econgeeker

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by econgeeker 15y ago
I've noticed a recent trend of self-promotion that I don't understand. I'm not writing to criticize, I just want to know why you say some of the things you do. For instance, you call yourself a "rising sophomore". What does this mean? How
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by econgeeker 15y ago
This article is spam. 1) It has been repeatedly submitted to hacker news. 2) It is link-bait seemingly designed for hacker news 3) It is nothing more than a transparent Ad for their game that they "spent hours" developing. 4) Nearly every s
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"Additional tax applies to income derived from Chilean sources by individuals or entities not domiciled or resident in Chile, where the income is available from Chile to the person residing abroad. Dividends, withdrawals and / or repatriat
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I don't have an authoritative source, but I recently read that Chile assesses: - Up to %40 income taxes - A form of social security taxes - taxes capital gains as income - %17 corporate taxes - %19 VAT Taxes (might have that and corporate r
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Chileans are interesting. I like the country, they seem to be culturally capitalist (though when we were there we did observe a communist party having a rally of some sort.) But on the street, you don't see kids bugging you for money, the
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"Every dollar they receive (and a lot they don't) gets invested in the economy in some way (salary, materials purchases, R&D, etc.)" Two problems with that statement. First, you're only looking at one side of the equation. You're ignor
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"private accounts of executives" is an interesting phrase when you cold have said "checking accounts of employees". It conjures up the image of Scrooge McDuck sitting on a pile of gold. But that money is in the economy. If these "Executiv
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by econgeeker 15y ago
AirBnB paying for one incident does not create any obligation on them to pay for other incidents. That's nonsense. Apple replaced a friends phone that they abused and then made up a story about. Apple did this because Apple wanted to take
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by econgeeker 15y ago
This is reminding me of the Soutwest Air response to the mistreatment they put Kevin Smith thru. When he went public, it was obvious they didn't give a damn about him and they were totally in damage control mode. Rather than apologize and
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by econgeeker 15y ago
This is what I've been expecting. I used to think I was unique, but looking at the forums, I realize there's a whole cadre of people who buy MacBook Pros, take out the optical drive, and replace it with an SSD, so they run with both an SSD
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I've used amazon payments, google checkout, and paypal. Paypal ====== Note, I refuse to use the euphemism "freeze your account" because that is not what paypal does. Paypal steals people's money. PayPal will steal your money for all kinds
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by econgeeker 15y ago
AirBnB makes us travelers vulnerable to being scammed as well. In the most recent rental, it really was a roll of the dice to see if we were going to have an apartment or not (and of course, by the time we could have contacted AirBnB to sa
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by econgeeker 15y ago
He endorsed google using Sun Java, not googles implementation of "Java". This whole line of argument is FUD From pro-google people who are trying to pretend like its hypocritical to want to defend Java. Android was using Sun Java before the
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Yes, SUN JAVA, not Google Dalvik. Android was using Sun licensed java in the early days, switched when google didn't like the licensing terms.
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Here's the thing that I think some of the engineers in this discussion might be missing: A company shouldn't consist of only engineers. Don't get me wrong: I'm a software developer, and I'm a bit of a software snob. I have trouble (though I
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I think the gap between your perspectives comes from the existence of lobbying and the bid process not being open. Further, there is less competition because the previous control over the entire industry that NASA enjoyed prevented many po
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by econgeeker 15y ago
So, am I to understand that your position is that NASA is efficient in its spending, and that this who think governments are inefficient (cost wise) at achieving goals are caught up in a "media-hype" that is "antigovernment"? If that is cor
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by econgeeker 15y ago
This article makes a lot of good points, but I felt it failed to really break the surface and address the core problem that led to the failure of the Space Shuttle program. That core problem is misalignment of incentives. Or in short, polit
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by econgeeker 15y ago
That you're reapplying makes me question whether you're persistent or just lack good judgement. I think people get taught in high school to chase after "top flight" schools for their education, and you went to stanford so you've done that.
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by econgeeker 15y ago
If you say something that is positive to Apple and negative to google, you will get down voted here. IF you ask why you're getting down voted, you'll be introduced to all the logical fallacies and errors in your comment, however, this is a
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"Developer Advocate is a highly technical role [1]." Doesn't appear to be from the link you gave. From your link: "You will be an evangelist for our newest technologies in the outside world, as well as a vocal advocate for developers' needs
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I've interviewed many engineers in my career (I've been writing software for over 20 years.) I've evolved my process for finding good engineers. The problem with most technical interviews is that they end up asking trick questions, where t
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by econgeeker 15y ago
"They go around the internet looking for candidates who look like they are pretty smart (insightful blog posts, open source contributions, etc), however they don't always have the deep technical ability to differentiate people who would and
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by econgeeker 15y ago
I don't think that google was originally going with Sun Java is in dispute by anyone, thus I don't see the relevance of this to estoppel. This is just an admission by Sun that Google had licensed (at one point) Sun software.
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by econgeeker 15y ago
At one point in Android's development, Google was using Sun Java, and it is not really embarrassing to see the CEO of Sun congratulating google on becoming a customer. For whatever reasons, google later switched to their own VM, etc. It se
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by econgeeker 15y ago
This, and the impossibility of resolving the issue, is why I don't trust google. I had my own experience with google unfairly preventing me from using its service-- one where I was trying to give them money-- and I realized they really d
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Looking at past incidents, the early reports have almost always turned out to be wrong, even though they often become the basis for the commonly held perception in the publics eye. For instance, there was no child molestation at Waco, yet p
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by econgeeker 15y ago
The prevalence of off brand cables that work with these devices make me wonder about the allegations of a proprietary crypto chip. I use modern iOS devices and the worst that's happened to me is one would claim that something wasn't an "aut
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by econgeeker 15y ago
Apple does make it easier for everyone else willing to pay $99. You don't have to jailbreak. You just pay your $99 fee and you've got full access to run whatever software you want. There's even an open source community of people making i

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