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[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=flu]

So correct me if I’m wrong it sounds like what you need something that polls an HTTP url and grabs the response, saves the response, and then makes it available for a computer used elsewhere where you want to analyze data afterwards, right?
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Well, yes I think that’s correct. I’m not that knowledgeable with web related tech, my expertise lies with graphics rendering, AI, and game related type technology. The output from the device is a series of JSON messages. Having them in a browser means that I can monitor what I’m getting, making sure that data collection is going ok. (Although it’s a bit cryptic) After a dozen or so shots, I’ll copy the data and save it, then clear the browser page and continue collecting data.

[quote=flu]
If so, I’m thinking you probably don’t need a laptop just to do this… Would a very simple app on a phone that polls the web url, grabs the HTTP response, and then at the the end of session, sends you an email and/or uploads to a cloud account (like google drive) work?

This shouldn’t be hard to do, on Android or iOS. If it was Android, I’d put something together for you in 10-15 minutes. For iOS, I need to fire up my old xCode IDE, which I’ve neglected for the last year… I don’t mind slapping an iOS project together. But, you’re going to have to sideload it yourself onto your phone, since no way I can get something like this onto the app store quickly.[/quote]

If you think this is feasible, then maybe pm me. I have xcode, and I currently upload our tech to my phone and iPad, and while I know very little about the logistics of an iOS app itself, I can probably manage to build and run an xcode project that someone provides. Not sure how much hand shaking would need to be done to make the connection. There is a login process that requires a username and password.

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Will send you a PM….(No I’m not fishing for contracting dollars, I’ve got enough on my plate at my FT job)

[Coronita]

[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=no_such_reality]

Is it 10 to 20K individual lines or one entire section? i.e. is the data in the same location, same format and just happens to rather long raw data?

Will a select all work on it before the copy?

you can get a cheapy laptop, but really seems like overkill since there’s already a $600+ computer hanging on your hip.[/quote]

Yes, it’s all in one window although it has obviously scrolled off the visible area. So, the idea is select all, copy, paste, save file. I’d like to be just that easy. A couple keystrokes.

At the risk of starting the flame wars over Apple which I don’t want to do, I’ll point out that the $600 computer on my hip is an iPhone and copy and paste is a pain, then what to paste it into? I have a text editor (textastic) so that’s doable. But then getting from the phone to the computer is a pain because iOS doesn’t have a finder. Yeah, it’s all doable, I grant you that. It’s just awfully clunky. I have a coworker who uses a laptop to do the same thing, and that has worked well for him, so I’m inclined to go that route.

Thanks for all the advice.[/quote]

So correct me if I’m wrong it sounds like what you need something that polls an HTTP url and grabs the response, saves the response, and then makes it available for a computer used elsewhere where you want to analyze data afterwards, right?

If so, I’m thinking you probably don’t need a laptop just to do this… Would a very simple app on a phone that polls the web url, grabs the HTTP response, and then at the the end of session, sends you an email and/or uploads to a cloud account (like google drive) work?

This shouldn’t be hard to do, on Android or iOS. If it was Android, I’d put something together for you in 10-15 minutes. For iOS, I need to fire up my old xCode IDE, which I’ve neglected for the last year… I don’t mind slapping an iOS project together. But, you’re going to have to sideload it yourself onto your phone, since no way I can get something like this onto the app store quickly.

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I like my macbook air. It’s not that much more than a PC laptop.

[Coronita]

There’s a little story behind China’s space program… The entire Chinese Space Program was founded by a gentleman by the name of Tsien Hsue-shen (also known as Qian Xuesen)
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For those of you that don’t know Qian Xuesen was a former scientist at CalTech, and he, with a other people founded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)…

So how exactly did this American Citizen end up becoming the father of China’s space program?

Well, we can thank the McCarthy and Red Scare for that… You see, during the Red Scare, our government accused Quan of being a communist, despite no evidence whatsoever.

He was stripped of his security clearance, and our government decided to detain him for 5 years under house arrest, despite all his colleagues vouching for him. And he was only released in exchange for American pilots captured in the Korean War. Upon which, he promptly leaves for China..and ends up being the father of China’s nuclear weapon program and space program.

