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Prevailing winds bring relatively clean air to most any city east of the Mississippi River especially in the winter time. Without nearby mountains, temperature inversions are prett…

I'm salaried, but it sure bought me a lot of goodwill.

A few years ago I had to update some FORTRAN code written in the 1980s that did bond valuations and some other financial stuff. It hadn't been touched since it was written and was …

The longer I work in this industry, the more I am coming to believe that waterfall is nothing more than a strawman set up to make development process X look like the Holy Grail. Ha…

> 2x4s spaced every 16 inches is plenty robust The current recommendation is 2x6 exterior framing with 24 inch spacing. This results in a durable and energy efficient home. https:/…

> It's truly a shame that so much money is poured into such utterly wasteful possessions When the yachts are idle, which is the majority of the time, they are typically plugged int…

This was a nice little review so I went to my local library website to reserve and found that they have two copies of this book published in 1967 from the Harvard University Press.…

> The crazy thing about this article is that it presents Chicago's solution (make the combined sewer bigger) Except that Chicago's publicly stated position is that the Deep Tunnel …

The S&P 500 publishes changes to the index in advance of the changes taking place, so all of the affected stocks have prices that reflect the change at the time of the change. Most…

Not being familiar with the term XNU, I did a little clicking around and hopefully I understand a bit better: This file is evidence that Apple has been running iOS/MacOS on the Ras…

The next thing I want Apple to do: If an app will request location services, it must: 1. Have a specific publicly available URL that contains all "location data" terms, conditions,…

> Yes and parking in the loop is blissfully expensive, encouraging suburbanites to take the train in. At least they have the option of using a functioning train system! You can see…

> I understand that Apple does everything in its power to make the life of developers miserable All XCode projects are automatically code signed on every build. If you have a devel…

> his Chicago tower hotel; Coincidence? The lawyer that handles tax matters for this property had his office raided by the FBI today: https://cltv.com/2018/11/29/federal-agents-rai…

In my area, it is very common for parents of boys that will be "young" when starting kindergarten to hold them back a year. They call it redshirting (a reference to US college athl…

> Here in Spain, everyone born in the same year goes to the same class, is it different in USA? So Spain has a cut date of 1 Jan while the USA is 1 Sept. The overall effect is exac…

My local elementary school has 3 classrooms per grade. If we broke the year into quarters and made each student attend 3 out of 4 quarters, what you'd end up with is more efficient…

> So, why do it? Should a razor thin majority in a public vote 2 years ago decide the UK's policy forever? Why do it? That question ceased being relevant a long time ago, when the …

> Steel is the best frame material for 95% of people due to its durability. Quality steel frames (not Schwinn travellers) are quite light. I have a bike made with True Temper OX Pl…

> Frank Lloyd Wright was around 67 years old when Falling Water was built As a teenager in rural Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright worked for a graduate of MIT school of architecture a…

Wow, this is the 2nd time in two weeks that something has appeared on my probability homework and then made the front page of HN almost immediately. Coincidence? Who else is taking…

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> Sure, big old U.S. Steel is behind the times, but that's true for any industry. U.S. Steel operates integrated mills, which make steel from raw materials. "Mini-mills" make steel…

> Don’t underestimate AMD’s ability to shoot itself in the foot. Every single consumer-targeted Intel chip has integrated graphics capable of displaying a 4k movie on the screen/tv…

> highest-earning first year teachers only earned $39,259 Appendix A [1] contains the salary schedule for Chicago Public Schools, which shows that in the current school year a firs…