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by jbarham 13y ago
25% and 26% total tax rates respectively on $100k salary according to http://lsminsurance.ca/calculators/canada/income-tax versus 32% in Quebec. Maybe Quebec's mild climate explains the difference? ;)
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by jbarham 13y ago
Speaking as a Canadian who has worked on a H1B visa in California, the "Low Taxes" claim on this billboard is laughably deceptive. See e.g. http://lsminsurance.ca/calculators/canada/income-tax for an income tax calculator for Canada. Not
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> It's been years since Google actually released something useful on GAE. Do try to keep up: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNot...
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> why is the Go runtime and GC not itself written in Go? In a word: bootstrapping. It's a FAQ: http://golang.org/doc/faq#What_compiler_technology_is_used_t...
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> Does anyone have experience with Go as REST application server? I'm developing my new startup ( http://www.TurboHDR.com ) in Go on App Engine and it's a very nice development environment. As part of the process I recently developed a
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One of the 3 original designers of Go is Robert Griesemer, who worked on the Java HotSpot compiler, so I think it's safe to say that the Go team is quite aware of what the JVM can and cannot do.
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Also, "recent PhD from the MIT Media Lab". Maybe http://scratch.mit.edu/ is more his thing? ;)
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by jbarham 13y ago
Speaking of Arc, how much is it being used in production apart from serving up HN? Seems unlikely to become a "hundred-year language" if no one is using it for the first decade of its life...
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by jbarham 13y ago
Yeah, OpenEXR ( http://www.openexr.com/ ) is a very nice format, well designed and documented, and with an open-source implementation. Apart from VFX and post-production, OpenEXR has also become the standard file format in HDR applications.
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Maybe you don't realize that "they" includes Ken Thompson himself... You may disagree with the Go design team's decisions, but it's amusingly absurd to accuse them of inexperience.
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False. The Go designers have explained many times why they made unused imports an error. In particular unused dependencies slow down compilation. There's even a FAQ: http://golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports . A trivial wor
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by jbarham 14y ago
> I doubt you'd find evidence that people who have mortgages over some magic value relative to their income suddenly start getting smaller annual raises. Tell that to the people who are underwater on their mortgages and are therefore se
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by jbarham 14y ago
Nonsense, I flew out of Changi last week and can't recall a single sign warning about the death penalty for drug trafficking. The warning is on the customs form that you fill in when you fly into Singapore, as you'd expect. But comparing i
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by jbarham 14y ago
Makes me nostalgic for Canadian Tire money...
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US mortgage rates are anomalous since the market has essentially been nationalized as the vast majority of mortgages are underwritten by Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. It's insane that right now the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate in
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by jbarham 14y ago
> You can go a long way with sensible, basic policy settings. A pity then that Australia's federal and state government policies (negative gearing, first home buyers grants, interest only mortgages for investors etc. etc.) have done so
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by jbarham 14y ago
Go's declaration syntax ( http://golang.org/doc/articles/gos_declaration_syntax.html ) and package system are inspired by the Pascal family, according to the FAQ ( http://golang.org/doc/faq#ancestors ).
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by jbarham 14y ago
FWIW I run DNS hosting service SlickDNS ( https://www.slickdns.com/ ) and hijacking non-existent subdomains is a non-feature. It's free for personal use for 2 domains and paid plans start at $10/month.
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by jbarham 14y ago
I can't help but wonder if there's a correlation between "spending many late nights at the office" and the fact that the OP had a heart attack at the age of 21...
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by jbarham 14y ago
FWIW one thing I really appreciate about living in Australia is the complete absence of security hassles when flying vs. the US. I've flown domestically within Australia half a dozen times in the past couple of years and I don't think I've
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by jbarham 14y ago
Nonsense. Go's cgo facility is a fantastically productive way to wrap C code. I've written a lot wrappers using Python's C API and a bunch wrappers using cgo and cgo is light years ahead. For a real-world comparison see this Sqlite wrapper
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> Building a lexer out of a recursive function type actually sounds like a really cool thing to try Rob Pike did just that for Go's text/template package ( http://golang.org/pkg/text/template/ ). See the source lexer source code at htt
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by jbarham 14y ago
Simple explanation: Investors are desperate for yield. E.g., Current yields for 10-year Treasuries are about 2%, which in real terms is effectively zero given that inflation is tracking just below 2%. So any asset that generates steady cash
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> What are my job prospects as a US software developer seeking to emigrate to Australia? Frankly, assuming you have the right to live in the US, you are much better off staying in the US if you want to maximize your opportunities as a s
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> And note that I've been wanting to start my own business all this time, but I can't. In fact, it would be tremendously difficult for me to switch jobs. Which makes me an indentured servant of this company until I get my green card and
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> ...on an island near Sault ste. Marie Man, I feel cold just thinking about it! (Here's the current forecast: http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/canada/ontario/sault-ste.-marie-... ) As a Canadian transplant to Melbourne I laugh when the Aus
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> Today, with reputable central banks you don't need gold anymore. Quantitative easing (aka printing money) isn't doing much for the reputation of central banks...
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> Taleb is a very intelligent man, but AFAICT he does often reinvent existing concepts with much cooler names. "Antifragile" sounds awesome. "Robust" sounds boring. Antifragile != robust: "The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robu
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> We've opted to go with unmetered ports on a cluster of bare metal boxes with 1000TB.com. FYI http://www.1000tb.com/ is the website for a landscaping company, not about bandwidth...
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> ...countries close to the equator, where seasons and cycles don't exist. Sure they do. In central Africa at least, the year is divided into the dry and rainy seasons.

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