elai

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by elai 16y ago
Eeeh, what would you say to paying them $85k plus in seattle, which is what microsoft starts out at? Because 100k+ is equivalent to that $85k+ wage.
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by elai 16y ago
Clever, take a lcd panel, remove the backlighting and put semi-transparent solar panels one or both sides.
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by elai 16y ago
You guys are a security consulting firm from what I see. What products did you create for that?
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by elai 16y ago
I know what you mean. When I've suggested targeting a female demographic with things that are somewhat silly, but most women just go crazy over (seen by how many women get into similar thing in several businesses) I was dismissed out of han
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by elai 16y ago
It's hard to say, since almost all the people I've talked to I have given my current salary range and relative experience first, and I hear there is a big shortage for iPhone development skills in SF and Seattle. The wages I'm being offere
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Ask HN: What is the market price of an experienced iPhone dev in SV?
4 points by elai 16y ago|2 comments
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by elai 16y ago
Eeehh, when you hear lawyers in the USA say that you better shoot to kill if your going to defend yourself from a home invasion robber, other wise case law will allow that robber to successfully sue you for personal injury and disability, I
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by elai 16y ago
At bluray bitrates? Typical iTunes HD bitrate is 4, vs the 20-40 you get with bluray movies.
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by elai 16y ago
Maybe an L1-A? You can get an L1 as part of establishing a new branch.
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by elai 16y ago
There are disadvantages and advantages to politeness. A polite society tends to be more disconnected, less intimate and harder to make friends with in vs. a more intimate, but possibly a bit more "rude" society too: http://seattletimes.nw
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by elai 16y ago
My compliers professor did. The notes were so extensive though that you didn't really need to look at the book. And it was written by a finn, so the english was a little bit off.
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by elai 16y ago
How about BC Canada? It's west coast, and tech companies get a lot of corporate tax breaks, and canadian immigration isn't as horrible as US.
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by elai 16y ago
They can, they just charge an arm and a leg for it and make you go through a big hoop and dance to actually use it. Wire transfers cost $20-$40 for each transaction (And usually are associated with systems with such names as "Large Value T
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by elai 16y ago
Oh, so it's like a credit card!
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by elai 16y ago
People with $100mm could buy their visa by making a unprofitable business and come in on the immigrant investor visa anyway. Or get a US friend to create a company where they have veto powers and come over on an L-1A and get their green ca
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by elai 16y ago
I think the most you can push that rule is repair. If you were not quite satisfied with your apartment because it doesn't have in suite washer/dryer, go and pay an extra $100-$300 a month and get one that does. Get those small things that
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by elai 16y ago
The whole using a credit card online adds a lot of hesitation for parents, even if it's $5. It did for mine.
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by elai 16y ago
BC, Canada has an even lower tax rate and special tax breaks for tech companies.
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by elai 16y ago
France labour laws are pretty bad. It basically shuts out the young because once you hire a french worker, it's hell and high water to fire them. Unemployment is at %9.6 right now and %25 for youth. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co
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by elai 16y ago
It's easy to keep that discipline when your a billionaire!
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by elai 16y ago
chithersom
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by elai 16y ago
Kindle software for the blind/braille readers is something I can see amazon supporting.
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by elai 16y ago
There is a total of 3 finger photos.
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by elai 16y ago
Really? How?
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by elai 16y ago
I think it's cyclical nature of the sun that people forget and loose their sunglasses enough because they're not needed frequently and have to keep on buying new ones when they do.
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by elai 16y ago
Wow, if anything I would feel ebooks would make it more accessible for the blind by being usable in braille readers and text-to-speech! This was a lawsuit that shouldn't of happened.
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by elai 16y ago
So the 3g will be free a bit later.
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by elai 16y ago
At one of the colleges I attended, they shutdown the school's course registration/student management system from midnight to about 7 am every day. It was incredibly frustrating at times.
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by elai 16y ago
Per capita spending on health care in more sane developed countries in the world is about $4000/yr. To get your so-so full service health care, the sane market price is about $333/month, and in most of those systems, medication isn't cover
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by elai 16y ago
3 shooters, 3x the cost?

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