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I appreciate you bringing this up, because I think this plays out all the time. I live in a small isolated town, and there wasn't a lot of turnover in houses even before the pandemic. I wrote a short script that scrapes all the listing
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Back in the 90s I lived in NYC and took a bicycle trip to Chibougamau, and then another summer rode a motorcycle as far as I could on pavement along the St Lawrence river. Your blog took me right back to those adventures; thanks so much for
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One of the things I have loved about Heroku is that once you have an account and have the CLI installed, you can create and deploy apps entirely through the CLI. You don't ever have to visit the Heroku dashboard during the initial depl
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The problem is, this fits the pattern with what Heroku has been doing for years now. Whatever works and keeps working, they're happy to steer you towards. Whatever isn't working, they're just kind of hands up in the air letti
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There are certainly some people saying "f landlords" with little justification. But there are also a good number of people saying that because they have lived in run-down housing that's detrimental to their health. Slumlords
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I've been thinking about this topic for a long time. I was a secondary math and science teacher for 25 years, and I taught intro programming classes whenever I could. Later I wrote Python Crash Course, which was largely informed by my
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How we organize GitHub issues: A simple style guide for tagging [~2016](robinpowered.com)
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Thank you for sharing these resources. One of my first steps on a new project that I'll work with on an extended basis is to add new labels, and delete the ugly default ones I won't use. I've never made time to articulate my
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I would encourage you to figure out a clear plan for how you want to get this work published. If you're hoping to go with an established technical publisher, they usually want to see a proposal rather than a finished draft. That gives
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My bookmarks are roughly broken into two groups - a small set that I go to specifically on a regular basis, and a much larger set that's organized loosely into a long list of folders. I rarely go into my bookmark folders to click on on
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Treasury warns of ‘enormous challenges’ this tax-filing season(washingtonpost.com)
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What's expensive about running a SEP IRA? Are you referring to the fact you have to contribute to an employee's IRA as well as your own?
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Minor etymological note: the word plumb describes something that's hanging vertically. It comes from the latin word plumbum (lead). When people wanted to make sure something was vertical, they'd hang a lead weight from a string,
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I like to use the deathbed test for decisions like this. On my deathbed, whenever that day comes, will I be happy with the decision I'm about to make? It sounds like you will be happy with this decision.
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Almost all my life when working on-location, I've wanted to nap after lunch. I usually got through that by just being a little foggy and less productive after lunch. When I started working from home, I did nap during that time. My prod
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Yes, one way to look at this to get out of the "for family" mindset you've been in is to ask what it would cost them to hire a new developer or firm to build them a replacement, and maintain it. That should guide you in decid
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This is a wonderful idea, and I will be quite curious to see where it goes. I really, really like the idea of funding individuals we believe in, rather than specific projects. It reminds me of Gittip from a decade ago, which morphed into Gr
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I split about three cords a year, all by hand. It's mostly hemlock and alder. The biggest rounds are 24-30" in diameter. I thought I'd need a heavy maul for the large rounds, but I use the axe for everything. On the larger ro
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If you split your own firewood by hand, a Fiskars splitting axe is insanely better than any standard splitting maul you'd find in a typical hardware store: https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/gardening-and-yard-care&#x2F
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Young Investors to Financial Planners: Thanks, but No Thanks(wsj.com)
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Ask HN: Gift Ideas for Kids?
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Alaska is huge, and has a wide variety of living conditions throughout the year. I live in southeast AK, and our winters are really mild because we're on the Pacific coast. Our summers are 50s and 60s, occasionally getting into the 70s
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I think you're absolutely right to bring up the importance of communication, but I'm not sure it's as simple as "that will draw people back [to the office]". I think it will just set up a different selector for who
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Officials disclose what killed a family hiking in Mariposa County(sfchronicle.com)
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Nobody is saying your app should be entirely free. They're saying it should be opt-in after the free trial, and that you shouldn't be collecting payment information until people are choosing to pay for your product. That's go
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Alaska isn't one entity that can be "upset" or "not upset" about climate change. The decisions made about Alaskan oil and other extractive resources aren't always made by Alaskans. When you see Alaskan politici
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I did an undergrad in physics, and at one point I wanted to be a particle physicist. But I didn't want to go straight to grad school, so I spent a couple years teaching middle school math and science. I loved that, and spent 25 years t
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This is the Pulse[0] "safety system". I was trying to buy a new truck this spring, and going through the back-and-forth of talking to a number of dealers. I had a vehicle specced out, and ready to commit to, and I asked to review
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A couple, their baby and their dog died on a California hiking trail(washingtonpost.com)
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That is an important thing to keep in mind, but keep in mind that many of these climbs follow cracks in the middle of large cliffs. I can't imagine the force it would take to move a cliff like the own shown in the link below. As others

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