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by etjossem 13y ago
It's great that Krugman is trying to to make a purely positive analysis of the potential impacts of Bitcoin. He's entirely correct in saying Bitcoin has zero inherent value, as opposed to gold and USD. But that's missing the
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by etjossem 13y ago
You've misinterpreted me. I am in no way suggesting that Apple employees are smashing a Google bus. I'm just trying to clear up two big assumptions people in this thread are making. 1. Humanities degrees aren't monetarily wor
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by etjossem 13y ago
Apple made a lot of money by not thinking this way, and other big companies in SV have started to notice. Skilled industrial/UX designers often come out of a humanities or art major. In fact, so do developers, product managers, and mar
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by etjossem 13y ago
> art, history, women studies and other (financially) useless stuff The average salary expectation for someone who does calligraphy for four years is much lower than a CS major. On the other hand, I can name several large companies in th
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by etjossem 13y ago
> Why not live closer to work? If you ask those aboard the Google bus, you'll get various answers, like "I don't mind the commute" or "I love SF, there's so much to do here." > Why not live in San Fr
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by etjossem 13y ago
I don't think baddox is necessarily suggesting corporate housing, just housing that doesn't involve an hour-plus commute each way. Living closer to your workplace gives you a few extra hours each week - it's your choice wheth
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by etjossem 13y ago
It's faster to damage a single bus than slash 100 tires. The protesters don't care about the state of rush hour. They care about what the corporate buses represent: large tech corporations increasing the wealth gap and raising ren
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by etjossem 13y ago
> The author implies that everyone is smart. No, the author is saying that software engineering is currently viewed (even by smart and capable people) as an intellectually intimidating profession. There's no reason why that should b
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The real source of the issue is the nav bar itself, regardless of which element follows it. Absolute positioning doesn't push subsequent elements down, but it does allow you to use z-index. Earlier today I made a demo of one possible w
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by etjossem 13y ago
If you spend an excessive amount of time on a problem, sure, you lose that time immediately. The far more likely case is that your code quality is too low, which means you're sacrificing untold amounts of productivity later on. Well-wr
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What's the advantage of using Sword over, say, compass watch?
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Thanks, I missed the repo link! Someone seems to have edited "by Facebook" out of the submission title, but Phabricator does appear to be owned by their Github acct.
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It's unclear to me why this is "by Facebook." Nice concept, though.
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You couldn't be further off the mark. I've contributed to a Roth IRA for years, so I know you're incorrect about the individual contribution limit (it's $5,500 now). I live in the Bay Area. I replied to your comment beca
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by etjossem 13y ago
Not necessarily; you might have chosen a Roth for individual retirement savings. The contribution limit on that type of account is effectively higher than a traditional IRA, since it's expressed in post-tax dollars - very useful for so
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"You sock away your SF salary for 40 years and then retire in a cheaper COL area with no state income tax." Small correction -- state income tax in CA is a big deal even if you're saving for retirement. And once you retire, y
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by etjossem 13y ago
Please give some thought to whether you might be intolerant before blaming your reaction on others. The specific things that "turn your stomach" here are a) men enjoying the admiration of other men, b) some commenters saying (a) w
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Oh look, animated GIFs. http://heavycatweb.net/showcase.php
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There are some very good reasons why modern designers don't use background music. Elements don't blink and strobe like they did in the 90s. The time for skeuomorphic visual design is over. We've learned from our mistakes. Ins
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by etjossem 13y ago
Ten years ago, we were all tempted to put <style> tags in the HTML "in order to have the entire website in one place." As site complexity grew, we realized we needed to start separating components that had distinct roles. If
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This approach creates multiple sources of truth for how elements should look, and in general I would avoid it - in the same way that I avoid using the style attribute or <style> tags. For structure (the meaning and content of each ele
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by etjossem 13y ago
Are you kidding? Read this, it's a commit by Linus Torvalds: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/13/132 We need more developers like Torvalds - not because he's nice, but because he's terrifyingl
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Here's one that includes the "death sounds" played in the event of a crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVmrX6Lee0
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It's also different from the Scrolls situation in that Goodsmiths isn't trying to claim the right to use the Minecraft trademark. They'd clearly prefer to put the crafters in touch with Mojang and set up some license deals to
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by etjossem 13y ago
Oh, the delicious irony! For those of you who missed the original: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-se...
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It would have been a neat twist if one of the traders was more trustworthy than the other. I almost wish I hadn't read the source ;D
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I'm pretty sure it's intentional, and in the source we can see that the mechanics are the same for wood and furs. Both mysterious wanderers will accept 100 units and have a 50% chance of returning with 300. Average marginal return
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by etjossem 13y ago
What about Dwolla comes across as semi-shady? I ask because I have an account with them, and so far they've treated me well - especially compared to the credit card alternatives.
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Well played. An explanation for others: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_negligence )
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Reading this actually made me feel better about Tesla as a company. For every new vehicle concept, I expect the manufacturer to find at least one safety-related design flaw after production begins. If you are that manufacturer, you can save

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