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by btmorex 16y ago
Not that I doubt that, but how would you even go about measuring such a thing? Obviously, there's a cost to using google version too (DNS lookup + one more point of failure). It would be nice to have real numbers for what percentage of visi
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by btmorex 16y ago
Well, many of us consider paying taxes a civic duty. We actually value the services that the government provides and are willing to pay for them. Even if you don't though, I think you could make a strong argument to vote Democrat purely on
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'm not a huge fan of domain hacks. I would definitely at least try for the .com. If the person hasn't really had much interest in the name, then maybe they'll sell it in the 3-figure price range.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I think that's true, but also Linux on the desktop is the best system for some people right now (me for example). Even if money were no object, like if someone said you can have any Apple system you want, I'd still pick a normal PC with Lin
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by btmorex 16y ago
Who came up with that name? It's terrible. I'm not offended, but I have to say, I think of way worse things when I hear "ghetto testing".
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by btmorex 16y ago
Wouldn't you have to get a signed waiver from everyone? Also, sequencing still isn't actually cheap. The price is dropping quickly and its cost is reasonable for research, but it's not reasonable for "let's sequence everything " (yet)
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by btmorex 16y ago
I'd like complete pricing data for common purchases including both brick and mortar and online retailers. Eventually, I'd like a web site where I could enter my regular purchases (groceries + household goods) and it would tell me the cheape
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by btmorex 16y ago
"Hashrocket (Rails) execs (not Obie)" Can someone explain this? What is Hashrocket? Who is Obie? I assume this is related to ruby on rails?
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by btmorex 16y ago
Don't use cron for each individual task. Use cron to start a process that runs through your task queue every x minutes.
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by btmorex 16y ago
I sort of agree. Actually, I like companies that give applicants challenges. But usually they are fun and interesting challenges, not "refactor this crappy code". Refactoring bad code is a useful skill, but my guess is that they're going to
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by btmorex 16y ago
Have you ever been in an argument with a spouse/significant other and told them to "calm down"? Did saying that ever make them calm down? Telling someone to "calm down" is pretty much guaranteed to make them even more upset/frustrated. I do
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by btmorex 16y ago
It's because you still have the one down left to try to get a first down, but instead you're giving up on the offensive drive by punting. Also, I wouldn't say that it's completely synonymous with "giving up". It's more like "giving up for n
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by btmorex 16y ago
>The overall build quality seems impossibly good. The iPhone 4 is beautiful to behold and feels like a valuable artifact. It’s like a love letter to Dieter Rams. Do other people actually like reading stuff like this? I mean, regardless
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by btmorex 16y ago
Maybe. It seems to be a "how to get hired" article that only takes into account the company's interests though. Specifically, focusing all your effort on one company is ridiculous. If you're genuinely good at what you do, you should try har
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by btmorex 16y ago
That may be true, but the simple fact is that it's a lot easier for a large corporation to minimize its taxes than it is for a small business or individual. For example, a company like apple can afford to pay 10 people full time to move aro
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by btmorex 16y ago
My experience has been that downloading + opening pdfs with a decent pdf viewer is much faster than google docs. I personally use evince, but probably anything other than acrobat would work.
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by btmorex 16y ago
That's true. On the other hand, Linode is competitive on price and service. Every ticket I've submitted has gotten a response within a couple hours. That's pretty good considering how much I'm paying. Honestly, I don't know why someone woul
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by btmorex 16y ago
I find it interesting that you would put "US debt default" in the category of things likely to happen in the next decade or two. The reason that the US is able to borrow money for practically nothing is that it has never defaulted on debt
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by btmorex 16y ago
To call that realistically possible, you'd have to believe that World War II and the invention of nuclear weapons didn't fundamentally change the Western world (I think they did. World War II because we saw the results of fascism going unch
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by btmorex 16y ago
Actually, you don't really need to know much to do a decent job investing for retirement. Invest in a low-cost, index-based stock fund and similarly low-cost, diversified bond fund. Follow one the many simple formulas to decide what percent
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by btmorex 16y ago
I had basically the same SATs except I dropped out of high school. I still got a job at 17 for 30k/year which adjusted for inflation + san francisco wages is like 60k+/year. At this point you can't compete with Stanford grads. The great thi
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by btmorex 16y ago
Honestly, seems like you're selling yourself short. If I were you, I'd just apply to jobs regularly. Make some kind of cool demo ruby on rails (or whatever) site and then play up the fact that you learn fast in your resume. Of course, I've
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by btmorex 16y ago
I would think that would depend on how much money you started with. You might need to gain a little traction before you even have enough money to buy a premium domain. Even if you do have the money, spending say 5000-10000 on a domain might
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by btmorex 16y ago
traceroute fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu ... 11 nox1sumgw1-PEER--207-210-142-234.nox.org (207.210.142.234) 49.015 ms 52.072 ms 53.086 ms 12 B24-RTR-3-BACKBONE-2.MIT.EDU (18.168.1.26) 49.024 ms 50.020 ms 53.364 m
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by btmorex 16y ago
I was responding to the poster I responded to, not Zed's post. Specifically, I think most famous programmers (at least among other programmers) are famous for what they coded. That said, I can actually name 4 core contributers to Linux alth
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by btmorex 16y ago
Actually, a lot of programmers are famous for what they've created (code reasons). Think Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Larry Wall, etc. To be honest, Zed Shaw seems to be the exception since he's almost certainly more well known for blo
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by btmorex 16y ago
Google has ~24 billion in revenue. Twitter is harder to pinpoint but from the sources I've seen it's far less than 50 million. Facebook is somewhere around 400-550 million. I guess my point is that they aren't even in the same stratosphere.
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by btmorex 16y ago
That is reasonable. I'm simply asking them to not do business with a repressive government. Maybe, you don't think freedom of speech is important, but I do. As for what kind of effect they could have: Google is an internationally recognized
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by btmorex 16y ago
So, I did say "any amount of money", not any amount of lives. I do think it's morally okay to trade one life for many (definitely ambiguous in terms of amounts because I don't feel like trying to figure that one out). In fact, I don't think
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by btmorex 16y ago
They traded freedom of speech for ~1.3 billion people for a decidedly limited amount of money. To me that's a moral calculation and they chose money.

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