waterfowl

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   by waterfowl 12y ago

   hopefully mac also, I think all of valve first party titles run on mac so I would hope they wouldn't drop it for source 2(and mythical HL3)
2. 62.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women" is absolutely worth picking up if you fancy esoterica.
3. 63.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   it's real strange to me that the BBC says "Aids" and not "AIDS" when it's an acronym. Still interesting. edit: especially when they say HIV and not Hiv
4. 64.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   This times a hundred. My sister stays home to care for her children and people in our area(DC) act like it's unbelievable. Edit: or worse, they assume she is barefoot and pregnant and chained to the stove. I wouldn't have children
5. 65.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   you at ORNL? I spent a couple summers getting to play with the big rigs there(which is so cool) but knoxvegas/farragut/oak ridge aren't exactly magnets for young professional tech types. Also I grew up in Chattanooga, wheneve
6. 66.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   I just wish you could option out a car online and click and pay by card(or bank transfer for financing etc) like you do with a computer. Ideally deliver it to your house, but picking it up at a port or a freight rail place or something is a
7. 67.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   Because IV is the only way to do heroin. Lots of "casual drug users" are into pills/narcotics, which end up being too expensive, so they get into heroin and wreck themselves. To be fair I only know a couple people who say the
8. 68.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   this is great for its audience(true gnu believers) and idk why every other comment is defensive like you feel personally slighted by some peoples' decision to avoid unsigned/licensed js code running on their machine without explic
9. 69.▲
   by waterfowl 12y ago

   it's free online and great, but I also enjoy my hard copy(it was like $20, so so so cheap for what it is) http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Computing-Systems-Princip... edit: $30 I guess, still worth it.
10. 70.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    god mom at this rate you're not going to close my Series A for me by 14
11. 71.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    Yeah, I immediately thought of this beautiful N64 mod for Super Mario 64. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYCl6eazCTQ
12. 72.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    I think it's now optional(given the regulatory heat ridesharing gets some places, I don't blame the drivers)
13. 73.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    This is disgusting and anticompetitive. I love Uber and use it almost daily but they need to grow up if they want a grownup reputation.
14. 74.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    You're not going to get the same salary? Really? has the amount of value he can provide decreased after his failed YC backed COO stint or is it just some petty 'loyalty' thing? That would be insulting, especially because the
15. 75.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    Except now the closer in suburbs(and urban housing) are for the rich. I live in DC, and pretty much everywhere in town is pricey, and the close suburbs that would be somewhat convenient(bethesda, arlington being the exemplars) to "town
16. 76.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    Sure this is good for facebook cause pageviews but all the Takei shares that show up on my feed are almost invariably reddit frontpage reposts. I guess he adds volume to facebook, but it's not very quality volume imo, if anyone else sh
17. 77.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    more money than on the coasts. Simple answer but people don't like "paying more." Do you have SV/NYC/etc esque perks? Uncounted vacation, free food, etc etc?(which would all be cheaper to offer in the midwest for yo
18. 78.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    Thanks for this! I couldn't find one without it wanting me to pay when I looked in the middle of last week. I don't do native iOS/cocoa so I felt it'd be kind of skeezy to have work pay for it.
19. 79.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    I love that LLVM is relegated to "the basis of swift." Also a $100 entry ticket to a beta IDE/compiler might hinder said adoption.
20. 80.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    I for one feel like this hasn't been discussed enough on hn.
21. 81.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    he was(and so was his wife). AND they were canadian so free/cheap school graduating right around 2000 before moving south of the border, they defs got lucky(and definitely worked hard)
22. 82.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    And MMM considers himself to be fairly "non extreme" compared to other big names in the space(Early Retirement Extreme being the most prominent contrast...that guy was harrrrrdcore)
23. 83.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    YNAB is dope and pretty cheap now with steam sales. Back in the bad old days it was like $60 but still super worth it(you'll save $60 in a couple days) and they seem like a pretty cool mostly remote etc dev shop.
24. 84.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    this is true. It is certainly more plausible for the average HN reader than the average person in the world though.
25. 85.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    Yeah, you shouldn't need credit for anything but a house(or if you're in a REALLY tight situation and need to finance a cheap used car to avoid endangering your livelihood). People like to trash on Dave because he's religious
26. 86.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    A great reason to decouple healthcare from employers. Not surprising though.
27. 87.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    places I've worked either do one off "bonuses" or trips or whatever. Please don't give adults gold stars for effort.
28. 88.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    Misread this as "Heathkit" and felt old.
29. 89.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    This is barely readable. Wow FBI(even if it's for OCR reasons)
30. 90.▲
    by waterfowl 12y ago

    I think the point that they miss is that an overwhelming majority of employees of these "gentrifying tech companies"(which aren't even in SF if you're google, how are they supposed to tell their employees where to live)