mratzloff

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by mratzloff 8y ago
If it's rote for you, you probably aren't using those calls effectively to filter based on your dealbreakers.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
It's in the title.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Demanding? 2024 hours per year is 40 hours per week with two weeks off, or 41 hours with three weeks off. On average.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Sure. Maybe Zuckerberg shouldn't have put the screws to every media outlet on the planet. Is he so arrogant that he thought pissing all of them off in unison wouldn't have any blowback in their editorial decisions? Oh, by the way,
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by mratzloff 8y ago
I'm sure with falling prices the market will correct itself. I was going to make a snarky comment about US dairy subsidies, but aside from a billion dollar giveaway in 2009, those are almost nothing today. $370,000 in 2017.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Handling these kinds of things anonymously is the only reasonable way to protect yourself.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
> I have never assumed that an email address I gave the government would be protected. I would also not assume that the contents of any email I sent would be in any way protected either. That's because you're not corresponding
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by mratzloff 8y ago
> A recent experience from a hackerspace showed me how incredibly thankless people can be. After working really insanely hard to build an inclusive space with loads of features, every little hobby revolutionary in the community just shit
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Like a dope, I dropped my iPhone Xs a week after I bought it and the back glass shattered. Everything is glued together on the back, so they had to replace the entire phone. With AppleCare+, that's $99 plus tax. Without, it's $549
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Date-fns supports 46 locales currently, so it's not nothing. Regarding local times, if it's always local, why worry about it? Just store it in "UTC" without conversion, with the understanding that it will never be conver
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by mratzloff 8y ago
According to the article, it refers to the percentage who have straight hair.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
I hope you let him invest.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
It's easy to reclaim glass and aluminum. In my apartment, it's a matter of setting out a bag every week or so.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Considering that the American right in general wants to do absolutely nothing to help the planet or the living things on it (as demonstrated by the candidates that win elections), I think they've removed themselves from the conversatio
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by mratzloff 8y ago
It's almost like being paid a salary in an unregulated Internet Buck that landlords and grocery stores won't accept would make things difficult for people. ;-)
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by mratzloff 8y ago
The smallest town in New York is over 200 people.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
I understand. My point is that you never reach a perfect place because your goal line keeps shifting. It's easy to undercut your view of your own progress by noting you aren't where you want to be. There is only ever "in prog
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Good to hear. Keep in mind, this part is true for literally everyone: > Overall, I'm not exactly where I want to be
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by mratzloff 8y ago
It's really not that hard to type a password into the terminal every time you commit.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
At what point does it become a moral imperative to stop doing business with a government? I assume we can all agree that US businesses should not sell more efficient gas chambers to Nazi Germany. So where does the line get drawn?
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Yes. About the only thing you can count on is `.+@.+`
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by mratzloff 8y ago
If you'd like to download the compilation (good songs, depending on taste), you can get it here: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/netBloc_Artists/netBloc_V...
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Unemployment, yield curve, market overvaluation. The stock market is currently 43% more overvalued than just prior to the 2008 financial crisis and 14% more overvalued than the height of the 2000 dotcom bubble.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
HN reads as: "Hey everyone, get in here and post your favorite language!"
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by mratzloff 8y ago
The main problem with REST is Roy Fielding's communication style. Here's a quote from a 2008 blog post: Apparently, I use words with too many syllables when comparing design trade-offs for network-based applications. I use too ma
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Without knowing the performance requirements and where the current system is failing, it's hard to know if the technology stack will work for your needs—with one exception. If users speak SQL, they will reject Mongo. The users of the s
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by mratzloff 8y ago
No, in this case. That was my point. Those individual species would have no impact on the overall ecosystem.
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Just to clear, there are about 3500 or 4000 species of mosquitoes, and if we eradicated the tiny handful that carry malaria, Zika, etc. it would only have positive results. That would leave thousands to continue pollinating and serving as f
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by mratzloff 8y ago
I give some weight to a CS degree from a top engineering school, but beyond that I haven't observed a correlation between education and capability. I give a lot of weight to intellectual curiosity and self-directed initiative, as those
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by mratzloff 8y ago
Maintenance projects bring in revenue for the company today—perhaps even most of the revenue. But they're not the future of the company. Perhaps these projects are serving out the remainder of a contractual obligation that is profitabl

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