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by cheriot 9y ago
It's a summary of a book that looks like it has real research behind it. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520274068
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by cheriot 9y ago
Are you suggesting the donor should have specified how the money is spent? 80% of the money MIT has raised is restricted to specific uses, but the less sexy things like salaries and office supplies are still required for the organization to
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by cheriot 9y ago
Why do we use operators at all? We can just as easily write out plus, minus, multiply, and divide. Concatenating to a list and pattern matching are extremely frequent operations in Scala. Some of the operators they use have been in use for
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by cheriot 9y ago
So are we going to protest Italian, Irish, and Thai restaurants because tomatoes, potatoes, and chili peppers came from North America? Come on, Eurasia, stay true to your culture! The world's clothing designers will need to drop off th
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by cheriot 9y ago
FYI, it's not adjusted for inflation so in real terms we're likely under the peak. The article talks a lot about debt with no mention of the income supporting it, which is a glaring oversight for any kind of financial analysis. Al
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by cheriot 9y ago
I do use it. Aside from missing plugins of course, Crtl+o to go back to previous cursor locations is unpredictable and Ctrl+p to complete the word if it's appeared in the file. There's also some weirdness in multiline mode.
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by cheriot 9y ago
Projects like this make me wonder why all the for-profit IDEs can't implement better vi/emacs modes. edit: I'm thinking of IntelliJ and realizing I've not used other for-profit IDEs much.
908.
by cheriot 10y ago
Keep in mind that it's data from only his site so it's got the noise of a small dataset.
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by cheriot 10y ago
They have less to loose (already broke), are not accustomed to nice things (never experienced a real salary), and are enthralled by startup culture (so they'll accept shit equity and work all night). There's also a bias in which
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by cheriot 10y ago
What successful company has been built by "1,000 cheap non-Western consultants hired through three layers of outsourcing"? We don't need a rule against a losing strategy
911.
by cheriot 10y ago
Those collateral assets start out covering the loan, but are often invested in the same assets as the borrowed money and will loose value at the same time. So when the collateral no longer covers the loan, the investor gets a margin call an
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by cheriot 10y ago
Would they not try to collect like any other loan?
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by cheriot 10y ago
The article's scenarios top out at 16B AUM , but vanguard is at 4T with a T. Their problem is not lack of TAM.
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by cheriot 10y ago
Lawyers and doctors don't do LSAT and GMAT questions on the job. It's not a problem specific to tech. An interview is a performance test. It's popular to say an interview should be like a day at work, but when we performance
915.
by cheriot 10y ago
Is wealth inequality bounded? As long as there are people that can afford to pay more, some will.
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by cheriot 10y ago
With fewer people in a place there will be fewer people that match OP's cultural interests. Even moving from a medium city to a larger city has a noticeable increase in organizations of people doing cool things I'm interested in.
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by cheriot 10y ago
Most businesses are boring. I'm actually a fan of how so many of these companies are taking proven tech to industries that operate like it's 2005 or even 1995. That's what it will take for tech to make the world more efficien
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by cheriot 10y ago
Everyone in a society has an obligation to that society. America seems to be forgetting this. A business doesn't change the obligations of the individuals so put the individuals in prison if needed. Did someone sign off on dumping toxi
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by cheriot 10y ago
"The prime objective for a business is to make money." A business is a way for people to organize and collaborate and it does not absolve those people of their moral and ethical obligations. Individuals are expected to prioritize
920.
by cheriot 10y ago
That's ideal and needs to be the first approach. In practice, people that communicate all day don't always understand than other jobs require uninterrupted focus. That's why engineers try things like no-meeting-wednesdays and
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by cheriot 10y ago
I suspect some combination of 1) It's hard for a new language to get traction. Lower odds that a new startup! They see so many ruby and python shops adding Go to their stack and want to compete in that space. Kotlin's biggest mark
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by cheriot 10y ago
Some of them will have, but not all. Shorting a stock gets expensive. Anyone making a bet that Tesla will run out of cash and wipe out its equity are probably still loosing. "Short sellers who believe shares of are due for an imminent
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by cheriot 10y ago
> I'm only advocating using the same tactics against the left that they use against the right. Qualities of unhelpful politics (both conservative and liberal): - arguing against the extreme instead of talking to the center - referri
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by cheriot 10y ago
Exactly. Netflix streaming has proven how well this strategy can work with a limited library.
925.
by cheriot 10y ago
Yes, it's largely dead. Killed by the same economics that are killing most writing niches. It's either a paid advertisement, the writer never went, or it's sensational to the point of misrepresenting the subject (so you'
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by cheriot 10y ago
I love the idea. typing.io's $10/month is a bit steep. Nice to see someone else in the area. It would be really nice if I could turn off the keyboard highlights. It's basically a strobe light when typing and gets distracting.
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by cheriot 10y ago
Those are questions that we need to ask of every service and vendor, especially free and low priced ones. If google has helped people recognize this then it's for the best.
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by cheriot 10y ago
Does anyone use linux on a laptop and mind mentioning the battery life they get? I joke that I'm trapped by apple because it's the only way to get battery life and POSIX on the same machine.
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by cheriot 10y ago
It's not my industry, but I've been thinking about my health habits and a WaPo article made me realize I don't even know what a healthy weight range to target is[1]. BMI ignores bone structure and muscle and the most popular&
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by cheriot 10y ago
I'm not sure I really understand what you're describing. Is this like buying an annuity tied to lifespan and a tax subsidy to encourage it?

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