jkeel

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by jkeel 1y ago
I agree. I wish there was a more organized "left" but from what I've seen it's just many many random groups that are not on the "right". If there was an organized left, then they should focus only on improving
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by jkeel 10y ago
Except I'm not sure this is an "unreal" risk. I was telling someone a story today about how I was outside with my daughter who was 10 at the time. We live in cul-de-sac and 2 houses down there is a neighborhood pool but acros
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by jkeel 11y ago
I hope your app does well and catches on. I enjoy meeting new people and not always just dating. I'm going to spread the word!
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by jkeel 12y ago
My grandfather was a truck driver for over 40 years. He worked for a few different companies at during his lifetime but his last was for the US postal service. He said that was the life for a truck driver. He over drove twice a week (to
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by jkeel 13y ago
Good point about not loosing 1st amendment protection.
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by jkeel 13y ago
Yippee! Only 3 in my town! (1 - Raid on an Innocent Suspect, 2 - Death of an innocent) :-/
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by jkeel 13y ago
That's what I'd like to know too? I'm reminded of the old line I hear of "well, that escalated quickly". Shouldn't there be maybe a simple check from a non-armed individual (I'm thinking a nice gentleman
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by jkeel 13y ago
I'm don't think I agree with laws that can throw people in jail for making non-funny and grotesque comments. I'm not sure what being a young white male has to do with it either. On the flip side, I would have found it more un
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by jkeel 13y ago
I dislike that in the article they removed the context of his statement. Just reading this, it sounds like he was making a threat, but if you read the KHOU.com (Houston) article it appears that here's merely mocking the person who is
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by jkeel 13y ago
Yeah, I live in San Antonio and go to New Braunfels pretty often. I wouldn't call it a small town. The whole thing seems absurd. His statement is obviously making fun of the person calling him insane, not a threat. It's pretty
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by jkeel 13y ago
That's what I was wondering. The comma is just a separator. Plus it's only really needed BEFORE each field not after the preceding field.
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by jkeel 14y ago
Nice to see this discussion on HN. Back in early 2000, when I worked at Walmart's home office in Bentonville, we had a speaker come and talk to ISD about this exact topic. That was the main line that stuck with me, "Employees leave manage
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by jkeel 14y ago
Sorry to hear about the response. Hopefully I didn't come off as being negative. I thought maybe I was learning something as well. Different people have different experiences. I myself don't know much about Canada except that it appears
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by jkeel 14y ago
Maybe it's due to the fact I graduated from the UT system, but I thought it was well known that UT Austin had a top notch CS program.
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by jkeel 14y ago
Based on the information in the article, I cannot see how they can be just to go after him. With that logic they could go after owners of apartment buildings or even arenas (music festivals/shows tend to have people doing drugs there).
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by jkeel 14y ago
Good if-by-whiskey example. For those that weren't on HN yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey
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by jkeel 14y ago
Plus, just allowing access to code and having them deliver it isn't the end. You need to be involved in Quality Management (code reviews, testing, etc.) to make sure they are doing a job to your standards (or better!) That stuff takes time
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by jkeel 14y ago
I support my wife and 4 kids and the way I've had to deal with insurance is by getting a High-deductible Health Plan which pays 100% after the deductible is met. Then by having a HDHP I qualify for a Health Savings Account (HSA) which I can
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by jkeel 14y ago
I have 4 children and they are all young (under 10). While after having kids my motivation and drive to do more increased, it actually took a few years for me to figure out what worked for me. I had to give up a couple of my most favorite p
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by jkeel 14y ago
I agree. Even now (2012 - almost 2013) there are still lots of services needed but when I was a teenager I unfortunately kept looking for a type of job that my friends had instead of looking for a need to fill (I eventually did land a very
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by jkeel 14y ago
Good point! I guess I was looking at it as an advantage and other cities would start their own program to compete just like employers do today. I just figured people tend to not move geographically as much as they change jobs.
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by jkeel 14y ago
This idea is similar to a pet project I did a looong time ago while learning C#. It's still up at http://getmicromanager.com/ but honestly I'm not sure if it still works with the current version of .NET (it was written on .NET 1.1).
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by jkeel 14y ago
What I think would be a better solution that could fit in everyone's worldview (those that want a more socialized health care system and those who don't want a powerful federal government) is to have cities provide a public health insurance
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by jkeel 14y ago
whisperYELL.com The idea is similar to Klout but instead of measuring online influence it was to be geared toward online privacy. People would be able to measure how much of their information is out there and depending if they want to be n
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by jkeel 14y ago
My favorite part is the HTML/CSS snippet generation. Many times I've had to play around with the CSS in Chrome inspector to get what I wanted. While it's not hard, I do like to be able to mock something up like this and then get the css.
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by jkeel 14y ago
I agree with the author that the cheater's pool would be cool to keep. I could imagine having two accounts - one account for regular play and one account for cheating to see who can do the best hacks. The author is probably right that it w
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by jkeel 14y ago
One of the best pieces of advice I received for my career was from my university's computer science counselor. I asked him what I needed to do/study to be better than other programmers. I started asking, "should I study C, Java (it had jus
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by jkeel 14y ago
Thanks for the link. I was looking for it as I remember this post from what I thought was last year (apparently longer - boy does time fly). Glad to see them doing well.
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by jkeel 14y ago
You're comment made me smile. Only because I clicked the link, saw the page and thought, "who designed this?". My next thought was, "well, most of the space related sites look like this, so maybe it fits well with what that community expe
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by jkeel 15y ago
Launchy has been around a long time and it's one of the first apps I usually install on my Windows machines. I know Windows 7 does a good job now of launching apps but I still prefer Launchy. It can remember what you chose with the least am

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