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by bcbrown 12y ago
Those graphs are pretty misleading. In the first one, manufacturing jobs rose from 11,500 to 12,100 over 4 years, or 5% growth over that period. The graph makes it look like roughly 1000% growth.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
> I can open a hundred instances What's your use case? I'm curious.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
Yeah, I actually paid for it back in the day.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I'd love a link to the podcast too (email in profile).
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by bcbrown 12y ago
Other than stressful situations, what prompts the stutter? What causes it to go away? I think I'm probably quite similar to you, no stutter in casual situation, but more prevalent in stressful situations. If I'm stuck on a word, a
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by bcbrown 12y ago
How is that book? It looks really interesting.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I don't have an IRA, and my funds invested in the stock market are under 10k. I set up an account with Ameritrade, and every so often put another $1000 in, so that the $10 cost is a smaller percentage.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
Is there a way to invest $50/month in an index fund? All the brokerages I checked charge $5-10 per transaction, making it prohibitively expensive to set up a recurring transaction at such a small amount.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
A decent portion of the bureaucracy is scar tissue from the antitrust case. Another big chunk (at least in Windows-land) is the commitment to backwards compatibility over new functionality. The third chunk was compliance with governmental r
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by bcbrown 12y ago
I like this approach, but this sentence gives me pause: "Interpolated Equity requires just one assumption about pre-IPO startups: the value of the equity grows at a constant rate between valuation events." What about cases where t
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by bcbrown 12y ago
You're forgetting the opportunity cost of forgoing the salary of working for an existing company. Call that 10k/month for three months, and now your costs are closer to 40k.
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by bcbrown 12y ago
The article mentions this. Customers need to have a migration plan (presumably to a modern Windows) to get the discounts.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
That's what I did. I had a degree in Physics, and at the time, Microsoft had a small training program for test developers. I did that for a couple years, and through a pair of job hops, am now a developer at an established startup. I d
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by bcbrown 13y ago
You can email him and ask him to make them available. I've done that for other coursera courses that didn't publish the videos after the course finished.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I do. It's paid amazing dividends for my career. I studied Physics in college, spent a couple years writing test automation, and am now a software engineer. I'm almost-completely self-taught, and have spent the past two years goin
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I would add Etsy to that list.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I interpreted that as "bonus points if it's contributions to a big official Open Source project, as opposed to your personal pet project with no exposure or users".
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Do you think it's a bad idea to have a high-level conversation between the company and the prospective employee before assigning a take-home test?
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by bcbrown 13y ago
The same atoms, but in different combinations and configurations. What's newsworthy here is that this chunk of atoms has been in the same configuration for 4.4 billion years, and that the configuration can tell us something about the h
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by bcbrown 13y ago
He somewhat addressed that earlier, in the paragraph starting with this: > At this stage, if you are an investor, you have two choices. The first and less damaging one is to accept that social media investing is not your game and move on
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Game development
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by bcbrown 13y ago
>Every time ive asked for a raise its because I thought I deserved more. I don't understand why someone asking for a raise wouldn't be prepared to explain why they deserve more. Either reminding one's manager about past
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Agreed. I think the best way to really understand the value of a technology is to first experience the pain that the technology is trying to solve.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
>One must be a skilled reader before presuming to write. I disagree, somewhat. I think one cannot become a skilled code-reader without knowing how to write code. One cannot be a skilled code-writer without knowing how to read code, and h
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Unless you're writing test automation.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Not just that, but if that was purely the salary cost (not the fully loaded cost, which he said it was), that'd be a pretty low salary. 75 days on average times 6 employees is 450 days. Assuming that's calendar days, not workdays,
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by bcbrown 13y ago
It is not rude to decline a connection request from someone you do not know.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
My experiences don't bear that out. A few years ago I quit my job and spent six months traveling across the USA, camping at national parks. It was a dream I'd had for a while, and I loved it. At the same time, I was very glad when
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by bcbrown 13y ago
I would venture to say that the average consumer doesn't take part in online discussions about the behaviors of average consumers.
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by bcbrown 13y ago
Isn't the 'quantum' in "quantum mechanics" an adjective?

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