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by ronnier 11y ago
As a result of the button reaching zero.
572.
by ronnier 11y ago
I'm living in Tokyo right now and I own a home in Seattle. In terms of housing and job market, Dallas, Texas is hard to beat. In Dallas the pay was good (the average engineer will make a lot more money in Dallas than in Tokyo, and no
573.
by ronnier 11y ago
To question and not accept blindly is encouraged. Even the word "Israel" means to struggle with God.
574.
by ronnier 12y ago
But it doesn't explain why I can't hear it in just as quite places in different locations. If it was tinnitus wouldn't I here it in other places as well?
575.
by ronnier 12y ago
This hum terrorized me for months in Kirkland, WA. I falsely accused my neighbors over it -- they were completely innocent. Ended up moving a few miles away and haven't heard it since.
576.
by ronnier 12y ago
MS is in bed with China. Google isn't. Microsoft is allowed to stay in China, Google was kicked out.
577.
by ronnier 12y ago
> You want the people in China consuming more and not less of it. Want all you wish, the Chinese government is actively stopping and blocking the outside internet at an alarming rate. I was in Beijing a few weeks ago and couldn't l
578.
by ronnier 12y ago
Yeah, but this has taken on some other unexplained level of weirdness.
579.
by ronnier 12y ago
I've grown tired of this obsession with Sriracha. Comments, articles, shirts, holloween costumes, overheard comments from people in restaurants, ...
580.
by ronnier 12y ago
I grew up near Houston and would totally take Houston drivers over Seattle drivers (Though I'm not living in the US as of this year). Houston drivers drive. There's a sense of urgency to them. Not so in Seattle where it's n
581.
by ronnier 12y ago
Not here in Japan. I just left as a matter of fact. Lots of people there.
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by ronnier 12y ago
I go to Taito Station and play Ultra Street Fighter 4 and/or coffee shops when I don't have much else going on.
583.
by ronnier 12y ago
Offtopic: blog headers are becoming larger by the year it seems. Have there been any studies to see what such large headers do to readership?
584.
by ronnier 12y ago
This is Amazing. Very helpful here in Japan. I'll be glad when the word lens feature supports Japanese.
585.
by ronnier 12y ago
I'm sure that was the purpose of this poll.
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U.S. Military's 21st Century Robots of War (2013)(youtube.com)
1 points by ronnier 12y ago|0 comments
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The Wild West of Unix IO(youtube.com)
8 points by ronnier 12y ago|0 comments
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by ronnier 12y ago
Salary is very misleading. Total compensation is ultimately what matters.
589.
by ronnier 12y ago
In the US, unfortunately my first reaction when seeing something out of the ordinary is to wonder if I'm being setup for a YouTube prank video (or a scam, or robbed)
590.
by ronnier 12y ago
Forgot where I heard this, but this world is made to take your money.
591.
by ronnier 12y ago
>Apple reported it had $137.7 billion in offshore accounts. The CTJ report also found that Cisco had $48 billion, HP had $38 billion, Google nearly $39 billion, and Oracle $26 billion offshore
592.
by ronnier 12y ago
Just speaking from my own observations here, I don't think this is unheard of in the US. For example I work for Amazon and we hire a lot of college graduates, usually after completing a paid internship. These new hires are not expect
593.
by ronnier 12y ago
Can you link some of these?
594.
by ronnier 12y ago
What hate crimes?
595.
by ronnier 12y ago
I don't just receive email on major holidays (let alone vacation), I receive code reviews! Code reviews still roll in while the office is closed for major US holidays.
596.
by ronnier 12y ago
I always subscribed to my grandfather's words: be honest, work hard, do your best or don't do it at all. It's really paid off for me. I grew up as a child in government run project apartments in Texas. I was able to escape th
597.
by ronnier 12y ago
This system was disabled. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Police-deactivating-contr... http://seattletimes.com/html/latestnews/2022269628_spdwirele...
598.
by ronnier 12y ago
This was the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jayjay1010 http://linkaudit.co.uk/ Which I've blocked: http://ihackernews.com/by/jayjay1010 My host is Softsys hosting
599.
by ronnier 12y ago
I just don't have time to deal with it. Removing it was the quickest way possible for me to resolve the issue and not have my account closed.
600.
by ronnier 12y ago
I own http://ihackernews.com which reformats HackerNews for mobile phones. I had a DMCA takedown notice sent to me on behalf of a website owner who didn't want me linking to their site. My hosting provider gave me 24 hours

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