engtech

wow, just realized I'm user 175

http://stackoverflow.com/users/175/engtech

I feel that with the TV watching, that cable TV with commercials is worse than something like Netflix with no-commercials.

off-topic, but couldn't find a contact form on the website.

Priceonomics need to improve their search results. If you navigate through categories the results are well organized... but if you try to use search it does not organize the data properly.

I can drill down through your results to find the Honda Civic prices per year: http://priceonomics.com/cars/honda/civic/

But I can't search for those results. http://priceonomics.com/search?s=honda+civic+2006

There's the same problem with phones. Navigating the listing to phones I can find the iPhone 2G: http://priceonomics.com/phones/apple/

But if I search for the iPhone 2G: http://priceonomics.com/search?s=iphone+2g

The next obvious step is to attach a shotgun to it.

If anyone else had trouble reading the site because of font rendering in Firefox (what is up with those r's, D's and S's!?), I found readability made it digestible.

http://www.readability.com/bookmarklets

I was very surprised that he doesn't mention to stay away from scripting in csh/tcsh.

I've been using tcsh for 11 years now and I wish bash had been the default for the first unix job I had, because tcsh is the devil for writing any script greater than 10 lines.

I'd be happy to pay $50/mo for netflix that included HBO, Showtime, AMC and BBC new releases if only because Netflix supports so many devices.

Cable services provide unbelievable horrible services (locally it's $25/mo to rent a PVR that supports DNLA but it is software disabled so you have to rent a PVR for each TV!)

I've sadly realized that almost all job offers are based on some combination of what they offer other candidates at that level and what you state your previous salary as.

Given that you're an unknown commodity, they use your previous salary to determine how other companies valued you.

Between 2001 to 2006 my salary went from 60k to 94k

2006 to 2008 I took a job at a "hot" startup and went down to 89k in return for options (I am never doing that again for a company bigger than 5 people).

2008 to 2012 I took a job that started at 95k, and I've only been able to drive the salary up to 103k even though I've gotten the highest rating possible on every performance evaluation (and I've been a key contributor to hardware development worth about 50 million in revenue -- when other products are breaking even / losing money).

I feel that the only way I can advance my current position is by getting other job offers, but I don't want to be that guy.

I agree that people should use a good package manager, but the reality of the corporate env world is that you'll be trying to use the latest Python on some ridiculously old unix install without root access, and you'll never be able to get IT to install the latest for all users.

I realized after re-reading the original comment that he only has to valid date his CC on first opening.

What I was wondering is if he had to re-validate at some point in the future, would the expired card trip him up or would his encrypted copy still work?

I'd guess it would still work if he is doing this all without a network connection. If that works though, I hope their using the credit card info as a hash instead of directly storing it in their encrypted files... because that would be scary.

Most reputable stores recommend photocopying your thermal paper receipts if you'll ever need them for warranties because they fade so fast.

what happens when your credit card hits the expiry date?

I'm sure it varies by project, but as has been said before when Google kills things, a lot of their projects require the core Google infrastructure (BigTable?) that isn't open sourced so it isn't possible to spin the project out.

Isn't iBooks part of the default for iPads now?

iBooks wasn't around for the iPad 1, but things change.

In this case, there are no servers.

There are only local HTML files that are checked in to revision control and shipped alongside releases.

HTML was chosen as the documentation file format because it's easy to find something to view it with.

HTML minifiers/compressors could only get the 120MB HTML file to 104MB.

I've been looking at something similiar for huge static HTML files of autogenerated documentation.

I don't see why I can't deflate the tables as javascript data and then use JS to inflate and display them.

Just playing around with it I was able to compress a 120MB HTML file to 3.5MB.

I was surprised when I clicked on a link. I never would have guessed that "HeroUp" was a skateboarding game. It sounds like it would be an RPG/hack-and-slash.

I couldn't find a way to comment on the blog post or a way to contact the author:

"Diving into online dating - it’s not a zero sum game

Online dating is hear to stay,"

typo, should be "here to stay"

It doesn't handle the case of not being logged in to Spotify.

Julian Assange stated that the feds have backdoor, no court order access to gmail, yahoo, facebook, et all.

Why worry about this?

but I'm assuming that if they have the code base, the plaintext user names (emailaddys) and the salted password, then they would have whatever the per user salt is.

There's one huge hole in the analysis: the dataset.

The older someone is, the less chance they'll spend time on an internet community site, especially at work, which is when a lot of people access stackoverflow.

Old dudes work while they're at work, because they learned their work ethic in pre-internet times.

unless it's 1998 and the product is a pop-up blocker, no.

Yeah, avoid TWiki like the plague. Horrible tool.

What's most important in an enterprise wiki is the search feature, so be prepared to use a 3rd party tool for search.

Yeah, I was disappointed that he didn't have any code up for download.

I would have loved to have run that on corporate SCMs.

I use linux for all my work perl/ruby stuff and I use Windows for all my home perl/ruby stuff.

The big question: are these scripts you are running yourself or deploying?

running yourself it's not that big a deal, because you can fix headaches as you hit them. Expect to be running CPAN a lot to grab modules. Expect to be re-writing any system calls to use similar functions in the language (your scripts will be better for it).

It is WAY easier to run linux on a virtual machine than it is to develop under Windows. Windows has a million and one quirks that will have you screaming if you're used to coding on linux.

If you have to deploy on Windows, I generally use perl2exe or rubyscript2exe to create a standalone exe -- usually less painful then trying to get machines to have matching perl distributions.

The title had me at a/s/l

I've posted the script here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198216

FYI, I'm working on a Greasemonkey script that will let you keep a personal banned site list on reddit/hacker news.

ETA this evening.