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   by symfoniq 12y ago

   Most gun owners I know are like Unix programmers, in that they favor the simplest solution that could possibly work. A safety feature that makes a gun significantly more complicated—and therefore possibly less likely to work when needed—is
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   by symfoniq 12y ago

   EPB's fiber network wasn't funded this way. Either state law or charter (can't remember which) forbade them from using electric utility revenue to build out the fiber network. They issued bonds instead under a new EPB Fiber O
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   by symfoniq 12y ago

   My own experience supports this claim. While I didn't grow up poor, my middle-class parents separated the week I started my freshman year of college. What money there was went to lawyers instead of college tuition. Realizing I was on m
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   by symfoniq 12y ago

   I think he probably means that certain Postgres features like hstore and JSON support allow it to be used in situations where he once would have chosen a no-SQL solution. This has been my own experience.
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   by symfoniq 13y ago

   Nevertheless, the statement that OS X's market share is stagnating is not true: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/15/windows_desktop_and_...
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   by symfoniq 13y ago

   I, too, am curious about how much of this is driven by housing costs. The salaries sound impressive until you start adjusting for cost of living. I live in a part of the country with a very low cost of living, and make what I consider to be
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   by symfoniq 13y ago

   If you are equating Ayn Rand with libertarianism, you might find this interesting: http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ar_libertari...
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   by symfoniq 13y ago

   Moreover, when this sort of thing happens to a car that uses gasoline, the results can be far more catastrophic. "The freak accident occurred about 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 8, 1994, when the family was traveling to Wisconsin to celebrate bir
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   by symfoniq 13y ago

   I'm seeing a blank site.
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    by symfoniq 13y ago

    The Yggdrasil in Dan Simmons' novel Hyperion was a refreshing departure from the norm.
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    by symfoniq 13y ago

    I agree that the less politics on Hacker News, the better. However, I think there is a grave risk in writing off the possible abuse of political power because the alleged victims are not in your camp. As Martin Niemöller said: First they ca
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    by symfoniq 13y ago

    I've done both PHP and Ruby/Rails professionally. They are quite different. I earned a living with PHP first, but I prefer to use Rails (or Sinatra) for most projects these days. Even though PHP and Ruby (and therefore Rails) have little in
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    by symfoniq 13y ago

    I guess the author thought he could get away with it since Sears and K-Mart are the same company now.
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    by symfoniq 14y ago

    I'm wondering this as well.
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    by symfoniq 14y ago

    Kirk was wrong. There are no-win situations.
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    by symfoniq 14y ago

    jrs235 is referring to IP reputation as measured on the receiving end of the email. In other words, Yahoo or Hotmail might reject your emails if they see unusual activity from an IP address. Until an IP is "established" as having sent a lot
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    by symfoniq 14y ago

    We use SendGrid for transactional email, but handle (solicited) bulk email in-house. The centralization of email is at least partly due to the fact that ensuring email gets delivered is difficult and time-consuming. While I'm sure a lot of
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    by symfoniq 14y ago

    The Intel DC S3700 800 GB is $2,000.00 and has a 5-year warranty ("DC" stands for "data center"). Based on the stellar reviews, it will be interesting to see what effect this drive has on enterprise SSD pricing.