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by bkjelden 11y ago
below 20% you usually need mortgage insurance (PMI) in the US. PMI is usually not too expensive with 10% down - for example when I bought a house with 10% down, the PMI was 1% of the loan value up front. When you consider the time it would
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Does anyone know how accurate employers are legally required to be with these? Is this just base salary, or are they allowed to include cash bonuses, stock bonuses, etc?
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I was really struggling to pick up c++, and when I read the FQA I had a 'it's not me, it's you' moment. I don't detest the language the way he does, but the FQA really resonated with me. There's no one feature
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The big thing javascript has going for it are the browser's dev tools, though. I've done both and hunting things down in chrome's dev tools is orders of magnitude easier than figuring out what is going on in your c++.
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some sort of hashtable/BST hybrid - where each entry in the table points to a BST, and the hash function just returns the first base-10 digit off of the bill.
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As an engineer on the other side of the table - I would much rather this be the case too. I would much rather join a company, devote myself to a problem, a team, and a product, and have the company reward me as such. Instead, engineers who
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by bkjelden 11y ago
The problem with yelp is that I don't trust other reviewers. Too many bad reviews are docking a business for things I don't care about, or the reviewer went in with drastically different expectations than I have, or they are simpl
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I rent a SFH on the peninsula, and I get those same postcards almost weekly. I think what's most amazing to me is how much realtors are making right now. I'm not sure if it's still standard for the buyer's agent & se
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by bkjelden 11y ago
I'm in a similar situation. Grew up in a very rural area, swore to never live in the country as soon as I could leave. Now I find myself wanting to move back someday - find a few acres just outside of a city. I miss the quiet and the p
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Interesting, I grew up in eastern SD, pretty much right in the big cluster of deep blue counties in the middle of the country on the map. I'm trying to think of what could be responsible for the above average outcomes in this area, and
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by bkjelden 12y ago
I wish 'better compiler messages' could be a language feature. I understand that that's pretty much outside of the scope of the language designers, but I've been playing with rust lately and it's so refreshing to ac
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by bkjelden 12y ago
I had this same problem with an HTC 8X and a cheap off-brand charger I got from Amazon. What was weird about it was that it would only repro on certain outlets - if I plugged it in on the other side of the room, it would work just fine. It
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by bkjelden 12y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the author's analysis on compensation. While RSUs at a large company don't have the growth potential of a startup, Google, Microsoft, etc still seem to be the smarter choice for compensation-minded e
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by bkjelden 12y ago
The similarity between pay for Software Engineers and RNs in the bay area is a bit of an anomaly nationally. My wife is a RN and before we moved here I was making twice what she did. Now our incomes are roughly equal - before factoring in a
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by bkjelden 12y ago
I haven't used WebStorm, but using VS for typescript was way better than using it for javascript. Developing typescript in VS is about as easy as developing C# in VS. Everything "just works".
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My wife and I used DoorDash pretty extensively when we first moved to the bay area, we were living out of a hotel for a few weeks. It was interesting how our reactions to the site differed. I was just happy to have a one-stop list of delive
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This is a good video on the topic: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
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I think we're afraid of being wrong. We live in a society where access to information is greater than it ever has been in history, and everything we may take an interest in doing has been done before, and someone has already pointed ou
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by bkjelden 12y ago
A phrase I heard recently that really stuck with me: "Human beings are not designed to be compared to each other" It's true. We all have different backgrounds and we all have overcome different hurdles to be where we are. It&
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by bkjelden 12y ago
Owning a home means you are subject to housing market fluctuations. If you want to move elsewhere, and housing prices have gone up substantially, you have increased equity in your current property to cover the increased cost elsewhere.
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by bkjelden 12y ago
Many of the happiest and hardest working people I know are farmers. Autonomy, mastery, purpose - family farmers have all three of those.
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I recently moved from a rural/small city area to a major urban area. One of the most striking differences to me has been how many more abstractions there are for people living in a city - and as a result, how much less those people kno
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Some of those get easier with practice - after a while you have a fully stocked kitchen, and you will develop a set of favorite recipes that you can just pick up what ingredients you need from memory. In essence, "planning" will b
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One of the main arguments used to distinguish the current tech landscape from the dot-com bubble is that today's companies have real products and real revenues to back up their valuations, whereas many dot-com companies soared to huge
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much like how walmart, target, and other retailers have set up offices in the bay area that seem to have the charter "don't let amazon kill us".
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I really enjoyed reading this. I had a relatively blue collar american upbringing, but more or less since the day I left for college I've been predominately surrounded by people from white collar lifestyles, and this article really res
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by bkjelden 12y ago
It seems kind of strange to me that in America, we let marketers push junk food and all other means of unhealthy food with little to no regulation, and then when we can't resist the cravings and eat a whole box of Oreos, it's our
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by bkjelden 12y ago
That's true - if you have some sort of business logic you want to run on both client and server, this or Script# could be very useful. But if you're looking to write C# in the browser because you love C# and have heard JS is terri
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I would encourage anyone looking at a C# to javascript compiler to check out typescript first. I've seen projects use a compiler similar to this, and while writing C# sounds great to developers who already know C#, the differences betw
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Interestingly enough, I just moved from the top-performing small metro to the top performing large metro. While national articles like this are quick to attribute Fargo-Moorhead's success to energy, I'm a little more skeptical. Th

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