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by house9-2 8y ago
I think what you are saying is he should have been extradited to Sweden not the US? Apparently those charges were dropped? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_... > The investigation into the
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by house9-2 8y ago
> If you're schedule-bound, estimation failure means you'll be incomplete. Schedule-Bound development (or Deadline Driven Development) can actually work well with minimal estimation as long as you are truly building MVP (minimu
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by house9-2 8y ago
I have a High School education then went to community college in my mid 20's and got certified in Perl and HTML - LOL I've been getting paid to build web apps since 2000, got in right when the first dot-com bust went down; I have
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by house9-2 8y ago
It is not just 'good weather', the actual climate is way better due to proximity to the pacific ocean.
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by house9-2 8y ago
I just use a WIP label on the PR, keep it simple.
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by house9-2 8y ago
Great article! Just throwing this out there - the animated gifs are cool and fun but make reading the text next to them almost impossible.
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by house9-2 8y ago
LOL, this cracks me up because movies always use the Red-tailed call, even when it is an eagle or vulture being shown
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by house9-2 8y ago
> Verizon serves their shareholders not a country. What about their customers? > Profit maximization is a basic tenet of capitalism. Sure, then lets eliminate tax cuts for 'Profit maximization' based corporations and increas
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by house9-2 8y ago
One of the things I used to like about shopping at Whole Foods - no stupid club pricing. Yeah, I have prime - but I am not putting the app on my phone and don't want to give my phone number out, or be bothered too. Just let me buy my g
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by house9-2 8y ago
I highly recommend going to see a therapist.
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by house9-2 8y ago
> Iraq invasion was... > So "invading" is not the correct word... I think you are contradicting yourself? We invaded on false pretense 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' if I recall - it was an invasion and ideally it s
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by house9-2 8y ago
> ...and focus on building a better foster / adoption system and encouraging people to use it who is going to fund that? wouldn't it be better to support the families as they are? help improve peoples lives instead of ripping
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by house9-2 8y ago
I don't have personal goals. I do have TODO lists I track on paper, usually things that need to get done within a month.
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by house9-2 8y ago
Rails migrations give you `foreign keys, indexes, constraints` but not `stored procs` - there are hacks to make it work with stored procs if you really really want to. `triggers` are rarely used in rails applications, but nothing to stop yo
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by house9-2 8y ago
A.K.A. deadline driven development this can work really well if you pare down the list of features and build the simplest version of these features
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by house9-2 8y ago
> When the VP sets a deadline, it’s driven by the survival of the company Sometimes... Other times its driven by the fact they are personally going to get a fat bonus
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by house9-2 8y ago
> I now tend to bring a plastic bag on walks in the woods to collect the litter. wear gloves
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by house9-2 9y ago
I use a single text file per application/project. On a Mac, so I have this file open all the time in TextWrangler. Cmd+f to search for what I need. I have tried other more complicated things but always end up back to basics.
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by house9-2 9y ago
I have had a phone book thrown at me (among other things) while cycling and this is in California, USA. Lot of angry people live in this country; when they are driving cars it really comes out.
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by house9-2 9y ago
Even when I pair program it is nice to have someone else review the code before merging. Or at a minimum do a 'self' code review after the work is complete, once you have pulled your head out of the weeds things might look differe
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by house9-2 9y ago
I usually create a PR after the first commit and mark the PR as a WIP, then it is available for review throughout the development process. YMMV
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by house9-2 9y ago
> I don't want to feel this way, but am not sure how to get out of it. Start seeing a therapist, changed my life
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by house9-2 9y ago
My medical records are made of paper and in a folder in a file cabinet :) I rarely go to the doctor so not much to keep track of, yet...
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by house9-2 9y ago
> The value of doing nothing can far outweigh the value of doing something. This might be the most profound thing I have ever read on HN :)
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by house9-2 9y ago
Go on a trip OR if staying around the house Exercise: Hike, Bike, Yoga, Stretch/Mobility exercises; Learn to cook some new vegetable recipes; Meditate daily; Read books and give myself some time away from the computer; Probably binge w
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by house9-2 9y ago
I have gone back and forth between using a homebrew postgres and postgres.app over the years - a few months back I returned to postgres.app and am really liking it, the best part is you can switch between multiple versions of postgres fairl
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by house9-2 9y ago
maybe you could swing 3 remote days a week at some point?
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by house9-2 9y ago
I used an older version of Transmit years ago (it was a bit cheaper then) and was always happy with it. Then I went years without needing to use FTP at all (capistrano deployments for the win!) Over the last year and 1/2 I have been do
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by house9-2 9y ago
If you are supplementing with Vitamin D you should also look into Vitamin K2. K2 helps D to absorb calcium into your bones (where you want it) and helps Vitamin A remove calcium from your veins (where you don't want it). An interesting
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by house9-2 9y ago
> If all the money is coming from the county (presumably it is) I believe most of the money comes from outside the country, I started donating $25 a month to GiveDirectly this summer. In the years to come technology is going to replace t

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