probablycorey

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by probablycorey 3mo ago
46% of Costco shoppers are middle class (earning $40k-$125k) and 33% are upper class and according to market research companies. Membership is $65. You don't need an SUV to shop at Costco, it is easy to load the groceries into a sedan.
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by probablycorey 3mo ago
This is about that.
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by probablycorey 10mo ago
The same person built both of these.
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by probablycorey 11mo ago
This article is about how Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo are blacklisted from Paramount. Which one of those actors are Jewish?
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by probablycorey 8y ago
Is this realistic though? Every time you update a dependency you would have to read its source (and its source dependencies, and their source dependencies...) To do that well, it would be someone's fulltime job to read and do security
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by probablycorey 9y ago
I agree with both of you.
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by probablycorey 11y ago
> Glad this won't be an issue going into the next presidential election. I wish this was true. But I think the decision will increase the discussion of marriage equality in the next election. Just look at the political impact aborti
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by probablycorey 11y ago
Has anyone used a service like https://www.equidateinc.com . They help you "sell" the right to buy your stock options to a third party. From their site: > Traditional stock sales are time consuming, expensive, and cl
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by probablycorey 12y ago
Just for reference, that situation doesn't apply to California because of [Prop. 13]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819... ). It restricts the annual increases of property taxes to an infl
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by probablycorey 12y ago
I really enjoyed Bret Victor's " The Humane Representation of Thought" http://vimeo.com/115154289 It made me consider all the human I/O that we currently ignore.
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Why Bad Software Succeeds(pressupinc.com)
2 points by probablycorey 12y ago|0 comments
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by probablycorey 12y ago
> He's attempting to analyze systemic changes in society accurately. s/He/She
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by probablycorey 12y ago
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/1814
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8 Things Github’s Atom Editor is not going to solve for you(robbyonrails.com)
1 points by probablycorey 13y ago|0 comments
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by probablycorey 13y ago
> Muni is the slowest major transit system in America—and among the least reliable and most overcrowded. http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2010-02-01/learning...
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by probablycorey 13y ago
The tenderloin, soma, mission bay, dog patch, bayview. It's not like current buildings were built on empty lots.
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by probablycorey 14y ago
In earthquakes Taller buildings are safer than smaller buildings http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/25/opinion/op-little25 Also, go to the the hip neighborhoods in NYC (LES Williamsburg), notice the tall buildings being built. Units in
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by probablycorey 14y ago
There are very few clunky bits in Alien or Blade Runner. It is amazing how well they hold up.
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Stuck in the App Store review Hell.(generalspecificity.com)
12 points by probablycorey 15y ago|0 comments
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Customer Support Doesn't Have to Suck(zachholman.com)
34 points by probablycorey 15y ago|11 comments
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by probablycorey 15y ago
I'm not so sure about this. Many platforms attract developers without being compelling.
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by probablycorey 15y ago
I get your point that there is "ruin porn" in almost any city. I don't think you get my point though. Detroit is almost entirely "ruin porn", there are no million dollar homes next to any ruins in Detroit, I doubt there are any million doll
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by probablycorey 15y ago
Sure, you can do that in certain parts of LA. But you can see these ruins almost everywhere in Detroit. It's really one of the most depressing cities I've ever been to.
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by probablycorey 15y ago
Android is still much more open than Apple. A developer can actually view the Android source code, you can deploy an application to a device without Google's permission, you can access much more of the OS features from Android than with the
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by probablycorey 16y ago
Porting ed to the URL bar would be a triumph!
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I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.(probablyinteractive.com)
681 points by probablycorey 16y ago|62 comments
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by probablycorey 16y ago
If you fail as an entrepreneur, your debts are wiped. Either because the investors pay them back or you declare bankruptcy. There is no escape from student loans, even if you declare bankruptcy you are still required to pay them back. So it
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by probablycorey 16y ago
Working 6 days a week for 12 hours a day is how this guy avoids burning out? I think 72 hours a week qualifies as a death march.
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by probablycorey 16y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I used to work in the game industry and one of the biggest things we would look for was a passion for gaming and the ability/history of shipping a game. If an entry level candidate developed a game we could downloa
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by probablycorey 16y ago
That book is a little dated because it deals with Lua 5.0 but is still good. The differences between 5.0 and 5.1 can be found here http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#7 and new version of the book can be found on amazon.

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