scotje

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by scotje 7y ago
It's not impervious to bad weather, but pretty resilient. I'd say in the 2 years we've had ours the system has shut off maybe 3-4 times due to one of: a) very low and direct sun angle, b) very heavy rain, c) dense fog. Which,
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by scotje 11y ago
They also recently did a similar project in Bothell, WA: http://www.mcmenamins.com/AndersonSchool
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by scotje 12y ago
It appears that Network For Good largely operates this way as a "donor-advised fund": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund
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by scotje 12y ago
Do you know if there a legal/tax impediment to getting the pass-through classified as a not-for-profit? Or did you just mean it makes it harder to implement as a traditional startup?
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by scotje 12y ago
I'm curious as to what your turnaround time from order to delivery is? We actually tried something pretty similar last year here in Portland (the site is still alive at www.localplate.com although we have ceased operations), we found i
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by scotje 14y ago
Well, I haven't found a specific treaty or agreement covering the Naval reactors. It may be a less formal arrangement, I don't know. But a did find a nice picture of the reactor pit: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jYVl__lRp5s/Tfpf4Cyi6rI/AAAAAA
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by scotje 14y ago
I had to do some Googling, but the PPRA treaty would appear to explain the valve cover inspections: http://dtirp.dtra.mil/tic/synopses/ppra.aspx Still looking for what would apply to the Navy reactors.
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by scotje 14y ago
There are also a limited number of public site tours each year, focusing on the B Reactor. (The first full scale fission reactor in the world.) http://manhattanprojectbreactor.hanford.gov/ I've gone twice and it is really fascinating. You
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by scotje 14y ago
See, in a very circular way I was just reporting the typo. :) (Looks good now that I have the right release deployed, by the way.)
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by scotje 14y ago
Aha, well apparently I never merged that commit into my deploy branch, so it was still actually on 3.2.1. That combined with the fact that your page had said 3.2.1 was safe caused my brain to short circuit and not realize that 3.2.11 is wha
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by scotje 14y ago
I just tried this on one of my side project sites and it's reporting it as being vulnerable. However I upgraded the site to Rails 3.2.1 last week (and just confirmed that's the version in the bundle). Is there something that would cause a f
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by scotje 14y ago
Thanks, those are all fair points. The reason I went with "vendor everything" several years ago was that I had to make some changes to a legacy codebase and discovered that one of the gems it depended on was no longer available. It wasn't t
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by scotje 14y ago
Steve, could you maybe expand a little bit on your reasons for not wanting to have the gems cached in your repo? Have you run into practical issues (deployment speed, etc.) or is it more of a philosophical thing?
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by scotje 14y ago
If you use bundler, "bundle package" can help reduce or eliminate your dependency on external gem repositories. At least for deployments. I generally try to follow the "vendor everything" philosophy: http://ryan.mcgeary.org/2011/02/09/vend
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Is Readability's model really ethically superior to its competitors?(js.co.tt)
1 points by scotje 15y ago|0 comments
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by scotje 15y ago
Unless you have a 4S.
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Help me research my idea by taking a 5 minute survey about making dinner.(docs.google.com)
1 points by scotje 15y ago|0 comments
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Decided to make some "Cofounder Wanted" shirts to bootstrap my first startup.(wepay.com)
1 points by scotje 15y ago|0 comments
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by scotje 15y ago
I would say your customers can sue you regardless of what you say in an email or blog post. Using lawyers to hide from your customers seems less than optimal.
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by scotje 15y ago
Personally, I find the "Pricing" line of the comparison chart to be misleading. For $199 (a year) you get 50GB of space and 250k views with Vimeo Pro. Under the Free Viyard plan you get 1 video and 101GB of bandwidth. Also, the "Unbranded P
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Should Yelp and Kudzu intervene when their reviewers are being harassed?(js.co.tt)
4 points by scotje 15y ago|0 comments
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by scotje 16y ago
Other than having to mail them a paper check(!), registering js.co.tt with the Trinidad and Tabago NIC was fairly painless. As others have mentioned though, you are pretty much always at the whim of the local government. If you wouldn't tru
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by scotje 16y ago
Different people place importance on different things. The "people who buy airline tickets" market is probably large enough to withstand some segmentation.
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by scotje 16y ago
I was trying to think of a good analogy before but just came up with this: imagine if the Minerals Management Service (theoretical regulator of the oil industry) was in charge of setting the fuel economy standards for cars and trucks.
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by scotje 16y ago
Especially the USDA who's mission is to promote our agricultural industries. For some reason, we have the agency charged with supporting the producers of food setting the official recommendations for what and how much you should be eating.
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by scotje 16y ago
Unless it has changed recently, Gmail ignores the dots anyway. So if you find a form that wont validate your john.smith@gmail.com, you can use johnsmith@gmail.com and still receive it.
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by scotje 16y ago
So, if they had signed the agreement and won, would they have learned an $800,000 lesson in the evils of socialism or something? They placed a bet on their car and it didn't pay off. Doesn't mean it was a bad bet. (In fact, since it sounds
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by scotje 16y ago
Are you thinking of Yehuda Katz who works at EngineYard? http://yehudakatz.com/
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by scotje 16y ago
Good Calories, Bad Calories has a pretty robust bibliography, and the author, Gary Taubes, is a well respected science reporter. It would be a mistake to characterize his book in the way you have. Check it out from the library and read some
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by scotje 16y ago
The in-flight WiFi on Virgin America (and most domestic carriers as far as I know) is a cellular based system, not satellite. http://www.gogoinflight.com/gogo/cms/work.do

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