better if the columns were clearly defined (maybe different backgro
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by mattw 16y ago
> I've heard Mono supports (most of?) ASP.NET and you don't have to use SQL server either. I wrote a medium-sized online game for a guy who wanted to do it in Mono/MySQL. True, Mono does implement a lot of ASP.NET, and a lot of things w
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by mattw 16y ago
> ctrl+L gets you to the address bar. "?" + your query forces a default search And for the keystroke-obsessed, Ctrl+K clears the location bar and puts in the question mark for you. :)
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by mattw 16y ago
True. However, when I get to that point, more frequently my way out is right-clicking a tab and selecting "Close All But This". :)

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