LargeWu

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by LargeWu 8y ago
> If it were deliberately manufactured by a sentient alien civilization, why choose that specific shape? A light sail based probe doesn’t seem to be a sufficient enough explanation for the shape. Why not? Assuming a civilization is (or
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by LargeWu 8y ago
T-shirts. I have a few different niches - one for regional/state pride, one for the band Phish. Honestly I would have expected Instagram to deliver since it's such a visual medium, but it hasn't so far. It could definitely be
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by LargeWu 8y ago
No. I have a few online businesses and Facebook is critical to driving traffic. It's not a stretch to say I would not have a viable business without the ability to advertise on Facebook proper. Even Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest...none
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by LargeWu 8y ago
It's absolutely true. I sell screen printed t-shirts that I design and print myself, as a hobby, and as such I spend some time trying to improve my sales. The facebook group I'm part of is lousy with people trying to sell these sa
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Kind of the same, but at least it gives parents options. Most kids arrive just before classes start, instead of forcing everybody to get there really early.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Our school district has a before school program starting as early as 7:00 so kids that need to be can be dropped off early, but most kids arrive much later. Classes don't start until 9:00 at our school.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
A lot of elementary schools start early because of parent pressure to start early, because parents need to get their kids to school so they can get to work themselves. We are lucky that our school district provides before and after school p
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Almost anything you can find on Amazon you can find at another online retailer with a quick search. And anything that has a brand name (that isn't a commodity, e.g. batteries, or store brand) can probably be found on the brand's o
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I don't know about something big...he'll only just barely be 5 then, and his attention span is pretty limited. But I can see trying to something that we can work on where we can make small amounts of progress every day.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Same here, except it's not friends, it's kids. I spend a fair amount of my work day completely bored by the grind of software development and thinking about my hobbies (which right now is mostly screenprinting and music). But by t
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by LargeWu 8y ago
One of the sad things about this sort of list is that it's literally just one guy's opinion. Sure, he tried all the burgers. I'm sure all the burgers in the top 100 are good burgers, but there's probably very little sepa
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Then this prices out the neighborhood locals who made the place successful in the first place. These are people that the owner and workers know and care about. I think he could care less about the tourists that come in once just to Instagra
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by LargeWu 8y ago
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
There's legal requirements, and then there's ethical requirements, which are not necessarily the same. If they are supposedly vetting renters, then it should be incumbent upon them to stand behind their vetting. They should also v
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by LargeWu 8y ago
It's probably not facebook. Your wife's friend may have certain apps installed that have access to her texts, both incoming and outgoing, and they are likely phoning home her data and selling phone numbers to scammers. I've s
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Obviously I have no insight into your implementation, but I"m not sure why you would "have to" declare the field on your model. There are probably a lot of different ways handle this situation. For instance, you probably don&
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by LargeWu 8y ago
> Rails makes a ton of assumptions about how tables, models, controllers, and routes all line up together. Rails assumes some very basic, predictable, and consistent naming conventions by default. Beyond that, it has virtually no assumpt
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Curious why you think that, or why that problem is specific to Rails. I've worked on some massive rails apps, and never experienced that pain. Or, at least not any more pain than any other large app.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Not having debt can be very, very freeing. Same goes for expenses. I'm still a software developer because it pays well, not because I really want to be slinging code anymore. If I didn't have a mortgage and child care to worry abo
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by LargeWu 8y ago
This sounds like the same sort of pseudoscience that gives rise to apps like Lumosity, et al.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
> except in the case of "defense" of course... Well, this thread is exactly the reason we subsidize the defense industry to make sure things are produced in the US.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Many mainline Christians treat most of the Old Testament, especially scientifically implausible parts like Genesis, as tradition, and not literal fact. These are things that are perhaps taught in Sunday school to children, but not treated v
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by LargeWu 8y ago
No.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Color?
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Levine is a great resource, but music theory, and jazz theory in particular, is a super dense subject. Having an experienced teacher to guide you through and help you internalize it is very valuable, even if it's only for the occasiona
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by LargeWu 8y ago
This is exactly what happened when backpage got shut down. Police lost all their leads on illegal sex trafficking, but did not have any meaningful impact on the illegal market - it just moved to another venue.
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by LargeWu 8y ago
This seems to be geared more at tabletop RPG. When you're running a game, it's helpful to have these sorts of artifacts to enhance players' understanding, but it's not the sort of thing that GM's really want to spen
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by LargeWu 8y ago
I'm expensive because I'm experienced, not because of the technology stack. I would expect to get paid the same whether I'm coding in Node or Rails. Also, I don't think anybody is arguing that Rails can do things other s
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by LargeWu 8y ago
In my experience, PM's or whoever usually want estimates on the spot. They want estimates fast, but then they treat them as though they were well researched. If you tell them "there's a 75% probability we can get it done in 2
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by LargeWu 8y ago
Typically when you think of "investment", you are exchanging resources (typically money) for some sort of increased or improved production capacity. For example, buying a new truck so you can increase delivery capacity, or buying

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