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by dschobel 15y ago
I've been in Sydney for just under a year, I'd say the big things in no particular order are: the climate: Just amazing. look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney#Climate and marvel. Tons of sunlight, moderate temperatures but you still
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by dschobel 15y ago
Of course, he could have some arbitrary thing against cities which start with the letter 'M'. But why would that be worth posting? I'm trying to argue the more general view of how amazing this country is and how _that_ is the consensus view
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by dschobel 15y ago
I'm not saying it's the best place in oz, just that it beats the hell out of any place I've lived in the States, Latin America or Europe. The quality of life you guys have is ridiculous. I don't know if a lot of Aussies get that.
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by dschobel 15y ago
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/02/liveability_... If you can't live in the second ranked city in the world, it may be time to look in the mirror and have a long talk with yourself. Take it from a guy who moved to Sydney afte
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by dschobel 15y ago
Yeah but christ, is anyone going to want to take money from them after this? This is cut-throat by any standard...
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by dschobel 15y ago
That the afflictions cross economic boundaries is obvious, but how about access to those treatments? The fact that pharma companies pursue these issues vs some more life-threatening is a pure profit calculation based on those with the means
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by dschobel 15y ago
Which one of those isn't furthered by the internet? It's not hard to argue the fundamental merit in people working on advancing communication across the globe.
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by dschobel 15y ago
The ads are a means to an end. More correct: "The best minds of my generation are making huge amounts of money by solving really hard engineering problems and creating whole new industries. That's awesome". It's hard to overstate the econom
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by dschobel 15y ago
Is it any worse than the reams of medical researchers working on giving old affluent men hard-ons and their hair back? I doubt it...
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by dschobel 15y ago
same here, no record or playback. Chrome 12.0.742.91 beta-m in Australia.
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by dschobel 15y ago
exactly. if you want to outperform the mean you're chasing alpha.
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by dschobel 15y ago
In VS: Debug -> Windows -> Immediate voila, C# REPL! great for testing out code snippets
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Ballmer: Piracy costs Microsoft 95% of potential Chinese revenue(arstechnica.com)
10 points by dschobel 15y ago|5 comments
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by dschobel 15y ago
The title is slightly misleading, I thought this guy or his hedge fund owned a major piece of MSFT but the article makes no such mention.
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by dschobel 15y ago
ah yes, the Zip-drive. I remember those... shudder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive
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by dschobel 15y ago
You see the same thing in America. NYC and Chicago have taxi "medallions" (which are physical operating licenses affixed to the cars) and these are re-sold on secondary markets for well into the six figures since the supply is so limited. T
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by dschobel 15y ago
You can't make allegations like that with zero supporting evidence. I mean you can ... but you'll look silly.
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by dschobel 15y ago
An old but good article. Might be worth amending the title to reflect that this is from 2007.
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by dschobel 15y ago
Sounds like a great idea, seems odd that the interviewers would play gotcha ("But you don’t expand your funnel unless you got your conversion rate nailed.") rather than steer the conversation to the big ideas. Weird.
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by dschobel 15y ago
Well put. I cannot imagine what more evidence pg needs for collapsable threads or trigger-happy moderators than that thread.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Check out http://www.xe.com/ I'm living in Australia at the moment and lots of people recommended them for sending money abroad. Not sure what the ramifications are for commercial purposes, but for changing large amounts of currency for p
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by dschobel 16y ago
still getting: 502 Bad Gateway
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by dschobel 16y ago
https://github.com/languages/C%23
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by dschobel 16y ago
So what's going out the door to customers today?
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by dschobel 16y ago
The highest mean salary in the US (according to the Dept. of Labor) is "surgeon" at $219,770. So, to answer your question, there is no profession (in the USA, at least) with "a high degree of certainty" of hitting $500k. http://www.bls.gov
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by dschobel 16y ago
yes. http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apples-iphone-lockdown-ap...
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by dschobel 16y ago
Don't watch the show then. Or do you object to other people watching content you don't personally approve of? Because there are many terms for that particular personality type, none of them flattering.
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by dschobel 16y ago
1 is pretty unlikely. 2&3 are far more likely It's funny you say "more likely" when the odds are still, to be blunt, stacked against you (I'm not trying to be a jerk, but you probably realize it's all still a longshot). Ultimately I t
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by dschobel 16y ago
s/iOS fads/apple's business plan for the foreseeable future/ and you nailed it.
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by dschobel 16y ago
^^ this. I didn't known about MSR until I became a grad student in comp sci and started seeing the name pop up time and again in the literature whether it was graphics, computer vision, AI, etc etc. If you like computer science, you like M

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