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Kevin Burke

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How to fix the NBA Draft (opens on the source site)

I read this and then had trouble finding it for a year, I'm writing about it so I have a way to find it... The proposal here is so obviously correct that it's shocking it doesn't come up more often when people discuss the NBA Draft... basically the idea is that you assign a high […]

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Speeding up Javascript Test Time 1000x (opens on the source site)

*This post originally appeared on Shyp's engineering blog in July 2015. It has since been deleted. It is reproduced as closely as possible here. The original is accessible on the Wayback Machine. Eight months ago when I ran our core API tests at Shyp, it took 100 seconds from starting the test to seeing output […]

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Let Us Open URLs in a Specific Browser Profile (opens on the source site)

Most browsers have the ability to launch different browser profiles. Each profile can come with a different theme and a different set of website logins (cookies, application state, etc). This can be helpful if you want to segregate browsing behavior. For example, I have different browser profiles set up for my personal email, my "consulting" […]

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github.com/garyburd/redigo has been deleted (opens on the source site)

One of the first ever Redis libraries for Go was hosted at github.com/garyburd/redigo. It has been deprecated for some time and has now been finally removed altogether from Github. If you still have a dependency on this project, this means that will be broken now. github.com/gomodule/redigo should be a drop-in replacement for github.com/garyburd/redigo. If you […]

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How to Ventilate Your House (opens on the source site)

Every day we learn more about the importance of good air quality. Here are some tips to help you improve air quality inside your house. How to Measure First, you are going to want to be able to measure air quality in your house. There are a few different things you want to measure: PM2.5 […]

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How much does a San Francisco Chronicle subscription cost? (opens on the source site)

The San Francisco Chronicle charges for subscriptions. How much does a subscription cost? This is an impossible question to answer, even for current subscribers. The Chronicle advertises several different prices for new subscribers. The only public information the Chronicle shares about its permanent subscription rates raises more questions than answers. No one at the Chronicle […]

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Sour Punch Strawberry changed their formula (opens on the source site)

I have a sweet tooth and one candy I really enjoy is Strawberry Sour Punch. Unfortunately after twenty years of having the same formula it seems that the company has decided to change the formula for Sour Punch. The new candy has more of a cherry flavor and isn't as sour. It does not taste […]

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