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About chanced

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    Comment #8486029

    I agree with you 100%. Tipping is by far my biggest pet peeve followed by hidden surcharges, specialty taxes, and regular sales taxes that are all added on after I've emotionally c…

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    Ah, this after I laid awake in bed (or so I believe) until 5, decided to get up and get to work. I'm cursing myself with insomnia by cycling in and out of 24, 48, and, in rare case…

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    Comment #8133435

    This was posted on reddit awhile ago but taken down and reposted several times. This bio really made me go "wtf?": > Loraine was born in London. She was an ordinary, hardworking fa…

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    Comment #7904933

    Somewhat interesting that this occurs weeks after the tariff increase on subsidized Chinese solar panels. I wonder how closely those two events are aligned beyond mere coincidence.…

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    Comment #7841038

    > Sherlocked: > To have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update. > It happened…

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    Comment #7841006

    Lucky you. A lot of us were left with massive paperweights after 10.9.2 dropped: https://www.google.com/search?q=osx+10.9.2+monitor+site:disc...

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    Comment #7744150

    I was still under warranty & nothing changed between that visit and the last. What does it matter how long I waited? I had started to use a monitor and got a macbook air for when I…

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    Comment #7743569

    "Uninspired rails port" is a far cry from accurate. I've worked with both rails and asp.net mvc. I started with rails in the 1.x days but also had clients that used .net. I despise…

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    Comment #7700819

    Yep, I understand the motive behind the requirement. There's a lot of good that can come out of it; students are forced to learn the "steps" or "mechanics," teachers can see where …

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    Comment #7699009

    Upon seeing the list of commands, I immediately thought "this is great! I could alias betty to b and then maybe a few more aliases here and there. I could take "betty next song" an…

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    Comment #7698882

    "You have to show your work Chance" was the sentence that drove me to despise school. As a 6th grade visual spatial student in a "gifted" algebra class, I could see the answer as i…

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    Comment #7609078

    > [Millenials] take [their parents] on job interviews for support No wonder my generation can't get a damn job.

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    Comment #7609065

    Yelling at clouds is the best, especially if you have a cane handy.

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    Comment #7531975

    "At age 1, Kristoffer got past the toddler lock screen on a cell phone by holding down the home key." Not to be "that guy" or anything but I suspect it is pretty normal for a child…

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    Comment #6951009

    Came here to say the same. +1 to oh my zsh

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    Comment #6654494

    Now that was an incredibly useful answer to my question. Thank you so very much.

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    Comment #6654377

    Depends on a few factors: - Type of employment. Is it a contract or "perm" position? Contract positions are expected to hop. It's part of the game. - Timing. Are you in the middle …

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    Ask HN: Is there an OSS web app for file sharing backed with s3?

    I'm looking for a web-based file server that I can deploy to heroku or elsewhere. It would ideally have accounts so uploads would be visible/accessible to them. I can throw somethi…

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    Comment #6298553

    Some of these remind me of sites I was building in the 90s. I love how design flows in circles

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    Comment #6298540

    Could this be government bots setup to intercept traffic?

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    Comment #6146699

    Brilliant