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For regular businesses, the transaction fees (both % and per transaction) are higher for AMEX than VISA or Mastercard. So a lot of small businesses don't take them.

With some processors, there's also a monthly fee if you take any AMEX, so it's better to not take it all.

2015 estimate: 662,400

2010 estimate: 608,658

Assuming every one of those 53,742 people was male, the ratio would go from 50% female to 45.9% female.

In the 2010 census, the female population of Seattle was right at 50%.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53/5363000.html

Good description but I would categorize it as "Seattle" vs "East Side", when people say "West Side" I tend to think of West Seattle down through Burien.

I don't, but here's a few articles that may be of interest:

http://dcn.trappinteractive.com/2014/07/29/direct-trade-myth...

"Vega says that while farmers are paid less than $1 a pound for their coffee, specialty coffee companies are selling their coffee for upwards of $20 a pound. This is, unfortunately, not exactly true, because it actually gets a whole lot worse."

http://coffeelands.crs.org/2013/11/372-is-the-coffee-busines...

"But price is only one of the ills ailing the coffee business. There is a long list of other challenges at origin that we know about–limited farmer organization for the market, low productivity, low quality, rising input costs, limited access to agronomic and financial services, limited investment in research, diseases like CLR, gradual loss of coffee suitability due to climate change, seasonal hunger in coffee communities, etc. And there are, most likely, other challenges at origin we don’t yet fully comprehend."

http://dcn.trappinteractive.com/2014/04/25/its-the-market-st...

"In my experience, growers tend to share the market’s rewards for high-quality coffee with roasters but bear the risks of quality-oriented production alone."

"I have written extensively about this issue here in the context of our work in Colombia, where farmers who believe that the Caturra variety produces higher quality in the cup are replacing it anyway with the higher-yielding, disease-resistant Castillo hybrid. Why? Because even as the market tells them it wants Caturra, it is not paying them enough to compensate for the added risk associated with traditional varieties that are susceptible to coffee leaf rust and other diseases."

"For the purposes of these numbers I’m not taking into account ‘differentials’"

Contracts based on a differential against the C price is how most specialty coffee is purchased. Leaving them out makes an already fairly hand-wavy analysis less than useful.

Thank you very much for this, it is concise yet thorough. I'm going to use this link as a boilerplate reply.

So, the Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google thinks that:

"All our technical hires, whether in engineering or product management, go through a work sample test of sorts, where they are asked to solve engineering problems during the interview."

is a work sample test.

I'm sure the name is from a much earlier movie (mid-80s), The Last Starfighter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter

Yes, this is known as a "lie".

Actually, from RFC 1035, section 5.1:

"If an entry for an RR begins with a blank, then the RR is assumed to be owned by the last stated owner."

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt

"Blank Name - A record that has nothing in the name slot gets used for all requests made to the base/naked form of the domain."

No, a blank name uses whatever name was used on the previous record. Near the top of the zone file, that name is usually the domain name because of the SOA record. But later on, it won't be.

No, it is trivially easy to put non-DRMed books onto a kindle.

One publisher who I find particularly reader-friendly is Baen. If I buy a book from them, it goes into my account there so I can download it at any time (and any number of times) in the future, in a wide variety of formats. Since I do my reading on a kindle, I click the send to kindle link and it pops up next time I turn on my kindle's wireless.

Having an emergency button to shut it down seems not too bad, though I wonder how it handles being pressed while driving at 60 miles an hour in traffic.

Not being able to immediately restart afterward is pretty crazy.

Alternately, to protect the public and support innovation, Seattle passed legislation to license and legalize taxi alternatives such as Uber.

Also, Microsoft is not a Seattle-based company.

The San Diego Reader has a little more background, it's also clearer that he was writing with chalk on city sidewalk:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/jun/2...

So far, the best thing I've found for my Transformer TF300T is Better Terminal Emulator Pro. It's four bucks, and comes with ssh and vi. The ctrl, tab, and arrow keys all work, and the back key (upper left of keyboard) is remapped to esc.

Unfortunately, the developer appears to be MIA, and the website (which help redirects to) is broken. Still well worth the four bucks.

So Hyperic started with PostgreSQL, added MySQL and Oracle, dropped PostgreSQL, and now have dropped MySQL and Oracle and have gone back to PostgreSQL.

Why would I go with a product that's going to require me to change the backend database every few years?

6: Not everyone can stand for significant amounts of time.

8: If you lock the door when I'm in the room, I'm leaving the room.

Currently, I use the Amazon marketplace instead of Google because the Google marketplace doesn't support my device (Pocket Edge upgraded to 2.2).

However, there's no reason (other than policy) that a device couldn't access both.

It doesn't seem that odd to me.

I can see carrying around multiple phones to test the features and usability against each other.

I can see testing the GPS in multiple phones against one or more dedicated GPS units.

Were I a web designer, I'd be tempted by this job posting.

Is a bit of cynicism and humor really that awful? I thought the last paragraph gave a very clear idea of the sort of person they're looking for.

Broadcast still works well for sports, as long as you're interested in your home team. It's what I use for NFL.

In SunDog, you'd start out without much cash, but you also started with a spaceship. Now, in order to keep the spaceship you had to fulfill a contract. To fulfill that contract, you had to make money to keep the ship going, and you had to explore a bunch of planets. The spaceship was reasonably roomy, could land on planets, and had a large all-terrain vehicle for exploring the surface and bringing back cargo.

I could see not needing an apartment, if I had an FTL spaceship like that.

Its frame was broken, but they (Top Gear) drove it off the rubble and, later, into the studio. They ended up putting it up on display in their live studio, you can see it sometimes when the camera moves around.

1.) Are either of the startups making any money now? Are there good prospects for either of them to start making money soon? Do you have any other financial obligations?

If there are good financial prospects for one or both startups, and you can live for a year on your savings, and you have no other financial obligations, I don't see why you wouldn't take the plunge. Even if the startups don't work out, you will probably have substantially increased your skillset in a year.

2.) On the one hand, you shouldn't screw your current employer. On the other hand, if they can't find a developer after several months of trying, that's their problem, not yours.

Try to make the transition as smooth as possible for them, but don't stay just because they can't hire.

Work: rdist over ssh Personal projects: rsync over ssh

In both cases I use a wrapper script to make the push as simple as possible. At work I push from the dev server to prod, at home I push from my desktop to either dev or (dev and prod).

In both case I use RCS for version control.

I initially read this as "I would be pretty tickled if Google (a web search company) stomped on my work." And that made a lot of sense to me.

If I had a really obscure project that I was proud of, and Google came along and made a project with a similar name, and the result was that many thousands of people became aware of my project, I would indeed be tickled.

How you deal with those two employees will impact the rest of your team.

Do you want the rest of your team to learn that it's important to be productive? Or would you rather teach them that it's most important to be seen to be working straight through for eight hours?

I really hate people walking behind me when I'm trying to work. The feeling that someone might be behind me prevents me from fully concentrating on what I'm working on.

A previous boss liked to stand behind me and watch (and occasionally make inane suggestions) when I was trying to fix a particularly high-profile issue. It negatively impacted both the speed and quality of my work.