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boydjdon Ask HN: Programming notebook recommendations?

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.

boydjdon Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?

I quit a decade of pack a day smoking last August.

boydjdon 8queens – x64 assembler solution to n-queens problem

$ ./8queens Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Fun.

boydjdon Ask HN: How do you manage your passwords?

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.

boydjdon RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing

Huh? Sbarro's still exists...

boydjdon Google's phone number handling library

I use the PHP version from time to time.

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

boydjdon Microsoft Band

Is anyone even making new apps for BB now?

boydjdon Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

Maybe you just eat with a bunch of alcoholics?

boydjdon Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

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

boydjdon Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

It's the same in the US ... except you can call it "juice drink" or "juice cocktail", which isn't very clear.

boydjdon Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

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.

boydjdon Soda May Age You as Much as Smoking

What are you drinking instead of soda in your country?

boydjdon Mistakes AngularJS Developers Make

> 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?

boydjdon Route leak incident on October 2, 2014

No.

boydjdon Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn

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

boydjdon Google Classroom

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.

boydjdon What Happened to U.S. Plans to Raise the H-1B Visa Ceiling?

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.