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by et-al 9y ago
> If there is a bad enough earthquake [the fire department] will not come for you. The sheer volume of fires and service response calls will overwhelm them. Wish your comment was higher up. If you're in the Bay Area: sign up for a
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by et-al 9y ago
> Something between an old Nokia and an iPhone, but still a precision-crafted, luxury device. There's the Light Phone, but I haven't seen many reviews on it. And its successor, the Light Phone 2, isn't coming out until n
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by et-al 9y ago
Surprised you're downvoted, but perhaps it's tangental to the discussion. It's also the weekend, so eh.. :) My personal biggest takeaway from Naples was a question of what happened between Italy and America that the food lost
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by et-al 9y ago
> Problem is that flexbox ruins CSS box model that mandates that width CSS property is what defines the width of inner box of the element. Now they have flex-basis that if defined in galaxy far, far away overrides that width by somethin
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by et-al 9y ago
Yeah, if you're looking for New York style, you're pretty much limited to Arinell. For Neopolitan, you've got Tony's (actual restaurant, not the takeout shop), Il Casaro, and Carmel Pizza Co. in the North Beach area. Els
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by et-al 9y ago
The exact same thing happened with Indian restaurants in New York: > "We give our restaurants Indian names," the Bangladeshi manager of another Indian restaurant said, "because people in America know about India, and mayb
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by et-al 9y ago
I worked in the restaurant POS space until very recently. We (and our competitors) are partnering up with Grubhub, Eat24, etc. to solve the hassle of multiple tablets at the counter. Orders can just flow seamlessly from Grubhub's web s
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by et-al 9y ago
That's the first time I've seen that variant for "FANG". Might I suggest GAFMAN to be even more comprehensive? And if Dropbox gets big enough, we can make it DGAFMAN.
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by et-al 9y ago
> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days. I enjoy HN because
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by et-al 9y ago
This is a game changer! I've always added the desired year to my search terms hoping that would match a date on a page, but this is much more precise. Thanks!
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by et-al 9y ago
> make liberal use of google's 'tools -> past year' feature. I didn't understand this. May someone please give an example? Thanks.
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by et-al 9y ago
I tweeted at them about this when those dropdown answers came out and they actually responded to me, but never took action to change things. The official United response on FlyerTalk (linked from the Slate article) is naïve to say the least
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by et-al 9y ago
The New Yorker published a cartoon along that vein last year with "Insecurity Questions": https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/insecurity-ques...
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by et-al 9y ago
Think the German language requirement is only for the PM. > we hire English speakers for technical roles.
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by et-al 9y ago
If their view their house as an investment. There's a good amount of people who are in the Bay Area simply because they like the weather, outdoors, and have family here. They didn't buy a house because they knew prices would go up
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by et-al 9y ago
To add to the link pile: A Study Plan To Cure JavaScript Fatigue - https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascr... The author recommends this plan: Week 0: JavaScript basics Week 1: React Week 2: Building a
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by et-al 9y ago
I agree, but my point was that there was significant period of time when folks could and did buy houses here. Now if the parent poster had said housing stock has remained (generally) constant, I'd be in agreement on that.
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by et-al 9y ago
Property prices were affordable a 10-15 years ago. Otherwise how would we have all these middle-class families living here?
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by et-al 9y ago
Electronics (physical things) require prototyping shops, which require physical space. Unfortunately land is at a premium in the Bay Area. As rents rise beyond oppressive rates, I worry the Bay Area won't be as innovative anymore becau
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by et-al 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with browsing for beautiful places. Travel magazines, especially the ones in the back of your airplane seat, do this. However Instagram adds a "keeping up with the Joneses" dimension to it with everyone
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by et-al 9y ago
Not A Nomad (who sometimes posts here) has a nice in-depth guide on emigrating to Germany: https://notanomadblog.com/how-to-emigrate-germany-startup-jo... I also have a friend-of-a-friend who moved from SF to Berlin to work
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by et-al 9y ago
Except no one from a bootcamp is adding "BSc Computer Science" behind their name. And somehow they're getting decent jobs.
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by et-al 9y ago
How good a community college is often dependent on how wealthy its county is. Secondly, a data science course may be offered, but only during fall semester and everyone else wants to sign up for it. Also bootcamps can compress the curricu
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by et-al 9y ago
Thanks! Didn't know that about stingrays.
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by et-al 9y ago
This is dependent on the individual poster in the Who Is Hiring thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16735011 ). Though if you're good, try punching above your weight. My experience with interns has been largely
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by et-al 9y ago
Layman question: one can limit their exposure with encrypted VoIP communications (e.g. FaceTime) and chats (iMessage, Signal), correct? That being said, the intercepter would still know: - phone being connected (IMEI) - location of the phon
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by et-al 9y ago
I am not your librarian, but the American Library Association (ALA) seems to respect readers' privacy. They pushed back on the Patriot Act: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/advleg/federallegislation/theusa...
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by et-al 9y ago
Yes, avoid it unless you need to work on the latest Xcode.
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by et-al 9y ago
It's serviceable, but it looks harder to access than a visible-tank toilet. At the 3m mark in the video, my hands are instinctively cramping just by looking at that tight space. The difference is like working on a car in the 70s versus
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by et-al 9y ago
How many years are you expecting to live with 200k saved? Spending 1k/month, you're looking at ~17 years. And that seems on the frugal side.

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