ZanyProgrammer

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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
You are aware, aren't you, that the military already pays for all sorts of prescription drugs for service members? What difference is there between estradiol/spironolactone on the one hand, and every other prescription drug that i
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
My roommate bought a Windows 8 equipped Asus a few months back and installed Mint on it. Seriously, Google 'How to install Linux on a Windows 8 laptop' sometime.
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Tell me where these mythical laptops are, other than the Dell XPS 13?
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
I had Windows 8 RTM installed on an old ThinkPad that I eventually wiped clean and put Ubuntu on. Granted its not a new laptop with Windows 8, but still, its not impossible to install Linux on a Win 8 laptop.
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Um, wait-Windows 8 will allow you to install any old x86 Windows program. Only Windows RT is locked down to such an extent. I hope HN doesn't have Slashdot levels of ignorance concerning Windows.
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Its because lots of young people don't want to live in Silicon Valley proper (basically Santa Clara County to the south). Santa Clara County is heavily suburban, with some very poor areas mixed in with some very affluent areas (Los Gat
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BART unions give notice to strike(sfgate.com)
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
I had an MI MOS in the Army, and I don't miss the invasive ness of background checks one bit. Do you want to have your past pried open to get a TS clearance? Are you ok with lie detectors and random urine tests? Do you do any illicit d
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
I used to live at Tasman and Fair Oaks, and it was always interesting to go on walks in the area and try to decipher the local area. It was pretty easy to tell where the former industrial was in that area, and it was fascinating. Heck, I wa
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
How many SJSU students can afford to go to 4 years of college full time?
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Theres no shortage of anecdotal reports by college professors complaining that higher than normal numbers of students fail/drop out of online courses. Heck, my own anecdotal experience of distance learning in college recently bears tha
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
I'd like to see some actual evidence for that 65,000 year old claim. It doesn't pass the paleoanthropological smell test.
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
I'm not sure if people realize (in general) how difficult online courses are in general, compared to in person classes. Not everyone is an aspiring hacker who is smart and disciplined and posts on HN. Online classes have long been show
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
Also, companies locate in places not remotely near public transit-like Facebook's new campus in Menlo Park, its not remotely near Caltrain. I remember taking the light rail along Java Drive every day for two years, wondering why more c
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Ask HN: How many of you will be impacted by a BART strike?
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Silicon Valley's ties to the military/intelligence complex(mercurynews.com)
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
That's because Baby Bullets hit stations that tend to be in more affluent areas. Palo Alto, Mountain View, Redwood City, San Mateo, etc. Certainly Bayshore (Visitacion Valley) isn't dragging those down.
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
I'm a little disappointed, insofar as this data tells us nothing we don't already know-the area around Fremont BART is more affluent than Fruitvale, OMG! But it is a nice bit of data visualization, and I applaud them for that. I live in the
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by ZanyProgrammer 13y ago
News Flash: This has been going on for a long time. I remember while working at the Palo Alto Whole Foods (2008-last year), that almost no one in my department worked 40 hours, except the supervisors. Of course the article is a bit biased t