biztos

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1. 1831.▲
   by biztos 11y ago

   Depends where you live I guess, but it's not a crazy thing to do and I know a lot of people who do it. I myself rarely take more than a couple thousand over a border, but mostly because I'm afraid I'll misplace it or lose my
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   by biztos 11y ago

   I don't know... I'm already pretty well chained to someone else's "pursuit of unattainable growth" in the long term, and I've seen too may currency fluctutions (and retirings!) to want to only own cash. But I d
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   by biztos 11y ago

   I travel frequently between three countries, with three different currencies. For me, the larger demoninations are very useful -- say you need $5000 spending money for your trip to Country Two. If you can take 50x$100 it's pretty e
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   by biztos 11y ago

   I get that large bills provide more opportunities for conterfeiters, money launderers, and other (in the eyes of the State) bad actors, I am surprised to see how low the line is being drawn. In the US they only go up to $100.[0] The worryi
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   by biztos 11y ago

   I like Facebook, and I'm happy to see a gazillionaire get into philanthropy this young, but when I see goals like "cure all diseases by the end of this century" it does make me wonder whether the Foundation might be too disco
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   by biztos 11y ago

   Granted, you can't start a company in most countries "instantly" but compared to the time it takes to write software? For instance in Germany you have the "Unternehmergesellschaft" or Mini-GmbH which is really cheap
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   by biztos 11y ago

   > it is not illegal to post Facebook photos with a statue. Since clearly that is not a database ...but then it would be illegal to tag the photo, right?
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   by biztos 11y ago

   Well, in San Francisco it's actually never bikini season, but otherwise this makes sense.
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   by biztos 11y ago

   I moved to Europe a few years ago, though entirely for personal reasons and not because of the cost of living in the SF Bay Area. I'm sure I'd be making more money if I'd stayed, but I'm also pretty sure I wouldn't
10. 1840.▲
    by biztos 11y ago

    I'm late to the thread but just wanted to say THANK YOU for all the hard work in general; and especially now for this: "iTerm2 can change your profile (for example, affecting the color of your terminal) when you ssh to a remote ho
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    by biztos 11y ago

    I have often wondered what I would do about the Office Question if I started a company, since any company I might start is very likely to be distributed due to geography (mine and my network's both). Usually I end up with the idea tha
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    by biztos 11y ago

    I would argue that the world needs better issue tracking software, in much the same sense that the world needs better software per se: there are lots of things that are good, and a few that are great in their own way; the Enterprise spends
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    by biztos 11y ago

    In the insanely unlikely event either company disappeared, it would mostly provide market opportunities; and how much it might "hurt" in the meantime is a very personal thing. I'd sure miss my iPhone or my Macbook Air way be
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    by biztos 11y ago

    I think vendor lock-in is at least as big a problem as searching and scaling. Arguably bigger for this audience: if I have easy unfettered access to the data itself I can always try something else for search/scale. I've tried a f
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    by biztos 11y ago

    Doesn't this imply that a branch development office, in a country with friendlier immigration policies, should be a high priority for almost every US-based startup? I assume most startups want to grow their engineering headcount (there
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    Larry Wall's Perl 6 Release Talk [video](youtube.com)

    133 points by biztos 11y ago|67 comments
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    by biztos 11y ago

    So the rich have large families, and the poor have forced sterilization?
18. 1848.▲
    by biztos 11y ago

    I love the idea of asking the candidate to "teach me something, preferably something nontechnical." It sounds like a great way to test for communication skills while also learning something about the person's interests. Plus
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    by biztos 11y ago

    Schengen is for citizens only. If you are third-country national who is a permanent resident of a Schengen country, with an unlimited right to work, you have exactly ZERO right to live or work in any other Schengen country. Sure, you can t