gowan
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Comment · 5 years ago
i like how the us military makes cost of living adjustments. you have your base pay determined my your rank which is not adjusted by where you live. in addition to that you get a housing stipend (BAH and BAS) that is adjusted by where you live. if i remember correctly the housing stipend is before tax.
google is essentially forcing a pay cut to your base salary in addition to the portion of your salary you use for housing.
Comment · 5 years ago
imo the granny smith is the all time worse apple. always taste like a green apple (not trying to be ironic) and usually has a thick skin. just plain terrible might as well pick any apple variety before it is ripe.
if you want a good green apple buy a newtown pippin.
Comment · 5 years ago
the problem with golden delicious is that you need to eat them within 3 days of when they are picked. a good golden should have a thin skin, be sweet, and crisp.
i think part of the problem is that farmers pick them to early so your usually getting an green golden that has rotted a bit to turn yellow.
Comment · 5 years ago
do you mean REIT (real estate investment trust) which have special tax treatment in the us?
Comment · 5 years ago
not sure you are aware of this but you can contribute to a SEP IRA[0]. this has a lot of advantages over contributing to a normal ira. in my experience you can contribute more than you usually can in a 401k since most employers do not let you contribute after tax.
Comment · 5 years ago
non-leisure city biking is hard. the hardest things for me to learn was
* if you are getting into a tight spot then own the lane. it is better for a car to see you and hit you then for it to not see you and hit you.
* always have high intensity blinking lights ... (in some places it's illegal to ride at night without lights)
more safety tips: https://bicyclesafe.com/
Comment · 6 years ago
i'm surprised by how many people on this forum have not stopped indefinitely at a red light on a bike. most lights i've come across are not calibrated for bikes so this isn't a rare occurrence.
many states have a "dead red"[1] law for when lights are not operational. which permits the cyclist to proceed with caution after stopping.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#%22Dead_Red%22_l...
Comment · 8 years ago
interesting... can you provide a link?
Comment · 8 years ago
this is one of the reasons i created chromedriver-proxy[0]
Comment · 8 years ago
to be fair it is possible to do this from the command line with ffmpeg when using concat[1][2]. i did this when creating real time video from screencast in the chrome remote debugger.
Comment · 8 years ago
this is a tool i created when transitioning form phantomjs to chromedriver. it both manages a pool of chrome browsers and allows you to extend the selenium api.
Comment · 8 years ago
open source stuff i've done:
* release ghostdriver 2.0.0 [1]. this is the implementation of the webdriver protocol for phantomjs. unfortunately phantomjs 2.5 was never released :(
* create chrominator [2] a high level api for chrome remote debugger. now defunct... use puppeteer
* created chromedriver-proxy [3] to help me extend chromdriver without having to recompile the c++ project. it also handles pooling browsers. the coolest extension i've built so far is recording video on headless chrome. still a work in progress but has proven stable for the real world test suite i support.
[1] https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver/releases/tag/2.0.0
Comment · 9 years ago
this is an interesting idea. i like how it is declarative.
acrobat FDF[1] and Apache PDFBox[2] provide something similar but are not declarative. i'd be interested in seeing an approach with mozilla/pdf.js ... though i'm not sure how usable it would be.