mike_herrera

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by mike_herrera 12y ago
That's the idea behind the classic dutch auction, my friend. While I'm also unlikely to patiently pinch a few dollars, I find it mildly interesting.
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
> Compilations are things like phone books, or a street directory. What about books of driving directions? Before ubiquitous access to navigation applications, I would have AAA assemble a book of directions for long trips. Each page re
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
Aaaand it's a Roslyn member who replies-- just my luck. :) I'll cede this one.
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
Let's try a concrete example: Jane was hired as a contractor to deliver a business process application in C#. The contract to hire Jane was a work-for-hire contract without the explicit copyright transferring language... /end of
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
Can anyone explain why written code couldn't be considered "a compilation (an original manner of selecting or arranging preexisting works)?" I would think common sense would define most software as an arrangement of preexist
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
I would assume that by using "Obama administration" in this context it was meant to be purposefully vague. The Executive Branch is massive. This could be anyone from the Pentagon, CIA, DHS, to many others who just happen to even
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
This reminds me of, what I was taught to be, the proper method of counting back change at the cash register. http://brightbacon.com/blog/work/how-count-back-change-begin...
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
> And you think it's morally wrong even if it leads to better functioning markets with lower costs and better prices for everyone else. Citation?
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by mike_herrera 12y ago
SF's neighbor to-the-east, The San Joaquin Valley, is "the nation's salad bowl." Which also happens to be home to many cattle and sheep operations. Access for foreign imports are important for the gourmet scene, but not
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
I dislike this solution. Draper's concerns mainly reference representation and regulation. Both of which can be achieved by (1) amending the CA and US Constitutions, and (2) delegating more power to the existing counties. The waste in
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
I see. Do you believe a form of a guaranteed-money-back policy, for the fee, would make it more palatable?
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Thanks for looking! I can't argue that 10% is the correct fee - it's more of a starting point. For that fee we guarantee users are promptly paid (net 10 or less, no excuses), absorb all of the usual transaction fees, host and arc
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
I'd love to drink their milkshake. My friend and I are mid-redesign on a new service marketplace called reBaked. Our innovation is collaboration with many freelancers and paying them proportionally to what they actually deliver. Ther
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
That's a great question. I would hope no company would voluntarily put themselves in that situation. Biometrics are useful for authentication, but I struggle with a safe use for authorization, per se. Just for the reason you identifi
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
As a layer of security this is great addition. But I would like to see an option to also employ a biometric for identification. Passwords and keys are great, but their weakness is that they can be shared.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
> In a further crackdown on what Mr Cameron referred to as ‘the darkest corners of the internet’, Downing Street will tomorrow announce that a national database will be created to give every illegal image a label. Cameron is laying the f
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Heroku will still be my go-to for quick tests and experiments. But for larger projects it would be foolish to not consider PostgresRDS + Docker on AWS. *assuming they both leave beta.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
> Personally, high capital gains tax gives me a lot of hesitation, as you actually want to encourage people to invest and not dissuade them from doing it. Interesting. I hold the opposite position as I would rather make company re-inves
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
> Two words: public unions. Citation needed.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
My wife's close friend was only able to purchase a house when she had (1) enough to offer a cash purchase, and (2) the emotional ability to put in an offer sight-unseen. Ugh.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Why must the basic income payout be held constant? I would advocate adjusting the payout on a regular basis. Ensure that the program neither massively hoards assets or runs more than minor deficits.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Aspartame, the artificial sweetener in many diet soda products, is a controversial topic. For many years it was thought that it may cause insulin spikes or even increase the risk of cancer. But studies have shown that the folk-lore links
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
To a large extent, this is what we currently have... A company needs an OSS feature so they hire one of the devs to work on the software, full-time.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Sounds nearly identical to the Vudu / Ultraviolet model for DVDs.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Interesting. So self-serving Congressional insider-trading on privileged information is kosher, but performing the People's business with information which is now public is not.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
False equivalencies, my friend. Also, you seemed to have missed the indiscriminate nature of the intelligence gathering. There were no divisions being targeted-- it was all of us.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
> And so, every few weeks it seems, we get these posts from some techie who believes that his (it's always a man) experiences with social media are universal. ... > And as usual for these rants, there's no evidence this research has
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
IIRC, HSBC signed a deferred prosecution agreement and paid a sizable fine. That's not justice.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Consumable subjective experiences (fine art, wine, food, music) are not always naturally pleasing on the first-go. Learning of the nuances, and being taught to identify the existence/lack of those nuances, aid in development of an opinion.
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by mike_herrera 13y ago
Not in the slightest. As a counter-example, challenging food and music comes to mind.

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