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I quit smoking after 18 years and think the same advice is applicable: remove yourself from the triggers. Right before I got married I quit smoking and started using the patch. Onc…

I have a right to be free of guns. If someone had a CHP I, as a citizen, have a rihmght to avoid them.

I've come to realize that I should be tracking the time I spend on work and non-work activities with the goals of a) being able to analyze how I spend my time and b) drive improvem…

So East of town (Austinite here) there's a lot of wide-open space. My money is on something East of 130 toll road near the Circuit of the Americas. I could see a lot of incentives …

I'm an organizer for one of the (many) DevOpsDays Conferences held around the world. Speaking only for myself, I struggle with making sure that DevOps is about Dev and Ops working …

My wife's a lawyer but she's a Taurus.

Jumping in to reply because I made the switch to Authy about two years ago and haven't looked back. You get the ability to sync MFA across devices and desktop without a hitch. Add …

Silicon Hills actually refers to the boom in chip manufacturing in ATX in the 80s and 90s. After the dot-can boom and bust it now has the “like Silicon Valley but ‘weirder’” connot…

If you're run k8s on your infrastructure there's a pretty slick alternative called Open FaaS: https://github.com/openfaas/faas

I've just become a Girl Scout Co-Leader for my daughter's troop. I was an Eagle Scout growing up so the landscape / environment is pretty different. In talking with other Troop Lea…

The 'vote with your dollars' premise is flawed; the very nature of monopoly is to erode choice by consolidating market position and using influence (government, market) to maintain…

I was involved in the alpha for QiuckSight and found it interesting. My feeling is that Amazon realizes that there is a market for data visualization and analysis for RDS, Redshift…

You should probably be going on more than just AFAIK. The Atlantic Slave Trade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa#Atlantic_slav... was a complex issue that evolved econ…

> I also think it's comforting to think that this was the work of simply some greedy guys on wall street using strange words. Yes, actually, it was in a lot of cases. From the aggr…

Hyperbole and incorrect facts ref. Cleveland. Cleveland's name is based on reference to the nickname for Joe Louis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns and the original o…

My wife is a defense attorney that works claims litigation, e.g insurance defense for carriers. Watching "Hot Coffee" was very difficult for her. Part of her job during the pre-tri…

There are numerous options downtown in Austin for travel while drunk. The person at fault here is the guy behind the wheel that panicked. From http://www.rollingstone.com/music/new…

I'm moving from Corporate (40K employees) to a Startup (<100). I've worked on small teams before (for large companies) but this is a pretty dramatic shift. I've met the team I'll b…