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by autarch 12y ago
Yep, I'm aware of all those details. I'm just wondering if companies like GitHub simply bite the bullet and pay sales tax in each state as needed, or if they've found some sort of workaround (like incorporating a second entit
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Ask HN: Hiring Remotely and US Tax Nexuses
9 points by autarch 12y ago|9 comments
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When Nerds Collide(medium.com)
10 points by autarch 12y ago|0 comments
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by autarch 12y ago
Some airlines (like Delta) offer "economy comfort" seats which give you access at ticket purchase time to some of the best seats on the plane, including bulkhead and exit rows. I'm 6'7" so I always pay the extra bit
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by autarch 12y ago
The point about unique IDs is well taken, but there's a cost to tracking these unique IDs too. For example, if you generate hundreds of message a second, you quickly end up having to track millions of unique ids. Then you have to man
576.
by autarch 12y ago
I wasn't arguing that new art shouldn't exist, simply explaining why I think the linked article suggests that people would be perfectly happy if no new art were made.
577.
by autarch 12y ago
I think you may be misinterpreting "the best ones are predominately the ones that already exist" a bit. Most cultural production in any medium is forgettable. How many composers do you think were alive at the same time as Beethove
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by autarch 12y ago
I was merely trying to point out that contrary to what the OP seemed to be suggesting, this file is not a list of patents that Facebook says apply to this code, or anything else particularly nefarious. Also, your paraphrasing leaves out the
579.
by autarch 12y ago
I was complaining about exactly the docs I've found on godoc.org.
580.
by autarch 12y ago
The crappy documentation is very much in line with many Go libraries, sadly. There doesn't seem to be a great culture of documentation. People often just write bare API docs without explaining why the library is useful or showing a l
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by autarch 12y ago
Well, if you read the file you'd see that it's a grant of rights to use this software regardless of any patents Facebook has that may apply to said software. It looks to be more or less the same as the relevant clause in the Apach
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by autarch 12y ago
It's not the plot to either, I'm afraid.
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by autarch 12y ago
I agree. I think anyone who lives on an all (or nearly all) Soylent diet is very likely setting themselves up for some sort of long-term health problems. That said, I can see a strong argument for replacing one meal a day with Soylent. It&#
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by autarch 12y ago
> That's the big advantage of CPAN. CPAN is the de facto owner of the modules in CPAN, and those modules can be maintained. This is just false. The CPAN maintainers (really PAUSE maintainers) can transfer ownership of modules away f
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by autarch 12y ago
I think you're overestimating how often that sort of vitriol happens in a workplace. I've been a developer for 16 years now and I've had very strong opinions about development for a long time. I can't remember the last t
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by autarch 12y ago
Serious question ... What do you do when the founder of a project becomes an impediment to its progress? Gruber is clearly the creator and popularizer of Markdown. OTOH, he's been uninvolved in anything related to it for years (AFAICT)
587.
by autarch 12y ago
In the ideal world of relational databases, storage would be defined separately from logical structure. In other words, DDL and DML operate on logical things (relations, domains, etc.), and we'd have some other language/tools to t
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by autarch 12y ago
I've lost about 50 pounds over the last two years by reducing my food intake without any additional exercise. In fact, I can't really do much in the way of exercise because of chronic knee problems, which is one reason why I wante
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by autarch 12y ago
Actually, I think it's a very good analogy. Here's another. If I leave my laptop running Visual Studio out and a monkey bangs on the keyboard to make a program (by accident, just as with this photo), I don't own the copyright
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by autarch 12y ago
The urth books (Shadow of the Torturer and following) take a lot of time to really get into. It's only by the time you get to the last book that you start to understand much of what happened in the first. I, as you might be able to t
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by autarch 12y ago
I should point out that these are slides from a full day class where people also do a lot of exercises. You can see the whole thing at https://github.com/moose/intro-to-moose
592.
by autarch 12y ago
> Moose was a hack to bring Java patterns to Perl Say what now? Moose draws from most heavily from CLOS and Smalltalk, as filtered through Perl 6. I don't know of any Java influence in Moose at all.
593.
by autarch 12y ago
Ruby has maybe half of this built in, at best.
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by autarch 12y ago
FizzBuzz is a reasonable way to find people who can't code. I've been surprised to find people with resumes that appeared decent who couldn't complete FizzBuzz even given 20 minutes of time to do it in.
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by autarch 12y ago
And you assume that there's no weighting or discarding of ratings that goes into the average.
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by autarch 12y ago
I took UberX yesterday. The driver told me he used to be a cab driver and he loved Uber. He made more money and spent less time doing it. For reference, when he drove a cab he had to spend $600 per month to rent the car!
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by autarch 12y ago
I suspect that all the languages that are "winning" right now will have "lost" 10-20 years from now too. What's the longest lived language out there right now that's actually still in heavy use? I'd say C.
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by autarch 12y ago
Well, you can factor in car maintenance to your costs as a driver. Given that the drivers would probably own a car regardless (because they need it for other things) the additional wear and tear is almost certainly more than compensated f
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by autarch 12y ago
1688 is not prounounced as "yoh-leeyoh-ba-ba". The 1 is pronounced as "ee". This actually makes it closer to Alibaba.
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by autarch 13y ago
My wife is from Taiwan and she complains about English spelling all the time.

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