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Yeah well, one of the many reasons I generally avoid HN.

It was definitely intentional. The prefect sandbox has been a central design decision since day one.

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…

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 lin…

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 fo…

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 hou…

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.

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.

That made no sense at all.

Why change the headline to a blatantly sexist one?

You don't need to build a box. Someone has done it for you. Get a Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite for < $100.

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…

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…

The article is about Waterloo engineering co-op though.

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.

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 …

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…

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.

StartSSL will give you unlimited certs, including wildcard certs for $60/year.

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"…

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 t…

A plane with "Dead" in its name seems like a bad choice.

That was my first thought as well. Not sure about the 2.0 part though.

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…