AgentConundrum

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Comment · 10 years ago

Thanks for the recommendation. I just switched.

Comment · 11 years ago

Having not followed Airbnb very closely - I have no interest whatsoever in using the service either as a traveller or a host - your link clarified one thing that's always sort of bugged me.

I had never understood how "air" fit with B&B. It wasn't until I saw the original screenshot that I understood that it's "AirB & B" rather than "Air B&B".

Comment · 11 years ago

When a question is deleted on StackOverflow, it's hidden entirely - direct link or not - except to users with at least 10k in "reputation", and I think to the question asker.

I suspect the link was provided mostly for the users that can still see it. There is an "undelete" link[1] for users with that privilege level, but it takes ten votes to restore the question, with no guarantee that it won't be blown away again right after its restoration.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/3utyRM9.png

Comment · 11 years ago

"Steal" seems to be a slightly strong word. It looks like it's open source and just missing the license.[1]

I'd prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than jump straight to accusations.

[1] I didn't look too hard, but I came up with this link quickly: https://gist.github.com/benjaminsinger/ad5231be7748de3a9a11#... - I didn't immediately see the license on the original it was forked from, but this one has a license, so I assume there's some sort of compatibility.

Comment · 12 years ago

4194304 K ought to be enough for anybody.

Comment · 12 years ago

I've been on this site for something like five years, but...

  I never knew that this
  functionality existed

Comment · 12 years ago

20% is "just slightly" more expensive?

Comment · 12 years ago

4 hours ~= 124.75 cents/hr

7 days ~= 4.16 cents/hr

30 days ~= 2.08 cents/hr

90 days ~= 1.38 cents/hr

This is based on the full 24 hours per day. If you do it based on "usable" time, which I've defined as 8 hours a day, it looks like this:

4 hours ~= 124.75 cents/hr

7 days ~= 12.48 cents/hr

30 days ~= 6.25 cents/hr

90 days ~= 4.17 cents/hr

Comment · 12 years ago

It looks like she held the record for just three of those months. A month before Harry Hong took it back, a guy named Neil Gewirtz took it from her with a run of 2349 lines.

http://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=14856

Comment · 12 years ago

I believe this is what tptacek is referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104407

Comment · 12 years ago

> “Originally I created Xiki for my own use,” said Muth. “When I was supposed to be doing my boring job as a software dev at banks and insurance companies in Ohio 13 years ago, I started making this thing that let me run commands and navigate files directly from my notes. Ever since then I’ve found myself unable to resist working on it. I use it for everything.”

Isn't this a bit concerning? It sounds like this was created on employer time with employer resources, yet there is nothing about this in the Kickstarter page itself. It seems like there could be a potential legal issue because of this, but there is no reassurance that either it's already been cleared, or that it's a potential risk.

Seems like a big oversight that might prevent some people who read this from contributing.

Comment · 12 years ago

Via Memory-Alpha:

> When asked by Time magazine in 1994, "How do the Heisenberg compensators work?" Michael Okuda replied, "They work just fine, thank you."

I suspect the article being referenced is "Reconfigure the Modulators"[1], but it's behind a pay wall so I can't confirm that.

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981892,...

Comment · 12 years ago

$79 in 2005 is apparently $94.62 in 2014.

http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=79&year1=2005&y...

Comment · 12 years ago

Odd. I could have sworn I checked before I commented. Maybe I was the one mistakenly on Amazon.ca.

I apologize for the error.