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by bgentry 8y ago
This works for WSJ: 1. Find link to article on Twitter ( https://mobile.twitter.com/WSJ/status/1024306968029224960 ) 2. Click it.
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by bgentry 8y ago
I'm not sure if he has others, but Christopher Soghoian is a prominent one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Soghoian
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by bgentry 8y ago
This was a necessary tradeoff in order to offer 32GB RAM in the 15" machines. After years of delays, Intel's chipsets still do not support LPDDR4. It's possible that it's still the same chipset on both machines, though.
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by bgentry 8y ago
I downvoted and flagged this post because this personal attack really goes off the rails of the HN guidelines [1]: > In short, Fuck Ed. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by bgentry 8y ago
> To me it seems that the people in power; either likes to have it in the ass I'm having trouble understanding how this comment is anything other than homophobic.
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Fun with SQL: Window Functions in Postgres(citusdata.com)
109 points by bgentry 8y ago|8 comments
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by bgentry 8y ago
Yesterday afternoon I had two encounters with driverless cars in SF within a few minutes. Both showed how hilariously far from ready these things are. First, I came to a 4-way stop here where a Waymo car had arrived and stopped maybe 1-2 se
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by bgentry 9y ago
At the pure physical level, yes: calories remaining = calories in - calories out However, the "calories out" portion of that equation is actually quite complicated. In recent years many studies have indicated that the body does no
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by bgentry 9y ago
Not sure if you read the post, but the author addresses a couple of your points and seems to agree with you: I’ve learned that I can’t be very productive working on things I don’t care about or don’t like. So I just try not to put myself
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by bgentry 9y ago
The ownership breakdown is so unusual compared to typical VC-backed startup IPOs. Pivotal has had an interesting run with their history of acquisition and spinoff. Also the Pivotal (cloud infrastructure software) vs Pivotal Labs (consulting
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by bgentry 9y ago
Agreed, and all the past comments are about this one specific controversial change.
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The 64 startups unveiled at Y Combinator W18 Demo Day 2(techcrunch.com)
11 points by bgentry 9y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 9y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16626054
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by bgentry 9y ago
The source of this article is Mender.io, which is an open source embedded linux distro that includes built-in OTA updates: http://mender.io/ I can't speak to their quality as I haven't tried it yet. I have used Re
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by bgentry 9y ago
Maybe I worded my reply poorly, because that is exactly what I was trying to say. Let's try this again. Dems who voted against the Amash/USA Rights amendment: https://twitter.com/gzornick/status/951501089
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by bgentry 9y ago
Edit: your house.gov link is in fact wrong. This is the correct link. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2018/roll014.xml My Twitter link shows Dems who voted against the USA Rights amendment, and my house.gov link is
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by bgentry 9y ago
I think so, it appears to be the primary bill that was discussed this morning: http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx?day=20180111&... The Amash amendment was also to this bill. Here is a pamphlet comparing
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by bgentry 9y ago
55 House Democrats, including Pelosi, voted against the USA Rights Act amendment that would have substantially limited the surveillance against US citizens. 65 House Democrats ultimately voted in favor of this bill and giving the Trump admi
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MacOS High Sierra App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked with Any Password(macrumors.com)
17 points by bgentry 9y ago|0 comments
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by bgentry 9y ago
The $1,000/day figure comes directly from the NYT article quoting the head of construction at the MTA. This is the paragraph after the one I quoted previously: Nobody knew what those people were doing, if they were doing anything,” sa
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by bgentry 9y ago
The major issue with any plan to fix the subway is that MTA can no longer build cost-effectively. This was highlighted by the NYT just last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subwa
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by bgentry 9y ago
Rogers disputed that there was any increase in attrition and told his employees that they should stop complaining and get back to work. Can’t imagine why anybody would want to leave.
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by bgentry 9y ago
RSUs and options are very different. RSUs are shares that the company gives to you, and for a public company you can sell them almost immediately to convert them to real cash. Their value fluctuates as does the company’s stock, but it is st
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by bgentry 9y ago
I believe the parent was talking about the financial risk of being underpaid by a startup by something like $50k–$250k per year of nearly guaranteed income that you would make at BigCo.
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by bgentry 9y ago
Completely agree! Even a substantial portion of your base salary should go into savings & retirement rather than being spent. Easier said than done in the Bay Area without 2 good salaries, especially for those with kids.
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by bgentry 9y ago
I haven’t heard about how those two companies pay. It’s definitely a common occurrence at Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, & Salesforce. Bonuses are often structured as a % of your base salary based upon your rank. More senior engine
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by bgentry 9y ago
I understand that it’s hard to compare non-salary compensation. But these figures give the impression that compensation for a Bay Area software engineer is shockingly lower than the reality. RSUs and bonuses at established companies will ea
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Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise(citusdata.com)
110 points by bgentry 9y ago|40 comments
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Here is the short summary from the amendments PDF linked below: The amendment provides that certain employees who receive stock options or restricted stock units as compensation for the performance of services and later exercise such optio
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by bgentry 9y ago
Here is a more detailed analysis of these parts of the proposed tax bill: http://bakerxchange.com/rv/ff0034eed7a7d447f644f491d94caddcb...

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