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by tdfx 7y ago
Being killed is probably a bit hyperbolic for most countries, but I would imagine it means that keeping such a predictable routine in a country where you are inherently a target (read: white people in many third world countries with high ra
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by tdfx 7y ago
Just checked my direct federal loans (the first source of loan funding for most US college students -- the second is private banks). Interest rate is 4.41%. I was lucky because federal direct loans covered my tuition, but many other stude
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by tdfx 7y ago
I've always thought this was the ideal form of parenting. Relax expectations on the children, let them find their own path. I've recently changed my mind and I think offloading the discovery of purpose onto children creates more
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by tdfx 7y ago
DC is a wildly expensive place to go to college. GW is consistently ranked amongst the most expensive colleges in the US. Even if you're on a full ride, you likely won't be able to pay your living expenses with a part-time job.
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by tdfx 7y ago
I remapped esc to caps lock (physically) on day one. 6 months later, I'm still mentally re-mapping it occasionally.
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by tdfx 7y ago
There's also a very active community called "HF Guadalajara" ("Hackers & Founders") which holds regular events.
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by tdfx 7y ago
A company in PA called Monetate did this to me, on a smaller scale. I did their "leetcode" style test which wasn't difficult at all but still time consuming. After 2 weeks of no response I reached out and they told me they&
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by tdfx 8y ago
Sure, you could run pgbouncer yourself on EC2, but unless it's offered as a managed service you're no longer "serverless" as you've got a pgbouncer server to administer yourself.
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by tdfx 8y ago
Yes, but each database instance has a limited number of connections that can be open. You can use Lambda to handle as many web requests as you want, but if each Lambda invocation is creating a new database connection you've only shift
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by tdfx 8y ago
I'm glad it worked out for you, but contrary to popular perception the military is not an option for everybody.
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by tdfx 8y ago
I'm not even sure how someone could support or oppose the second amendment. It really doesn't say much (anything?) about personal gun ownership. What people are arguing over is the interpretations through caselaw trying to figur
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by tdfx 8y ago
I remember an artistic rendering of the A-12 Avenger when I was younger. I thought it was the coolest plane I had ever seen.
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by tdfx 8y ago
> We need to get past the idea that people on the low-end of income choose their jobs. It seems this is never accounted for in peoples' simplistic supply and demand view of employment opportunities. Let's be charitable and ass
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by tdfx 8y ago
Depends if you're talking maximum or average. Getting to the front page of HN could easily give you a burst of 1000 req/sec. I would agree there's very few CRUD apps that deal with 1000 req/sec on average. On the oth
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by tdfx 8y ago
I think OP has a valid point. How do we differentiate the discourageable bad behavior from someone's disabilities? Trying to draw a line there is almost an exercise in futility. I would not want to be the HR person that has to handl
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by tdfx 8y ago
DND does not direct calls to voicemail, it just keeps your phone silent and doesn't ring/vibrate while the incoming call screen is showing. I've still accidentally answered calls while in DND mode. Sometimes I just want to
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by tdfx 8y ago
There could be, but frequently is not.
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by tdfx 8y ago
My hope is that your mobile bedroom/living room/office drives around and plugs into shared, communal kitchen/laundry/exercise/living room areas. You do your work during the transit portion and spend your free time
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by tdfx 8y ago
The odd part is that they developed a successful blueprint for how to beat their existing Gmail product and are apparently walking away from it. Anecdotal, but I don't know anyone who I introduced Inbox to that does not prefer it to s
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by tdfx 8y ago
How did you set this up? Doesn't seem like the kind of tourist package you'd see on TripAdvisor.
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by tdfx 8y ago
I wouldn't say slow learners are typically the problem. From my experience in teaching it's the students with lazy habits that tend to break down the professors' effectiveness. People that refuse to "learn how to learn
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by tdfx 8y ago
> Educational institutions that do not even bother to spend such a small amount of time I can confirm that there are theory-focused professors at a particular state university that don't understand version control or have any experi
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by tdfx 8y ago
What did this guy do for HP that he needed to travel so far and frequently for?
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by tdfx 8y ago
I'm waiting for the electric self-driving RV. Who needs a house?
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by tdfx 8y ago
OP is saying the rate of change is cause for alarm, not the overall distribution.
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by tdfx 8y ago
Do you happen to know the efficiency basis for insects?
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by tdfx 8y ago
What is "uncontrolled airspace"?
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by tdfx 8y ago
If you've got pageviews, you've potentially got revenue.
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by tdfx 8y ago
Even with parking for a couple days priced in, it's still considerably cheaper to rent a car and drive from DC to NYC than to take the train (and takes about the same amount of time). I much prefer train travel but unless it's he
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by tdfx 8y ago
I think there's quite a few Cubans who would disagree with your assessment.

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