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by sbov 8y ago
Slack, email, or IM don't break my concentration because I ignore them when I don't have time to answer questions. It's not as easy to ignore someone physically tapping on your shoulder. There's a very simple way to not
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by sbov 8y ago
> I would particularly advise the "cry it out" technique. If you can't stomach cry it out, you can try the pick up-put down method. Let them cry for 5-10 minutes, then soothe them, then put them back down when they'r
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by sbov 8y ago
The reason is simple: labor has less options. Capital can mostly go where it pleases - if it is taxed too much it might flee the country. But your 160 million workers aren't going to uproot themselves and move to another country beca
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by sbov 8y ago
Except they're wrong. Over the life of a car, a $5/day starbucks habit can cost more than the difference between buying a new vs used car. If you keep your car for 10 years, $5/day is $18k. Our current cars are 13 years, a
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by sbov 8y ago
I prefer touchpads because the travel time to them is much lower. They also are always in the same place. I can even use them with my thumb while leaving my fingers on the home row.
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by sbov 8y ago
You forgot one: * cancer doctor doesn't know about infection, runs chemo treatment, infection spreads and ultimately kills patient. Happened to a relative of mine.
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by sbov 8y ago
For a brand like Jansport, this is a false dichotomy: https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=jansport%20backpack&ca...
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by sbov 8y ago
More often than not, electronics stuff I've bought on Amazon have been unsatisfactory in some way, such as: counterfeit, was obviously returned by someone else, parts missing, obviously broken, etc. Their return policy helps with this,
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by sbov 8y ago
> you may for example go from Postgres to a KV store. If its easy to do this then you are using a tiny fraction of Postgres. If you want it to be easy to switch your database then you need to code to the lowest common denominator. I wou
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by sbov 8y ago
Not really. I use my 4 year old CPU, power supply, memory and motherboard with a brand new geforce 1080. I could also upgrade the memory if I wanted to. If you upgrade the CPU, you usually have to upgrade the motherboard. That's abo
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by sbov 8y ago
> Not all apps minus terminal. Note that you can change terminal to use ctrl-c and ctrl-v for copy/paste. Then if you want to interrupt a running program, use ctrl-shift-c (which as far as the shell is concerned is the same as ctr
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by sbov 8y ago
With experience you can account for this. What's hard to account for is some 3rd party vendor blowing you off, or slow rolling you, for weeks. Or management pulling you into another project. Each integration point with a 3rd party au
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by sbov 8y ago
This is a common phenomena, and I'm not sure if there's a general term for it. E.g. people prematurely stop taking antibiotics because they feel better, or people go off their meds because they feel fine, etc.
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by sbov 8y ago
Some people call this... microservices! Common advice is that a microservice should align with a bounded context in domain driven design, which can involve a LOT of code. Many large companies have millions of LOC behind their microservices
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by sbov 8y ago
If you're posting on this website, you can probably get a house. Just not the house you want, where you want.
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by sbov 8y ago
Not really. We place super high priority on freedom from government influence. It's OK for a company to fuck you over but not the government for <reasons> . Edit: I know the <reasons> , but the debate about that is not
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by sbov 8y ago
Realizing you need compliance and security procedures requires competence. The two of you are basically saying the same thing. There is no world where a company that can't get the most BASIC security practices right will realize they
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by sbov 8y ago
I'm pro GDPR, but I get tired of the immense amounts of shade some pro GDPR people throw the way of some who complain about it. These arguments tend to be very circular. It goes something like this: GDPR is reasonable and easy to unde
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by sbov 8y ago
Cool. If it's so clear, then are you willing to be held liable if my company is found in violation of it due to your misreading? I'm guessing not. People who are willing to put their reputation on the line, who are paid four fig
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by sbov 8y ago
> They baked all features necessary right into the language. Not really. What about sessions? Auth? CSRF protection?
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by sbov 8y ago
You're being WAY too charitable to end users. People aren't talking about the compost bin. They're talking about the recycle bin. The one for glass, paper, plastics, and cans. We have a trash bin, yard waste bin, and recyc
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by sbov 8y ago
His views on data ownership seem to roughly align with Europe (it's still "your data" even if other companies hold it), which might be his one bright spot for liberals on this forum.
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by sbov 8y ago
Yeah, LA has a lot of commuter express buses from the suburbs that only have 3-4 stops. The problem is you're stuck in the same freeway traffic that everyone else is. Despite this, I know several people taking these buses, which are
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by sbov 8y ago
> Keep in mind in California, sales tax changes per county. More than that. Sales tax in California can change arbitrarily, not just by county. E.g. different cities in the same county can have different sales tax. To further complic
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by sbov 8y ago
My favorite law was one passed by Texas, where a college id wasn't valid, but your NRA card was. So transparent. I think the federal courts struck it down.
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by sbov 8y ago
AFAIK painted over old lead paint isn't a problem. If you sand it it is. For most of these old toxic things, where plausible, the best option is to just seal it and leave it alone.
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by sbov 8y ago
Beyond that, the burden of proof in a criminal trial is much higher. So it wouldn't be unheard of for the DOJ to not pursue criminal charges if it doesn't think it can pass that higher bar.
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by sbov 8y ago
Growing up I had a friend whose dad was a regular business starter. At first he had his own computer stores, which was put out of business by CompUSA, who sold parts cheaper than he could source them. Then he started his own internet cafe
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by sbov 8y ago
> Curiously, at the height of the housing crisis homes were about 5.5 times the median national income. In San Francisco right now (another place where supply looks limited by the water) homes there are 17.2 times the median national inc
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by sbov 8y ago
That list has little relevance on this subject, because if you look at their methodologies they look at a lot more than government influence. (see https://rsf.org/en/detailed-methodology ) In fact it lists the US below

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