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autoreverseon Cost Cutting at Dropbox and Silicon Valley Startups

Perhaps Silicon Valley needs a perks metric? "That's only 0.25 pandas per FTE."

autoreverseon OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review

I too had WiFi trouble when bluetooth was enabled. The commands below fixed it for me (it might be that only one was effective but I've had no trouble since Feb 7). YMMV.

sudo ifconfig awdl0 down

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -boolean YES

autoreverseon Lessons I Learned from Co-Founding a Tech Startup

Maybe this: http://blog.sueraisty.com/push-out-founder-prestock/

autoreverseon Are we seeing the end of the era for the 'super-jumbo'?

FYI according to Wikipedia the "t" longer stands for twin in FFA usage.

"The FAA has decided to use the single term, 'ExTended OPerationS,' or ETOPS, for all affected operations regardless of the number of engines on the airplane."

(my capitalisation)

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

autoreverseon Ten Commandments of Sushi

I recommend this one as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0

autoreverseon Ask HN: Mobile site

FWIW font size is ideal for me.

autoreverseon [dead]

"I had all topics covered in a professional manor ..."

Sigh...

autoreverseon Luna delivers your packages when you're home for the night

There is a comment above explaining that union and contractor agreements would hamper the major incumbents.

I'm wondering if UPS etc. would be interested in partnering with or investing in Luna instead.

autoreverseon Electric car owner charged with stealing 5 cents’ worth of electricity [video]

Seems excessive. A verbal warning or, at most, a trespass notice or injunction would suffice.

I'm also surprised that the police can prosecute this without a complaint from the school. Is this specific to Georgia or is it the same in other states?

autoreverseon This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight

Also, they got measurements from three birds so they have 216,000 continuous non-stationary measurements. A stats guru might be able to figure out the effective reduced sample interval.

autoreverseon The Surface 2

Thanks for this comment. It made me see Apple in a new light.

Apple in my mind is now a consumer products business (has been for years I guess) not a computer business as I used to "feel".

Perhaps I'll be more open to other hardware for my next dev machine.

autoreverseon Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

Globe SSL https://globessl.com/ has domain validated certs at $24 per 3 years.

I've been using these since 2011 (starting with one year certs before switching to 3 years later) with no problems.

autoreverseon Vim: from n00b to meh

Try the Vimium plugin for Chrome for a bit of fun.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...

autoreverseon Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer

Sorority/college sweater?

autoreverseon GCHQ: Can you find it?

Seems she's _very_ busy

http://tineye.com/search/6a395fbbf9ff062a83d5dc28f0416a47017...

autoreverseon Show HN: We made a low-budget ‘how it works’ video. What do you think?

Congrats on the vid.

I'm interested in the use of 477 key phrases in the keywords meta tag. Is keyword stuffing no longer penalized by Google?

FYI https://www.getwashio.com/ brings an "Insecure information" / "Connection Partially Encrypted" warning in Seamonkey / Firefox. Not a major issue but might irk some visitors.

autoreverseon We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)

Thanks for this. MySQL 5.5+ it looks like. We're on earlier MySQL versions but will keep this in mind for after we upgrade in the future.

autoreverseon We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)

I think it better to paraphrase Hanlon "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by lack of imagination." or something similar.

1) I suspect Chinese(!) names would have been validated.

2) I successfully applied for the same card via paper form 18 months later with guidance by a sales rep.

autoreverseon We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup (2012)

Could this have been solved by using "外人第一" as a suffix or instead of the romaji/katakana name?

I once tried to apply for a Japanese credit card online about 10 years ago (certainly things have changed with some banks sine then). IIRC the form would not accept romaji and my kana name was too long for the kanji input field.

This was painfully frustrating at the time but helped frame my approach to forms and DB specification when I got into web development (e.g. always using UTF8 in MySQL, full name as a single field in some applications, etc.).

autoreverseon New Py articles website. Do I suck at this?

@bcambel decorators_part1.html refers to time_me "As you see time_me is a function which..." . Should probably be "intercept_me". So yeah, there's a bit of suck in there ;-)

autoreverseon Batch Shipping Labels

@jstreebin FYI most footer links on blog.easypost.com go nowhere

e.g. http://blog.easypost.com/pricing

autoreverseon The War of the Closes

Would it be an improvement if unanswered questions (or ones with no replies) were hidden from Google?

I find it pretty frustrating when searching a topic and SO's unanswered or closed questions are at top the of SERPs.

autoreverseon Ask HN: Passive income ideas?

My weekend project from 2009 does this: http://www.crondroid.com/

One free daily cron, others paid on request (please use the contact form).

500 subscriber crons per day. We use it for in-house and client projects so have an interest in reliability ;-)

Accounts/dashboard/self-service will be added if/when needed (currently email does the trick).

All comments appreciated.

autoreverseon Free Raspberry Pi co-location in Sweden

"Out of stock"

http://unavailable.s3.amazonaws.com/201304182207_raspberry_p...

autoreverseon AppGratis Apple AppStore Appeal

Perhaps they aren't all full time?

autoreverseon Linode NextGen: RAM Upgrade

512MB (burst), 20GB HDD VPS for 4.99/month

http://quickweb.co.nz/lowendbox.html

I've been using these guys for small projects for about a year now - never a problem.

autoreverseon Australia Post's free Amazon locker-style service

FYI some post offices, in NSW at least, have an "early bird" collection window for parcels and PO Box holders. My local opens from 07:30 to 08:30 IIRC. Handy for avoiding the queues.

autoreverseon Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

Congrats on the launch - looks cool.

Do you support withdrawal of funds to non-US bank accounts?

Can't see this in the FAQ.

Likewise there don't seem to be any limitations on seller location. Are there any?