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by trowawee 10y ago
Whether or not I read the comments is strongly correlated with how technical the subject is. My general process goes: - View an interesting-sounding title in my RSS reader - Click on the link to the HN comments - Scan the top comments to se
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by trowawee 10y ago
It's not the case that no one is like that (and honestly, most of your so-called "hipster rubyists" aren't like that either). This is just an excuse put up by companies that want people to eat a 55% pay cut to work there
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The problem is that doctors are never going to organize against this, because A) most have been thoroughly inculcated in a culture that worships that kind of work ethic and B) the limited number of physicians is the reason they make absurd
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by trowawee 10y ago
I don't really care how rare it is; I never want to be treated by someone who's been going for more than 8 hours, much less someone who's been going for 17.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Pdb has saved my sanity so many times I have lost count.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Just for curiosity's sake, when exactly do you think it was considered polite to not talk about politics around the dinner table?
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by trowawee 10y ago
Except, as tons of people have already pointed out, there is no way to talk about tech without talking about politics. Is research about how the Google search algorithm or Facebook's news feed shapes users' opinions tech or not-te
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by trowawee 10y ago
> But there's nothing new in that; the HN guidelines have always mentioned politics without defining the term, and we get by. I mean, you clearly don't think that we have "gotten by"; generally a moratorium on a topic
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by trowawee 10y ago
Ahhh, didn't even think about that. That seems like it could be a definite possibility.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Hmmm. Curious. I wonder if Seagate has improved their production somehow to avoid those failure rates, because even with those previous very high rates, they fare much better on the 2013-2016 total chart.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Agreed. I'm always interested in the results , even if their physical usage of the drives is miles above anything I'm ever going to do with a hard drive.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Looks like they're offline. Google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DNdyZ1...
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by trowawee 10y ago
Note to self: stay the hell away from Western Digital. Good lord, an 8.2% annualized failure rate? That's unbelievable. They have the first, second, and third worst failure rates on that chart.
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by trowawee 10y ago
So your response is: 1. Some inconvenient Swiss immigrants aren't immigrants. and 2. Read this article from 2012 and ignore the last 4 years of Japanese GDP. ( http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp ) Care to try
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by trowawee 10y ago
Did you actually look at information for either of the countries that you cited? Immigrants make up 20% of Switzerland's population. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Switzerland ). Japan's economy
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by trowawee 10y ago
What benefits do migrants bring to a country? Immigrants of some sort probably do most of the menial tasks that the vagaries of which uterus you emerged from let you avoid. They're also the doctors who treat you, your coworkers if you&
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by trowawee 10y ago
Might be more helpful to make a PR, rather than comment here. It'll take about the same amount of time.
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by trowawee 10y ago
Yes. It is a pro-Apple bias that is causing people to be worried/upset about cell phone batteries that can spontaneously catch on fire. You've figured out the conspiracy.
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by trowawee 10y ago
It continually shocks me how much whining developers do about sometimes having to learn new things. The requirements for continued education are shockingly low (read: non-existent) in our industry, compared to other, similar intellectual&#x
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> Sorry I butchered all of your friends in front of you. It’s just that I’d rather curl up at home with a good book than go to a party. http://the-toast.net/2014/11/10/sorry-murdered-everyone-im-i...
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by trowawee 10y ago
I would say though that one benefit of pairing that I've definitely experienced is that it can keep you from chasing bad ideas down deep, pointless rabbit holes. A lot of the time, when I pair (usually informally), the other person see
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by trowawee 10y ago
Born in '89. I suspect the reason millennials are less sexually active is less related to a disinterest in sex (or whatever the ridiculous claim about consent fears mentioned elsewhere in these comments) and more because of the same ma
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But the idea behind a password manager is that you effectively use it in perpetuity. I bought 1Password in 2013 for $50, and the iPhone app for $9. I use it several times a day, and don't see that changing at any point in the near futu
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by trowawee 10y ago
Yeah, but it's easier (and much, much cheaper) to say "This'll never hold up in court!" than it is to actually prove that it won't hold up in court, which is what most of these companies are ultimately counting on.
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Halifax is in Nova Scotia! Which is in Canada! Which is on Earth! Which is in Canada!
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http://www.wired.com/2012/04/why-is-htc-choosing-phone-thinn... > According to Kilburn, HTC’s consumer research shows people prefer thin smartphones — between 8 mm and 10 mm thick — as opposed to thicker device
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This is a thing that was concerning me. One port means I am either charging or listening to music, never both (at least, not with good headphones).
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> as long as it's not the most common standard on the market it's going to be disliked. Eh. Apple's done this before, as Gruber points out, and they basically won. Nobody at this point (at least, that I hear) complains ab
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by trowawee 10y ago
You are correct. I was punching that out on my phone and should have given it a second read-through.
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If you flipped this and asked all these people arguing that it's never ok to quit on the spot if it's fine to fire someone on the spot, do you think a single one would say no? Of course not. Employers wanted right-to-work laws to

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