I’m not from China, some from the Mainland would call me “Island Boy”. But you see, so it’s not I’m pro China…. But i just find the irony of the rhetoric “sending people home”, which would be the rhetoric offered by the Trump camp these days………Be careful what you wish for, lol.

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At my new employer, I work with a lot of millennials.

And the ones that I work with are pretty bright people. A lot of them are pretty financially astute too. I learned a lot of about Robo-financial advisers from some of them.

A lot of them are doing just fine financially. What’s amazing is a lot of these millennials are driven to run their own thing. A lot of these guys I work with are engineers during the normal hours and have a their own business they run off hours. A group of guys own a successful auto shop, another guy runs a marketing company, and there’s a few folks that run a media transcoding company.

Most of them, even the ones that are just POE (plain old engineers) , have bought homes. Some more than one. Some already own free and clear in North County.

I think the concern of our younger generation being doomed is overblown. They’ll be fine, or at least a good portion of them. The rest, well personal choices maybe not so fine, but that’s no different from any other generation.

I think the pattern I’ve seen with most of the more successful ones are all the same… Reasonable education, strong work ethics, and good money management skills instilled from their parents and a no-excuses why I can’t do something.

I guess what type of career you have will also bias you in the type of milenials you see.

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[quote=svelte]And now, three hours after I received by ballot, I have voted. Filled out, signed, stamped, and in the mail box.[/quote]

The most important question I have to ask you….What did you vote for Prop 60?

🙂

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[quote=AN][quote=flu]Looks like the some of the GOP is backtracking and now saying they are going to back Trump again.

Wow, my head is spinning. [/quote]It’s really not that hard to understand. They’re doing exactly what a lot of Americans are doing. Do what they can to save their job. On a KPBS show I was listening to the other day, one of the guest was saying that if they stick with Trump, they’ll lose ~12% of the independent vote but if they abandon Trump, they would lose about 12% from Trump supporter not voting for them. So, they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Damn if you do and damn if you don’t. So, they took a calculated risk and stick w/ him.

I’ve seen many jack asses in the private sector who will do whatever it takes to get ahead, so this is no different. IMHO.[/quote]

Word.

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Looks like the some of the GOP is backtracking and now saying they are going to back Trump again.

Wow, my head is spinning.

Meanwhile, is it a mere coincidence that Dow futures are off 100 points? Lol

I guess the good news is that, in preparation of a disastrous Trump win, I’m only 25% in the stock and bond markets right now…So/…

* if Trump loses and Hillary wins, and taxes go up, I have already realized most of my capital gains in 2016 with the current tax rates…

*and if Trump wins, it won’t matter what the tax rates are. since folk’s 401k’s will most likely look like a a 101k or 201k, like it did under Bush…Only maybe worse….Lol…

Holy sheet, I sound like a tin foil hat wearer now….

[Coronita]

Interesting…

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-2016-election-turnout/index.html

Maybe the strategy is to discourage people from voting…..

“They are worried that a negative, race to the bottom with Trump could stifle turnout, arguing that it has become clear to them — especially over the last 48 hours — that Trump’s strategy is to run the race into “the sewer.”
The thought goes like this: Trump scorches Republicans, gets nastier with Clinton to the point that she has to respond, voters get turned off and decide that they’ve had enough with this election — so they don’t vote.”

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Admittedly, I’m not exactly pro-Hillary myself. But for me, it’s a matter of voting for anyone or anything that gives the greatest guarantee of Trump not being president.

My personal opinion is that Hillary probably hasn’t been completely forthright on things. That’s my opinion, whether it’s rational or not. That said, it’s also just my opinion that some of these issues are trivial in relation to a very dangerous Trump getting really close to the highest elected office. I do think she would be competent to do the job, while as nothing that Trump has demonstrated leads me to believe he is qualified, in as much as many of his followers are qualified to do the jobs that they complain some of us are “stealing” (zing!)

For me this isn’t an anti-GOP, it’s anti-Trump. I’m more mad at the GOP for potentially screwing up the down ticket, because again, in as much as I wouldn’t like to see a GOP dominated government, I really don’t want to see a Democrat dominated government.

