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It's not impervious to bad weather, but pretty resilient. I'd say in the 2 years we've had ours the system has shut off maybe 3-4 times due to one of: a) very low and direct sun an…

They also recently did a similar project in Bothell, WA: http://www.mcmenamins.com/AndersonSchool

It appears that Network For Good largely operates this way as a "donor-advised fund": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund

Do you know if there a legal/tax impediment to getting the pass-through classified as a not-for-profit? Or did you just mean it makes it harder to implement as a traditional startu…

I'm curious as to what your turnaround time from order to delivery is? We actually tried something pretty similar last year here in Portland (the site is still alive at www.localpl…

Well, I haven't found a specific treaty or agreement covering the Naval reactors. It may be a less formal arrangement, I don't know. But a did find a nice picture of the reactor pi…

I had to do some Googling, but the PPRA treaty would appear to explain the valve cover inspections: http://dtirp.dtra.mil/tic/synopses/ppra.aspx Still looking for what would apply …

There are also a limited number of public site tours each year, focusing on the B Reactor. (The first full scale fission reactor in the world.) http://manhattanprojectbreactor.hanf…

See, in a very circular way I was just reporting the typo. :) (Looks good now that I have the right release deployed, by the way.)

Aha, well apparently I never merged that commit into my deploy branch, so it was still actually on 3.2.1. That combined with the fact that your page had said 3.2.1 was safe caused …

I just tried this on one of my side project sites and it's reporting it as being vulnerable. However I upgraded the site to Rails 3.2.1 last week (and just confirmed that's the ver…

Thanks, those are all fair points. The reason I went with "vendor everything" several years ago was that I had to make some changes to a legacy codebase and discovered that one of …

Steve, could you maybe expand a little bit on your reasons for not wanting to have the gems cached in your repo? Have you run into practical issues (deployment speed, etc.) or is i…

If you use bundler, "bundle package" can help reduce or eliminate your dependency on external gem repositories. At least for deployments. I generally try to follow the "vendor ever…

Unless you have a 4S.

I would say your customers can sue you regardless of what you say in an email or blog post. Using lawyers to hide from your customers seems less than optimal.

Personally, I find the "Pricing" line of the comparison chart to be misleading. For $199 (a year) you get 50GB of space and 250k views with Vimeo Pro. Under the Free Viyard plan yo…

Other than having to mail them a paper check(!), registering js.co.tt with the Trinidad and Tabago NIC was fairly painless. As others have mentioned though, you are pretty much alw…

Different people place importance on different things. The "people who buy airline tickets" market is probably large enough to withstand some segmentation.

I was trying to think of a good analogy before but just came up with this: imagine if the Minerals Management Service (theoretical regulator of the oil industry) was in charge of s…

Especially the USDA who's mission is to promote our agricultural industries. For some reason, we have the agency charged with supporting the producers of food setting the official …