yesiamyourdad

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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
It's more correct to say that you shouldn't ever get divorced in a community property state. If Amazon were based in Texas, it'd be a very different situation. When it comes to divorce, it doesn't matter where you made t
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
Alexa said "I work for Amazon, but I'm here to help you"
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
I remember when credit card interest was federally deductible.
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
I completely agree with this. I had a dash mount for my phone but I quit using it because it was so distracting to have the phone up there. I rented a new Mustang last month and the UI was almost all touchscreen, even for climate control. A
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
That's pretty funny. When I was in college I had a roommate from Colombia and mentioned that I'd like to learn some Spanish. He enthusiastically recommended watching the Spanish language soaps on Telemundo, he told me watching Ame
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
My recipe for oatmeal: take water, raisins, and nuts if I have them, nuts, bring to a boil, then turn off the heat and let cool. Irish oats are awesome this way done overnight. Do it in a crockpot with a large amount and you'll eat for
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
I promise you that if you actually hunted and trapped/caught/killed your meal for the day, you'd be way too tired to log onto Hacker News and comment.
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
Well, if you're starving, you'll try anything. If you survive, hey, that worked, let's do it again! People seem to lose sight of that fact: when you're faced with death, you'll try anything.
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
I used to work side by side as a software engineer at a major airline (one of the survivors today, this was 20+ years ago) with a guy who was using programming as a side job to get a gig as a pilot. He got on with a regional, he told me eve
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
I read through the comments on here and was reminded of Tim Bray's commentary from almost 15 years ago: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl... "To mangle thre
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
Wait - bear in mind that at the time the alternatives were MySpace, Friendster (already dying), Orkut (also a Google product, and no traction in the US). "Only for RSS" is the technologist's blind spot - the _experience_ of R
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
Beg to differ. The RSS Reader landscape had many, many competitors, then Twitter happened and Facebook opened up to non .edu domains. And then Google Reader happened. RSS wasn't even the point. RSS as a standard is still in use. It&#x2
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by yesiamyourdad 8y ago
I know of one application that at least used to use MTurk to validate OCR translation of business cards. I'd guess that if you hand out a business card, you don't have an expectation that the data on there would be private. I play
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Data point: I just moved and Amazon sent me a $20 off cleaning offer, which I used to clean out my old rental this past weekend. They did a nice job (I think, haven't gotten my deposit back yet). I was talking to the cleaner and she sa
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
I had a similar experience a couple years ago. The interview was pretty hard, 6 hours of pair programming in Go, a language that I have only passing familiarity with. The interviewer seemed impressed that I completed the entire task with ti
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
The point is that if someone runs in front of your car, physics dictates that you can't stop a 1,000+ pound vehicle on a dime. You can lock the brakes up and stop the axle from moving (ABS braking won't actually allow this usually
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
"ask" ? "can you reach out to Carol and see when that will be done" vs "can you ask Carol when that will be done?" Ever since Walking Dead came out, "reach out" evokes thoughts of hordes of zombies gr
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
That's what I was going to say but better and more detailed. I think most of Tumblr's core has migrated to IG, Snapchat, and some of those others I'm not hip to. I always saw Tumblr as a simplified MySpace but it had much of
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
My employer has a scheduled job that downloads a CSV over FTP thing at 6PM everyday. This is in adtech, with a company that's about 5 years old.
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Denver. Lots of high density developments near the light rail and A line (technically commuter rail) stops.
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Which is why women put the "not here for a hookup" disclaimer on their profile even more than their height requirements.
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Yep, the old maxim "garbage in, garbage out". Yahoo! was the biggest internet company out there (maybe AOL was bigger). You had the whole population in all its warty glory using Yahoo as the default search engine, landing page, em
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Preach it! Current job shows all the scars of this, every 6 months people hate the current system and want to rewrite something using some framework/lang/library that will really make everything better. The one positive aspect is
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Equifax gets a lot of bad press because they made a ton of money while mismanaging people's personal information. Abagnale's point is that people go throwing around most of that same personal information around with no regard to t
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Do I really want to see Twitter gone? Yes. I despise the trend of writing news articles where tweets are treated as sources, and most of the article is a series of tweets. One of the headlines I avoid ends with the phrase "and the Inte
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
There's this assumption that FB should be censoring advertisers. It seems logical - registering key phrases like "how to burn jews" is bad. But I still wonder, had they preemptively censored advertisers, would that itself be
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
> I don't think the comparison to TripAdvisor and travel agents is particularly strong, and I think you'd be hard pushed to make the case that thousands of travel agents who'd maybe heard something about the place you want
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Personally as an Expedia shareholder and former employee, this sucks. I thought he did a good job as CEO. EXPE is down 4% right now, so it seems like the stock market agrees. Hopefully EXPE has someone groomed to take over.
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
I worked for a place in the travel industry that was doing the same thing on our REST interface. That was a bit more relaxed since it's not the crazy WSDL so you could always add things to the interface without breaking, but it still a
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by yesiamyourdad 9y ago
Whether or not Ackman is right, his method is what's questionable. Let alone what seems like insanity to me: he's making a very public short bet against a company. He's _borrowing_ shares of stock to prove the management is w

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