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18y ago
I meant to say u get taxed at 15% flat on capital gain after holding the stock for more than 1 year (in the US) in my country, the capital gain tax is only 0.1%, automatically included when one sells stock (0.15% fee for buying and 0.25% fe
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Most of the time I deleted my own comments after things become more obvious - I hate 'moving parts' in my code The trick is to highlight comments with bright & contrast fg/bg color combo that hurts your eyes (it also serves to say 'hi
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18y ago
the same is true for stock u won't get taxed for buying stock and the tax is just one time (not recurring every year) at 25% (15% after 1 yr) contrast this to 'work for company' ... u get taxed 35% every year :( probably it's the social des
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18y ago
it's hard when ubuntu role model is windows, implicitly by promoting it to convert windows user to linux, explicitly by making some apps look and feel similar to windows the role model should be osx ... i'll wait the day when i see tutorial
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18y ago
as time goes, you need less comments
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18y ago
Would IPO path be more optimal for Viaweb?
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18y ago
builder of useful world-changer stuffs, like Woz
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18y ago
Well the fact they're easily refuted shows how much i use windows in daily bases (almost 0%) my guess (based on rumors) is that even though ms implements those security measures, she leaves some weaknesses open intentionally (sony rootkit c
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18y ago
I seriously don't think market share has anything to do with security if popularity is the main reason, then how come the more popular unix servers, are more secure than their windows-based counterparts? why unix better? by obscurity? absol
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18y ago
I switched to no-tech aquascape instead no more watering :D (maybe once a week water change) and only about once in three months for 'mowing' along with cleaning up fertilizing is also easy, fish and turtle excesses: just feed my turtles (s
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18y ago
this is what i did: I have a form that: user can upload as many as s/he wants user clicks submit the browser then sends a stream of data one time on the server: regex find . multipart/form-data;. boundary=.* from CONTENT_TYPE to make sure i
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18y ago
note the post date: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 I knew the article is old; however, i hang around just to read comments from specific users
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18y ago
I read an article saying that links from bloggers are less effective Search engine and news aggregrator are better
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18y ago
"apt-get install" is not the same as compile from source you are at the mercy of repositories "make install" on the other hand, gives you more freedom vim patching problem was kinda solved by using intrepid repo instead of hardy's ... but a
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18y ago
ubuntu-desktop stays true to its name ... an OS for average users only for desktoping you know a unix OS is broken when you google "how do i compile / patch vim in ubuntu?" or when you can't ssh to ubuntu-desktop machine Ubuntu is an OS des
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18y ago
How about trying to repair your mouse first? Just open it. Most of the time (microsoft wheel mouse in my case) the prism lens is not aligned to the LED. Securing these with ducktape solved the problem But really, use keyboard more and jus
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18y ago
longer battery life almost necessarily means bigger battery more storage capacity by using an extra slot do make the device harder to use (have to figure out which panel to press, how to reorient the card, and there's a moving part -- the h
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18y ago
OpenBSD's FAQ, then man afterboot Its online tutorials are not as abundant say to FreeBSD, let alone Ubuntu; however, you want quality, not quantity - Excellent man pages OpenBSD is created and used by people who love their own craft -- you
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18y ago
INFP when i fall in love, INTP otherwise
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18y ago
i use mercurial, assuming your base directory is /www/pages (lighttpd), initially: server: $ mkdir /www/pages/project $ cd /www/pages/project $ hg init localhost: $ cd /path/to/your/project $ hg init $ hg add * $ hg commit -m "message" $ hg
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18y ago
it's karma
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yep but it would be bleeding without the security algorithm
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18y ago
what about java's OOP only? why wouldn't the design lower variance? my take is that java's high variability is caused by its verbosity: more codes = more 'moving parts' = more things that can go wrong to disprove my theory, give me a verbos
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18y ago
on maximize & dual monitor why do you have to put extra efforts when you can just use tiled wm (i use dwm and dmenu) ? maximizing comes automatic don't two monitors kill your focus flow? maybe you are more productive (result from resear
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18y ago
that's probably because GNU/linux programs must/can run on windows (emphasis on GNU) other OS like OpenBSD doesn't give fuck about windows users. It's just created and used by and for themselves (altho others port it to virtually every os
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The article forgets about effects from 'uncertainty': black swan, div/0, singular matrix, etc, if you will It reminds me about specialization: country T for tobacco which outsources corn to country C. Within the next year, there's movement
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18y ago
"Soon he was on a plane to meet Trevor Blackwell in California." To me, this fact alone (single data point, an outliar) ... is enough to predict Ben's future "The next day a copy of SolidWorks and a SolidWorks for Dummies book arrived" This
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19y ago
what i meant by mallable + css + js is that you can use firebug to fix the document you want to read say you don't like pg's essay format open the url to his essay run firebug click html tab change <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
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19y ago
i like neither (assume e-book = pdf) paper: non-searchable, heavy, takes space pdf: DRM ridden, not grep-able i like html (and text-file) tho it's open source, grep-able, zoom-able, text-resizeable, view source + css + js + creativity (can
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19y ago
I agree thinkers lack feedback: the resistance of the media
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