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by alaithea 14y ago
HSA != FSA. The former is a savings/investment account that lets you keep your money year over year, to be used for medical expenses. FSA's are use-it-or-lose it. HSA's are typically paired with a particular type of high-deductible insuran
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by alaithea 14y ago
I did say "pretend." I'm not interested in debating DC statehood, rather I am interested in a good user experience. In my case, I actually live in Maryland, yet I had to pull up Virginia to find my metro area.
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by alaithea 14y ago
Just an FYI for those in DC: on that calculator, Washington is listed under the state of Virginia. Geographic boundaries are tricky business, but c'mon, CNN. You could at least pretend District of Columbia is a state.
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by alaithea 14y ago
Seems like the drills count towards your accuracy scores, while practice does not.
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by alaithea 14y ago
With a name like "Political Screaming Match," do you think he's after rounded, reasoned debate? This sounds like it's mostly for some laughs. I think it's a fun idea.
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by alaithea 14y ago
I use Ctrl-P/Ctrl-N for autocomplete all the time.
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by alaithea 14y ago
It doesn't matter whether gauged by the month or year. It's a percentage. If they have 99.97% uptime every month for a year, they'll still have 99.97% uptime for the year.
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by alaithea 14y ago
Especially if a Dvorak user is forced to use Qwerty on another person's computer. At that point, they become completely unable to log in via this method.
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by alaithea 14y ago
I only skimmed PEP 405, but did anybody get a sense for how this would work with regard to managing different versions of Python per virtualenv? It seems like a tool to do that necessarily has to be higher in the stack than the Python inter
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by alaithea 14y ago
Not sure I see the advantage over "git log -p [filename]", which includes diff formatting, color coding, and commit log messages.
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by alaithea 14y ago
No, you're not the only one. It brings to mind an awkward, overly public marriage proposal. Not something I'd want to be on the receiving end of. And if the other party turns them down, the rejection is just that much more awkward.
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by alaithea 15y ago
Not sure about the scholarly literature on it, but my eye doctors (several different ones over the years) have almost always mentioned how it's better to slightly undercorrect the vision, so that the eyes still have to work a bit at focusin
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by alaithea 15y ago
The new front page design smacks of those spammy "10 AMAZING Photos of [fill in the blank]" sites which steal other people's content and don't properly attribute it. I can't bring myself to click on any of the stacks; I just want to avert m
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by alaithea 15y ago
On the other hand, if you live in a first-tier city, this makes the au pair program that much of a better deal (see my other comment on au pairs), as you get a first-tier salary, and their pay is federal minimum wage. It's too bad for the a
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by alaithea 15y ago
Since we have no family living in the area, I'm hoping that some responsible, hired help can fill that void.
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by alaithea 15y ago
I used to think that a parent's care was unequivocally the best childcare, but I no longer believe that to be true. As the mother of a four month old who has had 95% of her care provided by either me or my husband working from home, and 5%
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by alaithea 16y ago
Fastmail has always been aimed more at paying users than free ones. The taglines go away with anything above the free acount.
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by alaithea 16y ago
If you happen to be a Vim user, and in the mood to try a bleeding-edge project, you might find this nascent Org-mode clone interesting: https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342
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by alaithea 16y ago
They'd be better off rephrasing the question on the front page "what do these companies have in common" to "what do these products have in common." Android is not a company.
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by alaithea 16y ago
My thoughts exactly. It would be hard to find many people who almost exclusively read white on black, though. I think the groups people break down into are likely the average people from "book-land", where all is black on white, and techies
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by alaithea 16y ago
I've known vegans who would admit to eating nothing but Doritos/Skittles/Coca-Cola on roadtrips rather than feed themselves some halfway decent, but non-vegan, nutrition available on the road.
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by alaithea 16y ago
Every time I buy normal, mass-market chicken or eggs that are not in some way organic/cage-free/free-range/nataural, I am so disappointed in the result that I vow never to buy it again (until I'm sucked in by some sale months later). For me
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by alaithea 16y ago
Swype is extremely resource-intensive-- too much for older phones (such as my MyTouch 3G). If 8pen is less of a hog, and it seems like it probably would be, since it doesn't have to guess at what you wanted to type, it will be a great add
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by alaithea 16y ago
While men can keep having children longer than women, there are genetically-based mental health risks (schizophrenia, autism, bi-polar disorder) for children of older men. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/about-fathers/200901/old...
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by alaithea 16y ago
In the latest version of Ubuntu (Meerkat), the annoying delay before being able to enter a password in the lock screen on resume is gone.
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by alaithea 16y ago
> Also, every filling I've ever had never came as a result of actual pain or discomfort, they only occurred because I went in for a regular six-month checkup. FWIW, I've heard that by the time you have pain or discomfort in associatio
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by alaithea 16y ago
As an American who has lived in several states, I have never heard of a state that has minimum leave requirements. A Googling doesn't turn up anything. Anyone else out there know, or does the dearth of info indicate that the states really d
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by alaithea 16y ago
That doesn't work for everyone. When I let myself sleep on the train, I tend to feel like a perma-zombie when I get off. I think it has something to do with the fact that I wake up at every stop, or stay halfway conscious so as not to miss
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by alaithea 16y ago
The short time I spent in .NET development felt incredibly disenfranchising, when the answer to bugs found was always a denial that the bug existed or "that will be fixed in the next release."
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by alaithea 16y ago
A simple example: if I wrote a function, add(x, y), I would want to test that it behaved as expected. So, I'd write a test (among others) to assert that add(4,5) returned 9. I would also test things like add(null, 5) to make sure that my co

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