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by rquantz 14y ago
I'm sure that's it. There are also people who follow tornadoes for fun. I'm just saying I'm not one of them.
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by rquantz 14y ago
Phil Plait (Slate's Bad Astronomer) doesn't think they're related: https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer Note especially: 12 hours is a long way at 8 km/sec, so this object in Ruissia was on a very different orbit than 2012 DA14. and also:
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by rquantz 14y ago
The thing I can't believe is that they keep driving toward the meteor, even when it looks like it's headed right for them. I have to say my immediate response would probably be to slam on the brakes.
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by rquantz 14y ago
The OP seems to think most people want to get rich because they think it will make them happy, and he may be right. But in my life, most of the decisions I've made with my happiness in mind have had the side effect of reducing my income --
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by rquantz 14y ago
Except that you can't produce longform, high quality content on YouTube for any cheaper than you can produce a tv show.
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by rquantz 14y ago
Also, the cost of entry for creating a high quality book is much lower than for creating a high quality movie/tv show. This allows a wider variety of viewpoints, forms, styles, and ideas to be expressed in book form than tv.
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by rquantz 14y ago
It's more like "How to recover and redeploy WebApp X after total server/data loss when you are not a programmer or sysadmin." There are a defined set of things that need to be done or could go wrong.
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by rquantz 14y ago
Attitude -- that would be, the alignment of the plane to the ground.
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by rquantz 14y ago
I'm not the least bit a Go programmer, but it sounds pretty different from a programmer's perspective to me. With duck typing your methods end up with conditional logic based around respond_to calls. With Go it seems like it's declarative.
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by rquantz 14y ago
No it doesn't. Those were two categories of people you would give very different feedback. You would give a 50 year old beginner advice more like the teenager, probably, but still not the same. For one thing, you'd expect them to be a bit l
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by rquantz 14y ago
That may be true, but humility is not one of the virtues typically associated with adolescence. When they tell you they're a teenager, they're asking you to go easy on them, and there's nothing wrong with that. That doesn't mean they can't
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by rquantz 14y ago
But you give a teenage beginner different feedback than a seasoned professional.
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by rquantz 14y ago
And that's been discussed here earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5087065 However, I would be willing to forgive even the best minds for taking a high paying job with good benefits at Google or Facebook. These are hard dec
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by rquantz 14y ago
This is the first I've seen of MapBox. I'm not sure of how much use I'll get out of these icons, but my mind is percolating with possibilities for creating useful embeddable maps...
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by rquantz 14y ago
I could be mistaken, but I think that line is a reference to an interview with Jeff Hammerbacher: Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "Th
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by rquantz 14y ago
I usually use both for anything public facing. Server side is for security, client side is for UX. keeping it dry is a problem, obviously, but you don't always want the same validations server- and client-side.
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by rquantz 14y ago
I believe that is what he's trying to say. You don't use Arial because it terminates at right angles, you use it because it feels different.
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by rquantz 14y ago
A couple of times a year my dad gives me a new book with a handwritten inscription in it. I will not get rid of even one of these as long as I live.
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by rquantz 14y ago
Do you have these issues with Medicare, Medicaid, and Veteran's healthcare?
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by rquantz 14y ago
I have only had great experiences so far with their customer service. Let me count the ways: 1. My girlfriend really wanted to join too. I sent them a message about this and they sent her an invite that day (this was before invitation were
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by rquantz 14y ago
And his proposed remedy, to make the loser of a suit pay all the costs, would make it effectively impossible for an individual to ever sue a large corporation.
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by rquantz 14y ago
But if you for example go to the gym with a tight posterior chain, you will squat with a form that either hurts your lower back... or makes you emphasise the wrong muscles... and leave you with progressively bigger problems lifting correct
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by rquantz 14y ago
Any sources you can cite here?
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by rquantz 14y ago
I've really gone down the rabbit hole with barbell lifting in the past year. Yes, read starting strength, and also practical programming for strength training (rip's other big book). Read Fit, which Kilgore contributed to, and then find som
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by rquantz 14y ago
So you're back to your layout being entirely dependent on your markup? wasn't this what CSS layouts were supposed to get away from?
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by rquantz 14y ago
Not mention, considering the imitations of this article, I don't see young Americans being able to support their aging parents.
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Ask HN: How do you handle billing by the day?
5 points by rquantz 14y ago|4 comments
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by rquantz 14y ago
It is also the name of a band, a work of narrative history, and a widely used botanical nourishment framework.
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by rquantz 14y ago
My gut reaction is it would become more like ASP.NET, where many libraries cost money, but largely don't appear to be of any higher quality. And having to pay for components discourages students and newbies from learning. I think it's hard
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by rquantz 14y ago
I have actually done this. Well, it was a heavy curtain.

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