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by chrismaeda 12y ago
If using Quicken is like living in a loft condo in the middle of a city with a gym and a swimming pool in the building, it sounds like using ledger is like living in a house made of twigs and mud with no electricity or running water in the
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by chrismaeda 12y ago
Here's my path (~30 years worth). high school: basic 6502 assembly a little FORTRAN a little pascal, but didn't understand it mit: scheme (sicp omfg) symbolics lisp common lisp clu pdp-10 assembly connec
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by chrismaeda 12y ago
It's already happening. You don't need to build a new city. You just open a satellite office in a place like Boulder or Austin. Your young, single employees would never live there in a million years, but once they marry and have
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by chrismaeda 12y ago
Years ago, I was asked the C++ virtual destructor question (eg http://www.programmerinterview.com/index.php/c-cplusplus/vir... ) in an interview. My answer was, "I don't know; I would look it up in a book
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by chrismaeda 12y ago
The Information Systems literature.
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
If I had to choose between having kids and starting a company, I'd choose the kids with no regrets. Startup life is overrated.
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
This is a great post. Another path is into sales. If you have a deep understanding of technology, are able to help people use it to solve their problems, and you can communicate the value to buyers, then you can do quite well in sales. (
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
In the more generalized roles, you deal with parallel systems made up of unreliable carbon-based computing elements. You can't just feed them electricity and order them to execute programs. You have to charm, cajole, and/or threa
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
One data point: a good friend of mine joined [large rdbms vendor] out of college about 25 years ago and rose through the ranks in the rdbms engine group. He's now one of the senior people who knows where all the bodies are buried in t
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
Lobster is not a delicacy in New England, and eating at a lobster pound is the New England equivalent of a German biergarten. One of the reasons why the price has dropped so much is that the lobster fishery is managed for sustainability. I
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
Poor analogy. The economics of software production are totally different. You can't feed the entire world with one meal.
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by chrismaeda 13y ago
SICP is a masterpiece. I took the old MIT 6.001 in Spring 1986 where we burned through the entire book in about 14 sleepless weeks. Sussman was the lecturer and Rod Brooks was my recitation instructor. I was like 19 years old at the time
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
The latter. If you are a SaaS business in a state that taxes services, you only have to collect sales tax for customers in your state today. Under the new legislation, all SaaS businesses in the US would have to collect sales tax for any
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
Maybe, but Quill is the law of the land today.
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
Right. Companies with a physical presence in a state are required to collect sales taxes from buyers for all sales in the state. Businesses are not required to collect sales taxes for states where they have no presence (aka nexus); this i
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
It depends on the state. Some states tax services (eg Ohio), while most states only tax physical goods.
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
I expect it to die in the House.
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
As a rule I never give anything to beggars in the neighborhood where my children live. Find another part of town to beg in. But I always give money to veterans.
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
I've had the opposite experience. I've converted 2-3 complex build systems implemented in different flavors of make to ant. It's tedious but it's doable. And once you get to ant, it's a lot easier to maintain compared to make. I looked a
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
You're supposed to realize that enlightenment is not computable by an FA.
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by chrismaeda 14y ago
I was one of the last Mach people at CMU. The BSD emulation on Mach 3.0 was implemented by stubs that made IPCs to the BSD emulation server, which then made additional Mach API calls to implement the UNIX semantics. This design was genera