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811.
by earl 17y ago
You pay $1200 for rent for yourself; or yourself plus a significant other; or for yourself, significant other, and three children?
812.
by earl 17y ago
Seriously, you do understand the concept of different costs of living, right? Your astonishment at paying $0.5MM for a house is irrelevant; that's the going rate and probably cheaper than renting in that area.
813.
by earl 17y ago
Aneesh: it's really not that hard. For two adults and three kids that is not much money for food, utilities (particularly heating + ac), internet, two cell phones, transport, clothes, pets and the inevitable accidents life throws at you, e
814.
by earl 17y ago
Yes -- but he should be left with $2777 per month to live on? You basically can't live on that sum of money on the east coast unless you want to live a collegiate existence.
815.
by earl 17y ago
Protip: grab 5-8 contiguous words from the preview, go to news.google, search for that phrase, read your WSJ article for free.
816.
by earl 17y ago
So... I have a personal experience with newcars. I would be very surprised if their ad optimization team was really on the ball -- they tried to recruit me as a quant for a $15-$20K pay cut for a company that isn't a startup and offers no
817.
by earl 17y ago
Hmm. I have stuff to do so I can't follow up but I'm really dubious. Note this after the chart: General Motors has revenue of $600,000 per employee . GM? OHRLY? Perhaps the author conflates revenue and profit? Edit: in fact, the author
818.
by earl 17y ago
I think you should take it down then ask for the course schedule via FOIA. They're a public school, no?
819.
by earl 17y ago
I think chancho is pointing out the effects of the crash of the housing bubble. So yeah, I should have said generally far less procyclical.
820.
by earl 17y ago
Eh, yes, but no. You seem to take the fall in revenues as prima facie evidence that CA is overspending. First, I'm not even sure there is a proper level of spending, but in any case, CA has a peculiar funding structure where we are overly
821.
by earl 17y ago
To be clear, those are y/y per-month changes. Otherwise, this would be even more terrifying than it is. That being said, the majority of general fund revenue comes from (in order), personal income tax (55%), retail/sales/use tax (27%), and
822.
by earl 17y ago
You should lift weights, but you should also get a trainer to help show you how to do it correctly and safely. Don't just rely on pictures in books or on the net -- if you screw up your back or knees, it can be permanent and debilitating.
823.
by earl 17y ago
We're a Rails shop, with some C extensions for Rails and a handful of internal java webservices running on top of Tomcat. There's probably a bit of lisp/clojure somewhere or other, but that's about it. Search has variously been powered by
824.
by earl 17y ago
Aww yeah
825.
by earl 18y ago
This also was utterly fascinating: "The first big, basic difference has to do with what I consider to be the most underappreciated fact about gender. Consider this question: What percent of our ancestors were women? It’s not a trick questio
826.
by earl 18y ago
You should try flashblock, if you don't already know about it. Instead of loading flash you get a play button where the flash would have been and you can choose to turn it on if you want. It also supports whitelists, although annoyingly e
827.
by earl 18y ago
Examples are also key to reading mathematics. Whatever you are discussing, you should have a bunch of examples in your head. Eg if you are discussing groups, you need to memorize maybe 10 examples of groups -- trivial, nice groups, some f
828.
by earl 18y ago
James: seriously, listen to yourself. Maybe nobody explicitly says, "Tits or GTFO" but that presentation said the exact same thing in visual form. As did the conference organizers and audience that apparently had no problem with it.
829.
by earl 18y ago
Wow -- go read the presentation (available http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2009/04/gender-and-sex-... ). The kindest thing that can be said about Matt Aimonetti is he simply has no class. Or, apparently, a grownup relationship with
830.
by earl 18y ago
That approach -- making paying more convenient than not -- only works for adults, ie people who have an surfeit of money and a lack of time. High school students are the opposite.
831.
by earl 18y ago
And by "adult", they mean LGBT -- straight targeted books of what would seem to be equivalent adultness have been left alone. Amazon claims a glitch in response to the twitter crowds, and you could see how this could be a glitch in a compl
832.
by earl 18y ago
First, I (we?) would be really interested in hearing what company. Please spill. Second, I don't know what type of job you're looking for but the two startups that I've worked at both think very highly of startup experience on your resume,
833.
by earl 18y ago
I've worked for a company spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on SEM. SpyFu's numbers are really poor.
834.
by earl 18y ago
So, he thinks nobody at Geico has ever looked at that $90MM and tested what happens if they spend less? Really? The idea that nobody has ever wondered what would happen to his or her bonus that year if they saved even 5% of the SEM spendi
835.
by earl 18y ago
Please. Grabbing someone's logo and making them pay you not to write "[company] has not committed to open conversation about its products and services. Encourage them to join and support the Company-Customer pact" on a very official looki
836.
by earl 18y ago
These things do make me think less of people, but you have to be careful to filter for non-native speakers. And of course, there is a big difference between a single error and systematic errors.
837.
by earl 18y ago
Oh wow you guys are making me miss NYC. Memories of checking the webcam to see how long the line was before Shake Shack... Rainy days are the best because there's no line.
838.
by earl 18y ago
I've lived and worked at startups in both NYC and SF. It isn't even a contest. The amount of startup activity, the character of the companies (ie are the founders left in charge or do you have to have a Harvard MBA to pass muster with the
839.
by earl 18y ago
Paul: There is probably more than a single article's worth in terms of explaining how to prevent, but you could start with Barry Ritholtz' blog http://www.ritholtz.com/blog -- he also has a book coming out that will probably be very illum
840.
by earl 18y ago
Why? You and the client jointly agreed on a certain quality standard and you met that quality standard. This should have been indicated by a client sign off. The only way I'd say you owe them in some sense at this point is if you clearly

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