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by lee 11y ago
This comment is slightly grayed, meaning it has some number of downvotes to it. But it doesn't violate any of the HN rules. It feels like this was down-voted by those who disagree with the content. Such a sad state for hacker news.
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by lee 11y ago
The only problem with this is that ad blocking is kind of indiscriminate. There are obviously obnoxious ads out there, those that use popups, use audio, video, or dialog boxes that block out the main content. But on the other hand, there a
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by lee 11y ago
Same for me too! I felt like superman after the first time I used it. It's been a few years, and I haven't slept a single night without CPAP. Looking back, I am amazed at how well I was able to function at all. I think not only is
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by lee 11y ago
The rationale I have for using single quotes over double quotes in javascript is that when embedding HTML elements, attributes are often quoted in double quotes. So it's much nicer to write '<a href="www.google.com&q
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by lee 11y ago
I used Rust to optimize performance in a hot spot for our Python web-app. I am a Rust newbie, and this was my first encounter with the language, so my opinion may not have much value. But I found Rust to be unsuitable for web-development. T
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by lee 11y ago
Funny, I find the shave quality of a safety razor to be far superior to any of the cartridge blades (Like the Gilette Fusion). My shaves are super smooth and close. However, I still use a my Fusion daily, since it's so fast and efficie
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by lee 11y ago
Thanks. I did try Dart and our team spent a full month giving it our best for our client. It was a dream to use compared to JS. One show-stopper though: browser support. At the time, IE11 was just released and Dart had issues with IE11. Als
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by lee 11y ago
> The differences between these languages aren't that big and they're largely aesthetic. They are pretty big. At work I work on a Django-backed project that has a very fat JavaScript front-end client, and JavaScript is incredi
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by lee 11y ago
> It might be a fundamental flaw of Git that in order to use it, you have to understand its innards. Certainly, in order to use it effectively, and in order to avoid disaster, you need to now how it's storing data. I've been us
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by lee 12y ago
It sounds like the problem you have is with your ego. You're portraying yourself as someone you aren't, or someone you haven't become yet. Your ego is handicapping you from doing anything. Throw it away. Stop comparing yourse
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by lee 12y ago
I don't know much about sous-vide, but the cooking temperature is 55 to 60 degrees celsius. That's fairly low. Most plastics shouldn't deteriorate at that temperature.
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by lee 12y ago
Ottawa, Canada - Python/Django Full Stack Developer We're looking for a full stack web developer. Knowledge and experience with Python and Django is a plus. We're looking for candidates who would be interested in working on o
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by lee 12y ago
Also they only support Windows/OSX. I've been a customer of theirs for a few years, but I've recently switched to a competitor just so that I can backup my Linux NAS.
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by lee 12y ago
The beauty of learning emacs keybindings is that most IDE's will have an "emacs mode". So you don't have to relearn things. But it's also useful for things like bash or OSX interfaces too, since they use the same co
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by lee 12y ago
I would say that learning your IDE or editor well is a worthwhile investment, whether that is emacs, vim, or a more rich IDE like Eclipse. Vim or Emacs are really powerful tools that will serve you well over your entire career, so getting a
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by lee 12y ago
So what's the likelihood that we'll see this optimization make it into PostgreSQL core? That would be an amazing performance improvement.
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by lee 12y ago
I don't know if you can call it a disaster. The total number of cases, as reported by the CDC, is less than 7000 so far. I don't mean to be callous, but compare that number to the number of total deaths to Malaria or even the flu
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by lee 12y ago
Am I one of the minorities who believe that this hype about Ebola is more sensationalism and news than an actual pandemic we should be fearful for? Let's take a lot at what we can agree on: * The number of cases of infected patients is
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by lee 12y ago
So given a choice, between Diet Soda vs. Normal Soda, what would be worse for your overall health? I imagine even with increased glucose intolerance, you're still better off choosing Diet?
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by lee 12y ago
I don't really see the "diss" in that passage. I see more of an honest question.
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by lee 12y ago
Back in 2009 I had written one of the first few SSH apps to hit the iOS App Store. I remember demo'ing it to my CEO, and all he could say was "Oh, you spent all this time writing an App that displays text?" I guess it's
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by lee 12y ago
I tried to give Dart a go at work. We invested about a month's worth of work for a 4-person team into it, kicking the tires, and giving it a go before we gave up and went back to Javascript. I hope Dart succeeds, as it's a really
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by lee 12y ago
Just curious, did you take Modafinil continuously for 9 months straight as well?
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by lee 12y ago
For one thing, don't compare yourself to a lot of the HN or Silicon Valley crowd. There're plenty of really smart people on here, so your perception of what's normal may get skewed. Can you be hired as a developer? It sounds
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by lee 12y ago
Yea, my company paid for my trip, hotel, and conference fees. Pycon, through the support of all the sponsors, is actually fairly cheap. Only $300 to attend, and they did an amazing job organizing it. Lunches and breakfast included. I kno
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by lee 13y ago
I don't think the cost is necessarily negligible. If the system is setup in such a way that there are those who benefit from every trade, skimming fractions of a percent per trade, those add up. They are effectively shrinking the mark
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by lee 13y ago
I think what he's getting at is that a fairly large problem with starting a start-up is that you don't know if your product or service has a market in the first place. If you start with a fresh idea, then you have to test and disc
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by lee 13y ago
The most impressive thing I find about the creator of yumhacker is that she just does what she wants to, even if she doesn't know "how" to do it she eventually figures it out. From her 180 websites to 180 days challenge, to t
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by lee 13y ago
One factor of the metric that there're "unfilled skilled positions" is that the pay for those positions is still incredibly low. Many of those positions offer compensation near minimum wage, or are laborious enough that it&#x
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by lee 13y ago
I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine nightly. My CPAP device comes with a humidifier chamber to keep the humidity of the air I breathe in high. One of the side-effects of using a CPAP machine is that sinus congestion never bothers me a

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