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by minsight 12y ago
Why are there "all you can eat" buffets if you can't really eat all that you might ever want to eat?
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by minsight 13y ago
I've been using Ansible in an EC2 environment and it's been fantastic. It's powerful enough, but its requirements are slight and you don't end up fussing with bootstrapping it into being. A server with Python (and a fe
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by minsight 14y ago
The title makes it seem that they may be solving the underlying problem. Unfortunately, they'd rather update their users about how the routing mesh behaves (spoiler alert: poorly) than update their routing mesh to work as they had gone to
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by minsight 14y ago
Their advertising wasn't particularly targeted, either. If you typed "non-existent golden unicorn dung", they'd just put up an ad that said "find non-existent golden unicorn dung on Ebay". Anyone who looked at it would know that it wasn't
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by minsight 14y ago
This is a sloppily phrased call for automation. I can wholeheartedly endorse automation as a goal, but the idea that make can be your go-to tool for this is embarrassing. Make will get you into trouble the moment your task becomes non-tri
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by minsight 14y ago
He's the author of LoseThos (64 bit OS, written from scratch), and has schizophrenia. His story is very interesting, if you can get past the wall of computer-generated religious content.
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by minsight 14y ago
Flossing has everything to do with dental health. It's just that dental health has everything to do with cavities when you're young, and everything to do with gum health and gingivitis when you're older.
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by minsight 14y ago
Not honoring all the lifetime plans at all. Those with lifetime accelerator plans were told they would get a refund, are not being picked up by Textdrive, and have since been denied the refund they were promised.
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by minsight 14y ago
The deals on lowendbox are a bit too low end. The providers often disappear after a few months.
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by minsight 14y ago
pair.com has always been fantastic for me. They aren't cheap, but they're very good.
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by minsight 14y ago
I've been a customer for years. They're a great operation. Their owner is on hacker news with username lsc.
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by minsight 15y ago
There are many employers who feel that they're entitled to your salary history. Some see this as a sensible request, but it always struck me as a spectacular invasion of privacy.
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by minsight 15y ago
I'd expect that employees working in "at-will" states would be less likely to take a stand against their employers, even if the law were in their favour. ps. I'd love to be wrong about this...
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by minsight 15y ago
I was expecting to see far more feedback from incredulous Americans in "at-will" states undergoing employment culture shock. It's nice to see that the Canadian point of view translates so well.
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by minsight 15y ago
You'd rather not hear profanity than learn how someone managed to eradicate basically all of their client-payment problems?
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by minsight 15y ago
People left Engineering when I was studying it because they got into it for the wrong reason. They took it because they thought it was good money and/or because they were told that they were well-suited for it. Unfortunately, the workload
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by minsight 15y ago
"If I have to spend more than 30 seconds finding out what you have accomplished, forget it." Not to worry. I will only work for someone who can manage to conquer problems of scale such as skimming a resume and finding pertinent points. If
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by minsight 15y ago
It's illegal to refer to yourself as an engineer in Canada unless you have an Engineering degree/are certified by the appropriate professional organization.
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by minsight 15y ago
Change all of your data until it's no longer about or reflective of you.
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by minsight 15y ago
"For instance, you won't get a heart attack if you are a Buddhist Monk sitting in meditation." There's a claim that I won't buy without some sort of a citation.
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by minsight 16y ago
Blind people have to click on Stevie Wonder.
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by minsight 16y ago
You will have to compromise. If you're lucky, and have found the right person, they'll be willing to compromise, too. And if it's right, neither partner will mind. If either of you maintain "It has to be my way" or "It has to be this way"
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by minsight 16y ago
If I had brain cancer and had a book to write, I would almost certainly err on the side of brevity.
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by minsight 16y ago
It's possible that there is no overlap between the set of upvoters and the set of bitchers. There are dozens of people on the internet.
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by minsight 16y ago
He's talking about people communicating in communities on the internet. Do you not see a link between that and Hacker News? Sometimes the medium can be the message.
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by minsight 16y ago
I read it in the late 70s. It's a very good book. It had a controversial title, and people made great assumptions about the book's contents based on that title. But basically it's a book about making sure that you don't allow anyone to (
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by minsight 16y ago
PS. I'm going to have to agree with the "most of the time is spent on making the frosting color look best" strategy!
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by minsight 16y ago
My web 1.0 (or perhaps web .9) cake generator is at http://www.cakemessage.com/ It's got the best in 1993 web UI technology.
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by minsight 16y ago
Keep in mind one thing. College isn't valuable for the collection of facts that you accumulate in the same way that armed forces basic training isn't just to teach people who will be running through tires and climbing ropes. "Getting throu
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by minsight 16y ago
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