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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Are they viruses? They don't spread.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Just do it. Can you save up $5k? Then you can live for a year in some parts of the world and work remotely :-). If you fail, you would have traveled at least.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
I don't follow developers, because of time. I tend to search for information I need, rather than follow someone and read what they have to say. If I did the latter I would be continuously distracted and overloaded with too many ideas t
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Was a joke
515.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Technically if you talk to anyone with a share portfolio about the weather, you are talking to other investors.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
You mean "We are the first person, plural personal pronoun ..."
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
I vote for a democracy. Let the system of voting and flagging decide.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
It's funny because it is true.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Assuming this is about some secret data: It's maybe the wrong question, or part of a bigger question of how do you secure information you want to keep from a state-level actor. Your laptop may be part of that but also your mobile devic
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Often what happens is someone makes a comment without reading the article, then someone corrects them, and in the correction you get effectively a TLDR of what the core point of the article is about. Priceless timesaver :-)
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
I am reading a book about programming language design and I often feel like backburning it and hacking out a compiler and see what happens. I can already write parser so I just need to so something with the tree ... innit. :-)
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Gmail do scan all emails for certain crimes. But I digress, sorry.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Replace WSJ with Netflix, would you suggest he share the link then? Many of us live of SaaS but complain about it when newspapers do it.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Yes it all depends on the details. 1% stake !== option to buy 1%, based on the info presented in the link though. A 1% option seems more like the poker game ante, but you need to keep putting more in (time, effort or even cold hard cash) to
525.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
If you think about it it is quite odd to give free labour to a company because you have shares (or some derivative of shares) in that company AND you are working for them. Because you may also have lots of shares in companies in an aggregat
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Touche! I remember a place where I worked where the first version was 3 because they figured customers wouldn't trust a version 1. I guess these guys went for version deflation.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Horses for courses.
528.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
> wrestling match with the compiler I went through a similar experience in Haskell. It is worth going through until you get to the point where it is no longer a wrestling match, because then you are just as productive but any code you wr
529.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
I'm concentrating on learning stuff that fascinates me. This also happens to be computer science skills that won't go out of date for a while. Some of it discovered before silicon chips! Even if it won't directly help me in m
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Whats the rental yield on a SF property? Here in Sydney you are lucky to get gross 4% on an apartment, 3% on a house. It kind of implies that there isn't "too many people" because if so the rents would shoot up too.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
deflation still going in Japan though
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Ironically you avoid technical debt by slowly killing and rebirthing parts of your product. The class that is no longer appropriate for new requirements gets canned for a better abstraction etc. In aggregate, over time, you may kill the pro
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Thanks, you obviously know your stuff. I wonder if with AI advances though, we can have robots that are 'damned good' pilots that can also spot things. (The judgements would need to be made back on Earth though, admittedly, with s
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Money is a factor - weighted differently for different people. E.g. person A generally wants to be happy in their job, but needs $100k to maintain their lifestyle, pay the mortgage, not worry about bills etc. If paid $100k they wouldn'
535.
by bbcbasic 10y ago
Yes awesomesauce, apparently
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
I have to admit I haven't been to the U.S. for years so maybe it is the same. Compared to the UK though - coffee tastes much better and there are more unique cafes and they are everywhere in Sydney. Every suburb has multiple hip, uniqu
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
Well earlier in this thread I heard someone talk about spending money on the moon instead of wars. We all have our own priority order (or partial order perhaps) for how we'd like public money to be spent.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
There are enough environmental, economic and social problems we need to solve on Earth first.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
We don't need people on the moon. Robots are better.
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by bbcbasic 10y ago
It dilutes the word though. Like how "awesome" used to mean something.

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