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721.
by kenneth 8y ago
This isn't related to the carrier-imposed surcharges, however. Airfare is priced according to a system of filed fares with specific rules, for specific city pairs, that require booking into specific "inventory." International
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by kenneth 8y ago
I stopped coding seriously right around the time Swift became a thing (after a decade of Obj-C, C, Ruby, Clojure, PHP, and other nightmarish things), and always thought Swift for compiled server binaries, running on linux machines would be
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by kenneth 8y ago
Use real vim, not emulators. Emulators all suck, and won't teach you the right habits. Vim is also extremely powerful when customized to your needs. Build your own setup over time. Start with vanilla vim and add to it over time. If any
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by kenneth 8y ago
Because the user experience sucks. I hate copying a URL and have a bunch of meaningless garbage included in wherever I paste it, as happens with pages that leaves UTM artifacts in the query string. I don't care at all about the trackin
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A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)(medium.com)
325 points by kenneth 8y ago|50 comments
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by kenneth 9y ago
That only works when it's mandatory for everyone.
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by kenneth 9y ago
As an engineer, it saddens me to see the huge inefficiencies inherent to cryptocurrency mining these days. Surely, when we're spending in the billions on wasteful hashing, we could dedicate a small fraction of that to engineering bette
728.
by kenneth 9y ago
How can you say "can we save ourselves a really long, pointless political argument" and end your post with a divisive political opinion (that you think people with opposing viewpoints should be silenced)? You're literally inv
729.
by kenneth 9y ago
Yes, that's my biggest complaint about the show in its four-season history. The whole thing was so inaccurate it made me furious.
730.
by kenneth 9y ago
Am I the only one who refuses to use Venmo? When I need to pay friends casually, I use Facebook Messenger, Square Cash, or even PayPal (which is really easy in Slack with the `/paypal` command these days). I have no interest in using a
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by kenneth 9y ago
People are way too paranoid over things "going bad" -- typically if something is unhealthy to eat, you'll see it or smell it. The expiration date is meaningless… I eat eggs or dairy past its expiration all the time. Meat and
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The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting [video](youtube.com)
58 points by kenneth 9y ago|55 comments
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by kenneth 9y ago
I help my friends a lot and I'm always happy to chat it through with anyone. That said, no, I haven't looked into turning this into something more, for two reasons: 1) The nature of the game is that the more people play it, the le
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by kenneth 9y ago
The Points Guy is fine in that it'll teach most people the basics. It's not perfect advice, and they (Kelly, and Bankrate) make a killing on it… but it's good enough. For most people, the alternative is using a debit card or
735.
by kenneth 11y ago
I took an Uber from Taipei City to TPE airport. I was charged for the a "return fee" to account for the inconvenience of such an out-of-the way trip. It was still dirt-cheap compared to a equivalent trip in the US.
736.
by kenneth 11y ago
3 years term per approval. But you have to apply again every time you change jobs. I started with one company, then was founder of a startup, re-applied there, and moved it to another company. Re-applying is easier once you've been app
737.
by kenneth 12y ago
I've hired two people out of Hack Reactor and they were both awesome. Much better than most of the newgrads I've hired out of CS programs. I was quite wary at first, but after being very impressed in interviews, they won me over.
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by kenneth 13y ago
The EB visas are basically identical to the O visas, except for two differences: 1) the requirements are slightly more stringent, and 2) they are considered immigrant visas, as opposed to non-immigrant. ie., they are green cards. That said,
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by kenneth 13y ago
I think the biggest problem in reverting to original titles is that oftentimes, the original title is not bad, but it only makes sense in the context of the original blog in which it appears. In a social aggregator, it suddenly doesn't
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by kenneth 14y ago
There are countless reasons to bash on PHP because, frankly, it is a pretty terrible language[1]. However, this is not a valid reason. The bug reporter is being idiotic and needlessly disrespectful, and is making a big deal out of something
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by kenneth 14y ago
You're equating reading articles to being productive. I find the opposite to be true. When I spend an evening browsing hacker news is when I feel unproductive. I feel productive when I put away all the distractions, and just hack on one of
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by kenneth 15y ago
You're comparing Java to Clojure. Conceptually, they're insanely different--Apple and Oranges, really. Clojure, Lisp, and similar languages are homoiconic. That means they're beautifully suited to an interactive environment such as that pro
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by kenneth 15y ago
Link it to a php file on your server, and edit the php file to header('Location: the_actual_url') after the fact.
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by kenneth 15y ago
People who blindly argue for working remotely don't understand that there's a huge difference between getting shit done and building a company. You can't develop a company culture without putting people together, physically. If your goal is