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Also, people are more able to communicate their wants and needs as deltas rather than absolutes. Creating something as a starting point is a great way to seed the conversation and get people thinking, even if that something doesn't e
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The other thing to consider about Macs when it comes to file organization and such is Spotlight. Macs were the first to have automatic file indexing, including file contents, that actually worked well. Organizing files and understanding wha
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Not the poster that you're replying to, but my story is similar. I did my first 10-day Vipassana retreat while on an extended vacation. Every word GP said feels like it describes my first experience. I had some pretty profound realizat
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I've only got the one data point, but I had a bit of a nightmare flying experience with Wings Air, a part of the Lion Air group. I was flying from Denpasar to Labuan Bajo and Wings was one of two airlines that I could've chosen. I
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They may factor those things in, but that doesn't mean they factor them in correctly or that their calculation ends up matching the realities of many middle-class people these days. From medical-illness-caused bankruptcies to crippling
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They also likely use inflation statistics that are problematic, at best. When considering consumables, we've had pretty reasonable inflation and people are making more than their parents. But if you were to calculate inflation based on
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> Don't forget to include the risk of reporters finding out about this whole arrangement and doing further damage to an already tarnished company and industry Perhaps, but 2014 is pre-#MeToo, so those risks wouldn't have been f
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Sorry I missed your reply...I stopped following the thread. But in case you're still reading, here's some responses: > How have users taken to the tool? Have they needed ongoing support, or once trained they understand what to
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The other way to do it is to change ownership of the executable to nobody:nogroup and set the setuid/setgid bits. Perhaps you could simply put those chown/chmod commands in the docs: sudo chown nobody:nogroup path_to_up
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The easier way is to just have ratios. Companies that already employ lots of Americans should be able to easily hire foreigners. Companies that hire predominantly foreigners should have a difficult time getting more. A few rules to prevent
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Can I say that I hope you don't make this tool too Linux-specific. It seems to run pretty reasonably on Mac and would probably also work on BSD variants. Since I use all three (Mac, BSD, Linux) on a semi-regular basis, I'm pretty
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Every reason you cited can be had by starting in community college. If I were advising a graduating senior today, I'd advise them to consider a gap year and to go the community college route. You can still get a degree from the most pr
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Sure, what kinds of questions do you have? We're still pretty early in the process and I think we made a few mistakes that we'll need to correct. But we made a number of choices that have worked out really well despite the fears o
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I think it really depends on your audience. We've recently been working on a workflow tool for people significantly less technical than Github's users and we started out with an approach somewhat similar to the one you outline. We
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No personal experience with them, but socketlabs.com is pretty close to mailgun for price. At a previous job (company sent ~2m emails/day), I was good friends with the engineer in charge of our mail infrastructure and he was really imp
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Umm...we have pilots at a base outside Las Vegas flying missions over Afghanistan, we can get reasonable WiFi access on trans-oceanic flights and we're looking likely to see direct flights from Sydney to New York in the next couple of
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Make sure to keep coding in your spare time. I'm trying to get back to dev work now after 5 years in management land, and I'm finding it difficult to get back to my prior level of productivity. Coding skills age pretty quickly.
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> lifting in a fasted state impacts my performance 0% Based on my own experiences, I'd actually expect performance to improve since the body isn't using resources for digestion. I'm not a weight lifter, but I know bicyclin
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Wow...I'm not sure why Apple has taken down it's documentation for the command-line tools. It's been so long since I looked at anything beyond the man pages, I didn't realize the web docs weren't up. If I had to haz
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Homebrew is NOT the primary package manager on Mac and I wish people would stop perpetuating that falsehood. Apple includes pkgutil/pkgbuild in the OS and that official package management strategy plays much better with corporate IT co
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> Views like this are very unhelpful and help to perpetuate shame No, my view is a hard-earned perspective that I've gained through personally having the system fail me. I lost a decade of my life to the medication-first mentality a
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This is exactly my view. I see medication as the nuclear option. It's important to have it in reserve, since it can work, but you should try everything else first because of how badly the medication route can go. The "first do no
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Have you considered meditation? It's been somewhat of a godsend for me after more than a decade of horrible side effects from anti-depressants. I'd highly recommend the eastern variety since I got no benefit from the watered-down
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> Which basically says that when we deplete the body of certain neurotransmitters, people get depressed Your statement represents a logical fallacy. I can also prove that depleting a car of gasoline causes it not to run, but fixing the f
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The thing to remember about flights is that the airline isn't really making much money on coach. The $/sq ft on first and business is much higher and is the source of nearly all their profit. But there just aren't enough peop
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This kind of stuff annoys me to no end. I think everyone realizes that Silicon Valley and the overall tech world has a diversity problem. There are aspects of our society that systematically under-develop and discourage minorities and women
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You left off a key word when you took the term "ethnic superiority" out of context. I prefaced it with the word "some" to indicate that I was considering only a single dimension, intelligence. I said nothing about "
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> So either there's a Jewish conspiracy (which some people believe...) or Jews tend to be smarter. You're assuming that intelligence is the determining factor in winning a Nobel prize, which seems spurious at best. Work ethic a
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> it's not as easy to make it big as it used to be What? It's so much easier than it used to be. Between low interest rates, QE policies and the latest corporate tax cuts, equity markets are booming and it's easier than ev
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To me, my intro to comp sci class nailed it by teaching Scheme. The first 30 min or so were spent introducing all the syntax wed learn in the entire class. The remaining several weeks were spent on CS concepts and learning to express oursel

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