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by pacaro 9y ago
I worked with someone who is probably 6'4 and fairly robust looking. He'd get dirty looks parking an H1 in a disabled spot. But he "clanked" when he walked, so I don't think people held it against him for long
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by pacaro 9y ago
I worked for a GIS maker in the 90s whose biggest customer was a water utility. They knew where every pipe was and had (IIRC) a public health requirement to be able to trace cryptosporidium outbreaks (among other things) on a per-pipe basis
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by pacaro 9y ago
Also worth noting that not all agencies in the US use the same two letter abbreviations for states. Anyone who has registered a boat or other watercraft has probably encountered this
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by pacaro 9y ago
Some surprising materials have this property, including aspirin which can be formed into tablets with no other ingredients.
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by pacaro 9y ago
The division certainly exists, but most of the rest of the world uses the concepts of primary, secondary, and tertiary education. The US tends to distinguish between before high school, high school, and college. Which puts the demarcation l
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by pacaro 9y ago
In my experience, if you're on good terms with the staff at your juice place, they'll often put the extra in a second cup for you. Edit: I agree that the waste is ridiculous
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by pacaro 9y ago
The use of "native" in this thread is confusing. My understanding is that in the US, the term is normally used to refer to "Native Americans" I'm not sure what the correct term would be though. "Natural born ci
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by pacaro 10y ago
Srsly. This is the UK so it's well within the limits of small claims. IANAL but the U.K. also has less tolerance of "fine print". If PayPal closed his account because it was created before he was 18, did they do so because th
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by pacaro 10y ago
I used to live a couple of doors down from a traditional family run bakery in Bury St Edmunds (sadly closed in 98 or 99). Bakery hours were a mixed blessing, the wonderful smell of fresh baked bread needs no introduction, but in the summer
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by pacaro 10y ago
So leaving aside the fact that tools for converting your handwriting into a font already exist. The way the Latin alphabet is typeset is really inimical to this. Arabic is a much better match, because the font shaping engines understand tha
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by pacaro 10y ago
If you have been growing/honing your skill set, is your code available on github? Has anyone reviewed it for you? One of the challenges with growing in isolation is the lack of feedback from peers.
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by pacaro 10y ago
Good! It's worth pushing that as much as, maybe more than, the bootcamp. Do you have a mentor? Someone in the industry who can give you feedback? There may be something simple that you can change
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by pacaro 10y ago
Traditionally some of the trade apprenticeships started with the new apprentice making their own tools. When I took a molecular cell biology class in college, the first series of labs involved disassembling and reassembling the bench micros
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by pacaro 10y ago
It's worth noting that they replaced an expiring $500million line of credit that had not been touched. So you may be reading a little much into what may just be prudent financial planning
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by pacaro 10y ago
What have you built between finishing your Bootcamp and now?
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Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone(bloomberg.com)
226 points by pacaro 10y ago|145 comments
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by pacaro 10y ago
It's not clear to me how true this is. There are definitely individuals that exhibit savant skills in one area and mediocre to poor skills in other areas. But there are also true polymaths who can turn their hands to just about anythin
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by pacaro 10y ago
Indigo is common in daily life. A pretty substantial portion of the population wears "blue" jeans. Also in a world without street lighting, we would see it more in the sky at pre dawn and post dusk. Violet is the real oddity in th
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by pacaro 10y ago
My observation was that introducing the "didn't work hard enough" element _is_ moving the goalposts.
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by pacaro 10y ago
The other side of the waste equation is also worse for coal. Fly ash is typically radioactive enough that if it were produced at a nuclear facility it would be categorized as nuclear waste. To be clear, burning coal concentrates the uranium
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by pacaro 10y ago
It's a social challenge that we still haven't worked out how to meet. Prior to the industrial revolution there were small rural communities, hamlets, villages, and towns, in places which grew up to be coal towns. But when the sing
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by pacaro 10y ago
At which point this turns into a "No true Scotsman" fallacy
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by pacaro 10y ago
Or, looking at it from a different perspective, the fine is maximum fare by definition. Then you can pay the posted fare or decide whether the expected fare based on fine x probability of capture
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by pacaro 10y ago
The original having been mostly blocked by people throwing rocks in it to make it "go off" IIRC I was in Iceland in 2000 (ish) and the original was occasionally doing its thing then, but not well
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by pacaro 10y ago
Always running a surplus is presumably as bad a thing as always running a deficit, but if you can run a surplus On sunny days, then you don't need austerity measures on rainy days
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by pacaro 10y ago
In older windows NT code — within the OS itself, not applications — doubling was common, so comments would have BUGBUG, HACKHACK, CHECKCHECK or similar. IIRC these were globally cleaned up in the Longhorn (vista) timeframe Maybe this was pa
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by pacaro 10y ago
Accidentally quadratic is good for a chuckle too https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com
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by pacaro 10y ago
While "rhyme" unfortunately contains the letter "e", although not the sound; "quay" doesn't contain it, but does have the sound (it's pronounced "key") I couldn't think of another word
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by pacaro 10y ago
Rhymes with quay
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by pacaro 10y ago
It's good practice to rate limit endpoints for a variety of reasons, but in particular any endpoint that exposes user authentication should be rate limited. So this should be a tool that every service at scale has access to. IIRC the l

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