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by jly 10y ago
From the other comments in the linked article, it looks like they hired more than one person that relocated from another city and were let go in < 1 week of starting employment. I agree with you that it's a business and they are alw
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by jly 10y ago
I must work at the wrong places (non-Valley). Maybe that used to be common, but in recent years I don't see that for regular employees at all. Maybe for some layers of management.
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by jly 10y ago
I find the same thing. My neighbors and I have chickens on ~5000 sq ft fenced lots and you barely notice them, especially when compared with the local bird and insect population. My neighbor has a rooster and even that isn't a large
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by jly 10y ago
I'm not from Seattle nor do I live in Seattle, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case. There ARE other cities with a lot of quality, diverse tech jobs outside of the Bay Area. I live in one of them and I don't consider i
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by jly 10y ago
I stopped going to the general reddit homepage and only go to a couple subreddits. I have found the subreddit for my city is a great supplement to local news sites - it often aggregates local-focused content plus discussion very well.
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by jly 10y ago
>> My understanding is that feral honey bees have been extinct in North America for a long time (since the 1980s?), and that they're an introduced species. The logic then goes: if you see a honey bee flying around outside, it at
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by jly 10y ago
>> It is relatively easy as an individual to give the bees a helping hand. You can also choose to NOT spray harmful chemicals on your lawn/garden/landscaping. As a hobby beekeeper in a suburban area, I appreciate it when my
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by jly 10y ago
> The problem I have seen with intervals training is that few people really go all out. Just because the duration of high-intensity interval exercise is short (maybe 10-20 minutes vs 45-60 minutes), it doesn't mean it's easy.
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by jly 10y ago
This is something I manage pretty easily without a lot of fuss using a spreadsheet and one bank account with my 1099 business. I do a small volume of transactions with higher dollar values, so this might appeal more to high-volume business
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by jly 11y ago
This is a huge point. The same thing is happening in other attractive pacific rim cities. In Auckland, they are experiencing the same problem as SF and Vancouver but the government is very active in encouraging new housing development. Be
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by jly 11y ago
You can tell what's probably NOT 'farm to table' by the pricing of dishes. Many restaurants would not be in business selling food at the prices they do if were actually farm to table direct from local farmers who uses the gr
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by jly 11y ago
In my area, I see some chefs at the weekly farmer's market buying meat, fish, and produce directly from local farmers. To me, that is 'farm to table'. Anything else is questionable, but could be. I believe buying from whole
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by jly 11y ago
> Transpacific flights would be nice, too, but cutting an already absurdly long flight in half doesn't make as big a difference. As someone who travels to the south pacific every year (mostly in economy seating), I strongly disagree
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by jly 11y ago
A great list of resource - glad I ran into this post! I have rolled my own log scraping and exception monitoring and notification, but some of services do a lot more. I have been using https://www.pingdom.com for uptime monitor
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by jly 11y ago
I am in Austin city limits but outside the city center and we are nowhere close to getting Google fiber. I wouldn't get too excited by this, yet, especially if you're not in a densely populated part of town.
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by jly 11y ago
SQLite definitely does not require a filesystem interface, or even standard OS interface. It does require some kind of storage, though, but that could be direct flash, RAM, etc. I have spent a lot of time with it on ARM Cortex-M-class devi
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by jly 11y ago
I don't disagree with you, but mbed TLS and other similar libraries partly exist to solve the need for high-quality crypto/TLS in very small operating environments, where it may not be possible or easy to use OpenSSL. They are de
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by jly 11y ago
Great article...lots of comments here about how you shouldn't keep that much data. I agree with that for hobbyists, but this is pretty relevant for professionals where the option to cull doesn't extend that far and there are busi
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by jly 11y ago
Other payment processors that do not use a 'freemium' model charge less for their processing fees (and varying rates across cards). The reason it seems freemium for Stripe and other competitors is that they charge higher processi
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by jly 12y ago
> Part of the reason I don't like watching, say, American football is that I used to play it in highschool. Once you've actually played the game, watching other people play is kinda boring. I find this to be the complete opposi
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by jly 12y ago
> JSON wouldn't be my first choice for data storage in situations where I needed to avoid dynamic memory. I work a lot with very low-resource embedded systems and we like to use JSON host-side for structured data configuration, but
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by jly 12y ago
> These two are equivalent earning streams for artists (ignoring the money that record labels siphon away), but I get more value out of the second option (2). And the difference is huge! You get more value out of option #2, but I doubt t
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by jly 12y ago
This has also been going on in New Zealand (Auckland), heating up considerably over the last 2+ years, with all of the same concerns. California is just one more place that newly-wealthy young Chinese find as an attractive immigration dest
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by jly 12y ago
Agreed. I do my own invoicing which breaks out sales tax but I use the checkout receipt which doesn't. It would be nice to be able to pull that information into the receipt.