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by uiri 10y ago
My definition of "city" is stricter than most so perhaps a lot of Americans would disagree with me. Even taking that into account, perhaps I was not loose enough with my definition. Anchorage has a population density of 170 people
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by uiri 10y ago
So, first off, the article's headline and subheadline/abstract blurb talk refer to a party. What the article actually proposes is not a political party but a per-state nonpartisan group that approves/disapproves of politician
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by uiri 10y ago
My impression is that GitLab is a web application. It does not really serve the same use case. Web access is good for open source projects where people may want to read the source without downloading the full repo. In the case of private pr
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by uiri 10y ago
This is a good setup if you are the only one accessing the repo. If you need something a little bit more complex, I would highly recommend gitolite for managing repositories & users. Configuration is done via some INI/TOML-like fil
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by uiri 10y ago
The standard placeholder would be to use "XXX" instead of "YYY" but "XXXXXX" is semantically ambiguous in this context.
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by uiri 10y ago
Few passengers are literal no-shows. Some airline booking ploys result in passengers being literal no shows. This occurs when a round trip fare is cheaper than a one way fare (so the passenger is a no show for the return trip), or a trip
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by uiri 10y ago
The River Thames is wider than 150m inside of London. The London Bridge is over 250m long[1]. It is rather wide given its proximity to its headwaters but not on an absolute scale, even by British standards. [1] https://en.wikip
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by uiri 10y ago
Poland is the most EU enthusiastic society in EU I find this ironic since they are not part of the Eurozone. Their economy is much less at risk from mismanagement in Greece than France, the Netherlands or Germany. it's democracy, yo
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by uiri 10y ago
What people say that they want and what people actually want are frequently two very different things. When it comes to finding product-market fit, this is obvious. There is an old quote often attributed to Henry Ford: "If I had asked
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by uiri 10y ago
Page Rank is named after Larry Page (not, as some erroneously believe, after web pages). Google is unique among the companies named in that it did actually grow out of original search engine research. With respect to Microsoft, Facebook and
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by uiri 10y ago
Has the OpenBSD Foundation looked into registering with the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization? The IRS probably has 10-12x more tax payers than the CRA which would make it easier to cover the required overhead. It looks like the requirements
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by uiri 10y ago
That's usually fine for new servers, but what about old servers, e.g. if you're a dev who just joined the company? Most companies don't seem to have a secure way of seeding clients with the initial host keys. I've never
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by uiri 10y ago
IEEE Collabratec is a weird social networking thing that they have. I think it is trying a little bit too hard to be LinkedIn except LinkedIn is already LinkedIn. vTools Events is really great but it is obviously intended for organizing fac
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by uiri 10y ago
Curious why the user didn't click back instead of on the home button around slide 70-75. It would have saved them about 50 slides or so and 10-15 minutes of real time. They clearly saw the back button later around slide 120. The micro-
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by uiri 10y ago
If you routinely have to wait 30+ minutes when you arrive to your appointment on time, and then have to wait even longer if you show up a little late then the office is already backed up on a regular basis.
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As an additional data point: provincial income taxes in Canada are collected along with federal income taxes by Revenue Canada and then remitted down to the provinces. The sole exception to this being Quebec. Definitely a peculiarity of the
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by uiri 10y ago
To my knowledge NZ and USA are two countries that will try to tax you wherever you live until you die unless you renounce citizenship. So dealing with being double taxed on income from NZ and USA was a big deal as well. So, New Zealand do
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by uiri 10y ago
This is compounded when you consider that taxes are also very high in CA and SF, especially compared with states without income taxes like TX or FL. This is true for SF and NYC but not for SEA (all three of which you mention in the grandp
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by uiri 10y ago
An employee using the company card usually does have some personal liability for the card. Liability does not arise in the case mentioned above where the company goes bankrupt. However, if an employee makes unauthorized charges to a company
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by uiri 10y ago
If you have a genuine question, I feel like it is fine. If you're holding up the class because they're all smarter than you, well, they can take up their issues with the admissions department. But if you're asking basic quest
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by uiri 10y ago
You are a user of the Dvorak layout, I take it? Colemak seems like it would have a different fingerprint.
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by uiri 10y ago
If Freenode disappears, people will join Debian over on OFTC. I'm not sure if Mozilla and GNU/FSF use Freenode or run their own infrastructure but if the former, then they may set up their own network(s). Other IRC networks than F
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by uiri 10y ago
Wow, that is kind of evil. I could understand if Slack kept, say, the last 20k or 50k and only showed the most recent 10k. For them to store all the messages indefinitely for all free servers means that they are incurring the same storage c
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What they will not do is adjust for cost of living or differences in taxation when comparing an offer in Mountain View with one in a cheaper locale such as Seattle (which is where two of the companies you listed above are headquartered). Pe
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> They pay more than AMZN/MS/FB/AAPL/etc. for equal level, but are stingier with levels. Google is more generous to good performers via bonuses once you are working there, but if you have two offers in hand, you are g
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Every day, every month, every year we prioritize code contributions and eschew the non-code work that goes towards supporting code, we’re driving away people who believe in open source, who could be contributing. The claim that documentat
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All with an UI and integrated, no terminal required. What if I just want to git clone something and run make (or similar) ? I don't see any documentation for that workflow at all. My usual development workflow is Emacs + git + comma
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by uiri 10y ago
Is there no way for you to change the home branch of your account? I can imagine it being a giant hassle if the routing number would change. At least neither WA nor TX have state income tax. In Canada, the branch number is part of it so tha
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How is "did exactly what they were told" different from "did not think for themselves" ? Any kind of large decision demands a cost-benefit analysis, including opportunity costs, time value of money, etc. The labour marke
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Employers in Canada don't actually need (or don't actually want) top developer talent. If they did, they would try to compete with US companies on salary (among other things). I agree that "remote (US only)" is completel

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