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by hodwik 11y ago
The beltway has a vacancy rate of 17.1%, within the city it's 12.3%. Not that different, especially when you consider that DC has an artificially low vacancy rate due to height restrictions. And anyway, Montgomery County, MD, is an un
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My knee-jerk reaction is to say the people become more insular, but perhaps the opposite is true. If trekkies come from all over the country, from different age groups, backgrounds, perhaps interacting with your internet trekkie tribe all d
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>"Have you seen the state of the place now?" I'm not saying the war was free, no war is. Iraq took 116,000 people. That being said, that number could have been much lower had the initial surge been stronger. And we knew th
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Just about everyone thought there were WMDs. The decision had been made, yes, but because we thought there were hidden caches and moving caches that the weapons inspectors were ill-equipped to find, and Saddam was comfortable with everyone
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[1] Blix didn't say the US "uncessingly" tried to undermine the inspectors. He said that he believed there had been a single leak from someone in the US Government about Blix's failure to report two weapons, and was unab
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Access most certainly matters, we wouldn't have made that mistake with Iraq had we had reliable access. If you recall, one of the "smoking guns" that the administration used to move into Iraq were intercepted phone conversati
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https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dZJjpUMZsAEdLYME80B5l...
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Iran agreed to provide "Managed access". Iraq inspections all over again.
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In general you have to use your own life experiences to make investments. It's nice to think that you could put yourself in someone else's shoes well enough to make stock purchases based on what you think they will want, but inves
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I like the golang tut because it works incredibly well on a phone.
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That's really funny, I'm always lamenting that I can't find tutorials as nice as the golang tour for other languages.
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What technologies would you prefer for the latter case?
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Because the winner gets nothing, and the loser loses $100,000 dollars.
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Feith Systems & Software, Programmers/Developers, Philadelphia PA, On-Site Technologies Keyword Cloud: Java 6+, Servlet 3.0+ (Tomcat 7 preferred) SOAP and RESTful services using Apache CXF (or other JAX-WS/JAX-RS implementatio
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I thought the NVA flag was the square jack? The rectangle jack was a navy flag as far as I know.
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Except it's not historical, the south didn't actually fly that flag at Gettysburg.
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Wow, what market are you in that you're paying $60/mo for 150mbit? I'm in the philly suburbs and paying that much for 20mbit and no TV.
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Developer wages in the US average around €62k, about 20 higher than in Germany, while the US has roughly 30% lower cost of living. Also, in Germany you're at a 40% income tax rate at €43k, while in the US at €62k you're only taxed
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It's not about wages being too small, it's about offices not being pleasant places to work. I have never heard a programmer complain about not enough pay. They do, however, complain about incompetent bosses, not enough vacation,
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Tech wages are very inflated as is, expecting them to rise is pretty silly. When I was looking for my current job, I forgot to even ask about wages. So maybe what they gave me in pay is "flat" from five years ago, but it's st
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That's your problem.
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Are there libraries you would suggest for someone using nltk & ElasticSearch to get started doing sentiment analysis?
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Early programmer chiming in. I found that switching between languages made the beginner stages of learning much faster. If I got stuck on a concept in one language, jumping to another language often clarified what that feature means. I sti
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Vivaldi is miserably slow
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I love this sort of functionality. I feel like I just saw this recently in another browser, either Firefox, Chromium, or Midori. I can't recall which. You press a button and it switches to reader mode, press again and it goes back to
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HN is turning into Slashdot. Great.
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> "have no grounds to look down upon those who are getting their hands dirty." Reading Proust isn't getting your hands dirty? I don't think you've read Proust.
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In a chaotic system, arriving at abstractions of the forces at play often gives a more illuminating picture than trying to model those systems from weakly-linked data points. It's not that Austrian economists can't find their own
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"Photograph" light? Photons are bosons, thus they don't interact, right? So you can't bounce light off of light to photograph it? Edit: Okay, so I was being pedantic. Anyway, if the wave is propagating through a wire, a
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"somebody wants to outperform the market with an actively managed fund that is resembling an index fund" It sounds like you don't know what these words mean.

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