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by bcheung 11y ago
That's exactly what I said. Why did I get downvoted?
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by bcheung 11y ago
It's just a binary encoding of the AST. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not quite a bytecode, those are typically for interpreters. Binary encoding would be more accurate. The semantics will be identical to JavaScript but the s
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by bcheung 11y ago
WebAssembly itself doesn't have anything to do with asm.js near as I can tell. It's more the ecosystem surrounding WebAssembly. I looked through the specs a little bit. What it is, is a binary encoding of the AST with some optim
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by bcheung 11y ago
If you are going to have life insurance until you die, then whole life insurance is cheaper. 95% of term life insurance policies expire and are not renewed. The reason is because term insurance gets extremely expensive as you get older.
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by bcheung 11y ago
You can apply the interest before or after the payment, it doesn't really make that much difference, especially when you pay monthly and it compounds daily. The more often it compounds the less of a difference it makes between interes
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by bcheung 11y ago
You can always get a 30 and pay extra. Why give up that flexibility. In today's market interest rates are so low the difference between the 15 and 30 rate are negligible. Also, ask yourself why the bank wants you to take the 15? It
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by bcheung 11y ago
The downsides are: 1) It can tie up cash flow. If you don't make the minimum payments your policy can "eat itself" until it lapses, at which point you lose that money. That being said, there is a large degree of flexibility
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by bcheung 11y ago
The guaranteed rate on your equity is 0%. Got $500,000 in equity? Then that's $500,000 earning 0% interest. Of course you aren't paying mortgage interest but with mortgage rates at 3.5 - 4.25% it's easy to find investments
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by bcheung 11y ago
Not a fan of Dave Ramsey. He's great if you don't know finance but his advice is geared towards people in the poor and lower middle class brackets that want to stay there. Same with Suze Orman. Get an overfunded whole life polic
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by bcheung 11y ago
I had that experience at large companies but I notice startups nowadays don't seem to care all that much. Maybe it's because I have a lot of experience now though. I don't even list my education on my resume and I haven&#x2
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by bcheung 11y ago
I had my first job at 18 working on the development tools for embedded microprocessors. I was working about 30 hours a week and going to a local community college for about 20 hours a week. It was a good experience. Ultimately I dropped
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by bcheung 11y ago
My first job straight out of high school at age 18 was working on the development tools for embedded microprocessors. I was self-taught and already knew C and Assembly. There was some serious doubt from some of them about hiring me but I
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by bcheung 11y ago
Thanks. Good to know.
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by bcheung 11y ago
I don't prefer dropouts or degree holders or the other. I would say I'm mostly agnostic to it. Having interviewed hundreds of candidates throughout my career I have found little correlation between a college degree and someone&#
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by bcheung 11y ago
Anyone else having difficulty reading the article? I'm signed in but it still says "sign in to read the article". Lame.
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by bcheung 11y ago
Map Caps Lock to Ctrl. Then use Ctrl-C. You can keep your hand in home row.
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by bcheung 11y ago
It's definitely a pain to install those plugins. I spent a week customizing vim when I decided to move from WebStorm back to vim. I got 95% of the functionality I have in the IDE. If you have the time, I would definitely recommend s
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by bcheung 11y ago
The USA Freedom Act? Based on the Patriot Act should I assume it is the exact opposite of freedom? From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act "According to supporters of the USA Freedom Act, the
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by bcheung 11y ago
http://www.quantnews.com/
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by bcheung 11y ago
They also have enough money to write and influence the rules. It baffles my mind how fractional reserve banking is even legal. They just make up money out of thin air (ex nihilo) and then loan it to somebody who has to pay it back with ac
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by bcheung 11y ago
It's curious that vim uses modes and it is actually one of the things I really like about it. A lot of HCI talks about how modes are "evil" because the user can get confused and what mode they are in. I do occasionally issu
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by bcheung 11y ago
A programming language / environment is at its best when it minimizes the amount of cognitive load and context switches. Mouse movements require a feedback loop where the user must lift their hand feel around for the mouse, then move
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by bcheung 11y ago
Some other helpful hints for the vim users: 1) You can use Ctrl-C instead of escape in most cases. This results in less travel distance and avoiding the wrist rotation. Which leads to... 2) Bind Caps Lock to Ctrl like God intended it to b
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by bcheung 11y ago
When I first learned vim, it took me a week to get to the same proficiency of MS notepad. After that it just got better. Now it's my main editor.
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by bcheung 11y ago
I've never heard Libertarianism described that way. This is straight from their web site lp.org. "We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual. We ho
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by bcheung 11y ago
Why is it assumed that anyone that doesn't like Obama must like Bush? They are both in favor of huge spending. They both support wars that we probably don't need. They both are in favor of the Patriot Act. They both spend tax
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by bcheung 11y ago
It's not one or the other. Bush was neither a socialist, nor a libertarian but he was definitely pro war and had special interests in the middle east.
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by bcheung 11y ago
Not sure what you mean. Paul's views on the NSA are quite contrarian from the mainstream Republican party.
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by bcheung 11y ago
Libertarians still count education and security as values, they just think there are ways to do it that don't involve centralized government control. Just because someone is against tax funded public school doesn't mean they are
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by bcheung 11y ago
There's still competition when you have multiple browsers. Companies might create a proposal for a standard and then implement it in their browser. This may or may not become a standard but usually it is pretty close. In this way we

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