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811.
by illumin8 15y ago
Unfortunately, this is how business works. If they can hire an operations team full of Windows lusers and pay them $30K a year instead of Linux admins that cost $60K a year, they usually do that. The thought never crosses their mind that y
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by illumin8 15y ago
I believe Microsoft has already stated that only Metro apps will run on ARM (no legacy x86 apps): http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/will-windows-8-... Steve Sinofsky: "We've been very clear since the very first CES demos and fo
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by illumin8 15y ago
This is true. So many managers see somebody doing such hard work, fixing so many bugs, that they think he must be the brightest engineer. They never think about the fact that the engineer must have created all those bugs in the first plac
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by illumin8 15y ago
A good many of them did. If you think housing is an investment and leveraged yourself to the hilt in 2005, you probably got what you deserved.
815.
by illumin8 15y ago
It's very easy for those of us in Gen X that do software development to be smug. After all, I don't know of any 65 year old Java programmers refusing to retire so that we can get a job. In other industries where ageism is not so rampant, t
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by illumin8 15y ago
Too many people thought if you had a 401k it didn't matter because "stocks always go up." Too many people thought if you bought a house it didn't matter because "housing always goes up." You have to take responsibility for your own investm
817.
by illumin8 15y ago
It's funny how when Apple did this with the iPad the cries of "no flash!" were deafening. Now "it is a good decision."
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by illumin8 15y ago
Although I'd be willing to bet you need an x86 processor to run a full blown copy of Visual Studio 2012 or whatever release comes out with Windows 8. It will be interesting to see how much of the first party software runs on ARM tablets. W
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by illumin8 15y ago
Ah yes, you're correct. So my yield is way off. Thanks for the correction.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The resale value of iPhones also makes them less likely to end up in a landfill. A two and half year old iPhone 3GS can still fetch around $400 on eBay if you unlock it. This is unheard of with android handsets.
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by illumin8 15y ago
To be clear, the yield is determined by the free market as the price they pay for the bond. If the bond was originally priced at $100, with a 1% coupon payment (the amount the government or bond issuer will pay you in interest), if the res
822.
by illumin8 15y ago
There was actually a time in the 1980s when software developers got a percentage of profits. I remember working at WordPerfect in the late 80s and seeing some of the developers houses - one guy built a medieval castle complete with a worki
823.
by illumin8 15y ago
Yeah, but you still wanted to read it badly enough that you came here to comment 3 posts deep. It's funny how someone can hate a certain type of article so badly that they will read it and comment about how badly they hate it. I mean, why
824.
by illumin8 15y ago
It's not extra stuff, it's the price of housing and education. You might be perfectly fine living in a single room in SF, but what if you have a family and actually care about what school your kids go to? Maybe you don't want to live in a
825.
by illumin8 15y ago
If you can write a bot that posts cogent arguments in favor of Apple products, you can put Gruber out of a job. Kill two birds with one stone!
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by illumin8 15y ago
You wrongly equate material possessions with happiness. I'd easily go back to a 60s quality lifestyle if my wife didn't have to work and I only had to work 40 hours a week to own a nice house. In the 60s they had most of the same electric a
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by illumin8 15y ago
You should look at the hourly bill rates for licensed electricians and plumbers. These are definitely blue collar jobs, yet their hourly rates are probably more than most software developers.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The attached graph clearly shows the difference between wages and total compensation.
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by illumin8 15y ago
What is up with Google's silly caste system? Being pigeon holed into an SA role and looked down upon by freshly minted developers with little experience "oh, you're just an SA..." is exactly why a senior systems architect like myself will
830.
by illumin8 15y ago
This guy disgusts me. He's so obviously either a fabrication by the iranian government or someone who has been brainwashed by their propaganda to the point that he would do irreparable harm to his fellow humans to prove some ideological po
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by illumin8 15y ago
Please excuse me, I am not well educated on wind turbines, however, wouldn't it be beneficial, once you have extended the blades and tower as much as possible, to still use a shroud? After all, there is a finite amount of space between tur
832.
by illumin8 15y ago
Gold backed money and borrowing are not mutually exclusive.
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by illumin8 15y ago
How is my post wrong? Name one fiat currency in the history of the world that has not eventually been devalued and become worthless over time. Every currency that has crumbled has had one thing in common - it used to be backed by gold, sil
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by illumin8 15y ago
Silver was money, and so was gold.
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by illumin8 15y ago
You can walk into a bank in any country in the world and convert it into a local currency. How is this not money, or equivalent to money?
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by illumin8 15y ago
You can walk into a bank anywhere in the world and convert it into local currency. That's as close to money as you're likely to find. Edit: I should have said "coin dealer." To the reply below in Cork Ireland - I see you have a convenien
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by illumin8 15y ago
It's currently 4 points now. I don't expect most people on HN to understand modern monetary theory, but at least a few do.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The Incas had vaults and palaces full of gold. Just because the peasants of Inca times couldn't afford any, and bartered with textiles and animals, doesn't mean the gold wasn't valued by the ruling class. Please take your intellectually di
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by illumin8 15y ago
It is truly painful to read some of the misinformed posts on economic issues here. Here is all you need to know: - Gold is money, and has been considered money by all civilizations on earth for thousands of years. - Gold does not decay, rus
840.
by illumin8 15y ago
I'd like to pick one up for $50 or less and try to shoe-horn Android on there.

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