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junker37 | 1 year ago | on: The short, happy reign of CD-ROM

I think the distinction is, the Dr orders the x-rays from a place they have a relationship with and waiting for it, vs, you bringing x-rays from some unknown source.

junker37 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Long Range E-Bike

OP was referring to pedestrian/bike paths. I believe everyone should stay on the right. I agree, with car traffic, pedestrians should be on the left.

junker37 | 4 years ago | on: Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results

> According to this logic, if results were listed alphabetically (i.e., based on a truly objective criteria), we would see folks naming everything beginning with "0" or "A".

This is seen in practice. The yellow pages were?(are?) alphabetical, which is why you see so many business that start with the letter A.

junker37 | 5 years ago | on: Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update

Am I the only one who prefers the red nubs on on Thinkpads? I find it very hard to use any touchpads. When I used a mac, I would carry around a mouse. I wish thinkpads would get rid of the touchpad. I'm perfectly happy with just using the nub.

junker37 | 5 years ago | on: Remote Work Report

No need to be thrifty. I live not too far from the Iowa border in a relatively small MN town. I work remote for a company based in SF and know I make a percentage less than the senior engineers that live out there. If I had to guess, I would guess I make about a junior developers salary. That salary goes a long way here. There are very few senior engineering positions that will match what I'm making, but the culture is not the same. I'm maxing out retirement accounts, 401k's, HSA's, Roth IRA's and I'll have a paid of house by the end of the year.

junker37 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

Back-end engineer with 10 years of experience building API's/services in AWS for startups. Only looking for remote opportunities. Location: Minnesota Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Golang, Typescript, PHP, MySQL, DynamoDB AWS Technologies: Cloudformation, EC2, AutoScaling, S3, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB SNS, SQS, SES, Route53, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, RedShift, CloudFront, VPC, Athena, Data Pipeline, QuickSight, Kinesis Résumé/CV: On Request Email: [email protected]

junker37 | 9 years ago | on: Would You Rather Have $1M or $5,000 Monthly in Retirement?

> Remember, you're no longer a long term investor, you can't ride out ups and downs, you have to keep paying the bills during down periods, excaberating your losses

I don't know about you, but most people in my social circle intend to retire between 55-60 and that leaves 25-30 years of retirement, so definitely still in the long term investing range.

When I retire, I don't plan to adjust my investments until I get past 80.

junker37 | 9 years ago | on: DynamoDB cannot store empty strings

Correct, our read/write access isn't spread out. So, before knowing how the partitions worked, we increased our read/write throughput, this caused the partitions to increase, so now our throughput that was spread out across the entire table, was split between 2 partitions. This caused even more throttling.

junker37 | 9 years ago | on: DynamoDB cannot store empty strings

The reasons we use it * doesn't require any setup (no provision servers, maintining backups, etc) * automatic backups * practically free during development * scales when you need it too

That said, we've run into issues with the partitioning. If we were given access to the partition information and the ability to reduce partitions when needed, that would solve those problems.

junker37 | 11 years ago | on: Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (2014)

After seeing this article the first time, I decided to try the 3 day fast as well. I too continued my normal morning 3 mile runs and noticed that if I couldn't push the pace for very long. I'm just an anecdote, but my immune system seems to be stronger this winter. With two little ones who've been sick a couple of times and a wife that had the flu, I've been able to get by with just minimal congestion.

junker37 | 11 years ago | on: Pointer Pointer

If the image resolution software isn't good enough, and there's a lot of images, you could mechanical turk it using the reverse site. Show on image and have the user click on the finger (or none).
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