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by jbarham 12y ago
This calculator ignores the fact that the market for real estate buyers is increasingly global but the rental market is local. If you are in your 20's and grew up in a middle class family in Vancouver, Toronto, Sydney, Melbourne or Auc
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by jbarham 12y ago
Bingo. I'm in Melbourne and have founded/co-founded three online businesses, and have exactly zero servers in Australia. Even if I could have 1 Gb fiber with the NBN tomorrow, that wouldn't change. IMHO the Australian governm
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by jbarham 13y ago
Conflation of Proposition 8 with racism/slavery is a bit rich considering that black Americans disproportionally voted for Proposition 8. But I suppose it's useful to drag out the racism comparison to demonize Brendan Eich, althou
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by jbarham 13y ago
> the only thing I can imagine depresses wages is the fact that it is not easy to jump jobs. However, I can't imagine that creates that much of a wage differential. In my case I got a 40% raise taking a new job after being laid off
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by jbarham 13y ago
Keep in mind that thanks to my Aussie wife I have permanent residency. In terms of "starting a business" I just had to register for an ABN ("Australian Business Number"). That may not even be a legal requirement but IIRC
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by jbarham 13y ago
I had the job in the US, my wife didn't. Even if she did have her own E-3 visa that could have been jeopardized by my including her on my green card application on my H1B visa. EDIT: The principal at the school where my wife was volunt
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by jbarham 13y ago
I'm Canadian and worked for over four years a software engineer in SoCal on work visas (TN then H1B). My wife, an Aussie and high school teacher with several years of teaching experience in top international schools in Asia, couldn&#x2
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by jbarham 13y ago
As an ex-Vancouverite, I think it's more accurate to say that Victoria is a nice place to retire rather than a place to live (i.e., make a living).
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by jbarham 13y ago
20 years ago with Plan 9 you could have just clicked to move your cursor. Plus ça change ...
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by jbarham 13y ago
FWIW I developed TurboHDR ( https://www.turbohdr.com/ ) in Go on App Engine. I've found App Engine a very productive dev environment as it provides a lot of features out of the box (e.g., image processing, background tas
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by jbarham 13y ago
> When is 1.3 suppose to be released? Around 7 months from now according to http://blog.golang.org/go12 .
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by jbarham 13y ago
And by the way, Go 1.3 will include support for Native Client (aka "NaCL"). Also: Russ Cox is the Chuck Norris of Go programming.
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by jbarham 13y ago
Under normal load tinydns' performance is more than adequate, but under DDoS attack the fact that it's a single process is a definite limitation when it's running on a multi-core machine. By default tinydns opens its database
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by jbarham 13y ago
Nice writeup. Especially interesting to see that CloudFlare is using Go for its DNS service. I run a DNS hosting service ( https://www.SlickDNS.com ) and currently use tinydns from the djbdns suite in my name servers, but I'm
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by jbarham 13y ago
If anyone's interested in creating HDR photos for real estate, check out my startup TurboHDR ( https://www.turbohdr.com ) which is a service to generate HDR photos in the cloud. Strictly speaking it uses "exposure fusion
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by jbarham 13y ago
In a word: winter. Southern California's weather does tend to spoil you! And my wife is Aussie so getting Australian residency was straightforward.
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by jbarham 13y ago
As a Canadian citizen who worked in California on a H1B I can state that the article's claim that people like me (i.e., not Indian or Chinese) get their green cards is categorically false. For starters, the preliminary paperwork, even
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by jbarham 13y ago
> I'm not from the US, so have never heard of Trader Joe's. Probably most Americans haven't heard of Trader Joe's since most of its stores are in Southern California. But it's a really cool grocery chain, and I s
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by jbarham 13y ago
As a relatively recent arrival to Australia I'm surprised that that there isn't more skepticism about the long term wisdom of granting wholesale internet access for the entire country to a single government funded monopoly. It&#x2
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by jbarham 13y ago
> MelbourneIT are huge and generally have a pretty decent reputation. Clearly you have never used their ticketing system.
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by jbarham 13y ago
Anecdotally, I recently moved the primary web server for my DNS hosting service ( https://www.slickdns.com ) from AWS to Digital Ocean and am getting much better performance at 1/3 of the cost.
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by jbarham 13y ago
I use daemontools to manage all the servers for SlickDNS ( https://www.slickdns.com ). Trivial to install and configure. Most of my run scripts are one liners, and of course like anything written by DJB daemontools just runs and r
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by jbarham 13y ago
Clearly these men are all very capable but would they have been able to have the same impact had they stayed in India? Given that they all did post-graduate study in the US and currently live in the US and work for an American company, I th
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by jbarham 13y ago
It's almost certainly a joke since complaints about the lack of generics in Go probably generate the most heat on the mailing list. For example here is a recent thread on the list that quickly degenerated into an epic flamewar: https://gro
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by jbarham 13y ago
True story: Since Tcl is embedded in Cisco's IOS it is the de facto standard scripting language for high-performance network gear. I once worked on a very large application that was written primarily in Python but had a Tcl scripting API t
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by jbarham 13y ago
It's worth noting that GitHub charges per repo whereas Bitbucket charges per user . So GitHub might make sense for product businesses where there are only a handful of repos, but Bitbucket is much more cost effective in an agency enviro
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by jbarham 13y ago
I'm calling it: Soylent is the Pets.com of this investment cycle. Ironically dog food is probably more nutritionally balanced than Soylent, which is almost beyond parody.
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by jbarham 13y ago
Startup idea: Soylent Restaurant. Only one item on the menu. No need for a kitchen or trained chefs. I'll be rich!
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by jbarham 13y ago
> I just compared the Bay Area with Vancouver, and the latter is considerably cheaper, at least half price. How exactly did you arrive at that conclusion considering that according to The Economist, Vancouver is the most expensive city
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by jbarham 13y ago
> taxes Higher in Canada, both income and sales > health provision N/a for me since health insurance was a given for every job I had in California > license fees (eg vehicles) Cars are much cheaper to buy and operate in Californ

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