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by elblanco 16y ago
I believe the U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr before taxes are taken out (and it can be less than that if you work in a job that expects to collect tips, like waiting tables), or about $15k/yr for a full-timer. In my area, which is a
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by elblanco 16y ago
Scalzi also replied in case anybody missed it. And once again, I’ll note that when one is poor, one can take perfect care of one’s teeth — and despite that still get a toothache. Some people have bad teeth naturally. Some people my bite do
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Apple vs Adobe: some surprising statistics(pcpro.co.uk)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
Depression is often a result of feeling trapped by life's circumstances. Being poor can often feel like one is trapped. It's not a stretch to say that many poor people are also highly depressed people. I agree though, it's like describing w
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by elblanco 16y ago
Because he attributes his success to his own singular superhumanity. Nobody makes their way in this world completely on their own.
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by elblanco 16y ago
If I have one complaint about the article, it's that his idea of poor, and my idea of poor seem very far apart. My idea of poor makes his idea of poor look like a lavish paradise.
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by elblanco 16y ago
There's only so many hours in a week one can work to earn this money. Once it's spent, it's gone. You can't just add a few more hours onto the day to make up the difference.
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by elblanco 16y ago
When you work 80-100 hours a week just to keep a roof over your head, and eat at least 2 square meals a day, when exactly should this poor person mow 15 lawns (provided they had a mower and transport to get around) or collect 2000 cans (and
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by elblanco 16y ago
Usually they don't and/or if they do you have no guarantee of qualifying for it. At one point in my life I made about $12k a year working two full-time jobs, believe it or not, even though a meal at a "sit-down restaurant" was a once a year
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by elblanco 16y ago
Not that I disagree with you. I've been poor and would never had thought along the lines of this piece in that present tense. But looking back now, I certainly do in the past-tense.
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by elblanco 16y ago
And apparently by not acknowledging any single person who helped you along the way. Way to spit on all of those people with such shameless self-aggrandizing pomposity.
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by elblanco 16y ago
When he said something like "Being low-class is not budgeting." You know he's just an ignoramus. He's never been poor and has absolutely no concept of what that means. He also doesn't know what it takes to claw and scratch your way out of p
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by elblanco 16y ago
My grandmother grew up during the great depression. She still hoards food in nooks and crannies throughout the house and when let loose on a piece of chicken will eat every last scrap of digestible item on the bone. She habitually makes sou
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by elblanco 16y ago
As written by a person who's never been poor.
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by elblanco 16y ago
In this metaphor, who's the invisible beast we have to work together to defeat?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School is a great read about getting through medical school.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Yeah, I think scott_s is right, the issue is that Java just dumps pointers on the call stack to objects on the heap. And heap objects can end up all over the place in all kinds of non-optimal locations, like out of cache, or in different pa
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by elblanco 16y ago
>The problem is that they introduce irregular memory layout. Good point. I thought that the original thread was about pointers eating up space. My understanding is that C++ class definitions, because they themselves may contain function
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by elblanco 16y ago
Are you talking about pointers to objects? Are there any languages that allow you to have objects that aren't pointed to? Maybe C-style structs? Is that what you are talking about? Complaining about pointers to objects is like complaining
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by elblanco 16y ago
You'll always need a pointer to the objects, no matter the language. But you'll save on having to store a pointer from those objects to a string object, which with 2 unicode characters (assuming Java strings are null terminated) saves you a
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by elblanco 16y ago
use an int to represent the currencySymbol as well. If you need to resolve it, use a lookup table mapping ints->symbols.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Just wait till all those incompetently written advertisements, video players, etc. are all written using HTML 5 standards. Pretty soon we'll all have an extension in our browsers called "Canvas block".
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by elblanco 16y ago
> Prices track value (in the abstract) and the market (in reality) I think that's what I said. In the abstract, consumers will feel like they are getting gypped by paying for the fully unlocked part knowing that the exact same thing i
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by elblanco 16y ago
Fun note: the composer of the music is the same guy that wrote the music for this game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(video_game)
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by elblanco 16y ago
> I can buy a quad-core CPU restricted to 1.33GHz on the cheap and 6 months down the line I can put down a little more cash to get it unlocked to a 2.00GHz. Actually, you're buying a 2.00Ghz part on the super cheap , you just aren't al
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by elblanco 16y ago
Like most of the recent about face with Apple's policies regarding the App store, one can only marvel at what a complete and utter waste of everybody's time and energy their previous policy was.
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by elblanco 16y ago
People pay for porn? If there's one thing you can get terrabytes of for free on the internet with only the most rudimentary search skills, it's porn...of all flavors. Right-click and save-as is the easiest way to get it. FLV extractors get
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by elblanco 16y ago
Hard to overcome having your company name be synonymous for abstraction from reality.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I'm willing to bet that they simply didn't eat their own dog food and use their search on a day-to-day. They couldn't have. The results were so bad as to be unusable.
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Showcase of Games Developed Using HTML5 Canvas(blog.insicdesigns.com)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments

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