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by bkjelden 11y ago
Prices are just simply insane here. I don't know how anyone who hasn't been part of an IPO or an acquisition is going to be able to buy here. I'm a software engineer and my wife is a nurse. We supposedly fit the demographic t
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by bkjelden 11y ago
To me, it's almost as much of a reflection on Microsoft's OEMs as it is on Microsoft that, in 3 years, Microsoft has iterated from it's first device, which was a commercial flop, to a tablet/ultrabook that's only re
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I know multiple people who received advice from their doctor within 2 years of starting at Amazon that they should quit, because the stress of the job was having dangerous effects on their health. I can't say that I have heard that of
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by bkjelden 11y ago
How is 2nd degree murder different from manslaughter then? My understanding was that murder required premeditation, and intent to kill without premeditation was manslaughter.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
> The most obvious is Google. There can only be one big man in town, and they're clearly it. Google is the most dangerous company now by far, in both the good and bad senses of the word. This is an interesting quote. Who's the
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by bkjelden 11y ago
> I use Cmder as my terminal and it works a lot like Mac's terminal What advantages does this provide over the Windows 10 terminal? Windows 10 fixed all of my biggest gripes with cmd.exe
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Regional operators tend to be better than the national ones. For example I used Midcontinent Communications when I lived in their service area, and it was excellent. Best ISP and cable company I've ever dealt with. Unfortunately, they
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by bkjelden 11y ago
as an enthusiastic spotify user and chromecast user, thank you!
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I more or less accidentally found out that Google released an ethernet adapter for the original Chromecast[0]. Purchasing that has given me a lot more utility from my Chromecast. I love the device. I am loving how much support there is for
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Could you explain more of your Red X method? I think that may work well for me when it comes to work. I'm not sure it would be sustainable when it comes to food or exercise, but there's no reason I can't get a reasonable amou
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I was running Windows 7 with an HDD and just upgraded to an SSD & Windows 10 because I got sick of listening to my HDD groan for 10 seconds whenever I changed tabs :) I wonder you're experiencing a use case where you'd see not
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I agree, but I don't think you can get too specific with any metric without imposing your own value system on everyone. For example, some believe SF/SV is overpriced, some view the cost of living as a luxury expense and think it&#
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The failure rate is probably skewed low by YCs growth rate. For example, 1/9 of the companies were in their most recent batch, and it's unlikely that any of them have gone out of business yet. Still impressive though. Any success
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Yea, it'd even be interesting to compare a song's play count over time to it being featured in popular movie soundtracks, etc.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Chet Faker released a cover of No Diggity a few years ago, which is responsible for all of my plays of the original on Spotify. A popular cover can probably drive a lot of popularity for an older song on Spotify.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
An old Yammer thread can be archived and searchable for other users. Working in a large, dated codebase, I would love to be able to see previous discussions about features, pieces of code, code reviews, etc. But because they occurred over
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Wouldn't they be able to get away with paying them less, because a more desirable job has a larger pool of people willing to take it?
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by bkjelden 11y ago
One thing I haven't seen much of in the Amazon discussion of the last week is the fact that there is little evidence showing chronically overworked employees are more productive than well-balanced ones. Why has every article in the las
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Ah, so in that case it wouldn't be causal, just a correlation.
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Lower oil prices seem to be driving the major US indices lower lately. Why is that? Lower energy expenses seems like a good thing for businesses.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The current drop in prices seems to mostly be a price war between the Saudis and new producers in the US. It's probably not sustainable long term. But, if increased crude production in the US has lowered the long-term equilibrium price
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Could low income individuals benefit from a sandwich making machine that could (theoretically) produce a sandwich at a lower cost than human labor?
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by bkjelden 11y ago
ShapeScale definitely caught my eye! I feel like that level of data about my body would really help motivate me to eat better and exercise more.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I thought it was interesting that they mentioned they have 10M twitter followers compared to 5.6M Facebook fans - interesting given Facebook has 5x the MAU of twitter.
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by bkjelden 11y ago
What benefits does ECC provide to consumer use cases?
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by bkjelden 11y ago
Nice article. The photos filled me with longing for my home state. Whenever I read accounts of cross country trips people take to see America, a lot of times their only experience with the great plains is speeding across them on I-80 or I-9
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I'm still running a Q6600 + 8GB RAM I bought in 2007. I don't really do gaming, so my perf demands aren't as high as yours. But if you'd told me, in 2007, when I bought that CPU, that it'd still be usable - much les
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I'd also venture to guess that it isn't true.
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This matches the 401k match that Google has had for some time now. I would love to see this become a standard benefit in the tech industry. Given that many tech workers are young, and young tech workers usually have high salaries for thei
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by bkjelden 11y ago
A combination of code that predates the STL and a fear in taking a dependency on things you can't change. (Both should be irrelevant in a new code base, but most large C++ codebases are pretty old)

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