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by hapless 10y ago
Good point. Convergence of prices is a big win if it means the "center" stops rising so quickly.
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by hapless 10y ago
You are competing with other people in the Bay Area, who have similar costs of living and, consequently, similar wage demands. There is no guarantee that your competitors on a global market will face the same cost structure. Quite to the c
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by hapless 10y ago
Cost and congestion are driven by the commuting time to job centers. If Bakersfield becomes a bedroom community for San Francisco with a 25 minute commute, you can count on Bakersfield housing prices converging on Bay Area costs. This is pr
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by hapless 10y ago
100% remote gigs are intrinsically riskier and lower paying. You compete with every worldwide Tom, Dick, or Harry who is capable of remaining awake during business hours. Low visibility in a mixed office makes you the first fired and las
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by hapless 10y ago
It benefits them to have you leave the bay area, because they know it will be much more difficult for you to find your next job. They are paying $10k now to minimize future raises and equity grants. I can think of less risky ways to squeez
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by hapless 10y ago
Shoreham was a project with a lot of potential and a terrible outcome. Specifically, it was a nuclear plant on Long Island. It was a nuclear project that could actually pay for itself , even with the increased costs and safety concerns of
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by hapless 10y ago
Notably his wife was a partner in her law firm. It is typically _very difficult_ to get yourself ejected from a legal partnership. Obamacare-related costs do not pass the smell test.
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by hapless 10y ago
Your karma check for today: There once was was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he’d do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don’t steal Mac OS! Really, that’s way uncool. (C) Apple C
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by hapless 10y ago
How the heck do I pause it?
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by hapless 10y ago
As far as I can tell, Kudu is dominated by Cloudera. They open sourced it as a marketing strategy. Is anyone who isn't paying for CDH using this?
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by hapless 10y ago
Well, there go the methane clathrate deposits. It was nice knowing y'all.
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by hapless 10y ago
If you're interested in porting code, many of the OSX core libraries are available as part of the GNUstep project: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnustep/ Most of "cocoa" came from the OPENSTEP specif
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by hapless 10y ago
In the 1980s, XENIX 286 was able to use the 286 protected mode to deliver real protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking on a PC-AT. That more or less guaranteed a certain market share, because a PC-AT was a lot cheaper than anything
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by hapless 10y ago
SCO and Caldera were a merger that should never have happened. SCO made all of its money off of line items in very expensive deals done by channel sales guys who integrated complex products. Caldera made all of its money by going into shop
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by hapless 10y ago
Even if it's 0% interest across 5 years, it's still forty thousand dollars. Whether you pay it all at once, or in dribs and drabs each month, you are paying more than you can reasonably afford. (To say nothing of the prudence i
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by hapless 10y ago
Spending 30% or 40% of your family's income on a car is bad financial planning. If "the narrative" indicates you "should" be able to spend that much, you need a new narrative. Ideally one that will not send you i
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by hapless 10y ago
When you support an entire family on a single income, spending 30% or 40% of your annual pay on a car is irresponsible. No "ifs," "ands," or "buts." That's just bad financial planning. It's a totally
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by hapless 10y ago
Spending 40% of your annual income on a car while supporting an entire family on that income is grossly irresponsible, regardless of the geography.
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by hapless 10y ago
The Ubiquiti "EdgeRouter" series features Cavium Octeons. They're moderately fast MIPS64 SoCs with hardware offload for a lot of common network operations. OpenBSD does have a port for the ER series, but it's separate f
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by hapless 10y ago
An Octane is still much more powerful than your average consumer router. Don't underestimate the value of memory bandwidth. That said, the real reason these platforms continue to exist because volunteers continue to maintain them. Yo
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by hapless 10y ago
StackOverflow is a Windows shop. That almost entirely explains the pay gap.
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by hapless 10y ago
Sun's "SME" division sold the Ultra AXi and AXMP boards, which were 100% standard ATX boards with PCI slots.
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by hapless 10y ago
As a fresh grad, Norfair / Syd gets the worst treatment from employers and recruiters. For example, hardly anyone would get away with making a senior hire fill in a hundred fields in an applicant management system -- recruiters are exp
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by hapless 10y ago
Notably this is a Windows problem. Sane platforms default to UTF-8 and output exactly what you would expect: €Σ
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by hapless 11y ago
Renouncing your U.S. citizenship for tax reasons technically makes you ineligible to enter the United States for any other reason. It is potentially a cause for denial on any class of visa. I wonder how many of these ex-pats realize that t
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by hapless 11y ago
In 2015, they completed the phase-in of new reporting requirements for ex-pats. Some of which are quite onerous. Among other things, you will need special banking services in your new home country, because foreign banks do not necessarily
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by hapless 11y ago
If you believe you can make $19 an hour as an Uber driver, I have a very fine bridge to sell you.
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by hapless 11y ago
Staples is primarily a delivery business. The stores exist to drive and sell the B2B services. They don't deliver to consumers because consumers don't need enough office supplies to make it worthwhile.
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by hapless 11y ago
Everyone has always known that paying for an Ivy diploma means purchasing the prestige and connections required to enter America's elite. The conceit that it was a superior education has always been, to some extent, a fig leaf. MOOCs a
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by hapless 11y ago
TechCrunch reports on us. It is journalism for the spectators. The twitter cluster of people sharing TC links is TC's audience, not participants in TC's subject matter. Why in blue hell would anyone on HN be sharing TC links? I

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