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by wtracy 10y ago
That still seemed to be the case when I signed up about a month ago.
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by wtracy 10y ago
The Scandinavian countries have a good reputation for legal protections on privacy. I can't comment on whether they actually live up to that reputation.
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by wtracy 10y ago
I've been a happy customer of Register4Less.com for years, and they throw in free static hosting with every domain name. It does everything you mention except PHP and Markdown. (But you could do Markdown yourself with a static site gen
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by wtracy 10y ago
Arguably two major rewrites: one early in the life of the Mozilla project, when the FOSS community deemed the original Netscape code dump to be nearly unmaintainable, and the second during the creation of Firefox itself (although that was m
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What $50 Buys You at Huaqiangbei, the World’s Most Fascinating Electronic Market(shift.newco.co)
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It amazes me how many people will favor putting a suffering animal out of its misery, then fight tooth and nail against offering that same mercy to their fellow human beings.
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by wtracy 10y ago
You completely lost me. We weren't discussing the median skilled wage, we were discussing the median wage. The median wage is the median of all wages. Trying to redefine words in the middle of an argument strikes me as dishonest.
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I could have sworn that page said median, not average. Thanks for the correction.
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By providing quality software that lets me and thousands of others get useful work done, and not forcing us to accept onerous licensing terms in the process? But hey, none of those can cure cancer, so what's the point, right?
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by wtracy 10y ago
The median income in the US (in 2014) was $29k. The median salary for a software engineer is supposedly $95k. That's more than triple the overall median. Sources: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html h
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by wtracy 10y ago
A question for any consultants who work 100% remotely: how do you compete with workers in countries with extremely low costs of living?
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by wtracy 10y ago
> And I don't mean open source projects. Then what do you mean? You described exactly what some of the largest, most successful FOSS projects (Firefox, KDE, Gnome, Libre Office, FreeBSD) are already doing. > Let's group toge
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by wtracy 10y ago
If the interviewer is just another rank-and-file engineer rather than a manager, he/she may not be motivated to see someone get hired.
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Now I'm curious who holds the wallet with 100,000 BTC. Is it publicly known who owns it? My best guess would be either one of the early developers, or a major exchange or bank.
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by wtracy 10y ago
I'm not in a position to know myself, but Patrick (author of the blog post that originally kicked off this discussion) does not think highly of The Motley Fool. Hit this link: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/
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No, but maybe you can share some of the evidence you apparently have that the United States is actively trying to sabotage the world's communication infrastructure? Sure, it throws its weight around when asking various social media pla
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by wtracy 10y ago
Okay then. I didn't look at the poster's history, I just saw a constructive-looking comment that seemed to be modded to oblivion, and jumped to conclusions. I had to vouch for the post before HN would let me reply, which seems con
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by wtracy 10y ago
It depends on exactly what services Schneier is talking about here, but an awful lot of the infrastructure of the internet is hosted in countries that the US armed forces have easy physical access to. Even if a cyber attack were the "p
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by wtracy 10y ago
Just a little heads-up, your account appears to have been shadowbanned.
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by wtracy 10y ago
Oh, very cool, it looks like they are making good progress! Unfortunately, it looks like there's no support for it in Photoshop, and I doubt that's likely to change.
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My own Linksys router (I think it's a WRV200) occasionally starts to silently drop new connections until I disconnect and reconnect. If my browser has an http/2 connection open, I can continue to browse that particular site, but w
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by wtracy 10y ago
I don't know of any other application-independent image format with good support for layers. Seriously. (Even Tiff doesn't really have good support for layers.) .PSD is tightly tied to Photoshop's internals, and .xcf is tight
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>explositions I'm not sure if that was intended or not, but it seems appropriate.
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by wtracy 10y ago
This is actually a good article, but good lord is that a clickbaity headline. The article discusses another provider that provides better price/performance than Digital Ocean for certain tiers. With that subject line, I expected a stor
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by wtracy 10y ago
That statement might lack nuance, but it's not wrong. Skype and Facebook only have value to me because my friends and family use them. The value to me increases as more friends use those platforms, and would decrease if my friends left
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by wtracy 10y ago
Very cool. I've toyed in the past with the idea of making a bootable CD that launches a minimal Linux desktop with a PDF reader and a copy of my resume, but this is one better.
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Probably an even bigger problem is that this resume is now going to come up every time a recruiter searches for "design & frontend". (This might not be a problem in France. Here in the San Francisco area in the U.S. it seems c
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by wtracy 10y ago
Can anyone offer an explanation of why the shuttle used a horizontal launch stack (booster alongside the orbiter) instead of a vertical launch stack (booster beneath the orbiter) like every other launch vehicle I know of? TFA hints that it
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by wtracy 10y ago
The claim that downtime "made the users love the service even more" is probably a stretch, but Twitter's error page became a bit of a phenomenon in its own right for a while: http://www.theatlantic.com/technol
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by wtracy 10y ago
Wild cardinal tetras are considered "annual" fish. They take a year to complete their life cycle, and then die. In captivity, 2-3 year life spans are pretty normal.

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