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by meritt 8y ago
Portland has a thriving tech scene with 4,782 open jobs [1] at the moment. Home prices are about a third of the median in SF/SV. [1] http://portlandtech.org/
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If you prefer macOS, then yes it's your best option. If you're content with windows or linux, I'd suggest a dell xps or thinkpad x1.
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> Kayak/Travelocity/Expedia/Orbitz/etc/etc These are basically the same. They are all usually one of two companies: Booking Holdings * Booking.com * Agoda.com * Priceline.com * Kayak.co
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I think you should read https://personal.vanguard.com/pdf/ICRIBI.pdf You generally seem to be conflating face (static) value with market (dynamic) value. You're not wrong but your article makes a number of statem
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You can also just buy a bond fund and "hold to maturity" exactly like a ladder does. That is, if you buy an intermediate bond fund, you need to hold for the 5-7 years in order to receive the stated return. The only difference is a
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Pricey? Maybe in comparison to a budget laptop but as you're comparing it to a Macbook, it's not even close to the price of a similar configuration there. My local Costco has Dell XPS 13s and Lenovo X1s for ~$1400.
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The most impressive aspect of WoW to me was just how well the game ran on commodity hardware at the time. EQ2 came out the same month and ran very poorly on top-of-the-line PCs. Vanguard beta hit a year later and it was nearly unplayable on
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We've been doing it since 2011, though we saw significant improvements when we switched to 7.x. Memory and CPU usage dropped by ~50% at that time. We did have occasionally memory leaks back on 5.6 (usually around shared libraries lik
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Guilty admission time: I run thousands of distributed worker processes in PHP. Some of the processes run for months at a time and I've not encountered any issues nor memory leaks. I assume the others would too but they get replaced any
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And this is the generation gap. I have <10 apps installed on my iPhone and I rarely install new apps. It's a pain in the ass and generally annoying, especially for something like this that should be a mobile-friendly website at best
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If Tesla was actually going private his "Funding Secured" tweet wouldn't be viewed with as much scrutiny. Instead, coupled with his on-going public threats against short sellers, that tweet is now even more likely to be viewe
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Eh, I dunno. My Data Manager [1] (owned by Mobidia / App Annie) is still going strong. It along with other VPN-based apps are a major source of user-level app usage and engagement data being sold to large corporations and investors. In
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> Forge is a laravel only platform That's incorrect. The page says: "We don’t discriminate: Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Statamic, Craft and any other PHP application can easily be installed on a Forge server." > doesn&
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Laravel Forge [1] offers what you're after though I'm not entirely sure it's worth the added cost imo. [1] https://forge.laravel.com/features
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> The effects of caffeine and nicotine are mild, and mostly physical The primary effect of caffeine is mental alertness.
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> but this is more than a little distressing You are struggling with your own personal moral beliefs. You even stated they are "completely functional" yet you're significantly troubled by marijuana use while you have no is
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by meritt 8y ago
Even better. Is there seriously not a better way to check online/offline status that polling a URL? Seems so sloppy.
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In chrome network tab or /etc/hosts, block requests to ipv4.icanhazip.com and it'll think you're offline
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CSV would also defeat the entire point as the goal is the presentation and familiarity of Excel. But if it's possible to export to a plain XLSX (looks and functions identically but all the data values are hardcoded) that'd be gre
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The fundamental issue I have with tools like this is they all require plugins, which makes sharing these spreadsheets outside of your organization nearly impossible. I'd love to find a plugin that let's me do all this awesome stuf
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I'm no Cloudflare nor Cloudfront expert but these should be apples-to-apples comparisons and seeing that huge disparity in latency makes me think it's most likely a configuration issue, as all comparisons I've ever seen cla
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Cost-comparisons aside, the massive speed improvement makes me think he didn't have caching configured correctly with Cloudflare and his PHP backend (thus defeating the entire point of the CDN aspect). I'm guessing a couple of Cac
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Rand Fishkin (founder of Moz) commented on this phenomenon the other day [1] by saying: "Make $10mm. Crickets. Raise $10mm. Everyone writes about you." and "This is how we get a culture that trains founders to raise $$ > m
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Those things are still required. You're just paying for the abstraction and hoping your host is competent enough to keep things running smoothly.
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> he probably hasn't ever even considered sexual harassment or racist comments. Yet. Based on my experience in multiplayer online games, I'd argue his age is in no way support of that particular assumption. Toxic doesn't
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For what it's worth, my Lenovo X1 Carbon (2017 model) the only method to charge is via USB-C.
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We vote entirely by paper ballots and additionally by mail in Oregon (Senator Wyden is OR). You have 2-3 weeks to read through the issues, candidates, and then make hopefully responsible and educated choices. And if you don't want to p
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In addition to books/tutorials/etc, I've found reading the source to unison [1] was a great way to see a more tangible example of using OCaml to create software [1] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
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If their numbers are to be believed, they sold 87,000 bikes during Q3 and Q4-2017. [1] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/306545 Jan 2018: 200k bikes sold [2] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/qa-pe
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> It seems like one of many fitness fads to me I agree but I think the fitness industry itself is inherently based upon dietary and exercise fads. If it wasn't a fad, they probably wouldn't be raising capital so easily. Guessin

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