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Re:Ask HN: Programming notebook recommendations? on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:08PM (#9355225)
I like my Lenovo X230. I've increased the RAM to 16GB and have 2 SSDs in it (a micro SATA and regular). Everything seems to work fine for me in Arch.
Re:Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health? on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:01PM (#9355181)
I quit a decade of pack a day smoking last August.
Re:8queens – x64 assembler solution to n-queens problem on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @02:46PM (#9258573)
$ ./8queens Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Fun.

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords? on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @01:26PM (#9185251)
keepass. I don't trust a service to store my passwords.

I use a key file and a passphrase to secure my keepass database. The database is stored on dropbox, the keyfile is stored elsewhere.

Re:RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing on Thursday January 15, 2015 @01:17PM (#8894258)
Huh? Sbarro's still exists...
Re:Google's phone number handling library on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:43PM (#8574789)
I use the PHP version from time to time.

https://github.com/giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php

Re:Microsoft Band on Thursday October 30, 2014 @05:24PM (#8535912)
Is anyone even making new apps for BB now?
Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:29PM (#8493444)
Maybe you just eat with a bunch of alcoholics?
Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:18PM (#8493387)
I drink at least 24 fluid ounces of soda every day.

I've changed to Dr Pepper Ten instead of regular Dr Pepper though, so at least it's not as terrible for me.

20 calories vs 500 and 4g sugar vs 128g

Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @05:13PM (#8490043)
It's the same in the US ... except you can call it "juice drink" or "juice cocktail", which isn't very clear.
Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @04:17PM (#8489650)
A lot of the "fruit juice" (in America, at least) contains just as much HFCS as soda.

I don't know if this is the case in the rest of the world or in this study though.

Re:Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:15PM (#8489198)
What are you drinking instead of soda in your country?
Re:Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make on Friday October 03, 2014 @06:23PM (#8407959)
> I think the real mistake in that scenario is not minifying the code until "in production". You should minify your code from the day one.

How are you debugging minified code?

Re:Route leak incident on October 2, 2014 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:09PM (#8402462)
No.
Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @01:24PM (#8396131)
Well, an MBA from Stanford is $100,000 per year.

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/programs/mba/financial-aid/cost-...

Yale cost of attendance for undergrad is $63,250 per year.

http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/what-current-tuition-yale

Re:Google Classroom on Monday September 29, 2014 @12:10PM (#8383522)
Of course it does.

It also requires the institution to have a Google Apps for Education account, which usually means that the University email accounts are all Google Accounts anyways.

Re:What Happened to U.S. Plans to Raise the H-1B Visa Ceiling? on Friday September 12, 2014 @03:44PM (#8310037)
I think it's a serious question, but with a pretty easy answer.

People with STEM degrees who don't have jobs are stupid. There are no "talented folks" with degrees and experience that are not stupid and don't have jobs.

There are fucktons of jobs for STEM people that aren't being fulfilled because of the lack of suitable candidates.