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marblar··on NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
> I guess that lingering smell of urine keeps people coming back to SF?

I like the weather.

marblar··on The Obama Administration Has Embraced Legal Theories Broader Than John Yoo's
Treasury bonds?
marblar··on Inheritance Is Terrible
Inheritance is the first thing I learned when I started learning object oriented programming.
marblar··on Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything
Off the top of my head? Bioshock, Pikmin, Halo 4
marblar··on Tech Companies, New and Old, Clamor to Entice Cloud Computing Experts
I’ve lost track of this metaphor.
marblar··on GitHub pages is now running Jekyll 3
I think the wikipedia page for Jekyll gives a pretty big hint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_(software)
marblar··on Show HN: Teevox – Twitch Multistream Player,made in Static HTML, React, Firebase
> I spent the past 2 months working on a website that hopefully solves this problem.

What’s the relationship between this page and the page I tried in 2011?

marblar··on Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge
It looks like the parent comment removed it. It would be polite to edit yours as well.
marblar··on Avoid Humans: Your temporary respite from the masses
It’s not great in San Francisco either. I looked for parks nearby and it recommended Union Square.
marblar··on New Findings from War on Poverty: Just Give Cash
> The point is that bringing up children in poverty creates a worse outcome for society as a whole.

I see your point, but it’s important to note that the authors still haven’t established causation, but are planning a follow-up to do so. The authors aren’t making quite as strong of a claim as you’re making here -yet.

marblar··on Using a single AWS account is a serious risk
> Why is there a tophat over "IAM role”?

Presumably because rather than being a person, the IAM role is a “hat” that a person wears.

marblar··on Why ‘Buy’ Buttons Will Pose Challenges for Google, Facebook, Pinterest
Realistically, #1 and #4 are the same option.
marblar··on Show HN: Simple Hacker News Client for Emacs
I just get an error message: "Bad news, bro: url"
marblar··on 177 Days of GitHub
This isn't really in the spirit of what you're trying to do, but you can set the --date of the commit, or even amend the commit after the fact if you haven't pushed.
marblar··on Speed Up Git Pull
What benefits does this provide that a cron job running `git fetch` doesn't?
marblar··on All-New Kindle Paperwhite
The hardware upgrade specifically mentioned processor speed. I would be mildly surprised to learn that Kindles are CPU-bound. I have always assumed the device was limited by the screen's refresh rate.
marblar··on Blink tag removed from Firefox
Surely he was kidding?
marblar··on Buttons with built-in loading indicators
I actually was impressed by their smoothness on my 4S. What device are you using?
marblar··on Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
Don't use a logarithm. Most salaries are going to be the same order of magnitude.
marblar··on What does O(log n) mean, exactly?
For what it's worth, when I started studying this stuff I assumed log(n) meant log_e(n). That didn't help much either.
marblar··on Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
Has anybody here ever actually been asked to exactly implement quicksort?
marblar··on Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class
Do you have a particular example in mind?
marblar··on 'The IT Crowd' to return for finale special
Some of the most memorable episodes of that show came from the third season. Give it another chance!
marblar··on Planning for Another 100 Million Web Sites
My pocket must have written this. Sorry!
marblar··on Intel i7-4770k overclocked to 8.0 GHz
What can I read to learn more about the difference?
marblar··on I Am a Bad Developer
Holman has in the past made the claim that nobody's quit. I wonder if that still holds up?
marblar··on Planning for Another 100 Million Web Sites
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marblar··on Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
What do you suggest in arduino's place?
marblar··on Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]
Why not have it on a card in a wallet? I still expect to carry some dead tree money in this scenario.
marblar··on Why j for imaginary unit?
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/
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