Afton

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by Afton 9y ago
As a Canadian who moved south for work and is rapidly approaching or in middle age, this is my position on the healthcare here: If you have good insurance, it is AMAZING! I understand that others have it worse, but all major software dev em
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by Afton 9y ago
This seems like an unrelated dig on Perl. There are many things that Perl did better than any contemporaneous language, all while having an ambiguous static parser.
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by Afton 9y ago
That's the point of the article. Drinking water is from bottled water. Hot beverages are from the 'tap' water, and the requirements on the tap water are not as strict as the drinking water. I assume that this is a just alarmi
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by Afton 9y ago
For those who hate clickbait titles: """ a recently discovered backdoor Trojan used comments posted to Britney Spears's official Instagram account to locate the control server that sends instructions and offloads stolen
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by Afton 9y ago
This is a repost of https://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/a-veteran-teac... Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442067
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by Afton 9y ago
Can you give flavor on this: "Now we need to remove our phone number as backup method. (If you're curious why it's important to not have a phone number on your account, see the ( https://techsolidarity.org/reso
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by Afton 10y ago
What if that same excuse has been used as far back as you choose to look for all sorts of discrimination? It's not that it can't possibly be right , but it's a hypothesis to be forced to, not to grab and promote above all ot
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by Afton 10y ago
Thank you for adding to this conversation. This important point, that people make both typos and homonym errors, is a critical insight into this issue.
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by Afton 10y ago
I'm not familiar with Unison, and have no idea how successful it is, nor where it falls down.
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by Afton 10y ago
I wasn't involved in these design discussions early on, and Skydrive certainly didn't use rsync, this was just meant as an example of "this is essentially a solved problem, we just need some UI". It isn't, and prese
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by Afton 10y ago
You're point about the wrong impact is spot on. I have a gift of getting good grades. I know what things will be on the test, I know how to answer questions so that I leave enough wiggle room to avoid exposing ignorance on a topic, an
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by Afton 10y ago
> it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free I worked on SkyDrive/OneDrive for a few years. That's what we thought too. This stuff in
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by Afton 10y ago
Keeping the angle consistent is the problem with use a simple sharpening stone. I recommend a jig that keeps the angle for you. I use a spyderco sharpmaker ( https://www.amazon.com/Spyderco-Tri-Angle-Sharpmaker/dp/B
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by Afton 10y ago
I have to admit that I don't like the texture of poultry breast meat done sous vide. Maybe I should experiment with not vacuum sealing it (just leave it with minimal air). But if you have an instant read thermometer (or a stick-in-and-
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by Afton 10y ago
If you're interested, head over to /r/griptraining. One of the most frustrating things about grip, is how specific each kind of grip strength is. Pinch grip (tripod pinch) vs static holds vs ulnar grip, all require specific
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by Afton 10y ago
Edited to clarify that I mean for my description to be understood to occur at a 'gifted school'.
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by Afton 10y ago
"gifted track" is rarely a set program. It's usually a mechanism for providing individually paced opportunities and resources [edit: added this phrase] _at a different/specific school_. Where I live, you get tested whene
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by Afton 10y ago
> Wargame out plausible solutions to it if one didn't have your team's context on your particular situation, My least favorite interview ever, was essentially "Implement this generic problem that our team had to solve, but
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by Afton 10y ago
I love the idea, but I'm just not sure that this is the 'hard' part of the problem, so I end up feeling like these are solutions in search of problems. Maybe I just don't grok how these contracts are interestingly differ
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by Afton 10y ago
In the interests of anecdata, I went ketogenic for about 18 months. One of my reasons for doing this that my sister described in glowing terms how eating this way had all sort of positive mental health efforts (more muted emotional response
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by Afton 10y ago
and unlimited time. So much advice of the form: "Really sit down with the child during a tantrum. Listen to their concerns, and make sure they feel heard. Only then engage with them in problem solving.". Uh. Sure. I'll just d
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by Afton 10y ago
Classic "there's no upside". By providing feedback, you only provide leverage for a future lawsuit. Not only that, but if you give feedback some of the time, the mere existence of lack of existence of the feedback becomes a
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by Afton 10y ago
Fresh out of my first year of computer science, I had fumbled my through some graph traversal algorithms. The guy (who I still remember!), said "Look, you seem like a smart guy, but it doesn't seem like you've done very much
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by Afton 10y ago
There are levels and levels at which companies engage in Q.A. 1. There is none, and it's awful, once there are more than two developers. 2. There are dedicated QA people, who click on things in a more or less formalized fashion dependi
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by Afton 10y ago
The cost of the convenience is clearly entry in a reverse-lottery. You just hope it doesn't happen to you. The rarity of the event saps most people of the effort required to implement a backup solution that would alleviate the main pai
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by Afton 10y ago
StrongLifts is a perfectly good beginner program, as is SS, as is Ice Cream Fitness[1]. It's best not to quibble too much about which one is absolutely best, since for the vast majority of people, it just doesn't matter. The basic
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by Afton 10y ago
Sure. I mean, that's what I did/do. But I also did lots of precise athletic training before hand, and I know from experience trying to "coach" people that there is a very big spread of people's proprioceptive abil
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by Afton 10y ago
I have another reason that is less orwellian. Weight machines can be used by someone with no training other than the pictures on the side. Squatting (of whatever variety you prefer) requires coaching. If a new gym member (NGM) comes in and
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by Afton 10y ago
Interesting question! In this case 'Baby' is a standin for the baby's name. I would characterize this as 'reasonably standard' for spoken language, but a little odd in written language, but could help convey a conve
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by Afton 10y ago
Can't really agree though. The issue with child services is that they can act faster than the criminal system. You might want to say that they couldn't act to remove or otherwise enforce parental restrictions until criminal charg

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