typicalrunt

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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Just a heads up: on mobile (Nexus 4 Chrome to be exact) the hamburger menu on the website doesn't work.
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Link-baitey title. Even though the content says any age is fine, the title assumes that there must be a certain age when one is too old to start a business. Here's the real answer: about 1 nanosecond after you've died. Seriously,
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
The key here is not to carry too much weight. But most doctors and physical therapists recommend that kids carry no more than 10% to 15% of their body weight in their packs. [1] The way to not carry so much weight is to in
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
This isn't new. It's simply Power Nap [1]. You can turn it off in System Preferences -> Energy Saver. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5394
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
How about http://weworkremotely.com ?
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
You should try Ledger [1] if you want transparent data formats and ease of use. I've been using it for years to track both personal and corporate expenses. [1] http://www.ledger-cli.org
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
There are a lot of other flavour compounds at work that could be gumming up your senses, not allowing you taste the cane sugar. But my guess is that you've never had true cane sugar before (just like most people have never had true br
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
No. At least let's delay that feature. What I'd like to see first is a responsive design so I don't have to zoom 1000% to upvote.
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Perhaps I'm misreading your tone, but it comes across as very elitist. Who cares if the person speaking is famous or not. Does notoriety somehow make words more true? Some of the most important things people have said to me were never
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
I half-agree with you, because there are some companies that use "fit" to determine how much they can use you as a "resource" rather than a human being. Where I disagree is whether one has put themselves in a situation w
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
take a walk through Wrigleyville in Chicago on a Friday night, where you can see an endless parade of taxis picking up an endless parade of drunk students. But isn't this supply meeting demand? If there were too many taxis, wouldn&#
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
even i tweeted the same joke, not knowing others were doing it. What I find more amazing is that, as humans, we have all chosen "5+ years" as the experience level in our jokes.
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
I don't think autodidactism can be taught. To answer this correctly we'd have to get philosophical, which means we'd both end up correct. Suffice to say that I believe everyone is capable of learning to become a learner. Y
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
This. Education should teach you to become an autodidact [1]. Otherwise, you are really only being trained for a narrow set of skills, and those skills may not last when new technology is invented. I was always curious and hungry for know
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Agile is software. How can you talk Agile without involving the people who create it? And yet, non-devs are the people that talk about going to these Agile conferences. They're also the people targeted for Certified Scrum Master cer
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
Older man? He's 34. Jeez.
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by typicalrunt 12y ago
This is the basis for iBATIS in the Java world. You provide the custom SQL and iBATIS knows how to wrap the results up into objects (as long as you provide the mapping).
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Exactly. Looking at it from both worlds, I don't think a European adequately understands how large a country like the US (or Canada for that matter) is. Likewise an American would never understand the smallness of being, say, a Luxemb
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
I could preface a lot of this with 'kids these days', but... What you write is so true. So many large companies use text files to shuttle around data. I worked at one place that used pipe-delimited 10+GB files. It's not se
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
One use case: you are working away on a server via SSH at some café and suddenly the a internet dies on you. Oh crap, you had a ``make install`` running and now it will be half-baked because a dead SSH connection will HUP the process you we
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
$929,000 in Vancouver means the east side, which is traditionally the lower priced and income area of Vancouver. If you want anything close to downtown or the West side, it is well over $1.5M. A lot of detached homes in Vancouver at the $90
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
On the topic of living costs for Vancouver, coincidentally enough WorkSafeBC (Vancouver's version of OSHA) just released a cost of living calculator for the BC region. You can see that housing will eat up the majority of your paychequ
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
extensive data See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7272429 for the data. It includes the report from RBC that provides data on Canadian housing. Unfortunately it does not include US housing affordab
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
To put a data point on it, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) put out a study in Nov 2013 that rated the affordability of housing in Canadian major cities. For Vancouver, it takes 84-88% of your pre-tax income to afford a detached house (page 7 of
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
In BC, Canada, an employer is mandated to give at least 2 weeks vacation [1] according to the Employment Standards Act. That vacation is expected to rise to 3 weeks after 5 years of employment. [1] http://www.bclaws.ca/Reco
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Vancouver (-area) born and bred, so I can shine some light here. It's no wonder so many Vancouverites are house poor, especially if you are single and have no dependents to list for tax benefits or exemptions. I have to laugh a littl
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Being from Vancouver as well, I agree with your sentiment. I also wanted to add that, due to the Y2K fiasco, BC lawmakers were able to push through an exemption to the overtime laws. Basically, if you are in IT, then you are not under most
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
The same privacy leak story came up in Sept 2011 [1] when Wikileaks exposed the practice and I guess nothing has been done since then. And yet people still hold to the flawed argument that "if you have nothing to hide..." Ironical
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Getting a bit OT here but I have to wade in... To people that know him personally, like myself, Zed is a great guy. My guess at the problem is that his Internet persona took on its own life outside of his control, and it grew to such a bad
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by typicalrunt 13y ago
Oh definitely yes. Being in a conversation where one of the parties doesn't know how to keep the topic aloft is excruciating. If you want to see masters of keeping up a conversation, watch some comedy improv. Their entire task is to

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