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by bbarn 11y ago
Several of my friends are bike shop workers in Chicago, I can confirm this is quickly becoming the preferred "DUI Bike" for those with the means.
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by bbarn 11y ago
Chicago dev here. Lots of friends in the groupon circle I know have been unhappy and left. Know two people at uptake, both miserable there. They seem to have a big problem with claiming/trying to be a great place to work, but execut
873.
by bbarn 11y ago
Milwaukee loses the last letter too at certain zooms. Oddly nothing but the lake to its right though.
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by bbarn 11y ago
I wonder how much the DIN font is optimized for longer german words. While I don't like it as much as the others, Frutiger would be much wider than it, which in practical terms might be bad.
875.
by bbarn 11y ago
This guy's videos are great. Just got sucked into a youtube hole for an hour.
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by bbarn 11y ago
Yup. 9 miles each way, over the last ten years that's varied with different jobs, but I've managed to do it year round in Chicago. It's funny, when suggested, the gut reaction from a lot of people is to say why it won'
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by bbarn 11y ago
The four year old in me lost interest with the double sequence of dark overlay modals that assaulted me the second I tried to read/scroll the article.
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by bbarn 11y ago
Experience is worth paying for as well, not simply responsibilities. There's an entire industry called "consulting" based around that.
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by bbarn 11y ago
I've been through this same exact scenario before, twice. Once as a manager having to cut half my staff, another time as the leftover manager two years later. Both times for the same reason. The company got expand-itis, and started g
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by bbarn 11y ago
Yeah, I'm really getting tired of this "You just changed pages and didn't know it" pattern I'm seeing more and more. I'm not sure why people want to have this single page app at all costs, but if you want the
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by bbarn 11y ago
Turbo Pascal was the first software I remember buying in a retail box. Before then it was all copied and school-given software, but something in 15 year old me really felt it was worth buying this tool. It was. That purchase spawned a car
882.
by bbarn 11y ago
I've only been to college games at Notre Dame and VT, and both of those are very segregated stadiums. There's an entire "student" section, a "visiting team" section, and tickets are sold like that.
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by bbarn 11y ago
Actually, that little tiny bit about your mortgage, etc., was what made me read the post more seriously. I see a lot of "I'm so done with tech, I'm gonna go surf!" type articles out there, and believe me.. it's a c
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by bbarn 11y ago
In the investigation, undercover agents were able to get prohibited items through security checkpoints in 67 of 70 instances. I don't understand this. As the majority of the intelligent people I talk to seem to understand that the TSA
885.
by bbarn 11y ago
Chicago might have a bit of a unique problem with traffic to and from warehouses as well. Real estate is very expensive in city limits and the infrastructure here doesn't support the model all that well. I bet they could manage, but
886.
by bbarn 11y ago
Not the OP but lots of people who use acrobat reader plugins to fill in / sign forms. Chrome's built in PDF reader got better, but it still can't A. post a filled form back to the browser/server or B. sign a document.
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by bbarn 11y ago
http://www.teslamotors.com/findus#/bounds/42.023131,-87.5240... Not in this city. The nearest one is an hourish away, depending on time of day and traffic. This is by the way, the third largest city in the count
888.
by bbarn 11y ago
This was a fun read, but unfortunately, the electric car isn't practical yet in the environment it should excel the most at - the city. It's only a feasible option if you're a home owner with a garage. I could totally affor
889.
by bbarn 11y ago
"While we there may be differences between some of us, we are all equal." Well, which is it?
890.
by bbarn 11y ago
OP - I love the concept, but the execution isn't there. I installed it on my Gear Live, and it pops up a "Heart Rate" notification, that until acknowledged leaves the heart rate sensor on. (the green light underneath). This
891.
by bbarn 12y ago
I love to cook. I tend to shop for meats / primary ingredients in bulk at costco, and freeze/thaw as needed. However, the individual dishes I almost never plan out, other than maybe a few days ahead of time. Almost nightly I go
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by bbarn 12y ago
"I'm not convinced that the same macronutrient profile is ideal for everyone. " Yeah, this is my big problem with all of this. In fact, given the known differences in gut fauna that localized cultures/diets have, it&#x2
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by bbarn 12y ago
The big issue the author misses is that there's no such thing as a "lemon". The whole concept of the "lemon" is one that ignores that a machine like this is the sum of it's parts, in their working or non worki
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by bbarn 12y ago
The "MBA dicks" didn't start this, we did, like it or not. All the agile, write stuff on sticky-notes, stand up meetings did this, not managers looking to cut costs. They may have benefited, embraced an idea, and exploited
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by bbarn 12y ago
My least and most favorite topic rears it's head again. The open floor plan. Here's what I've come to think is about perfect: The open floor plan, with +-3 hour start/end time to your 8 hour work day (from say, 8:30-5)
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by bbarn 12y ago
Why not just post as show HN? If there's a nit, it'll be picked.
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by bbarn 12y ago
Any discussion of how to split revenues is pointless without data about what paying users listen to. Top 40 listeners may percentage-wise be a much lower paying audience. Lots of the top 40 is aimed at teen/youth users, who have lots
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by bbarn 12y ago
Please not the "awareness" argument again. All things that fall under the "raising awareness" umbrella do, is make people feel like they're doing something meaningful, when they aren't. "Hey, I didn't
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by bbarn 12y ago
I might be alone in this, but I have an alternative problem with really nice packaging... The "don't waste stuff" mentality my parents instilled in me makes it really hard to throw the stuff out. I often find when I'm m
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by bbarn 12y ago
The reason this article is trending at the top of HN is the reason this person is going through this. The idea that great start-ups must exist on an 47 sq mile piece of land with utterly mediocre weather (the literal definition of mediocre

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