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by czep 10y ago
Why does it not suffice to examine 'pip install Django' metrics from PyPI? That would be a reliable indicator of the relative popularity of the package against other packages in a level playing field. While it would overcount the
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by czep 10y ago
Strange concluding sentence about the prospect of an influx of Chinese investors to rekindle rising rents. Is there evidence that such a trend is likely in the near future? I have seen reports that a lot of money is expatriated from China
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by czep 10y ago
I definitely agree that there may be some unexpected consequences of using the primary key in this way. It certainly won't behave like a timestamp and could distort the function outputs. Would it be possible to substitute the integer
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by czep 10y ago
> even though I will never have that much money in order to buy a new Porsche vehicle You're not meant to buy it. You're meant to be envious of it. The target market is purchasing your envy. See Veblen's _Theory of the
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by czep 10y ago
Could there be any connection to the moon's current proximity to Earth? Does anyone know to what extent the moon's gravity can influence earthquakes? Tides are one thing, but it seems plausible that the moon being closer to eart
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by czep 10y ago
As a back-ender looking to dabble with modern front-end development best practices, I'm encouraged to find guides like this one. Even if the array of available packages and tools appears dizzying, and often times faddish, it's ni
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by czep 10y ago
Very snappy and looks great on mobile and desktop. I'm no designer but I also like the typography, the text is very readable and there's just the right amount of negative space. And content-wise, it's an impressive list of
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by czep 10y ago
I agree that even maintaining email addresses can be a security risk that I'd rather avoid. But many users expect this and will try to use their email even if you give them a "username" prompt. My primary intent with requiri
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Ask HN: Best user model for a web application?
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by czep 10y ago
If you were having cardiac surgery, would you prefer your surgeon to be a year out of med school having done the operation oh 3 or 4 times, or the proverbial graybeard who has done it a thousand times? If you were wrongly convicted and awai
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by czep 10y ago
> "If you move to <city> with half the CoL, we'll pay you 90% of your current salary". It's an interesting proposition and one that I suspect many would take seriously. But as an eternal pessimist, I would imme
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by czep 10y ago
And from whose rocket are you going to trust launching those nukes? I'm not interested in even being in the same Hemisphere as such a launch! And everyone knows lasers are the solution to errant asteroids. Perhaps attached to evil sh
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by czep 10y ago
Income data does not give you the full picture, especially in a city like SF. A lot of people have inherited wealth or trusts that provide moderate income (at least as reported to the IRS), so looking at income alone is insufficient for un
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by czep 10y ago
It's infuriating how these crooks are the ones who get to be rich, while people who play by the rules, work and live honestly, end up being in debt to these criminals. Nice bit of reporting by WSJ. I'm sure they will also get blo
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by czep 10y ago
> It's not fun to know that your state at one point seceded so the wealthiest elites could practice slavery. Civic pride is an interesting concept that can have positive and negative impacts on behavior and psychology. Your desire
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by czep 10y ago
> Why would it make you less inclined to click on it? Genuinely curious. It's not that I'm, gasp! offended, by the use of a "dirty word", but rather that this kind of gratuitous swearing seems designed purely to make
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by czep 10y ago
I get it too. It's incredibly soothing and comforting to contemplate the vastness of space, the amazing features of this reality we barely comprehend and in which we live for a flicker of an instant. Whenever I'm stressed, all I
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by czep 10y ago
> If you work at a chocolate factory, and own the chocolate factory - your entire livelyhood is tied to that chocolate factory. If the company goes under, you lose your job and your savings. Not true. Owners risk no personal stake becau
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by czep 10y ago
This is one of the subtle underlying justifications for ageism in tech: it's the assumption that if you were any good in your youth, you'd already made your fortune before 40, so anyone over 40 still working in tech must suck, rig
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by czep 10y ago
Squeezed at both ends! At some point I passed from too young to too old, but never got to enjoy the supposed middle period. I remember the struggle of trying to prove myself during my early career and then suddenly found myself in "m
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by czep 10y ago
This is a world where job posts for "Senior Engineer" ask for three years of experience.
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by czep 10y ago
> The problem with this is that's not why most people go to universities. The top reason is probably credentials for employment This is most certainly not the case at the University of Chicago. If you want a degree, even a prestigi
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by czep 10y ago
Where evidence is provided which undermines the credibility of the author, this does not qualify as an ad hominem attack. The parent provided relevant background as to why one should doubt the author's objectivity. Simply playing the
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by czep 10y ago
True, but this is a small price to pay to setup a mail server in EC2. My reverse DNS request was answered in 48 hours. It took me far longer than that to configure the server. Most spammers won't bother with rdns, dkim, and spf, whi
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by czep 10y ago
The majority of Uber employees... are drivers. Clearly proportion of software engineers cannot be a good metric for what makes a "tech" company.
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by czep 10y ago
Any advice on where to look for a house in the bay area right now? Like I'm sure a million others, I'm sick of renting in a market where landlords sell and evict every day (happening to me right now, again). Got a kid, need good
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by czep 10y ago
There's a better way: order some pizza, cans of red bull, and call it a "hackathon".
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by czep 10y ago
Brilliant analysis. This is wisdom for the ages, thank you.
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by czep 11y ago
Yup, I finally got disgusted enough by Verizon's complete disregard for their customers that I was willing to switch to Android simply to try Google Fi. The tipping point for me was when I realized that 10 months had gone by after I&#
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by czep 11y ago
Thanks, much appreciated. I am new to android having used iOS for most of my phones in the past. I decided to switch to get away from Verizon and a general dissatisfaction with the way iOS makes decisions for you. So any practical advice

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