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by billpaetzke 15y ago
What's the point of producing (checking in)? I'm not sure. Good karma for the benefits of consuming? But consuming, yes there is a gain. You can use the "explore" feature to see what's a good place for [X] in your radius. Doesn't just limit
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
Oregon, Delaware, and New Hampshire don't have sales tax. You'll save up to $70 buying there.
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
It's only legal in California. I wish more people used motorcycles here too (I'm in LA). But traffic moves much faster than, say, east Asia (where motorbikes are common). But those bikes are like 100cc. Here you need 600cc or more to handl
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
Facetime needs two years to get going. It's been on iPhone4, Mac, and iPad2 for 11, 5, and 3 months respectively. Once iPhone 3G/3GS and iPad1 users get new devices and Mac users buy/upgrade to Lion, FaceTime will be available to a lot more
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
This is great news. I work at Leads360 and we use Twilio extensively in our B2B web app. We'll definitely take a look at this and perhaps even use and contribute to the project. Speaking of which, we are looking for a developer with teleph
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
Leads360.com El Segundo, CA (in the Los Angeles area near LAX) Software Engineer - full-time, local only We need developers who are comfortable with the .NET stack. We have hired three devs from MySpace and are looking for more. Our product
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
I wonder if we could say everything leads to science. I also reached philosophy via science. Ratko Mladic (randomly chosen from wikipedia homepage) Army of Republika Srpska Military Use of force Conflict resolution Negotiation
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
Haha ya, it's crazy. I went to Wikipeida.com, clicked on a random link (Ratko_Mladić), and from there it took me 26 clicks of first links to reach the Philosophy page.
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by billpaetzke 15y ago
Odd. My reading went way up after college.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
and his bonus nearly matched the new guy's salary, which was an insulting $60K Is it common to get ~$60k yearly bonus as a programmer? Was this for a finance-industry job? All I've seen (either myself or others) so far is a few hundred
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Now how would I have known about him? Right. That's why I said, another nice project would be to make a directory of accountants who can handle the whole tax process remotely. But maybe there's no business model in that. Enter SaneTax.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Could you expand on or quickly summarize why going to H&R Block is foolish? (I don't use them. Just curious).
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
SaneTax is a good idea, yes. But remote accountants do exist. I have an accountant who handles everything remotely. I live in Los Angeles and he lives in small-town, Nebraska. I met him once when he did a tour of the country to meet client
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
El Segundo, CA - C# Developer Full-stack web developer position in a small, growing startup: Leads360. The main product is a web app for salespeople to manage their leads. There's a lot of interesting technical challenges involved to make o
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
I should write about it. Please do.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
How much of a raise do you suggest? 5%, 10%, more?
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Hopefully they'll be able to fit in their "radically improved" Maps and location services. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/25/apple_looking_...
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
It's all about licensing agreements between the record labels and the distributors (Apple and Amazon). Apple is trying to get a repeat-download license for songs sold on iTunes. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/04/apple_negotiat
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Sweet! I would be all over that. There's really only one good coworking space there: CoLoft. But it's marketed to all freelance/remote workers--not just hackers. Would be nice to get a dedicated hacker place.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
By the way, if there's any MySpacers reading that got laid off or looking to jump ship... I'm a developer at Leads360 in El Segundo, CA. We're hiring right now. I've already interviewed several MySpacers and have extended offers to a few.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
I'd say a startup based in LA and on MSFT makes life tougher, but not impossible. Developers in LA are scattered and there's probably less of them than SF. And there is less info and components out there to do complex stuff in the MSFT sta
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an...
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Any MySpacers here that got laid off or looking to jump ship? Well, I'm a developer at Leads360 in El Segundo, CA. And we're hiring developers right now! I've interviewed several MySpacers already and extended offers to a few. We hope to
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Yes, but they recently opened an office in Palo Alto: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101201005807/en/Grou...
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
>Top programmers in Portland or Raleigh-Durham (where Shoeboxed.com is located) don’t have as many lucrative opportunities to choose from As a result, they may move to Silicon Valley.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Foursquare has way more places in their database, based on my usage of both Yelp's and Foursquare's iPhone apps. Yelp is based on reviews of businesses. Whereas Foursquare is based checking into places. Therefore, Foursquare's domain is mu
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
>if I want to watch something I can't stream from Netflix I say fuck it and watch something else Right on. Except I'll still buy the DVD for a foreign film. Netflix Instant doesn't seem to have enough of the ones I want (i.e. Y Tu Mama
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
That page has the assignments, lecture notes, and source code from the lecture demos. The lecture videos are hosted on iTunesU.
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
Khan Academy and other video teachers need to have lots of problems for each lesson for the students to solve. We learn best by doing. For example, I remember my Calc II professor said that when he was in college, he'd do every single probl
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by billpaetzke 16y ago
>Managing that wide screen real estate is cumbersome. The view angle is too wide. You never know where the focus is, etc. Try two vertical monitors. It's awesome. (FYI: vertical monitors are sold as rotatable widescreen monitors; Dell s

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