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by bbarn 10y ago
I'm of the belief that while phones have contributed, it's just not hard enough to drive anymore. Try driving a manual shift, non power steering vehicle some time and using your phone. That's the world the roads were built
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by bbarn 10y ago
Isn't this exactly why the electoral college exists? To prevent incredibly dense populations with completely different priorities from deciding for the entire nation? Note also, no states went to Trump where Clinton had the popular vo
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by bbarn 10y ago
It actually triggers anger in me when I've started to read and something pops up over it. It's the least likely way to get me to click your thing.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Do you live in a major metro area? Because I don't think the rest of the country is shocked outside of them. I live in Chicago and I spent most of the prime election campaigning time travelling (mostly by car) on the weekends for bik
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by bbarn 10y ago
People assume all Trump supporters were that - Trump supporters. Like many recent elections, it came down to who someone disliked less, for many people, for many different reasons. I know plenty of intelligent, middle class men and women w
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by bbarn 10y ago
Like some dozen others here, if it weren't for the money.. sure, I'd run a bike shop, with a frame building shop in the back room. As careers go though, what we do is interesting, ever changing, and an exercise in learning almost
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by bbarn 10y ago
On an average day, I use visual studio for 4 languages. There's C#, HTML, JS, and some old VB.net depending on how old the code I'm working with is. Many times the same fix/feature will touch all of them. That's just
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by bbarn 10y ago
Have you read "the easy way to stop smoking"? He makes a great point about the claim that smokers don't actually enjoy it. It's addiction, thinking you enjoy it is a mechanism of avoiding the guilt of the addiction. Or
729.
by bbarn 10y ago
Yep. 20 years of smoking, failing at every cessation method that I've heard of, was finally beaten with 3 months of e-cig tapering for me too. I was actually content just keep using it, but my machine broke on an out of town trip, an
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by bbarn 10y ago
When you're the first one to do something, it's hard to think ahead to every possible exploitation someone else will think of.
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by bbarn 10y ago
IFTTT + Sanctioned by corporate IT? This could be huge.
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by bbarn 10y ago
The hate for attached garages.. Doesn't the author realize how incredibly useful, and unsightly, they are at the same time? I have a rented garage a half block away in the city, and a basement full of all my random projects, that I w
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by bbarn 10y ago
I think it could be because it doesn't provide the value to the development teams. Why chase a memory leak or a CPU bug if it's just being caused by your fault testing app? To prevent the negative effect of random machines dissap
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by bbarn 10y ago
I kind of disagree. Knowing what to learn is hard. You have two choices, listen to the advice of others, or learn everything. The latter isn't practical, so I appreciate seeing lists like this. If I see a book on 2 or 3 of these li
735.
by bbarn 10y ago
Thanks for the review. I just ordered both.
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by bbarn 10y ago
She looks insane in every photo I've ever seen of her. Even the company vetted ones her eyes are always wide open and she looks nervous.
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by bbarn 10y ago
The problem is, dooring only affects the doorer after it happens. Most other traffic violations, like speeding, blowing stop signs, failure to yield, etc, can get you a ticket regardless of their outcome. Opening a car door into traffic,
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by bbarn 10y ago
I'm specifically referencing confederate flags and signs that said "Trespassers will be shot, niggers will be shot twice", when riding up in the mountains, on rural but modern paved roads. I could probably dig up specific ga
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by bbarn 10y ago
Funny, as a cyclist - Chatanooga was a really exciting prospect for a trip. There's beautiful mountains to ride on, great looking roads, etc... but the locals were awful to deal with when we went. I have had less altercations and neg
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by bbarn 10y ago
I gave up on drop box long ago, but someone in my company uses a paid version of it for some reason still, and group policy means it's on my windows machine. I made the mistake of plugging my phone into my work PC to charge it recentl
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by bbarn 10y ago
> " VirnetX, a Nevada-based patent licensor, filed suit in an East Texas federal court" Always East Texas. How is that crooked court still operating?
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by bbarn 10y ago
They missed something in this article. There is actually only 1 indoor velodrome in the US. The rest are outdoor. What's important about that, is, given any locale's elite cycling community, there's little reason to race on
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by bbarn 10y ago
The "Why is this on HN" post always seems to come with a judgmental comment. It's on HN because hackers, as a whole, react to what they perceive to be injustice, or discrimination. Hiding behind a nation's "norms&qu
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by bbarn 10y ago
I see that as a selling point to being more experienced. Intolerance for bullshit is a good trait in many a job.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Yeah, this is really what you'd determine comparing brands. The mega brands like hormel, oscar mayer, etc will almost always have massively imbalanced fat proportions, and a lot of the time the smaller, or more expensive brands will b
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by bbarn 10y ago
Point A is especially important. I quit four years ago, and I constantly get bombarded by people trying to get me to come back onto it. I have a few friends who've resisted and never gotten an account, but they are also constantly go
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by bbarn 10y ago
Frontline Education | Chicago, IL | ONSITE | Full-time We make software that powers educational institutions. https://www.frontlineeducation.com We're looking for two senior .NET developers to help lead our platform develop
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by bbarn 10y ago
I feel like the people who excel after coding bootcamps would have excelled without them. Self starting, picking things up quickly, and looking for a good deal aren't bad traits to have in general. Lots of people I know that have cro
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by bbarn 10y ago
I don't know if they're as deserving of the vitriol. I've interviewed and worked with several people with DeVry degrees. I can't say if it's sample size or just good luck or both but I haven't been disappoint
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by bbarn 10y ago
It means a raise. Usually it would mean a rise in price of something you pay for.

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