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by mbcrower 10y ago
From Minnesota. I get the same.
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The npm Debacle Was Partly Your Fault (and here’s what you can do about it)(letscodejavascript.com)
2 points by mbcrower 10y ago|0 comments
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by mbcrower 10y ago
The right-wing states want higher crime?
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by mbcrower 11y ago
I agree the title is misleading. I sleep 6-7 hours most nights, but I never go 2 weeks straight on that because I inevitably end up "catching up" at some point.
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by mbcrower 11y ago
Highways are only useful because there are so many of them that connect just about every community in the contiguous US - what economists call a "network effect". Therefore adding a new highway tends to make the other highways and
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by mbcrower 11y ago
If you found this article interesting, then check out Thinking Fast & Slow by Danial Kahneman.
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by mbcrower 11y ago
IMHO Apple's user interfaces have been getting less intuitive and more buggy with every release. I actually had to use Google to figure out how to disable shuffle on my iPhone. Another annoyance with iTunes is that they removed the bor
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by mbcrower 11y ago
I've got a co-worker who's quite impressed with Firebase. https://www.firebase.com/ Also, I saw a really cool presentation on the Azure platform. It supports push notifications, and even has a multiplatform templa
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Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable(blog.pluralsight.com)
2 points by mbcrower 11y ago|0 comments
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by mbcrower 11y ago
Here's the original article from Bloomberg Business that this article ripped off: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-07/business-s...
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by mbcrower 11y ago
That's not what the chart in the article shows
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by mbcrower 11y ago
StubHub could easily look at the historic pricing data and the normal cancellation rates for tickets. If the cancellation rate is normally low, except for instances where the ticket price suddenly jumped, then any cancellations in that time
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by mbcrower 11y ago
I've never used StubHub. When you buy tickets, does a seller profile appear next to the listing, as in Amazon? If so, a cheap move by this seller should at least put a bad mark on the seller's public profile. That could benefit re
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by mbcrower 11y ago
They could, but to business like StubHub each seller is probably more precious than each buyer. I'm not saying it's fair, but it's a lot easier for them to find new buyers than sellers.
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by mbcrower 11y ago
Based on the customer service emails it looks like StubHub knew full well what was going on and aided the seller in pulling out of the agreement.
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by mbcrower 11y ago
I used a weird trick to pay off my mortgage
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by mbcrower 11y ago
That's the greatest cat video I've seen so far