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by sdflkd 9y ago
> It's amusing to watch lucky people on HN make comments like this (taking their extreme luck for granted and attributing it to hard work) and then watch them get down-voted by equally hard-working people who have the opposite exper
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> I notice that while youtube continues to buffer video while paused Not anymore, or at least not for long periods of time.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
If your company doesn't ask system design questions they deserve their fate. :)
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by sdflkd 9y ago
> It sounds like your argument is that the ability to become an engineer or physicist is an in-born trait, which no amount of study and work can overcome, which sounds absurd to me. Do you have evidence of the contrary? Of the top X% of
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Young people don't use Skype anymore.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
You can prescribe exercise all you want but people are not going to do it.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Yet if you did web development you'd (likely) be making 2X+ in America -- provided you were willing to move. Canada doesn't pay.
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by sdflkd 9y ago
What are you running the VM on?
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by sdflkd 9y ago
Starting off with the title of "Millionaire" would definitely annoy people.
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by sdflkd 10y ago
I can't tell if this is satire?
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by sdflkd 10y ago
> I understand you're curious how many people are using your tool, but this isn't the way to go about it. Not OP, but what is the correct way to go about it?
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by sdflkd 10y ago
I'm always slightly worried as an atheist minority (brown) of considering Utah. I come from Canada and never really see racial tensions like there are in the US. Would you say it's not as big of a deal as the media makes it out to
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Did you forget to convert the currency? 44,900 * 1.3 = 58370. Also, you don't have to live in a single bedroom apartment for $3500/mo. I've had comfortable living conditions at $2000. You're also forgetting that Toront
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by sdflkd 10y ago
> Maybe those in control of ISPs realize that they have no individual protection from this practice Why not?
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Finally be able to go to the gym 5 - 6 times a week for however long I deemed necessary. Cook a lot of good food. Read & write. I'd basically spend it on self-improvement.
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Yes, because it affects your offers when they say they pay "market rate".
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by sdflkd 10y ago
> Does it? That person is going to have the anchor of that 60k follow them around. When they move on from the startup, most likely their new company is going to base the offer around that 60k. Whereas the other one is going to have their
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by sdflkd 10y ago
With respect to income/material wealth? Factoring in cost of living Toronto is still a poor place to live compared to any reasonable location in the United States. The currency basically negates any cost of living difference. Toronto i
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Other way around. This post was published first.
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Is Sublime really an editor of choice if speed comes first?
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Note: I am Canadian, but we share similar culture. I disagree with his evaluation of post-secondary education. At least with respect to how students are treated. Maybe it's because I go to a "good" school, but I've never
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by sdflkd 10y ago
I was adding my opinion into the mix but I did not expect it to influence anyone. Would you argue that someone on Hacker News has the same responsibility as, say, Donald Trump? I wouldn't.
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by sdflkd 10y ago
The difference between Tyson and my HN account is that I do not have the platform to influence anyone of anything. Tyson actively goes out of his way to influence people (with good intentions!) and bring science into their lives. He has the
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by sdflkd 10y ago
> I wonder what is HN's obsession with sticking to specific diets? Generally speaking there is an infinite number of possible healthy diets that get you your macros at every calorie level. It's easier to eat a healthy amount if
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Neil Tyson is beyond cheesy. He's a pendant and gives the wrong idea of what acting intelligent is to youth. [1] It's a sign of immaturity and a desire to appear profound. [1] https://twitter.com/neiltyson/sta
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by sdflkd 10y ago
https://tokio.rs/blog/tokio-0-1/ Might help illuminate some things?
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Wrt the first link, I'm going to be taking a distributed systems course next semester that (hopefully) covers the same material. Nice to know what I learn at school is somewhat applicable. My question is learning about design ideas lik
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by sdflkd 10y ago
Which city, if you don't mind me asking?
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by sdflkd 10y ago
How does one begin to learn about these things? Minimizing cost of running services sounds super interesting but as a student I've never had to deal with it and am basically starting with 0 knowledge.
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by sdflkd 10y ago
What is a less resource intensive but similarly easy to use tool that would let you make desktop apps?

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