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by et-al 10y ago
As beart says, it helps with arithmetic by lining up the 1s, 10s, 100s. Also, it makes it easier to compare which number is larger/smaller--very useful when dealing with currencies.
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by et-al 10y ago
Wait, please tell me more about these inexpensive yet faithful reproductions. Is there good place in Germany to find these?
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by et-al 10y ago
> Calling them living rooms is a bit of a misnomer for most of them Living room, family room, and den always confused me when I was a kid. In the States, "living room" means a more formal room for entertaining guests (coffee
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by et-al 10y ago
Has he posted anything good as of late? I followed him 'cause someone mentioned Justin Kan was dropping knowledge on Snapchat, but his snaps were just "typical" rich guy stuff so I stopped.
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by et-al 10y ago
Whoops, thanks for bringing that up. Luckily most folks in the States aren't at work, but let me email the mods. To continue the conversation, I think that site was more of a personal site just hosted on Stanford--not necessarily a wor
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by et-al 10y ago
Thanks for sharing that link. On a tangent, I love these old university personal pages. In an age of impermanence, it's endearing to stumble upon web pages still up 20 years after they were made. I've used the Arroyo Seco River Hi
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by et-al 10y ago
Yeah, think of how Vice transitioned from a magazine for art school kids to a broader journalism company covering topics more traditional agencies might've shyed away from.
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by et-al 10y ago
Maybe not for heart disease, but stress should be number one for health overall because it affects all the other things you mentioned: sleep, appetite, exercise, and smoking. With the principals being able to work 18h days, I think their di
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by et-al 10y ago
> If the drivers aren't making enough from base fares then the fares need to go up - it's not my job to be a charity The way I view it, I've already gotten a discounted cab ride thanks to the VCs. So the very least I can
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by et-al 10y ago
> Sounds like a politically correct way of saying "you screwed up but the other guy had a 51% chance to do something that would have avoided the outcome but you had 49%." I didn't take it that way at all. It's very li
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by et-al 10y ago
Glad dhh is starting some pushback. Just as a minor aside, for anyone interviewing out there, don't fret about syntax that much. If you forget, tell your interviewer "i forgot the exact syntax, but let's assume it takes in x,
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by et-al 10y ago
Which one? Key things are: - you get out what you put in. attending a boot camp is not a guarantee you'll land well-paying job. you have to demonstrate to a new employer you've mastered the skills to help their company - depending
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by et-al 10y ago
Private club with a $2400 annual fee. One would assume that if you're spending that much on a place to drink without the commoners, you're making over $200k or aspiring to be.
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by et-al 10y ago
Selection bias - the title of the other Ask HN was "Do you make more than $200K? What did you have to do?", after all. Secondly, I think there's a difference between "totally normal" and "not outlandish".
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by et-al 10y ago
Are you American? Speaking for myself, I don't have a safety net aside from my family. So I need to be responsible for my own healthcare, potential children's education, and retirement. Some people are born under lucky stars, or b
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by et-al 10y ago
In California, after taxes, you take home about 60-70% of your gross income depending on deductions. It's a lot of money, but property in San Francisco is going for at least $800k right now. If you want a further breakdown on numbers,
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by et-al 10y ago
..in their tiny micro-studios. :(
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by et-al 10y ago
Certain streets in SF are unspoken "highways" with timed green lights to get across the city quickly: Fell/Oak, Sutter/Bush, Geary, Lincoln Ave, 19th Ave, Guerrero, Howard/Folsom (though this seems to have changed w
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by et-al 10y ago
> SOMA is the office district, with some apartment buildings added. Warehouse district is more accurate. And SoMa has shaped much of San Francisco culture. Maybe not the way we see it now, but without SoMa, many geeks and artists may not
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by et-al 10y ago
Foods cause your body to have a certain reaction. So the idea is that foods cause your body to lower its pH, which goes against our slightly alkaline nature. I think there may be some substance to this, but in general, it's save just t
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by et-al 10y ago
> But, in a generation publishing their every 2nd gym workout on instagram, who am I kidding anyway. This is the issue. The latest generation has been told to constant work on their personal brand (ugh), and blogging is one way to do i
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by et-al 10y ago
Cloudflare shares a timeline on their blog post: The three features implicated were rolled out as follows. The earliest date memory could have leaked is 2016-09-22. 2016-09-22 Automatic HTTP Rewrites enabled 2017-01-30 Server-Sid
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by et-al 10y ago
Unless the web site was paranoid enough to encrypt your password client-side before sending it to the server, it's possible the password was leaked. With 2FA, your password and a one-time code were leaked and cached somewhere, but in
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by et-al 10y ago
Good luck with that, people have been requesting for TOTP support on Namecheap for the past 3 years. https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx... https://blog.namecheap.com/two-f
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by et-al 10y ago
Thanks for (re)posting this--the clear desk analogy was very communicative. For a while, I found myself waking up and spending a good 20-30 minutes in bed just reading news, then I'd open up the laptop and browse HN while eating breakf
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by et-al 10y ago
> The important part is to control that 'first' desire of looking at your phone or opening up distracting sites. Yeah, this is always key. If you don't get that initial dopamine hit from the first potato chip, or that fi
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by et-al 10y ago
The Kapors are invested in Uber. If anything, they would care more about the success of Uber than all the other commentators here--aside from any employees. Right now, they're probably walking a fine line between doing the right thing
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by et-al 10y ago
Agree. The hormonal differences could have be attributed to the stress of preparing for this big event versus not working and being out in nature for a month. Or even things like the time of day, or sleep the night or two before. Would&#x27
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by et-al 10y ago
Do it between jobs, or work for a company with a decent leave policy. My friend took 6 months off from Google last year. Once you're out of debt and have the savings: do it. It's generally easier to do these things before other re
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by et-al 10y ago
> are you willing to sacrifice your ethics and morals just to create the world's best taxi service in the near term? All the things you mentioned subsequently are completely valid reasons for people to join Uber, but on top of tha

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