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How often does it snow in Seattle? If rarely/never, is there anywhere nearby that gets a decent amount each year?

Why don't Balanced and Stripe work together on these features? I understand that they're competitors, but it seems as though we've got good engineers in both companies needlessly duplicating effort. Why not work together to provide this feature and spend that limited engineering time, expertise, and innovation on the things which differentiate the service? Stripe and Balanced aren't direct competitors, I think - why not work together on the common ground and use the time saved to make the differences really shine?

[I think I'm being overly utopian, but I don't understand why. Can someone explain it to me?]

I was surprised too that he hadn't heard of JavaServer Faces, given that it's the One Official Web Framework of Java. I'm not sure I'd recommend it necessarily, but it's hugely popular and well-supported, so it knocks at least a couple of his criteria right out of the park.

I hadn't previously read a description of St Louis quite like that - he makes it sound very appealing. Does anyone else have personal experience with living in St Louis?

I think you're making an assumption: that pknight is correctly understanding your point and disagreeing with it out of a sense of entitlement to a date. I think he is misunderstanding your point, partially due to the word "tutorial", which to me indicates something ephemeral (something I'd want to have a date on), or the word "content", which can be interpreted any way. By failing to appreciate the cause of his disagreement, you exacerbate it with true-but-misplaced statements like "I don't owe it to you".

I think tptacek is thinking of content with longevity, such as essays - observations of human behavior, for example, wouldn't benefit much from a date. He's damaging his argument by calling them "tutorials", which you and I associate with learning particular tools which will soon be out-of-date.

This seems interesting, but I'm not sure what formatting it would actually apply to a given Markdown document - could you add examples to the readme?

People who are using Julia or similar tools to do "scientific computing, machine learning, data mining, large-scale linear algebra, distributed and parallel computing" - what sort of problems are you solving? How did you end up doing this sort of work?

Thanks, I think that's what I was misunderstanding.

I think the key may be that the rich roommate actually prefers a room, while the poor roommate does not (according to their assigned valuations) have any room preference at all. So if the poor roommate is second, they make the most choices in this calculator and their lack of preference makes the split even, whereas if the rich roommate is second, they make the most choices and their stronger preference causes them to pay more.

Even so, the order still seems to matter somewhat, and I would have expected it not to matter at all.

Can someone explain why the outcomes differ when the roommates are in a different order? Imagine an apartment with one nice room and one terrible room, total rent $1000, and two roommates, one rich, one poor. The poor roommate will always chose the less expensive room, the rich roommate will always chose the nice room unless the price difference is greater than $500.

If the rich roommate is Roommate A, then it converges to a 50/50 split, each paying $500. If the rich roommate is Roommate B, it converges to a 75/25 split, with the rich roommate paying $750. What's going on there?

[EDIT: Also, I've just discovered with three roommates that the results may be displayed without the first roommate ever choosing at all. ???]

I agree. I actually began using Firefox again because I heard this UI change was landing in Nightly, and I've been using Nightly since then. I get Chrome's UI minimalism and Firefox's customizability/flexibility - it's the best of both worlds.