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by jtheory 12y ago
I also can't help but think something like a "who's looking for work" thread would get a lot more noise than signal. If you're looking to hire and have some cred in the HN community, post in the Who's Hiring th
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> > It's already preventable -- we came with a sufficient supply of antimalarial pills, but they're so expensive it's obviously not a solution. > There's just one problem with that one — aside from costs for thi
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This looks cool -- what else in already in this space, and how does your app compare? Next: revenue model? It seems to be free for now, right? Unfortunately my phone doesn't seem able to install it (I was curious if it'd work at
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> vast, vast majority of toxoplasma occurs in 3rd world countries Well. I'm in France, which has a seriously high rate of infection; something around 50%. >living with a cat has been shown not to increase chance of catching it a
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Last month I spent 2 weeks in Rwanda with my wife & daughters, visiting two friends who have been there for about a year. One of them has also spent a lot of time in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. Rwanda is land-locked and largely h
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I've been using a similar service (at USABox.com) since 2006 or so; I forward the US mail I haven't discarded to France when I need it, usually once every couple of months. This was the cheapest option for what I wanted to do, wh
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I'm collecting little stories like these to show my kids as they hit their teens. Everyone does a few dumb things while they are teenagers. A frighteningly large number of teens (esp. here in France) start smoking. Choose something e
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Q. What do you call the guy who scored just a teensy bit lower than that? A. Mister. IOW, this joke/insight is only valuable if the standard for passing is set too low. If it's set correctly, then everyone who passed has shown the
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One of the side-projects I did when I was fairly new to development -- but which forced me to make a big leap in my skills -- was to crack a database access tool I used, when they crippled the freeware version. The tool was written in Java,
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The dark aspect of the flow is that this seems like a life that ends in suicide. It's a question of interpretation, of course, but where does a retirement of any kind fit in? Not "stop work and focus on my gardening" type of
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I didn't try automation, but I noticed pretty quickly that the actions can run simultaneously -- e.g., I clicked on Play and Learn while I was reading & clicking other things, just to keep those two running as frequently as they co
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:) Indeed, until you eventually arrive at the same end we all do.
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> Lead was removed from petrol at a time of massive upheaval in the way the public looked at raising their kids. Okay; now did that public view also change per-state, and per-country, tracking the date ranges that lead was removed? The
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There's a strange battle going on in this discussion, but honestly -- I dismiss a lot of quasi-scientific articles that put a lot of importance on correlation without addressing a ton of alternate explanations. This one, I can't d
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The crime reduction reliably occurs 20 (23, from the graph?) years after the lead reduction; there's no response in the crime rate until the less-lead-exposed babies have become adults. The politicians who tackled crime (or didn&#x27
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by jtheory 13y ago
From the site: "Anou means a well of water in Tashelheet, the language spoken in the Ait Bouguemez valley of Morocco." It's also a play on words w/ French (widely-spoken in Morocco) -- "À nous" (pronounced the
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I don't disagree -- esp. with decent logs, the strength you need for a maul is more about safety when things go wrong than about swinging it; i.e., strength grants control rather than brute force. The head is heavy and out on a long ha
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by jtheory 13y ago
For those who aren't familiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_maul -- but I have to laugh to notice that the "related" tools listed are Sledgehammer, Axe, and War hammer . You're offering
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by jtheory 13y ago
You say "9 characters" -- is that "printable characters", or alphanumeric, or what? If you have a decent GPU, you can try several billion MD5 hashes per second: http://www.golubev.com/hashgpu.htm -- so i
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Eh, your above comment was still pretty misguided: > That's the wrong way around. Do everything to make sure you are happy, with or without her. It's up to her if she wants to be happy with you. ...though you're pulling in
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by jtheory 13y ago
This is easier said than done. Most developed nations have all kinds of barriers and quotas in place to make it difficult for aliens to fill jobs that might otherwise be filled by citizens. Sometimes the right connections, company sponsorsh
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> I would venture to guess that nobody in the world uses any of the browsers shown on any regular basis. And if they do, they have absolutely no expectations of it working correctly. It depends on where they work. We have to support IE6
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That probably wasn't the best phrasing, but the point seems to have been that the current contributors can't keep up with new issues (so more contributors might address that).
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I'm not sure reading the wikipedia entry is the best way to get info on a case; but from what I understand based on the autopsy, etc., the majority of her brain had been destroyed (simply liquid in the CT scan), and while she had enoug
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by jtheory 13y ago
This reads a bit weirdly to me. > Immediate Java 8 Migration Plans: 65% of Java developers have plans to upgrade to Java 8 within the next 24 months. Er; "within the next 2 years" = "immediate"? That's a long-en
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His consort ? Sheesh, I guess you still have pretty strong opinions about that case. I still don't know most of these details, and have forgotten most of what I learned at the time, and honestly that's for the better. It's
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It's certainly a great reminder that I should (as should everyone) make a living will. If you ever end up in a persistent vegetative state, it's grueling for your family & loved ones. We now have the tech to keep you sort-of
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Mash up with a fork plus half of a raw shallot (diced), optionally a bit of chili powder or black pepper. Spread on toast. Adding some slices of tomato, cucumber, or hard cheese is nice of you have them. This is one of our fallback lunche
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> and it contained a lot f-bombs and n-words. Yeah, calling that "Ebonics" is being too charitable.
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The closer you can get to talking about risk honestly, the better. > 2. some will not hire you just for asking because they prefer employees who can take the risk You can tell them the level of risk you can take. If you have a new baby

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