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by existencebox 8y ago
This is an amazing writeup. I'm currently solving the "migrations" problem for a side project of my own, and have basically resolved myself in the short term to be OK with short downtime for the sake of making migrations som
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by existencebox 8y ago
Chiming in as a seattelite having spent significant time in Baltimore, Philly, and Colorado: We do some things rather well (Transparency, not entirely atrophied ability to enact infrastructure progress, reasonable decent levels of participa
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by existencebox 8y ago
I'm fascinated by this. I live near seattle as well, but quite a distance due to finding something affordable with any amount of land, but your setup seems ideal. Small house to maintain, separation from neighbor, better commute. I&#
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by existencebox 8y ago
So I'm going to chime in as a perpetual pessimist. I've found tremendous utility in expecting negative outcomes. I'm wording this very pedantically, because my father and I used to argue past each other for hours re: "b
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by existencebox 8y ago
I have a feeling I'm walking into a very dumb question/obvious answer, but here goes. If you're putting getFoo at whatever level of scope that you'd run it over multiple bar objects that don't have it bound, why is
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by existencebox 8y ago
I've generally avoided tropical species exactly as you say, but after having decent luck with some of the "you can't kill this" plants (zz plant, sansevieria, some ferns/aloe/simple cacti) I figured I'd th
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by existencebox 8y ago
This is a hard question to ask because of how touchy this subject is, but I promise this is a question born out of a situation I personally was in. Does there need to be discrimination for the result to be skewed in this way? The way I rea
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by existencebox 8y ago
I'm getting established plants in a container, from a local garden place. Small (2-3 inch) pots, but established. The _ONLY_ thing I can think of after watching your video is that the house gets cold at night, since we only keep the b
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by existencebox 8y ago
Ugh that looks amazing, I'm so jealous. Looks like you get more light than I do, but I'll try on the "more water" side, as well as fertilizing. Thanks for the tips!
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by existencebox 8y ago
It's funny you say that. I've killed two in the last few months. I've tried super low light, normal light, and my succulent shelf. I've tried watering regularly, and never watering. The leaves just reliably turn this
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by existencebox 8y ago
I don't want to make a concrete statement on this, I am not an economist, but I know enough of this debate to call out that there's dissent on if the way housing costs are calculated into CPI ends up reflecting the actual costs of
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by existencebox 8y ago
Realize though, the unfortunate result of the way this is implemented results in an interview process that ends up being perceived as quite coarse and unfeeling, and seems to filter on often capricious tests of algorithmic knowledge; Some h
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by existencebox 8y ago
I say the following having worked at multiple "big-5" including G. Do you not feel any of the twist in your stomach that I feel when reading your post? That we're discarding any vestige of track record and accomplishment (th
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by existencebox 8y ago
You're not wrong but I think that misses my point. http://www.septa.org/maps/system/ The rail offers great coverage way into the western parts where the grid breaks down. To avoid us talking past each other,
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by existencebox 8y ago
It's absurd that there aren't more steps being taken. Just this morning I had 4 calls between 5 and 8:00, and I can't turn my phone off. (On-call for work.) Our government is busy shutting itself down over nonsense, yet patho
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by existencebox 8y ago
Let me defend the philly suburbs for a second here: The actual philly grid extends _quite_ far out, ~hour drive outside city center. On top of that, the light rail goes WAY outside in a bunch of key directions, with rather impressive bus c
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by existencebox 8y ago
My grandmother spent the last years of her life deep in the fog of Alzheimers. Unfortunately, I can't imagine any level of tech beyond the _most basic_ supervisory and assistive care would have helped in her case. (She thought, and h
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by existencebox 8y ago
To be precise. I do not in any way believe in perfectly intelligent or omniscient markets. I do believe that large professional financial entities have mastered short-term trading to force things such as margin calls and other behaviors t
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by existencebox 8y ago
I do not believe this counters the OP's point. While the core purpose of financial markets may be beneficial vehicles like hedging and price discovery, the fact that the pragmatic outcome of the law is to leave wall street as one of t
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by existencebox 8y ago
By my most literal interpretation of this law my inlaws can now be arrested for our march madness bracket. This seems absurd that we've let even this level of ambiguity come to pass in a country that used to pride itself on personal l
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by existencebox 8y ago
That's the fascinating part; I followed _that specific_ top google result plus a few others, dug around in RamMap, but couldn't find anything to finger any particular process as owning all the consumed Ram. Admittedly a bit out o
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by existencebox 8y ago
I'm consistently envious of my friends in Civil Engineering. I'm sure it's a grass-is-greener situation, but they seem to have "Decent Pay" but in a far greater range of COLs, and with a far more entrenched expecta
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by existencebox 8y ago
Preemptive apologies for this glorified "it's nice to hear it's not just me" of a post. To let you skip the anecdote if you don't care, I'd be very curious if someone can answer _why_ this happens. Earlier this
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This is such an absurd comment I have to counter it. The library near me is wonderful, and my wife regularly goes there just because of how peaceful it is and how broad their e-book collection is for her bus rides. I'm in a normal no-
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by existencebox 8y ago
Not parent, but I also got to touch scratch back in the 06/07 time period, and found it quite pleasant. My initial environment for learning however, had been a TI-83 calculator, and had StackOverflow existed back then (or had the calcu
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by existencebox 8y ago
For the sole purpose of giving a friendly stranger on the internet a "worlds first" :) I've been told a past boss, verbatim, "Wow, you have shit luck." The tl;dr is that I was working for a university and thus hire
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by existencebox 8y ago
I think it's situationally useful. If I take the author of the OP code at their word, this is one of those situations. Core, critical plumbing/logic at the kernel of business critical, long-lived applications, will be the source
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by existencebox 8y ago
I'm not sure this counts; since I less "Gave up on" and more "figured it was done enough for what little time I had to work on it as a personal toy; to my later regret," but... Maybe 4-5 years ago I wrote this. htt
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by existencebox 8y ago
Selfish response: Why not sell it? I've worked for larger corps for most of my career but have certainly cultivated the desire to be the maker of my own success. That being said, I've had remarkably little luck in finding any si
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by existencebox 8y ago
Here's the sad part. I swear we _used to have this._ I will probably be exposed as a curmudgeon by saying this. The v1 droid, with the sliding keyboard. I would buy again in an instant if a comparable phone existed. It was _tiny_ t

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