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by grardb 9y ago
>Healthy for who? The way you're using it, healthy is a weasel word. "Healthy" is not a weasel word, but one half of a common term that people use[0]. >If someone is paid to literally write code, it's perfectly hea
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by grardb 9y ago
This comment doesn't read like it was written by a "humbleMouse" :) I don't think this is a healthy attitude to have towards less experienced developers. Literally every experienced developer was once inexperienced, and
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by grardb 10y ago
Do you have a source for how often this happens? I can't find anything specifically about subway pushers in NYC. As far as I can tell, it's a very rare occurrence. That being said, I see fairly high numbers of deaths in general, m
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by grardb 10y ago
I think there's an even bigger misconception of what "protecting nature" is. I grew up in New York and now live in LA, and I can guarantee you that I do more to "protect nature" than the average suburbanite/exu
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by grardb 10y ago
This ^ Quick examples: Minneapolis, Boston, Nashville, and Cincinnati all have much higher percentages of non-Hispanic whites than Los Angeles and New York. Even if we look at black or Hispanic/Latino percentages: * Minneapolis: 18.6%
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by grardb 10y ago
I read another comment on HN about this recently. Their explanation was that it's due (at least in part) to the high savings rate of the Chinese compared to the USA (and other countries, I guess)[1]. The idea is that when people are st
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by grardb 10y ago
It seems like you don't understand my point because you've ignored the fact that my mother and her sister look they belong to different races, despite having roughly the same genetic makeup (about half white and half non-white). M
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by grardb 10y ago
> The idea that race is scientifically invalid is complete nonsense. You can argue that race doesn't correlate with phenotypical characteristics that we care about (okay, but it does though), but arguing that race itself is just in
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by grardb 10y ago
> Income requirements could be set so eligible residents had to make less than 80 percent of the area’s median income, the paper reported. The median household income for Marin County is $90,839 > “We got letters saying, ‘You guys are
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by grardb 10y ago
I'm a former Etsy employee. The engineering culture is awesome there, but I feel the need to point out that the majority of the company are not engineers. Even when I joined in 2013, we were about half the company. By the time I left (
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by grardb 10y ago
Oh nice, thanks for the tips! Those things will make my code so much nicer :D I am indeed using webpack, so that shouldn't be an issue (unless it doesn't work in conjunction with `target: 'node'`). Crossing my fingers!
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by grardb 10y ago
I recently got into TypeScript, if that counts. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I'm running into some annoying things as a beginner: * For many third-party libraries, needing to write `import * as Something from 'some-pack
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by grardb 10y ago
I have, but with zero success. I've read awful things about Toptal and PeoplePerHour, so I didn't really go for them. Upwork seems to be filled with developers from various parts of Asia where the low cost of living allows them to
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by grardb 10y ago
This. Aside from a hackathon or two, I have "completed" exactly one side project since graduating in 2013. There were numerous times I started projects and quickly gave them up, and it was simply because my goal was to have a side
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by grardb 10y ago
I have a hard time breaking into the consulting/freelancing world. I really like the idea of working part-time during off hours for extra cash, but it's proven to be quite difficult for me. I think part of it is that I'm not
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by grardb 10y ago
>It's just a very hard problem to deal with, and places like CA attract homeless people from other places, because they have good services. The US lacks a comprehensive national plan to deal with homelessness. Do you have a source f
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by grardb 10y ago
The name of this program is Gender Recognizer, but it says it attempts to recognize male/female faces. Quick lesson: Gender: boy, girl, etc. (some cultures have more than two of these[0], and others do not identify with either of those
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by grardb 10y ago
This. I never "learned" how to type, and while I've tried, I simple can't get rid of almost 20 years of muscle memory typing like a buffoon. It's much easier for me to use ESC and the arrow keys than people who keep
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by grardb 10y ago
I totally agree with you re: meaningless comparisons. However, I think the MSA comparison is pretty flawed as well. For example, the Los Angeles metro area has a higher density than both NYC's and SF's (which is higher than NYC&#x
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by grardb 10y ago
It cuts the list shorter, but still not quite second place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
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by grardb 10y ago
>SF is the second highest density city in the US. This isn't even close to being true. It's likely only true if you only count cities with populations over a certain amount. Please see my other comment: https://news.
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by grardb 10y ago
> In the Unites States, That is denser than just about any place other than Manhattan. I think that depends on your definition of "just about." Every borough in NYC aside from Staten Island is much denser than San Francisco. Ad
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by grardb 10y ago
"If you came looking for free designer logos, we suggest you look in the directory next to free engineers." I love this! Thanks for building this site.
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by grardb 10y ago
Don't worry. I'm from New York, and I've never heard this term before. I got a huge chuckle out of your comment :D
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by grardb 10y ago
Not all bodybuilders do. Most, probably, but there are a number who don't believe the estrogen/soy propaganda. If anyone's interested, I would check out this YouTuber. There are a number of them, but I really like this guy:
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by grardb 10y ago
I'm a bit confused about some of the stuff you're saying. Do you have any sources I could check out? I'm a vegetarian, and while I don't eat tons of soy, I'm genuinely interested because I haven't ever read abo
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by grardb 10y ago
To start off, I used Vanguard and did it all myself, which is a great option (many would say the best). I've since switched to Wealthfront, which is also pretty cool, although some people believe their slightly-higher fees don't b
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by grardb 10y ago
Fellow millennial here. I'd recommend investing in stock indexes. Your money, on average, will grow at a faster rate than inflation. If you leave your money in a checking or savings account, you will lose money to inflation. If you&#x2
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by grardb 10y ago
Sincere question: have you ever worked at a larger company? When I was at Etsy, people always asked why we had "so many employees" for what seemed to them like a simple e-commerce website. These people were always from smaller com
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by grardb 10y ago
I'm working on a personal project and use JWT for sessions. The main reason I did this is that my understanding is that it makes it much easier to implement sessions on mobile apps. Is this true? If so, should I continue using them? If

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