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by eric_h 11y ago
> Second, do you honestly believe that nobody at all in ENY is trying to do anything at all to try to make anything better in their own community? I believe most people in ENY are just trying to get out. I'm not sure anyone is terri
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by eric_h 11y ago
I agree, but I toughed it out and I felt that it was worth it. It's very depressing and while I (who've lived in NYC for 14 years) have heard mention many times of East New York, and how it's a really shitty neighborhood, I h
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by eric_h 11y ago
Well, the advent of prime now means you can get many things in an hour from Amazon, though of course there are additional fees that are not covered by the annual prime membership fees.
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by eric_h 11y ago
If I may pick a small nit. People who get good grades are "smart", people who score highly on IQ tests are "intelligent" - those characteristics are essentially orthogonal. It is generally easier for intelligent people t
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by eric_h 11y ago
I do that all the time at work. Coworker (who's sitting next to me) has headphones on? Message him on hip chat.
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by eric_h 11y ago
The Uber app has been doing that for me for a few weeks now. "Go here for faster pickup?" or something to that effect.
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by eric_h 11y ago
True, but I think it's quite reasonable to say that his share would still have been worth N * 10^9, for some value of N > 1
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by eric_h 11y ago
I agree completely - I studied Computer Science in college, but nevertheless I learned how to program by teaching myself. I got value out of studying comp sci, but by no means whatsoever did studying comp sci teach me how to build software.
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by eric_h 11y ago
> Nobody explains this better than the meth guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1WiCGq-PcY That clip just increased my already substantial respect for Bryan Cranston, though I feel as though calling him the "meth
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by eric_h 11y ago
Agreed - I very much enjoyed the exploration of what it would take to support a major colony in orbit.
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by eric_h 11y ago
I know nothing about corporate law, thanks for the info.
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by eric_h 11y ago
That is a fair point. I will reiterate that I agreed with the original poster and was positing what the counterargument presented from the courts/3 letter agencies would be. We'll never see that counterargument regarding the cost
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by eric_h 11y ago
You and me both!
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by eric_h 11y ago
While I agree, the counterargument will likely be that all of Apple's lawyers are on salary and as such Apple's legal costs would be no different with or without the court proceedings.
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by eric_h 11y ago
Much like Slashdot's moderation system.
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by eric_h 11y ago
> Even if it is entertainment, which it is not Just because you don't find it entertaining does not mean it's not entertainment. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your other points, but gambling of all types is most cer
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by eric_h 11y ago
>no Amazon Prime Streaming app on Apple TV, for instance I was under the impression they were working on that, [0] seems to agree with that 0) http://exstreamist.com/when-will-amazon-prime-be-on-apple-tv...
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by eric_h 11y ago
There are many streets in New York that are like this, experienced cab drivers know this and will take routes that take advantage of "cascading lights". In fact the fastest/cheapest route to prospect heights from lower manhat
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by eric_h 11y ago
That police officers get nervous and can be consumed by an adrenaline fueled fight or flight response (while armed) seems to be part of the problem. I wonder if there's a pharmaceutical solution to this problem that would suppress the
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by eric_h 11y ago
martin-adams solved this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352113
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by eric_h 11y ago
The thing I like about our setup is that it's completely independent of individual developers' setups. Some of us use iterm, some of us are okay with terminal.app (iterm 2 ftw!). All of the backend capable folks (three of us) do h
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by eric_h 11y ago
Fair enough. I had an employer many years ago (~12) who insisted in spite of my objections that all of our servers be accessible via ssh (as root! On port 22!) with a shared, 7 character password on the public internet. Worst of all it was
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by eric_h 11y ago
I agree with you to some extent. I universally tip well (my baseline is at least 25% largely regardless of the circumstances) and I am rewarded because of it due to preferential service. If service in a given situation is objectively terrib
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by eric_h 11y ago
This is entirely dependent upon the establishment in question. In NYC, it's quite common for bars that have multiple tenders behind the bar to split their tips during hours they work together. Further, many restaurants also give BoH a
925.
by eric_h 11y ago
Do people really have all the instances in their infrastructure serving ssh to the public internet? We use a gateway box that's the only machine in the cluster serving ssh to the public and jump to our other machines from there. Why wo
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by eric_h 11y ago
In the last 5 years, bloat on web pages has increased considerably . Tracking script counts on all pages has gone way up, and I very frequently will find that if I leave some web pages in a background tab, their memory usage will climb int
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by eric_h 11y ago
It's common enough that I made sure our AWS boxes put the name of the current environment both in the bash prompt and rails console prompts (production is in bright red, staging is a nice soothing purple :).
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by eric_h 11y ago
<conspiracy theory> Apple releases latest version of iOS (which requires everyone who installs it to type in their passphrase, for both the phone and iCloud, again), and the FBI backs off on demanding that Apple write FBiOS for them.
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by eric_h 11y ago
I was intentionally brief in describing my workflow, obviously different features require different flows. If the integration test can be covered by simple requests specs for the api, then I will write that first. If, however, the feature r
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by eric_h 11y ago
Agreed, but boats when not filled with air are typically negatively buoyant. I'd wager that there's an air bubble small enough to make the whole system negatively buoyant, but large enough to sustain the people breathing it for so

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