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by alttag 7y ago
There's a big difference between "done loading" and "appears to be done loading". Google is reportedly very cautious about the latter, and pulls some hijinks to appear faster than it is. Frankly, I'd be happier
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by alttag 7y ago
Years ago I worked with a developer who had a different methodology: 2x, then bump the unit of measure. Thus, 1 day -> 2 weeks; 2 weeks -> 4 months. It's been remarkably accurate over the past couple of decades.
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by alttag 7y ago
A nitpick: don't use the apostrophe in the phrase "in the 1960s". It's not a possessive in that sentence. See, e.g., https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/apostrophe.html
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by alttag 7y ago
Does this break links and lead to link rot? Other StackExchange sites don't seem to have the page rank of StackOverflow. It also makes it harder to restrict searches to a particular site when questions are spread across multiple sites
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by alttag 7y ago
I have a question I want to ask, but haven't. This is mostly because I feel that asking it properly, describing what I've tried, linking to (not) duplicates and explaining why they're not relevant, and linking to the docs to
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by alttag 7y ago
My biggest complain about SO is that with the expansion into other fields that questions that used to be welcome on SO (or get more visibility because of being on SO) are being shunted to SuperUser or ServerFault or other sites under the St
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by alttag 7y ago
I send unauthenticated email on port 25, every semester, in front of my students, as part of a discussion on internet application protocols. I can't use "God", because the addresses are validated, but I do send "from&quo
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by alttag 8y ago
Possibly several things going on, of which O2 may be only one. Research also shows taking breaks and exposure to nature both have revitalizing effects.
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by alttag 9y ago
> Medicaid is a loan. Um, ... no. Or, at least not in my case. Our son was diagnosed with cancer at the age of three. Medicaid served as secondary insurance, and thankfully so, as the bills from the first month exceeded $300,000. This we
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by alttag 9y ago
My experience (as someone who was elected to public education administration) suggests it's often more about logistics. For example, adjusting how many bus drivers (and busses) are needed in a district to serve elementary, middle and h
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by alttag 9y ago
I have no evidence to rebut the conclusion—indeed it aligns with similar research on high school students. However, a big chokepoint at my current school (major state university) is the availability of classrooms. Classes are already booked
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by alttag 9y ago
I agree with you, but was disturbed to discover a couple of weeks ago that Google does not. A search for "define electrocute" returns a definition that includes injury, not necessarily death. > injure or kill someone by ele
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by alttag 9y ago
One of the more interesting lines of thought on Ars was that the request was so badly implemented (without a judge's signature; could have a been a National Security Letter instead; other similar reasons), that it was almost as if the
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by alttag 12y ago
I had similar issues, but opted to go the route of replacing the battery rather than the whole Roomba. It's worked well for me. In addition, Amazon reviews point to some third-party batteries that supposedly last even longer than iRobo
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by alttag 12y ago
So is content editing, in many disciplines. I believe copyediting and layout is paid, however.
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by alttag 12y ago
Yes and no. An adjunct typically has a PhD or a masters degree combined with real-world experience. Public school only require a bachelor's degree, but technically, teaching public school in most states also requires a teaching credent
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by alttag 12y ago
Doctoral students, interns, part-time employees, entrepreneurs, hobbyists (employed in other job), ... There are many reasons for a salary that low.
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by alttag 12y ago
I'll admit, I wasn't initially sure this was relevant to HN, but this is a participant (customer?) perspective of a YCombinator startup.
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by alttag 12y ago
> what state the SSN-holder was actually born No, it was the state where the SSN was issued. Not all children applied for an SSN at birth. Centralization of SS offices also altered this practice. See, e.g., http://www.ssa.gov&
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by alttag 12y ago
Don't know that's it's necessary to put the spoiler here. The hints provide an alternative to hosting a file.
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by alttag 13y ago
I'm a bit peeved that much of what is ROT13-ed in this thread isn't spoilers. I went through the trouble to decode it, and typically didn't find it worth the effort.
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by alttag 13y ago
Concur. But WASD works.
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by alttag 13y ago
Your insurance costs are higher when you have a longer commute. Your oil needs to be changed more frequently. Wear-and-tear on your car is almost certainly correlated with miles driven, meaning maintenance, repairs, and replacement occur mo
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by alttag 13y ago
I think you're right, and there's a lesson here. I was recently evaluating a several options on github for a tool I needed. All options satisfied my basic requirements, so the choice came down to community/recency, and docume
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by alttag 13y ago
I agree. In addition, I hope the next "fix" will be to cull the comments. While there are occasionally some worthwhile edge cases documented in the comments, there is also a great deal of spectacularly bad design advice, which doe
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How long do hard drives actually live for?(extremetech.com)
1 points by alttag 13y ago|0 comments
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by alttag 13y ago
I also enjoy its companion library, Paris, an Active Record implementation on top of Idiorm. https://paris.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ http://j4mie.github.io/idiormandparis/
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by alttag 13y ago
The only time I every read the print version was in Chicago, where a street hustler gave everyone in my party free copies, and then followed us asking for money. I don't expect that's the most common use case of a free paper, but
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CMU Password Study: Computer scientists pick stronger passwords(arstechnica.com)
5 points by alttag 13y ago|0 comments
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by alttag 13y ago
I study software processes for a living. Most of the organizations I've looked at are large enough and have mature enough processes that some of your list doesn't apply. In a recent project, we sent a request to an industry lumina

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