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by tdfx 15y ago
I've found, from personal experience as friends/neighbors/family's unofficial tech support person, that there's a surprising number of women that look at porn. Whereas guys might blush when their viewing habits are exposed, women would pro
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by tdfx 15y ago
At that debt level, a college education is still a no-brainer. I would argue that depends heavily on which degree you're coming out with. I know a lot of communications and psychology majors who are working in food service 3-4 year
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by tdfx 15y ago
I've found that by standing at my desk I walk around MUCH more when I stop to think about a problem. Instead of leaning back in my chair and staring into space, I'll pace around the room and return. It doesn't seem like much, but it adds
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by tdfx 15y ago
This is exactly the reason I have been drawn to HN. Being around people that are smarter than you is great motivation to increase your own knowledge. I only wish I could've been exposed to groups of similarly well-read and knowledgable pe
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by tdfx 15y ago
Plus I had the capacity to learn a lot more as a child than I actually did. I feel like this is true of the majority of people. I, for one, know that when I was doing math in grade school I usually grasped the concept on the day it
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Ask HN: Is there an API/service to check for proxies/misbehaving IPs?
3 points by tdfx 15y ago|0 comments
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by tdfx 15y ago
This occurred to me after I finished writing that post.
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by tdfx 15y ago
Lets you target the JVM without writing Java, among other things.
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by tdfx 15y ago
Gmail - email (duh) Google Apps - email for companies Calendar - syncs with phone Docs - store scanned receipts, documents, etc. Google Voice - Barely use my cell phone anymore, do all my calls and texting from my computer during the day G
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by tdfx 15y ago
As it turns out, when I'm not stealing pennies from the penny trays at gas stations, I often shop at businesses that only accept cash and have no issue with it. If a business accepts credit cards, however, I'd rather have that small part o
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by tdfx 15y ago
If you're doing it right then your credit card account should be earning you the approximate equivalent of 1% cash back via rewards points or another mechanism. For my personal card I use Chase Sapphire (the one without the yearly fee), wh
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by tdfx 15y ago
Google TV tried to do too much too soon and failed at everything. They tried to beat TiVo without a built-in DVR. They tried to take on Apple without iTunes-enabled streaming from computers. They obviously can't touch XBox with what they
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by tdfx 15y ago
Aside from the low sales (they never truly explained the benefit of it), my friend from Best Buy also noted that it had an astronomical return rate. No ordinary consumers made it past the setup phase. And, in certain Comcast markets, Goog
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by tdfx 15y ago
I wasn't implying that another 2-3 years of a graduate education degree would solve the problem at hand. Sorry I wasn't clear on that. My intended assertion is that the curriculum for an education degree should be the MOST challenging ava
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by tdfx 15y ago
The scariest part is that all the people I know who have no confidence in their intelligence ("Oh, I could never major in THAT, I'd have to take Calculus! I hate math!") avoid the science majors and are majoring in education. I think that
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by tdfx 15y ago
The Android app is terrible in low signal situations. When sending a message it blocks the entire app with a "Sending" modal window. I don't know how they could've fucked that up so bad. If you've going in and out of service you have to
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by tdfx 15y ago
Call me paranoid, but can you use a slightly different name in the registry to keep the prying hands of the state off your voluntary DNA sample? Has there been any known cases of the police using this registry to obtain evidence for prosec
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by tdfx 15y ago
Everyone has their own path, but broadly speaking I would say that avoiding social opportunities at college was not to your benefit. I, for one, learned almost nothing at college that I couldn't have picked up myself with a few hours of be
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by tdfx 15y ago
Some kind of integrated messaging. Something forced on all Android users by default the way iMessage is. Google Talk could've replaced SMS years ago if Google had the vision to do it. Instead it's still a 3rd tier messaging solution used
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by tdfx 15y ago
This is used to trap poor people. Joe Anonymous accidentally miscalculates the available balance of his checking account and makes a debit card purchase of gum for $0.99. His account balance is now -$0.23. PNC hits him with an overdraft
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by tdfx 15y ago
I submitted a 3 line patch to Tornado and got an email a few months later from a Facebook recruiter. I'm fairly certain they would never actually hire me but if you're not getting any emails from clueless recruiters you must really be hidi
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by tdfx 15y ago
I file as an S corp and deduct all of those expenses, as well. Except the money I pay myself as a salary is not counted as income on my business tax return... my understanding is that for a C corp, it would be.
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by tdfx 15y ago
Assuming I'm understanding the double tax correctly... wouldn't that still be taxed at the corporate tax rate and then taxed again when it's paid to the employee? I can't imagine a situation where that would be less expensive than being ta
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by tdfx 15y ago
I've often done similar cleaning of chat logs and emails from times when I thought I had acted stupidly or naively. But that's just us trying to live up to the idealistic visions that we have of ourselves. Having a record of who you actua
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by tdfx 15y ago
Very true. Most people don't understand how to properly resist police intimidation until they've already been victimized from it.
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by tdfx 15y ago
I see that argument about the security of Google Docs often and I don't really understand it. Speaking hypothetically, as an attacker I'd much rather see you keep your sensitive documents on your own computer where you browse flash-enabled
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by tdfx 15y ago
If there was ever an option to be hidden deep within the confines of a user-inaccessible context menu, "invert selection" is definitely it.
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by tdfx 15y ago
I agree. Someone would've "eventually" improved on Excite, Yahoo, and AltaVista's search. Someone would've "eventually" purchased YouTube. The argue that the author uses against Apple applies equally or more-so to every point he makes ab
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by tdfx 15y ago
I'm at the beach in Seaside Park and AT&T and Verizon networks are both overloaded. No one can make calls, send texts, or get a data connection.
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Ask HN: How long do carriers store the content of SMS messages?
1 points by tdfx 15y ago|2 comments

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