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by jjs 17y ago
I suspect he's too sleepy to worry about logic right now. :)
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by jjs 17y ago
Go to sleep.
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by jjs 17y ago
> I stopped reading here. Ignore that part; the middle of the article is interesting. Also ignore the very weak conclusion, which appears to be there because he felt there should be a conclusion. I attribute this to the way he was rai
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by jjs 17y ago
I think they're emphasizing "become more efficient or lower their costs" as opposed to growing the company, or increasing revenue.
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by jjs 17y ago
I know only what the high priests have spake after consulting the Stone Tablets of Ancient Prophecy, but by all accounts, pg is twenty feet tall, with fiery glowing eyes and fiercely flaring nostrils. His golden halo is shaped like a match
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by jjs 17y ago
You know you've made it when you're banned in China.
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by jjs 17y ago
The horrible thing is that people are going to hear the sound-bite headline, rather than the actual conclusions of the study, or even the article.
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by jjs 17y ago
None whatsoever! :)
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by jjs 17y ago
No, I live in California.
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by jjs 17y ago
I pay no taxes in Sweden.
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by jjs 17y ago
> I like Python on many levels - particularly the indentation - but the religious-ness of the philosophy and language design is off-putting in so many other ways. I think you're overgeneralizing from a single misquotation. I've rarely e
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by jjs 17y ago
> Hygiene is a red-herring. It's easy enough to achieve with a defmacro-style macro system - just use gensyms. Hygiene can also be baked-in to a nice lispy defmacro-style system; there's no reason that hygienic macros have to be scheme-
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by jjs 17y ago
> What does "counting" against "notional salary" mean? Offering benefits allows both companies and employees to agree on a lower cash salary; it's in the company's interest to provide benefits that have a large perceived value for minim
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by jjs 17y ago
Any time you take a percentage of the net, you've set up a perverse incentive for the company to spend more money up to the exact point where they're not paying you anything. After all, for them, it's "free" money!
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by jjs 17y ago
> If you have more data than a single server can hold the best thing to do is hashing. For instance the Redis-rb client supports consistent hashing. Hopefully with a secret salt! It would be interesting if someone nasty managed to take
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by jjs 17y ago
Whatever you do, try and get a (small, depending on volume) percentage of the gross, not net, on each transaction. Maintaining their margins is their job, not yours.
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by jjs 17y ago
Sometimes a big truck has more bandwidth than a series of tubes...
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by jjs 17y ago
By "real" salary, I mean the notional salary that the company would have to pay were it not providing benefits.
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by jjs 17y ago
There is indeed often a mismatch between how the company feels a given benefit should be valued by the employee and how the employee actually values it. Complicating matters is the fact that the company wants to provide benefits that provid
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by jjs 17y ago
What's to prevent the company form writing off the perk and counting it against the employee's "real" salary?
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by jjs 17y ago
Getting rid of the colons (e.g. "if foo:" vs "if foo") does not appear to enhance readability.
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by jjs 17y ago
It's important to make time for both! >:)
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by jjs 17y ago
> When saying this on HN your karma will be heavily dropped ... Doubt it. The bootstrapping ethic is very strong here.
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by jjs 17y ago
> Whether it fits HN or not, thanks for this. Of course it does: he hacked the Gibson.
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by jjs 17y ago
This wouldn't happen if you'd paid your gravity bill, Steve.
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by jjs 17y ago
The horrible thing is, I immediately started thinking of a half-baked scheme involving very heavy shoes...
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by jjs 17y ago
Xcode is much more manageable when you're using Spaces, and set up one desktop exclusively for Xcode, and an adjacent one for Interface Builder.
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by jjs 17y ago
Exactly.
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by jjs 17y ago
> We're a small bootstrapped team Are you bootstrapped, or merely self-funded-so-far?
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by jjs 17y ago
How about the programming language with the fewest un happy users?

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