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by aliston 13y ago
Be careful with an abrupt switch to a standing desk. Essentially, you need to build up core and leg strength over time to prevent strain. I've been using a standing desk for a little over a year now and have many of the same observati
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by aliston 13y ago
Food/nightlife and housing are the biggest expenses for me and most of my friends in the 20-30 y.o. age group, and where I live (Austin), 80k goes a lot farther with regard to those expenses than 100k in Austin.
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by aliston 13y ago
Google sucks. I had a pretty similar experience interviewing there. Strange, late interviewers. One guy who barely spoke English and another who literally asked one question, then said nothing for the rest of the "interview."
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by aliston 13y ago
Why is this even the title on HN? The title of the article is "The Default American Workplace is Fundamentally Flawed"...
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by aliston 13y ago
I don't think that this is necessarily a debate that should be confined to market terms... but even debating it within those confines, I would actually argue that this is a perfect example of a market failure. For one thing, food distr
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by aliston 13y ago
Having just gone through my own trademark hoopla, I'm convinced that trademark examiners might as well be throwing darts at a dartboard. The decisions are so arbitrary that there ends up being essentially no established precedent for
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by aliston 13y ago
Living in Austin sprawl is equivalent to living in Mountain View and commuting to San Francisco. The only portion of Austin that really reminds me of SF is downtown, otherwise, particularly north of 183, you might as well be in LA or Houst
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by aliston 13y ago
13 years ago the Nasdaq closed above 5000. Two years later it was at 1100. I wasn't working as a software engineer then, but I remember it well enough to know that not only will it not be like this forever, but that it has been &quot
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by aliston 13y ago
The section mentioned in the misleading sign isn't even the right section. 602(n) appears to deal with motor vehicles?... 602(n) "Driving any vehicle, as defined in Section 670 of the Vehicle Code, upon real property belonging to
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by aliston 13y ago
You can generally buy the digitizer + lcd on ebay for about 30 bucks. It's a lot of small screws, but really not too difficult to swap out. Took me about 45 minutes.
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by aliston 13y ago
Except that the entire point of the article is that it is not "pretty simple," but quite a bit more nuanced...
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by aliston 13y ago
Assuming that Apple does go flat, my understanding was that it will be, for the most part, taken care of for developers. Unless you were already doing a lot of custom skinning, building for iOS 7 with native widgets should just "work,
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How to Spam your Facebook Friends for a Week(alexmedearis.com)
58 points by aliston 13y ago|17 comments
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Bitcoin as a public leger(erratasec.blogspot.com)
3 points by aliston 13y ago|1 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
What does it take to make 200k base as a software engineer? These numbers just don't seem to jive with what I've read else where -- according to glassdoor, for instance, last year the base salary at the top companies in the valley was arou
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by aliston 13y ago
Did anyone else catch the irony in Friedman talking about employers that "increasingly don’t care how those skills were acquired: home schooling, an online university, a massive open online course, or Yale," then writing an article entirely
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by aliston 13y ago
Flat UI has become a common theme on a number of popular iOS apps. Spotify, Yelp, Truila, Google Maps etc. have all moved to flat UI recently... are all of those apps "disregarding platform conventions?" Of course not. If anything, they h
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How Retirement Fees Cost You(pbs.org)
1 points by aliston 13y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 13y ago
"in the long run, your typical investor is going to get the same return with active management with 2% fees as he does with an index fund at 0.1% fees." This point is extremely contentious. Particularly in the long run, there is a lot of d
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by aliston 13y ago
Based on what I saw traveling through South America for 5 months, $500 would be a stretch in Chile, Argentina or Brazil. A hostel or a really cheap apartment would probably be 2/3rds of that alone... especially as a white dude. You might
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by aliston 13y ago
All this says to me is that Silicon Valley success has more to do with who you know that what you do.
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by aliston 14y ago
> I hit 90 pounds per hand on the flat bench press (up from 25 per hand at the start). I call BS unless he's tinkering with terminology. 50 lbs max bench press to 180 lbs max in 5 months is impossible.
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Cougar Night in Silicon Valley(vanityfair.com)
2 points by aliston 14y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 14y ago
Does anyone know of a legit way to short bitcoins?
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Class-Divided Cities: San Francisco Edition(theatlanticcities.com)
2 points by aliston 14y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 14y ago
If that's true, it's not really a fair comparison. Running in development mode slows things considerably. They do have a question in the FAQ about that point: "You configured framework x incorrectly, and that explains the numbers you're s
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by aliston 14y ago
> she's an attention starved cry-baby From what I've read, petty much epitomizes everything I couldn't stand about dating in San Francisco. Too many self-absorbed, uptight, ultra-feminist, unattractive weirdo girls with a chip on their
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by aliston 14y ago
I don't blame Adria for going into hiding, but 2 weeks from now I doubt anyone will even remember this snafu.
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by aliston 14y ago
It's true that the title might be a little hyped. However, the most interesting thing I learned was that improving sitting posture alone will not alleviate standing posture problems.
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by aliston 14y ago
Didn't expect so much traffic! Here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

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