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by Decade 10y ago
With plenty of venture capital, $10,000 per month is not the greatest expense by far, in San Francisco. That’s 800 employees on Slack Plus, or enough space for about 20 employees with an open floor office and no meeting rooms, or less than
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by Decade 10y ago
In my personal fantasy, killing Proposition 13 would be done in a progressive manner. Grandma who has paid off her house in Westwood Park and is now a paper millionaire would still keep her 1975 property tax level, but Disneyland would be t
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by Decade 10y ago
> Why did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? Because the school superintendent and the board of education believe much more strongly in wealth redistribution and social equality than many of the constituents do
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by Decade 10y ago
Student debt is unconscionable. We’re taking young people, giving them 13 or more years of “we’re taking care of you,” “you’re too young to worry about this,” and suddenly they are legal adults, and the choice is theirs, but they really sho
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by Decade 10y ago
I feel that you do not understand, not even the articles that you link to. > You're just wrong about San Fransisco's population density being low. It is 21st most populated place per square mile in the U.S. 21st is far below 1s
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by Decade 10y ago
Strongly disagree with your disagreement, why? Bay Area traffic is horrible because of the low density and poor street planning of the past, pushing people into cars. Modern urban planners call it “induced demand” for traffic. [0] I recen
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by Decade 10y ago
Apply to them and discover that most of the listings are spam.
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by Decade 10y ago
Ah, the old practice of using a word that comes from French to give some nuance when a Germanic word once worked. The Miriam-Webster dictionary says SonicSoul’s usage was correct, meaning “in a manner to cause death,” but now is archaic.
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by Decade 10y ago
People have been developing schizo persecution complexes for as long as I remember. Just the contents of the delusions differ depending on the victim’s experiences. I wonder if modern society exacerbates or amplifies it, though by “modern”
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by Decade 10y ago
It’s not the money that’s terribly managed. And it’s our money, not theirs. It’s that we have an awful degree of citizen participation, being directed with a dumb combination of social feel-good and suspicion of authority. So, a couple days
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by Decade 10y ago
That just means that you, I, and other knowledgeable people are not the target audience, and he intends for it to be read by people who do not have the context to disagree with his just-so story for why Plan 9 failed, which coincidentally i
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by Decade 10y ago
That's what I really, really hate about Taleo and iCIMS and Silk Road and Jobvite and so on. They allow their customers to customize the application process with arbitrary fields and click-through agreements, so you can't just wri
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by Decade 10y ago
The inventor of the null pointer considers them to be a mistake: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...
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by Decade 10y ago
Maybe also include a backwards link from First Steps to Getting Started, and not just a forward link to Functions.
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by Decade 10y ago
There are many comparisons online, but opinions are cheap, so I will offer mine. For SICP, stick to Scheme. The ideas are valuable in themselves, and IME it’s easier to learn the author’s obscure language than to translate to another langua
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by Decade 10y ago
I love (sarcastically) how the Start here -> First Steps does not include any instructions on how to get a Common Lisp installed and running on your computer.
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by Decade 10y ago
Don't hate the player when he didn't even want to play. Hate the game. It's a prisoner's dilemma. Either you lobby politicians, or somebody else lobbies the politicians and locks you out.
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by Decade 10y ago
Bufferbloat == San Francisco Bay Area housing market. The offices and jobs create demand for housing, but housing hasn’t been constructed anywhere near as quickly. We don’t want to lose packets of engineers, so we pile them into the buffer.
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by Decade 10y ago
It is almost 4 years since World IPv6 Launch. I’m very disappointed that, other than a few randomly timed rants from Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica has made no visible movement to IPv6. No AAAA record for Arstechnica.com, no guides to i
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by Decade 10y ago
Realistically, WiFi driver code sucks, and there is inherent tension between routing, which benefits from wires, and WiFi, which benefits from open space. See, for example, how the Google OnHubs have the minimum of just 1 LAN port. You can
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by Decade 10y ago
Old network guys remember when networks were not all IP, and there were Novell IPX routers, and AppleTalk routers, and DECnet Phase IV routers, and CLNP lived on for a while due to phone carriers and IS-IS. And even in IP, BGP is only the l
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by Decade 10y ago
ifconfig is still used on BSD and, most importantly, MacOS X. Also, the Linux replacement for ifconfig is ip from iproute2, and that was made by the guy who did Linux QoS. He sort of sucks at usability. For example, `ifconfig eth0 down` bec
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by Decade 10y ago
Well, from the last discussion where Sonja participated: Philadelphia, additional housing, plus market crash. It doesn’t say that prices on existing housing went down, but the new “luxury” housing did not sell for close to the expected luxu
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by Decade 10y ago
You can buy a house way faster than you can build a new one. According to Rousseauian liberalism, a proper government exists for the good of the people whom it represents, and foreign oligarchs do not represent the people in the cities wher
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by Decade 10y ago
One of your volunteers got me involved with the Balboa Reservoir CAC, so I’ve been going to those meetings, except when they reschedule it to Wednesday evening (I already have something scheduled for Wednesday evening, why do they keep resc
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by Decade 10y ago
Yeah, but did you stay on the Pacific island? Remote work doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t want to mingle with others. It means I can stay at home when a child is sick or visit relatives for a week, and still work and get paid. I like the m
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by Decade 10y ago
And Paris was started on a muddy riverbank. Also not ideal substrate for heavy stonework. There are plenty of quarries nearby, that I’ve seen in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz. It would be a better idea to build using reinforced concrete, thoug
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by Decade 10y ago
These articles always pit “newcomers” like Sonja Trauss (2012, originally from Philadelphia) against “long-time residents” like Jennifer Fieber (1990 from wherever). What about my generation: Kids born in San Francisco, who are growing up i
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by Decade 10y ago
By being in the business before this tech boom. Finance has been a major part of the San Francisco economy since the Gold Rush of 1849 (one of the 4 US Mints is here, one of the 12 Federal Reserve banks is here, and a bunch of other banks h
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by Decade 11y ago
I’m not sure that we fundamentally disagree, though from these samples I don’t know enough about your position to be sure. When you say, “you need to think bigger than that. In fact, we need changes all the way up to the federal level,” I a

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