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by Femur 17y ago
How often do you cross-post the exact same comment between HN and reddit? http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aouv5/new_appro... Edit: I may have jumped to conclusions; the individual on reddit may have very well stolen your com
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by Femur 17y ago
-Personal income tax rates in the US will be increased. -Google will strike some sort of a deal with Hulu or Boxee. -The price of oil will hit $100+ again. -Chrome OS will be a huge hit.
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by Femur 17y ago
I disagree with your hyperbole. I live in Montrose (very 'in the loop') and generally vote Republican. Much of my family lives in Spring (a suburb outside the loop) and vote Democrat/Green. Houston is generally a more conservative city th
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by Femur 17y ago
One feature that this article overlooks is Oracle's Automatic Storage Management feature (ASM) which is very commonly used with RAC. This feature is basically a software level RAID alternative in which you can define striping and mirroring
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by Femur 17y ago
Oracle DBA here. I dislike the new metalink interface quite a bit. The UI is very poorly designed; cluttered, slow to load, and confusing. Of course, the old metalink was also poorly designed. I guess you could say that it just went from
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by Femur 17y ago
My girlfriend is a trained court reporter and does freelance transcription on the side. She charges by the audio-hour. Interested in getting in touch?
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by Femur 17y ago
It is important to note that unemployment is a lagging indicator; we may be in recovery while unemployment worsens for some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagging_indicator
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by Femur 17y ago
One could stipulate that the person you have a contract on would be required to carry term life insurance made payable to the fiduciary.
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by Femur 17y ago
I have a TrueCrypt volume that i keep on my dropbox and it has worked fine for me for over a year. It was very easy to set up in Ubuntu.
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by Femur 17y ago
I agree with the math in the article as well as the fact that interest paid on liquid accounts is rather low. The author suggests that higher interest can be returned by investing in a domestic stock index. The author ignores one very impo
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by Femur 17y ago
Hi. I used your site about 9 months ago as my main tool for organizing my job search. I was the guy who emailed you with the suggestion to have links open in a new tab versus navigating away from the site (which you implemented a few hour
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by Femur 17y ago
This article does not touch on speed that much, but saving your database from reparsing the same SQL over and over is a great thing. Bind variables should be used in the place of literals whenever possible. There is a gotcha with this thou
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by Femur 17y ago
I hope that soon we can stop focusing on increasing average life-expectancy (mostly controllable through diet/prevention) and focus on increasing maximum possible life-expectancy. EDIT: I also think it is remarkable that average life-expec
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by Femur 17y ago
>>how to fall without damaging my self Judo, right?
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by Femur 17y ago
Go to parties. Rush for a fraternity. Have fun. Meet girls. When you are laying on your deathbed, you will never think to yourself "gosh, i wish i got with fewer women in college."
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by Femur 17y ago
"Where'd ya go to High School?" to quote the St. Louis cliche. (Parkway Central for me)
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by Femur 17y ago
+1 and I know from other threads that there are several more Houstonianon on HN too.
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by Femur 17y ago
I live right down the street from you (Alabama and Greenbriar) but I wonder if we live in the same city. I moved here from the decaying corpse of St. Louis to take a job with Continental Airlines (HQ'd right here in Houston by the way). Th
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by Femur 17y ago
I create adventure. I leave slain dragons in my wake. I build monuments, plant flags, discover wonders, and lead armies. I sing duets, dance tangos, and play concertos. I cook banquets. I wheel, make deals, and strike bargains. I purchase f
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by Femur 17y ago
Coming from a product that can get you arrested as well as a history of highly variable cost and unknown quality and source, I would push safety, quality and consistency as main selling points. "Our marijuana is grown in the rolling hills o
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by Femur 17y ago
GMOs significantly increase crop yields and are helping feed a growing world population. I think most of the world is willing to take the risk of a few genes getting loose for the benefit of keeping the world fed.
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by Femur 17y ago
My daily fluid intake: 1-2 cups of coffee in the morning. 2-3 cups of Lipton green tea throughout the day. 1 litre of bottled carbonated mineral water at home in the evening. 1 glass of red wine with supper. I also drink the odd cup/glass o
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by Femur 17y ago
Your thanks and our shared dream made my week. May your branches always be heavily laden.
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by Femur 17y ago
I would be an orchardist.
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by Femur 17y ago
Yes. I have an orchard in Missouri that I tend to when I can. Persimmon, Fig, Quince, Pomegranate, Apples, Mulberries, Peaches, Apricots, Cherries.
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by Femur 17y ago
How would you generate an income from that profession?
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by Femur 17y ago
Taxes go down and the deficit decreases. Those from Texas can legally buy insurance from companies in Florida or Vermont or wherever they choose. No health care is tax advantaged or disadvantaged - it just is. People can order insurance
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by Femur 17y ago
The post is pretty clear to me: Healthcare in the US is in the state it is now because of the way government treated it (via regulation and taxation). The GP's link documents this very well. >You don't like the idea of the government
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by Femur 17y ago
I wonder why no women were involved in the experiment. Will we not be sending women on the first mission to mars? Also, I would imagine that regular sexual activity would make for a more placid social environment.
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by Femur 17y ago
Although this solution and the solutions mentioned in the above threads are technically sound, I am aghast at the sincerity with which they were suggested. It is not appropriate to interfere with such a crucial piece of infrastructure. In

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