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by rquantz 13y ago
The apparent trouble with signup notwithstanding, this seems like great fun. The thing is, I didn't find out about those problems, because I didn't even try to sign up. I have no idea how I would go about getting started being abl
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by rquantz 13y ago
This is about how we deal with the news, not how an airline should discipline pilots who screw up.
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by rquantz 13y ago
By "almost no one" you mean "probably most people, but some people who make lots of money from the current system are using part of that money to bribe politicians not to fix it, and we live under a government where that is t
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by rquantz 13y ago
I think you mean 2013.
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by rquantz 13y ago
Additionally, though, a deer tick will not transmit Lyme disease until it has taken its blood meal, usually 24-36 hours after first biting. If you take it off right away, and it hasn't "inflated," you're almost certainly
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by rquantz 13y ago
I gave you an accidental, fat finger downvote. I am deeply sorry.
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by rquantz 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand the hostility towards TDD I sometimes see here. It's true there are zealots -- people who think just because you've written tests you will magically automatically have good design, and never have any
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by rquantz 13y ago
The CSM is actually a very highly respected news source. It regularly wins Pulitzer prizes. See this encyclopedia britannica entry: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115192/The-Christi...
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by rquantz 13y ago
You're right, I should have said "universal literacy."
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by rquantz 13y ago
People learn what they need to learn -- especially if they start as children. Mass literacy is very much the result of concerted efforts by the state to provide universal education -- it didn't just come into being. Moreover, the poi
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What are you talking about? Do you have any evidence for this? Or was it just some democrat you talked to who supported mass surveillance? You think the 30% of Americans who believe Snowden is a patriot are all non-democrats?
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Yes, Ross Douthat is their token conservative.
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Since I got into web dev, I feel like nytimes.com has been a poster child for how not to design a website. It will be interesting to see what they've come up with when they start from scratch.
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Everyone is doing something wrong. I'm starting to wonder about using checklists for deployment (yes, your deployment should be automated. You still have to go through the checklist at least once). There are lots of them out there, but th
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by rquantz 13y ago
No, there is no absolute "moral duty" to anything or anyone. That is a very limited understanding of morality. There seems to be many people working on that. Not enough. I would say this is a battle you have <0.01% of winning. In s
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by rquantz 13y ago
I might take issue with saying that Tennessee is the deep south. Regardless, while there are plenty of foodies in the south, vegetarianism is still looked at askance. I was vegetarian for eight years, and my trips to the Alabama/Mississippi
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by rquantz 13y ago
Is the London underground worse than other subway systems? From the video it looked fairly clean and orderly, as compared to, say, NYC. But we New Yorkers love our subway... Aside from the constant rate hikes, of course. And when the L trai
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by rquantz 13y ago
making sure that I sleep and eat in such a way to promote muscle repair. This is the main time suck for me in weight training. Eating like a combination horse/tiger is pretty time consuming.
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by rquantz 13y ago
Doing 100 pushups or 1000 situps is mostly an exercise in endurance, which is trained very differently from strength. I highly doubt his claim.
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by rquantz 13y ago
You just used the word you're so offended by. Can we all stop pretending that grownups don't use swear words? It seems like there's been a deluge of language concern trolls lately.
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by rquantz 13y ago
I feel like I'm running into this problem, to an extent. I'll revise what the OP said, though: I think freelancing right out of the gate is great when you're young and don't need a super reliable income -- you get to experiment and learn in
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by rquantz 13y ago
Is it bad that this article still makes me want to have one of these?
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by rquantz 13y ago
If you are on welfare, the government is forcing you to apply for a job. That was the result of the 90s "welfare reform." Edit: also, I don't think HN's top commentor needs to have someone give him a link to the guidelines. That being said,
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by rquantz 13y ago
Does anyone know if this is a common factor in hiring programmers? I would expect not given the job market, but I havent applied for a job in a few years.
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Yes, for a new developer. But for a designer who doesn't have time to learn the codex?
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I wouldn't think the primary problem with a non-coder working with wordpress would be an inability to look up a function in the docs. Once you've gotten to that point, the actual looking up is trivial. There are a lot of other steps you nee
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The president that will get credit for landing a man on Mars is the president 20 years later, not the president that initiates the program in the first place. Are you sure? I don't think many people give Nixon credit for the moon landings
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If you're looking for a specific pilot program for the affordable care act, how about the Massachusetts law? It's not quite as popular as medicare, and it looks like MA residents don't think the law is perfect, but they also seem to prefer
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If the VA and IHS don't represent the pilots for this bill then what does? Medicare? It's hugely popular and keeps prices down despite serving a population that over-utilizes health care.
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It appears to be state regulated. I'd imagine that different types of stores are regulated different ways (e.g., coop vs. supermarket). http://www.extension.org/pages/45117/is-unit-pricing-mandato...

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