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by rll 8y ago
Yeah well, one of the many reasons I generally avoid HN.
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by rll 8y ago
It was definitely intentional. The prefect sandbox has been a central design decision since day one.
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by rll 9y ago
I absolutely love it. I only use it for data and I travel a ton. Never having to hunt down SIM cards every 3 days when I hit a new country with a flat global rate is great. And you get 10 free data sims, so everything that can possibly get
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by rll 9y ago
I know it is anecdotal, but I have never seen even the slightest hint of anyone having their devices closely looked at entering China. At least not in the 72/144 hour visa-free line that I have been using for the past couple of years.
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by rll 10y ago
Obviously that depends on what you invest in and how much risk you are willing to carry. In the long term the stock market index funds have returned about 6-7% annually adjusted for inflation. Take almost any 10-year window in the past 30 y
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by rll 10y ago
That is simply not true. Even if you bought at the peak in 2007 in Sunnyvale you are likely up 50% or more on your investment. If you were lucky and bought in 2005 or 2009 your house is probably worth 60-70% more than when you bought it. Th
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by rll 10y ago
I use a T460s with a Google Fi SIM card in it running Debian. It works really well and Google lets you get up to 10 free data sims so you don't need another account.
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by rll 10y ago
Don't you see that you just proved the point? You read "your mother" and you understood "incompetent about technology." That is the sexist stereotype we get irritated by.
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by rll 10y ago
That made no sense at all.
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by rll 10y ago
Why change the headline to a blatantly sexist one?
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by rll 10y ago
You don't need to build a box. Someone has done it for you. Get a Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite for < $100.
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by rll 11y ago
You can do partial scans. If you create a list of files and only feed it the ones you care about it can scan those. It will complain about missing classes, but you can ignore those with phan -i Usually a middle ground works best. Run it onc
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by rll 11y ago
I couldn't wait to get away from Waterloo for my work terms. Winters in Waterloo are extremely unpleasant! My last two work terms were in Brazil and I actually ended up working for this Brazilian company after I graduated but like most
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by rll 11y ago
The article is about Waterloo engineering co-op though.
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by rll 11y ago
Loss of community with the rest of your class? At Waterloo co-op in engineering is not optional. Your entire class is on the same 4-month school-workterm-school schedule.
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by rll 11y ago
I did Waterloo engineering co-op as well and yes, it is a bit hectic, but at that age you can handle it. I wouldn't have traded it for anything. I had interesting jobs in a number of different countries. I invested my interest-free stu
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by rll 12y ago
Async MySQL queries have been available to you in PHP since PHP 5.3.0 released in 2009: http://php.net/mysqli.poll If that has been your bottleneck, why haven't you been using them?
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by rll 12y ago
Such odd language in those release notes. Git is being "taught" things or the various features are "learning". It's like they really do think of it as an actual git.
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by rll 12y ago
StartSSL will give you unlimited certs, including wildcard certs for $60/year.
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by rll 12y ago
I still like StartSSL better than the other options. Yes, obviously opt out of having them generate your private key and CSR and upload your own. There is a big obvious "skip this" button there for that. To me the killer feature i
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by rll 12y ago
That's not a Yahoo hack though. When that happens it is almost always your local machine that has been breached by a virus which simply reads the locally stored contact list. And to answer your question, no, it is not a regular occurre
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by rll 12y ago
A plane with "Dead" in its name seems like a bad choice.
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by rll 13y ago
That was my first thought as well. Not sure about the 2.0 part though.
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by rll 13y ago
In the US, yes, but in some countries the Tesla is actually cheaper than the Audi (which is the car you are comparing it to there) because of tax breaks. See http://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-owners-norway-get-134000-tax-br...
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by rll 13y ago
I was at Yahoo during the years in question and must have been approached 50+ times by Google recruiters. I wonder if Yahoo refused to play along or perhaps they were never invited.
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by rll 13y ago
That only works for one-ways or on the return portion. Once you miss a segment the rest of your ticket is canceled at that point, so be careful.
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by rll 13y ago
OS X and iOS qualifies as cross-platform these days?
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by rll 13y ago
I am desperately trying to extend the life of my X220 exactly for this reason. It is the last laptop with a usable keyboard. But this thing has been around the world at least a dozen times and has cracks and bruises to show for it. No idea
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by rll 13y ago
No, I didn't try any of the 9.2 releases yet. I am still on 9.1.
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by rll 13y ago
I am more worried about driver issues. For example on my hackintosh the SATA ports on the Marvel controller are extremely flaky. It may be that the fbsd device drivers are great for the various on board Marvel or Jmicron controllers you are

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