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kangman··on Ask HN: How can I best assist my wife with a career transition?
my wife is a private highschool teacher and is going through a similar situation with the OP's wife.
kangman··on How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing
Why keep building where you get flooded all the time? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/why-c...
kangman··on How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious
Why should litigation be the first option for relief? This would have a chilling effect on practitioners coming forward. Taking from devops, having a blameless review would be in order to see what kind of assumptions/biases caused the poor decision and improve going forward not sue them out of practice. Sidney Dekker speaks about in the context of the aviation industry and how humane practices leads to safer flights for everyone.
kangman··on The Supreme Court discussed my research on gerrymandering: some misconceptions
if you are a bigot then your range of questions and the people to put them to would be inherently limited.
kangman··on Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?
At our company when I was on boarded we had a process called boot camps. Which was basically a week set aside with meetings for each respective team/department to get a high level over view of what they do and how they fit together with the company as a whole. This gave me some good insight on how I fit in as well as open up new dumb questions to follow up with.
kangman··on Docker operations slowing down on AWS
thanks for this script, pretty helpful!
kangman··on Buying time promotes happiness
What about things that you don't like that would have a material benefit to you in the long run? A simple example being exercise. Decision matrices seem bound for immediate needs.
kangman··on Extreme Commuting
i believe Hong Kong's metro uses that strategy.
kangman··on Interview with Ex Machina’s Scientific Advisor
the podcast feed looks to be broken.

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kangman··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
ins3ption
kangman··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
what's the SLA for s3?
kangman··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
any one get more info from AWS?
kangman··on Kreisel Electric takes on Tesla
Not a fan of the design though. I'm sure it's functional but to my eyes it looks more frankencar than daily driver.
kangman··on Debugging using system calls in Mac OS X
If you're into that there's a whole conference on dtrace you should check out called dtrace.conf
kangman··on Introducing yakbak: Record and playback HTTP interactions in Node.js
What is the difference between using this or the gor project or twitter's diffy project?
kangman··on CloudFlare Watch
i believe Conway's law applies here.
kangman··on Ask HN: Your Passive Income Suggestions?
also called arbitrage
kangman··on My adventures in medical tourism
That sounds like a modern car to me. sans biological
kangman··on My adventures in medical tourism
you mean < ?
kangman··on Entering Public Beta
why don't you give caddy a try which has let's encrypt baked in.

https://caddyserver.com/

kangman··on EC2 Dedicated Hosts
so would you say then that the next logical step would be to try out joyent baremetal container runtime?
kangman··on VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues
he could be bound by some NDA(non-disclosure-agreements) when he left.
kangman··on Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation
You should check out this podcast about impostor syndrome and cultural conflicts that occur when two opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum meet.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/550/t...

kangman··on Red Hat is buying Ansible
yeah really helpful. I paid for these lessons and Justin was kind enough to refund me the cost when he moved on to Docker.
kangman··on What's Lost When Most People Work from Home
if you life in a high priced market that arrangement could be difficult to make.
kangman··on We’re Bad at Interviewing Developers – Interview with Kerri Miller
Isn't it probably also due to the fact that the UK offers unemployment and healthcare benefits that far surpass what is offered here in the States? So that there is a safety if at the end of the contract you are left with no offer.
kangman··on Attitudes Shift on Paid Leave: Dads Sue, Too
why does change always have to come with conflict on this side of the pond? It seems like the governments of EU members are more proactive then reactive when it comes to employee rights.
kangman··on I was underpaid for years and I didn't know it
A lot of the tips on this thread look to echo tips from this book from Andy Lester

http://www.amazon.com/Land-Tech-Love-Pragmatic-Life/dp/19343...

Really helped me out navigating the whole salary process.