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by retr0grad3 2y ago
I'm now the proud owner of 69ac8bd2-4ca0-4dd9-82b5-60fabec0b404.com
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by retr0grad3 4y ago
I quit smoking after 18 years and think the same advice is applicable: remove yourself from the triggers. Right before I got married I quit smoking and started using the patch. Once we got to our honeymoon spot the urge to smoke dropped off
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by retr0grad3 4y ago
I have a right to be free of guns. If someone had a CHP I, as a citizen, have a rihmght to avoid them.
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Ask HN: Personal Activity Tracker
1 points by retr0grad3 4y ago|0 comments
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by retr0grad3 6y ago
So East of town (Austinite here) there's a lot of wide-open space. My money is on something East of 130 toll road near the Circuit of the Americas. I could see a lot of incentives being thrown that way from the Red McCombs family (majo
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by retr0grad3 7y ago
I'm an organizer for one of the (many) DevOpsDays Conferences held around the world. Speaking only for myself, I struggle with making sure that DevOps is about Dev and Ops working together, not just Ops / SysAdmins using a differe
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by retr0grad3 8y ago
My wife's a lawyer but she's a Taurus.
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by retr0grad3 8y ago
Jumping in to reply because I made the switch to Authy about two years ago and haven't looked back. You get the ability to sync MFA across devices and desktop without a hitch. Add in the backup (with encryption) and you can onboard a d
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by retr0grad3 8y ago
Silicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connotation.
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by retr0grad3 9y ago
If you're run k8s on your infrastructure there's a pretty slick alternative called Open FaaS: https://github.com/openfaas/faas
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Ask HN: SaaS Discounts for Non-Profits?
2 points by retr0grad3 9y ago|0 comments
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by retr0grad3 9y ago
The 'vote with your dollars' premise is flawed; the very nature of monopoly is to erode choice by consolidating market position and using influence (government, market) to maintain position which tends to mean creating barriers fo
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by retr0grad3 10y ago
I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift, S3 flat files, etc. There are many players in this space a
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by retr0grad3 12y ago
You should probably be going on more than just AFAIK. The Atlantic Slave Trade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa#Atlantic_slav... was a complex issue that evolved economically as a consequence of agricultu
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by retr0grad3 12y ago
> I also think it's comforting to think that this was the work of simply some greedy guys on wall street using strange words. Yes, actually, it was in a lot of cases. From the aggressive use of NINA loans (in some cases targeted at
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by retr0grad3 12y ago
Hyperbole and incorrect facts ref. Cleveland. Cleveland's name is based on reference to the nickname for Joe Louis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns and the original owner wanted to name it after the
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by retr0grad3 12y ago
My wife is a defense attorney that works claims litigation, e.g insurance defense for carriers. Watching "Hot Coffee" was very difficult for her. Part of her job during the pre-trial phase of any case is to push as much potential
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by retr0grad3 13y ago
There are numerous options downtown in Austin for travel while drunk. The person at fault here is the guy behind the wheel that panicked. From http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/2-dead-21-injured-in-... The in
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Ask HN: What tips do you have on moving from corporate to a startup?
5 points by retr0grad3 13y ago|3 comments
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Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link(talkingpointsmemo.com)
278 points by retr0grad3 13y ago|155 comments