ScottWhigham

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by ScottWhigham 6y ago
Yep. Same here. I stopped reading after the second solution. I liked the questions though - just maybe the answers were too myopic.
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by ScottWhigham 8y ago
April Fools or real? Hard to tell this time of year...
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by ScottWhigham 9y ago
50% of your revenue goes towards taxes, office space, and buying products and services to support your business. Healthcare is still by far the biggest cost difference most people will face but even if you add all these things up, they d
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by ScottWhigham 9y ago
I don't know that the banks "tell" vendors "This purchase was made with a pre-paid credit/bank card" - I've not seen a flag that shows that before.
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by ScottWhigham 9y ago
It wasn't their production environment that was compromised; it was their source code repository.
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by ScottWhigham 10y ago
I have the same "cold" allergy. I can walk into a room that is 10 degrees F cooler than, say, "normal indoor temperature" and if my quads/thighs are uncovered (shorts, for ex.), I will immediately start sneezing.
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by ScottWhigham 10y ago
This is so great - my 12yo son, a gaming fan, loved it. It inspired him to say, "That's so cool! Can we play Obduction now?" Kids today...
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by ScottWhigham 10y ago
Not quite - you can cluster essentially every edition of SQL 2016 except Express Edition.
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
Yes, daily. I was and still am a big user of FeedDemon.
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7009995
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
If "programming/etc" stories (that OP is saying used to be more prevalent here) are on the "best" list, that means they are very popular here. It does not, though, mean that there are more/fewer of the other st
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
Good to know - I was about to order the existing copy on Amazon. I'll wait.
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
100% agree. I kept scrolling looking for an explanation of "When/how would I use this?" but found nothing. I then went to the top menu looking for something - anything, really - but was similarly disappointed. I then looked
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
In the context of the water jars experiment, "attitude" is not the explanation though; instead it refers more to the "installation" of the previous solution in the subjects' minds (i.e. the subjects who were "t
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
The service is "best provided by people who have experience doing that thing", be they employees or contractors. There's no value to any one of the three parties (Homejoy, customer, contractor) in the cleaner being an "e
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
I love that saying. However, don't forget that a lot of really, really smart people put money into Homejoy because they felt Homejoy had solved the market (i.e. there was a market in the gap). It's not enough to just say, in retro
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
I tried reading this on a Samsung Note 4 - the one with the really large screen. I bet I scrolled ten times to get to what I would consider the 3rd paragraph due to all of the ads. Hell, bring back blogspam if they can condense this down to
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
The human interest side of the story discusses how the founders of one Roaster were interested in the well being of Mexican coffee farmers Which is exactly how one would spin it so that the CEO of the roaster would buy into it... I know -
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
Tests at two midsized Wisconsin roasteries that agreed to let the news organization analyze the air in their production areas found diacetyl levels from unflavored roasted coffee that exceeded safety standards proposed by the U.S. Centers
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
That doesn't seem like that big of a difference to me. In fact, I'd say the actual headline is more hyperbolic. The inside story of how $1 billion is specifically written to cause people to click the link.
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
We're all just commenting on your vague original comment. If you wanted to add context, that was the time to do it - not later as a defense of your original comment. You've specifically focused on "sugary cereal" in your
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
Sugar is as harmful I think that sort of hyperbole isn't helping any arguments against sugar. No need to ratchet up the rhetoric - this is already a hot topic. Sugar is bad, yes, but if it was thought to be "as harmful" as
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
When it comes to "Where do children get their food while at home?", I think it's fair to say they get 90+% of it from "Whoever does the grocery shopping".
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
I'm not sure what the 'first amendment test' is when it comes to corporate advertising but our government already limits how alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and marijuana can be advertised. We also limit what and how things can b
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
The downsides of doing this as an interviewer should be easy: if the person disagrees with your comments/ideas, then what? Do you spend the 15-45 minutes crafting the perfect reply email ("I have to defend myself!"), or does
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
NoSQL is really better than SQL to scale your databases. Downvoted for what is essentially your opinion presented as a fact. If you want to make such a statement, you'll need to give more context - either in the form of proof, experi
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
Substitute eBay for Amazon in your post and it's a likely parallel. You might even be able to swap out "Apple App Store" for Amazon and come up with a fairly close-knit venn.
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
I can't understand why your comment would be downvoted. User group meetings, conferences, dev get-togethers are all ideal for talking to people about what OP suggests: "estimate your market value". Please job interviewing jus
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
If that were true, it would mean that The Valley hires, on average, lower quality developers than non-Valley employers. Is that what you are suggesting?
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by ScottWhigham 11y ago
I've seen probably 2-3 dozen HN redesigns through the years and this is probably my favorite (in terms of potential). The primary mistake most of the other redesigns made was that they tried to increase the whitespace to make it "

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