TheHegemon

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by TheHegemon 7y ago
> If it helps any, my experience is that it's hardest on the day your child is born, but it gets progressively easier as the years go by and the children become increasingly self-sufficient. Not sure what kind of beings you're
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
No, gold has not outperformed even cash in the last 30 years. It is only worth it if you can time it precisely: https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Definitely! If someone is able to figure out how to use less water to grow the same amount of crops they could totally outcompete and undercut other producers. There's an interesting Planet Money episode about it: https://ww
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Most of the ones I have been to do.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Honestly cockroaches are way better feeders than crickets. Crickets are so annoying, smelly, and if you don't take the uneaten ones out of your dragon's cage they can blind them!
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
The problem is that everyone seems to disagree on what pedantry is and how much marginal a difference actually is.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Seriously, I've been doing remote for the past three years and I despise it. Maybe I'm just a weird for working together as a team instead of lone wolfing everything but it gets incredibly lonely. Being unable to easily bounce ide
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Generally private school teachers make way less than public school ones though do.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Have you tried to buy a used care recently? A 2-year-old used car is usually within $1000~$2000 of the original selling price.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Could you explain the part of the desk being in the corner, not sure I completely grok what that means.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
This would be funny if it wasn't so depressingly true.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
I mean this are slightly more excusable because they're supposed to the host's actual personality. Whereas in a sitcom it's what the writer's determine the character is supposed to act like.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Most likely due to opportunity cost. Your resources and effort would be better spent elsewhere.
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by TheHegemon 7y ago
Except the fact that higher paid CEOs actually perform worse [0]. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highe...
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
What I've noticed is that in general that as long as there some activity (even if it's bad) it is considered success. I'm currently knee-deep in a code base where the exact same function was nearly copied several dozen times
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Unfortunately I've definitely seen cases where scalability wasn't taken into account and now it's impossible to bolt-on after the fact.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Lyft requires a lot more capital to work (lyft drivers).
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
However the much higher standard deduction essentially means that most people no longer itemize.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Except the fact that almost none of the imports actually work.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Unfortunately the problem with the kind of niches you're talking about there is that the buyers of the software rarely have to actually use it which leads to the terrible situations of the users.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
As someone who has tried that in the past: it doesn't work. I would kill myself trying to get certain people up to speed and also trying to do my own work. The problem is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. For the most part, pe
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Generally it's algorithms that I find interesting. Recently spent a couple of days trying to figure out how HyperLogLog works.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
I have a wife, three boys (one who doesn't sleep through the night), and a full-time job as well. Usually I just practice after putting the kids to bed. It's possible you just need to carve out some time even if it's an hour
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
That was definitely surprising to me. Also, after checking his about me I realized it Nicholas Zakas! I learned so much about giant Javascript apps because of his books! It really shows how much negotiation actually does matter.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Working in enterprise software I unfortunately agree with that statement. Our product is terrible and yet we can signing all of these giant contracts. It is a bit disheartening to realize as long our stuff "almost works" and we ke
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Apparently it's a popular theme: Do you ever have that feeling that you want to punch the ceiling So you stamp down on the floor, you can't take it anymore, In your search for absolution there is only one solution, Kick a pigeon i
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
All things considered Jack Bogle did not become rich from Vanguard. For the size of their fund they have almost no employees and are not exactly flush with cash. Vanguard is doing a sort of public service: http://freakonomics.com
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
Oh god. Omniture is one of the worst software I've had the misfortune of being forced to implement. I'm not surprised the same founder is running into issues here.
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by TheHegemon 8y ago
I've met a lot of devs who could ship incredibly fast but were the worst developers I've ever worked with. I don't think is a great metric.
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by TheHegemon 9y ago
Probably because women make pretty much the same (within around 7%) for the same work: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can-uber-teach-us-about... ?

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