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by stickyricky 5y ago
> 1/16 is not very meaningful. To you... Many people find it meaningful including American Indian tribes which require ancestry of that amount.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Poor Marak. Ground up on the way in and ground up on the way out.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
I miss the days when the articles you read were written and edited by professionals. "Absolute scumbag" might be an apt description of Schrodinger but it is one the reader should make. Not the writer.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
> I'm just saying if you levy a huge accusation like "she gets private insider information" then you need to back it up with factual evidence. Nancy Pelosi's husband regularly beats the market by large margins. You c
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by stickyricky 5y ago
What bills will be brought to the floor. What bills have the votes to pass. What bills do not. Access to confidential information which has not been released to the public. Etc. etc. I'm honestly not sure what you want me to say.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
What do you mean "horrible optics"? It's outright corrupt. The issue here isn't "Nancy Pelosi supporting local businesses". The issue is her husband acting on private information to reap enormous profits.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
I didn't find them that radically different. I can see resemblances in my own family members. Their facial hair is far superior though.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Do not open source this... You've created a business not a library or a framework. I have no idea what the intentions of the GP were but you should definitely retain ownership of your code. Try to sell it. Try to get ad money. If n
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by stickyricky 5y ago
I assume his personal blog is not the usecase. There may be bandwidth limitations in their usecase.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
You can leave or you can bare it. But definitely don't carry it.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
If you're still in warranty contact the manufacturer and see if you can RMA it.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
What are the pros and cons of a user generated tagging system? If you have a community of dedicated individuals who maintain a group of tags, searching those tags should yield high quality results.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Elm is a great example of a fun tech stack. - No environment configuration at all (third-party or otherwise). This is the most pain inducing part of Javascript projects. - The code you write comes with a lot of confidence thanks to the com
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by stickyricky 5y ago
You're very lucky to have that. I've always wanted a circle of programmers to build stuff with. Its an incredible force multiplier and I'm sure you'll have fond memories of that camaraderie for life.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Its more universal than that. You can find the sentiment in Eastern and Western traditions.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Poor, middle, and upper class are economic distinctions in America. Not social ones. I think OP misstated his alignment to the "working class". He refers to Yuppies in the subsequent sentence which gives a hint that this is a r
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Why don't big studios produce content that people clearly want to see? It seems like capitalism should dictate that they chase lucrative markets. Studios regularly produce much more niche content than a Jesus origin story.
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Ask HN: How do you take care of your eyes?
9 points by stickyricky 5y ago|9 comments
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Depends on the goal... Does he want to work at Google or just some local software shop as a junior engineer?
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by stickyricky 5y ago
My advice: understand your goals and strip your learning to the bare minimum. Ditch the degree. Its unnecessary for what you will achieve in your career. Which will be working at small-to-mid-cap companies. Your ONLY goal should be pass
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Unfortunately no. Possibly email the author? http://www.algorithmsilluminated.org/
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by stickyricky 5y ago
"Algorithms Illuminated" by Roughgarden. Very accessible. Reads like a novel not a textbook. Has exercises throughout the chapter to test knowledge. I recommend it over your suggestion that you want a textbook. This book will
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Tell HN: Instagram is promoting inappropriate photos of underage girls
9 points by stickyricky 5y ago|1 comments
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by stickyricky 5y ago
I wouldn't necessarily use the phrase "extreme memory". When you have a lot of experience in a sport, you start to recognize (and create new) patterns which make recall easier. Otherwise known as strategies and tactics. Le
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by stickyricky 5y ago
Critical race theory is not mentioned in the FAQ.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
> If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike[1]. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc On a more serious note, describe the service for me and I'll give an opinion. Clock as a service is not s
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by stickyricky 5y ago
You forgot to define the hello-world endpoint.
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by stickyricky 5y ago
It does not matter if you describe a service as a database or anything else. The implications are the same. A service must make architectural decisions. Those decisions impose limits. And those limits are billed. Regardless, HTTP server
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by stickyricky 5y ago
If you're at the point where you've got a single application server with 100 waiting connections on a database, you've already blundered. Firstly, you're either overpaying for your database (connections aren't free
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by stickyricky 5y ago
tl;dr: Async (1) is not faster, (2) does not scale, and (3) is not stable under load. Yes and no matter how many times its said people will still opt for the async option even though its slower in the general case. I went so far as to benc

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