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I was homeschooled along with my three brothers in the state of Texas. We all did dual-courses at a community college during the highschool years, and all graduated from college wi…

I would imagine it is up to interpretation. It would probably be a good thing to ask the interviewer about to show that you are thinking about edge cases. If it were me, I'd prefer…

In SQL, this would be an issue due to the date column not existing in the group by. Additionally, because of the having statement, the left outer join is being treated as an inner …

It's a tough business. I'm sure things might be different today, but 10 years back it was very hard for companies and sponsors to run a sustainable (and growable) business in profe…

There are definitely plenty of ex-gamers lurking on HN. I played under the nickname Daler in the United States. Mostly played Quake and Doom tournaments, but have competed on a var…

Due to the laptop's 128GB harddrive creeping down below 20GB now, I am in the market for a data storage service. Mobile availability is important. The only ones I can think of are …

Yeah I guess it might not be the best if I would have to run a VM on it.

Very good point. I guess the days of same-hardware laptops being 50% less in price are gone. I would love to just jump in and get the 13.3 macbook air, but $1200 for the 128GB SSD …

A macbook air sounds great, but I am concerned with the screen-size as well. I would definitely need more than 11" as I wouldn't be using an LCD monitor 95% of the time. It definit…

Yeah, I've considered a macbook air. It's definitely in my top choices. It's been so long since I've looked at laptops, but surely there are cheaper options with similar hardware r…

What does everyone use as their primary development laptop? I'm in the market looking for a new laptop that would be smaller than 15" and is geared towards development above anythi…

Out of curiosity, why do you say that? I would expect it's as simple as creating a polling/request call to the phone's GPS coordinates. The data can be stored on an application's s…

Great, thanks for the suggestion. I'll set us up on it tonight and see how it works.

Surprisingly, this is the only Google service I did not want to go away. My wife and I use it frequently every work day. She is an animal control officer here in Houston, and Latit…

Sadly, this very much mirrors my experience. I love Azure and ASP.NET MVC4. But the moment my deploys went from 5 minutes to 20 minutes and more, I started hating myself for any ra…

I bought a tablet through T-Mobile with a two year contract at $50 a month. Bad idea, I know. I ended up regretting the monthly plan due to using it primarily at home on a wifi. Af…

My first $100 was baking and selling apple pies locally. It was successful, but the margins were just not there due to the price of apples and the time spent. My first $10,000 ever…

Note: I've never used AWS. Currently, I use Azure for my projects. Primary reasons are due to being a C# developer professionally, and it just made sense to use it. In Visual Studi…

I've been using C# for several years, and have bounced between it, Java, Node.js for my side-projects. After all said and done, I keep coming back to C#. I feel more productive and…

Thanks! Feedback of any kind is great to hear honestly. Overall, the concept of a news/live-comment system is what we were focusing on. I believe content-driven sites are a great w…

Thanks for the feedback. No, we havent taken this yet to any particular fansite or community yet. The building it was primarily driven from noticing scattered communities all still…

My wife and I have been working on it for a few months in our spare time and have ironed out a lot of the last-minute changes/bug-fixes recently. The website is www.realityblock.co…