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by chadcf 13y ago
Wear a hat and sunglasses if you're worried about it. Pay a bum to go in and buy it for you. Wear a ski mask! I'd be far more worried about the credit card transaction and ISP log from buying this online than I would be about a ca
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by chadcf 13y ago
That's what I'm wondering, how is this any different than going to a local store and paying cash for a burner Net10 phone? You can get them for $15 and they include enough minutes for most people to get through a month, and if you
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by chadcf 13y ago
That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute workout timer. Then you're in trouble, huh?
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by chadcf 13y ago
The mac trillian is pretty ugly and history browsing is terrible, but I use it. I use it for one single reason: it's the only chat client I've found that can sync between multiple devices. I fire it up on my mac and on my android phone, and
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by chadcf 13y ago
I think being extremely frugal is about as bad as frivolous spending (the frugal folks will hate me for this...). They're just two sides of the same coin, and the really frugal people tend to be VERY obsessive about it and stressed out from
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by chadcf 13y ago
You can, but it's going to be a high deductible plan. I just did a quick search on e-healthinsurance, for a family of 4 with 2 kids I could get coverage for $265 a month. Of course, the catch is that has a $7500 deductible and then 30% co-i
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by chadcf 13y ago
I've read his analysis before and I had the same issue. It's quite easy to retire early if you have a high income and live frugally. Unfortunately a lot of people have to live frugally just to get by. Your average middle class family couldn
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by chadcf 13y ago
I agree he sounds happy, but it's important to remember that happy means different things to different people. Life is short and you only get one shot at it, so if you get a lot of enjoyment out of a new car every 5 years, hell, go for it.
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by chadcf 13y ago
I've never had warranty issues. I had to send in my macbook pro with a 3rd party ssd and 3rd party ram for repairs, and they fixed it no problems. Even better, they swapped out my budget brand ram for OEM.
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by chadcf 13y ago
Topaz is also a really early experiment that supports a pretty small subset of ruby. I really hope it gets developed into a real, useful ruby vm but at the moment it is not even worth considering.
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by chadcf 13y ago
I'm not sure why you'd want to trade, the biggest killer would be the 8 GB non upgradable ram. Ouch. You can upgrade the macbook pro to 16GB and throw in a SSD and your complaints will be gone. And yes, this will cost a bit more than the de
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by chadcf 14y ago
I think the other thing is, a 65 year old developer would have started developing around 1970. While there were certainly people developing software back then, it was nowhere near as many as there are today, so the pool of people 65 and up
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by chadcf 14y ago
At a 7% return you'd still need about $1.5 mil. And that's assuming that your hopefully more conservative investments in retirement earn 7% a year and over that 20 year span there is not a crash... This includes about 3.5% per year for infl
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by chadcf 14y ago
I think you have to have a good balance here. I've found following a huge method or function rather complicated, but at the same time I think I find trying to track down complicated abstractions even more complicated. If you've ever stared
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by chadcf 14y ago
Me too (well, ok, my first programming class was in Fortran taught by a 85 year old man who spent most of the time telling us about how much harder it was back when you had to use fortran). I hated C++. I still think it's a fairly terrible
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by chadcf 14y ago
T-Mobile is supposedly coming out with new plans at the end of the month. If you have a family plan, $80 a month will get you a postpaid plan with unlimited minutes and texts with 500mb of data per person (2 phones). 2GB overage is $10 a mo
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by chadcf 14y ago
The 30 text messages discussing hiding from the drug goons, changing meeting locations, the value of the cocaine he's transporting, etc seem to indicate that he did in fact know. I mean I suppose as he says he could have just been kidding a
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by chadcf 14y ago
I really wish this talk had been done by someone who spoke english, I found it rather painful to try and get through... Any good articles that summarize this info?
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by chadcf 14y ago
I think just saying don't use python where speed is important is missing the whole point of this slideshow. The author is saying, hey, if we thought about this and put in a few different features we could make it a lot faster without progra
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by chadcf 14y ago
> But it is. It's as safe as anything you can name. Having $625,000 and hoping for an 8% return to sustain your retirement is not nearly as safe as, say, having $2 million dollars to sustain your retirement. If you've only got so much m
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by chadcf 14y ago
> The above analysis misses something important -- compound interest. You are making the assumption that getting an 8% return is something that is easy and safe to do. What happens to the people who retire in a year like, say, 2007. The
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by chadcf 14y ago
Anyone can retire comfortably and even early, sure. Retiring at 30 takes commitment most people aren't interested in making, however. And of course you have people like me who have no interest in retiring until I have to because I'm crazy e
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by chadcf 14y ago
This is something I've been thinking about in the good old USA too. Throughout most of history elderly relied on family to take care of them, but modern society often has families spread out over great distances and children not prepared or
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by chadcf 14y ago
Good to know. I just set up a $5 a month server with a $20 promotional coupon code. That's 4 months free, yeesh. I love linode too, but my needs are modest as all I really do is host a few small traffic sites for friends and staging sites f
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by chadcf 15y ago
There are at least dozens if not hundreds of such grids done with html and javascript.
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by chadcf 16y ago
Heh, yeah, I get that. Oddly enough on hulu the video generally plays fine, but sometimes the ads pause to buffer...
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by chadcf 16y ago
If you are using Firefox/Firebug you can try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firesass-for-... Doesn't seem to support FF4 yet though.
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by chadcf 16y ago
A capybara driver for this would be fantastic...
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by chadcf 16y ago
I've used it once, for an app that holds data which was not a good fit for a traditional relational database. The app in question essentially involved collecting data in a web app and then using that data to fill out hundreds of PDF forms.
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by chadcf 16y ago
Heh, and I use Ruby a lot and find Python's syntax troublesome :) I do like the idea that we can all unite behind hatred of Java however. Although Groovy at least is a step up and would be my choice if I ever had to program Java under threa

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