The GOP is pretty screwed up right now. You have the alt-right taking over and creating a really huge problem. I see a lot of Republicans trying to do the right thing and at the same time some of them just being a spineless prick that’s only now abandoning Trump not out of principle but because they don’t think he’s going to win and will cause an issue for their own survival.

This will probably be the most painful lesson the GOP experiences this year. For me, I am hopeful that we will have an alt-right GOP go off to the far right with their own party or take over the GOP label, and something more rational and moderate emerges from this, whether it’s with the GOP label or with a completely different label. And with the turn of events, I more hopeful this will happen sooner versus later. There are plenty of people that I believe that are left in this country that really don’t want to subscribe to either end of the extreme, and yet in certain times we’re forced to pick between two extremes because there are no viable alternatives at the national level.

I’d really like us to get back to times when the left would lean toward being more moderate and the right wouldn’t be filled with wack jobs out in space, and we have a more independents. We’re so far away from this right now, in that politics swings so far left and so far right, because whenever one side wins, it seems the entire goal is to try to stick it to the other party. And so long as this happens, we’ll be bouncing around between all this internal squabbling while the rest of the world laughs and passes us…again…

[Coronita]

AN’s actually a moderate. Libertarian actually. He’s entitled to his opinion. Lot’s of people don’t like Hillary, and it doesn’t mean they are necessarily pro Trump BTW.

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[quote=utcsox][quote=flu][quote=ltsdd][quote=flu]Are you guys watching this actually? I tuned out once I figured they won’t really be talking about the main issues anyway…The economy and taxes.[/quote]

You missed out big time about taxes…trump now said he paid millions, hundred of millions in taxes.[/quote]

Meh, I care what Hillary has to say about the step-up cost basis when you die and pass on your property to your kids. I believe she was for eliminating that, which would have huge implications on anyone with assets. What was unclear was whether she was a proponent of eliminating this completely or eliminating this only for people who made $2million or more /year.

In any case, like I said, everyone’s taxes is going to go up, regardless of whether Trump or Hillary is in office. And if these tax laws get revised because Hillary wins and the GOP loses the majority in Congress, well… the alt-right republicans that made Trump where he is pretty much to blame for this disaster.[/quote]

If you are a middle class who make $732K a year(top 1%), or an upper middle class who is making $3.8 million a year(top 0.1%), or really top of the line upper middle class who have income over $5 million a dollar, you are really screw under Mrs. Clinton’s tax plan.

If you are a super duper upper middle class who has $500 million when you died, there is a 65% tax on estate. All joking aside, you shall read this excellent article of Hilary tax proposal from WSJ below:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-targets-tax-hikes-at-the-very-top-1475863171%5B/quote%5D

I couldn’t access your WSJ link, but I’ve been trying to figure out what exactly her position is on certain tax issues.

Like I said, there’s the issue of estate taxes (which really isn’t an issue) unless your net worth is more than 10milion. But aside from that, there’s the issue related to step-up cost basis, which is separate from estate taxes. That’s about capital gains.

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[quote=ltsdd][quote=flu]Are you guys watching this actually? I tuned out once I figured they won’t really be talking about the main issues anyway…The economy and taxes.[/quote]

You missed out big time about taxes…trump now said he paid millions, hundred of millions in taxes.[/quote]

Meh, I care what Hillary has to say about the step-up cost basis when you die and pass on your property to your kids. I believe she was for eliminating that, which would have huge implications on anyone with assets. What was unclear was whether she was a proponent of eliminating this completely or eliminating this only for people who made $2million or more /year.

In any case, like I said, everyone’s taxes is going to go up, regardless of whether Trump or Hillary is in office. And if these tax laws get revised because Hillary wins and the GOP loses the majority in Congress, well… the alt-right republicans that made Trump where he is pretty much to blame for this disaster.

[Coronita]

Are you guys watching this actually? I tuned out once I figured they won’t really be talking about the main issues anyway…The economy and taxes.

[Coronita]

“Self righteous hyprocrite”. That’s what trump is spinning now…

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