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by howardr 6y ago
+1 After doing moderate strength training in these areas along with core exercises as part of a cross training class (2x a week) my back pain that I’ve had for over a decade dissapeared.
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by howardr 6y ago
I read a letter in the Financial Times over the weekend... > Forty years ago, when studying for my engineering degree, I learnt a rule of thumb that said that nuclear fusion is always 20 years away. I was therefore reassured by the date
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by howardr 6y ago
We used Hired to great success 4-5 years ago in Austin but overtime the quality of candidate went down. At a dinner with our account rep early on he said they spent $20k to acquire each candidate. Their pricing structure at the time was mor
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by howardr 12y ago
I can't remember the source, but I learned this in a management class in college about 10 years ago. It was a general statement about learning something new. You don't know what your don't know (so you are optimistic) -> Y
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by howardr 12y ago
We use Keen a lot on our engineering team. In our case we send them a lot of a events, but only query a few dozen times a month. However those queries are done in times when we need to quickly query data. Saved our ass a few times since sta
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by howardr 13y ago
They might provide by paying for it rather than hosting themselves
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by howardr 13y ago
I can't tell if this is corporate trolling or not
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by howardr 13y ago
It's an equality vs liberty issue. Either my free speech is violated because you have more money to voice your side, or my speech is violated because the government isn't letting me express my views by buying an advertisement. My
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by howardr 14y ago
This is how the WTO is able to enforce its regulations. Because the WTO can't actually forced a country to pay another for unfair trade practices (the WTO doesn't have an army), the WTO is allowed to permit winning plaintiffs to break agree
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by howardr 14y ago
CYA blog post
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by howardr 14y ago
They didn't. I believe Jacob left few weeks ago.
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by howardr 14y ago
I found that renaming CSS file names using the hash of the contents does not always work because any changes to dependencies (e.g. images) won't always bubble up to the CSS. I forget all of the reasons why it didn't always work, but it I th
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by howardr 14y ago
I see. Do you know if messages are encrypted from device-to-device on BBM or if they are just encrypted to the hub like I message seems to be
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by howardr 14y ago
Protocol aside is there anything significantly different in the way blackberry handles BBM messages and Apple handles iMessage messages?
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by howardr 14y ago
How reliable is this service trying to be? While I think it is a cool service if a person is just hacking around, it is not something I would use with any revenue generating project.
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by howardr 14y ago
many of these issues can changed to be more old-gmail-like http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-... 1) remove important markers 2) add labels to actions/buttons
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by howardr 14y ago
Yeah I never like when people toss around the term "media industry" especially in the context the author is talking about (it dying) because what exactly is media? The author might as well have said "the media industry is dying...long live
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by howardr 15y ago
Very clever. This seems like something I would see on reddit or even here on HN rather than on stack overflow. I find the "locked" and "closed" messages very interesting. It is a good indication of the type of culture the stack overflow co
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by howardr 15y ago
Completely agree with your assessment on taking a more "shocking" approach, and also with the original comment that many do not know that SOPA and Lamar Smith are connected some how. It think they are using the current phrase as a parody of
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by howardr 15y ago
One of my friends said that his grandparents would light their stove before sundown on friday and leave it lit until sundown Saturday so they would not break kosher laws I have also heard that a lot of devices have kosher mode. E.g. refrige
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by howardr 15y ago
Like live wire
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by howardr 15y ago
would like to see the app. it seems like it would have been a hard task. now, trying to think of which apps were featured during the super bowl. the GM one? anyone have any guesses?
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by howardr 15y ago
Glad there are people spearheading discussions around backbone project organization. I agree that backbone is very powerful, but talk is just beginning on how to fit it in to current web app projects that don't fit the boostrapped-singled-h
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by howardr 15y ago
Agreed. I also see this "some company no one's heard of only hiring geniuses/rock stars/talented people" It's almost implying that all other job postings want to hire idiots. A title of "startup looking for developer that wants to help us b
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by howardr 15y ago
I mean I got the point of what the author is referencing and agree with some of his points about the Valley being an echo chamber. However it can not be considered a Silicon Valley darling unless one wants to admit that success (I think tha
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by howardr 15y ago
going to get down voted, but Groupon is based on Chicago not in in Bay Area (or as the author calls "ValleyWood")
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by howardr 15y ago
Congrats on launching. Saying this ruined your launch is a bit dramatic. The ability to put out fires when they happened is crucial to startups. Seems like the problem only existed for a few hours. It could have been worse. Write a test and
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by howardr 16y ago
I do agree with the buzzword comment, but her pattern, however it is named, is a good one. We have been using at uShip.com for about 20 months. It is also worth noting that facebook contracted her to help them reduce their out-of-control CS
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by howardr 16y ago
Good tips for decreasing marginal js file size with google closure compiler, but this doesn't really protect your code at all. It might make it a little bit harder for someone to immediately figure out what your code doing, but by know mea
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by howardr 17y ago
An originator of a call/put option will usually always buy/short the underling stock to hedge against the risk of the derivative

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