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11,869karma·4,855submissions·March 1, 2014
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Chicago is the home of the Chicago commodities exchange... and like New York has a bit of influence over businesses dealing with banking taking place in New York, so too does Illinois have influence o…
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Stack Overflow has verbatim copied GPL code in some of its questions and answers. As presented by SO, that code is not under the GPL license (this also applies to other licenses - the BSD advertisi…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_farm#United_States Small family farms are defined as those with annual gross cash farm income (GCFI) of less than $350,000; in 2011, these ac…
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The 80 year old house on a woodlot that a teacher is living in should be closed so they can buy a more expensive one in town? This isn't (all) new construction of people deciding to cast off the …
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The area south of Highway 19 in Dane County to north of Highway 39 in Green county is still rather bare of awards.
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My parents have Starlink. They live in an area surrounded by dairy farms. It's half a mile between mailboxes. The nearest town is 7 miles away (though only 3 as the crow flies - lots of hills …
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That was referencing the killer in the Abundant Life Christian School shooting. This isn't the true crime of classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_crime but rather peop…
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HN is HN. From the Guidelines link at the bottom - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interestin…
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Digging back as far as I can... Computer Programmers (1997) https://web.archive.org/web/19971111101442/http://www.bls.go... Programmers often are grouped int…
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It's only a little bit lower than salaries for non-Big Tech that are in the area. Again, for Madison compare it to https://www.levels.fyi/companies/american-family-insurance…
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Universities typically are in the public sector side of the equation... and the public sector doesn't pay any non-administrative role the Big Tech rate. Pulling up my alma mater... https:/&…
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I personally believe that the H1 visa should get split into more distinct fields. That was the way that it started... the H-1A ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1A_visa ) was for…
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That makes the assumption that every H1B, L1, and OPT is going into software development. https://apnews.com/article/teacher-jobs-h1b-j1-visa-online-s... Like many school s…
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In older distinctions, there were Systems Developers and Application Developers and Computer Programmers. The distinction largely was around that "Computer Programmers took the specifications fr…
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What about other platforms and stores?
The same change has been made on the GOG.com store. All other distribution platforms are unchanged, and you can continue to download OpenTTD from our…
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Power strips next to them in that photo are fun too.
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From my days... this is what an old photo of a "proper" BBS looked like https://beeline.org/beeline/?view=a29ed68f4f4d53 (note the wire wrapped custom modem controller)…
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https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically rec…
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> it becomes readily apparent that infrared light focuses differently from visible light. On old school manual focus capable lenses you'll note a small (often red when colors were used to indi…
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(I was replying to a now deleted response) > Slop has an upside? Not exactly. Rather its is that places where one does want to find pictures of people's cute cats and dogs is now having add…
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> I'm looking for a job shoveling pig shit as we speak. https://www.goatops.com
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public static void main (String[] args) {
Optional<Boolean> n = Optional.ofNullable(null);
Optional<Boolean> e = Optional.empty();
System.out.println(n.equal…
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For Java developers... you can use Optional<Boolean> to store the elusive four possible booleans.
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Ramadan really moves around the calendar. From what I understand, summertime Ramadan can be quite challenging to fast from sunrise to sunset. https://www.bibalex.org/SCIplanet/…
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In the US it isn't the sweat of the brow, but rather a minimal threshold of human creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia…
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One of the things that I recall from that (and written about elsewhere... though I don't recall where) is that the shadows of the shadow squares, when viewed from the surface all subtend the same…
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Fictional characters can have their own copyright. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/protecting-fictional... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_pr…
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Some of my early renderings Renderman (high school), Povray (college), and Art ( https://www.abemegahed.com/software/ - at the very end) were trying to visualize the scale of Ram…
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I kind of agree with you on that... and I kind of understand why. The first book was an exploration of humanity in the stars. While there was contact, it had more the traditional science fiction foot…
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What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353473 (93 comments, and linking to https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d…