columbo

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Comment · 10 years ago
I deadlifted 425 ... ... ... yup that's about it

[edit] actually in hindsight I've spent a lot more time with my 9yr old daughter than I have since the birth of our son. Pokemon Go turned out to be a pretty big player in us spending time together.

Comment · 10 years ago
When I signed for prime 3-4 years ago there was also a lot online retailers jerking around on shipping prices. "Oh that CD is $0.01 but it is $11.99 shipping, so if you don't like it then you'll be refunded the purchase price." Shipping prices in general seemed to be where quite a bit of profit was being made.

I don't know if that is still the case but it was a major reason for me to move to prime back then.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
I have a newspaper clipping from when a car hit me when I was 5 years old... the dark truth of the matter was I hit the car by bolting across the road and smacking my head into the passenger side door as it was trying to drive through an intersection. This little page 6c clipping is all that exists of that moment. No cameras, videos, blog or twitter posts.

If that happened today the driver's name might be permanently searchable and could even cause problems when looking for a job "They hit a 5 year old, that doesn't sound like the type of person we'd want to hire as a delivery driver."

Maybe we can't fix this problem, or maybe it isn't a problem at all but just something we should accept. One thing is certain, we've never been in a situation where everything was recorded so thoroughly before. Can we adapt?

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
that's really impressive, good luck!
Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/futures-...

"Ideally, the broker will make sure everything goes according to plan," the Prince of Peanut Oil told me. "But I once knew a guy who was trading for himself. He bought six egg contracts, with each contract worth 18,000 cartons of one dozen eggs. That's 1,296,000 total. The guy somehow made the mistake of taking delivery."

Comment · 11 years ago
If it had enough torque (which seems to be a problem given the plastic nature) I could see it breaking loose rusted or stubborn bolts. Maybe? In a scenario like that you wouldn't really care about precision or sound. Though 11 million turns still seems like a lot of cranking... maybe if it had a 9v attachment it could be a portable bolt breaker. Feels like a stretch though, would be fun to play with.

Though now that I think about it the holder of the bolt breaker would probably start slowly turning before the bolt does... weeeee

Comment · 11 years ago
> Adobe’s stock price has increased from about $30 to over $80 since Check In began.

I don't want to be overly negative but COME ON. Changing their goals program didn't nearly triple their stock price. I'm surprised Fortune included that at the end. If it truly had that much of an impact that should be the title of the article.

Comment · 11 years ago
Getting the admin-interface correct is one of those holy grails. The problem I typically run into is adding complex wizards or features outside of the standard crud stack.

When I'm investigating an out of the box admin interface I'm _less concerned_ about how they handle CRUD; that's the easy part. Really I need to know how they handle things that go well beyond their stack.

For example, in one application we need to create events for people (like google calendar). You need to be able to search for people, show the system what they already have assigned at that time and allow you to choose times that are best for everyone in the list. This has been designed as a multi-step wizard and it works great but it was a ton of custom code. Looking at the online documentation of flask I'm not sure how I would go about integrating something like this.

Comment · 11 years ago
Oh totally, draft would be fine, but even the idea of playing something randomly generated like this would be pretty fun.
Comment · 11 years ago
This is a very interesting idea. I'd like to see it played with 100% of the cards being generated through a system like this. 4 players, 4 automated decks of random (possibly nonsensical cards), that would be _so much fun_!
Comment · 11 years ago

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