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by jlebar 12y ago
> In NYC you can get a taxi 90% of the time by holding your hand up in a street corner. Maybe you mean s/NYC/Manhattan/? This is not true in much of the outer boroughs (and also in much of uptown Manhattan). In fact, in a
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by jlebar 12y ago
I don't mean this in a mean way, but I'm actually happy that you use this heuristic. I don't want to work at a place where doing what everyone else is doing is valued for its own sake, and you're making this easy for me
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by jlebar 13y ago
I'm not aware of any country where gas taxes cover the externalities of the emission of that carbon. I'm also not aware of any country where gas taxes and car registration fees come close to paying for the total cost of roads.
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by jlebar 13y ago
It's tough to be Sorting out Sorting, although I grant that it doesn't have all the newfangled algorithms that this page has. Really, you need to watch this if you haven't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJw
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by jlebar 13y ago
> Obviously my heuristic has a significant flaw - it assume that > all projects have equal resources. Indeed. Perhaps my heuristic works for open-source projects because, if a project is "important" enough, some nutcase li
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by jlebar 13y ago
> Wave a real-time communication and collaboration tool. Serious question: Am I a bad person for closing the tab as soon as I noticed that the first sentence is missing a verb? Programming is all about details, and I guess I see it as a
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The Simulation Argument(simulation-argument.com)
2 points by jlebar 13y ago|0 comments
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by jlebar 13y ago
So argue. Much armchair quarterback. Very flame. Wow. It's entirely appropriate and reasonable to say "I don't understand why Facebook would do this; please explain it to me." But it reflects a supreme lack of humili
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by jlebar 13y ago
This benchmark doesn't specify a pickle protocol, which forces Python to use a big, inefficient format. I filed a bug. https://github.com/benfred/bens-blog-code/issues/1
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by jlebar 13y ago
Thank you to everyone who responded to this poll! I used TaxACT for the past two years -- I'd avoided TurboTax because intuit is evil (see other comments here). But based on the responses here, I decided to try out TurboTax, and it i
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by jlebar 13y ago
Is H&R Block Online different from H&R Block At Home? If so, I apologize for omitting it.
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Poll: US residents, how do you do your taxes?
37 points by jlebar 13y ago|61 comments
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by jlebar 13y ago
Private accountant
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by jlebar 13y ago
H&R Block
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Jackson Hewitt
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Liberty Tax Service
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by jlebar 13y ago
TurboTax
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by jlebar 13y ago
TaxACT
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by jlebar 13y ago
H&R Block At Home (formerly TaxCut)
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by jlebar 13y ago
Manually (i.e., using IRS forms directly)
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by jlebar 13y ago
Other
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by jlebar 13y ago
Not to pick nits -- it's not the thrust of your argument -- but web browsers have a complex relationship with worse is better today. Yes, browsers started as a hack and it's reasonable to attribute a lot of their success to worse
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by jlebar 13y ago
I miss you too.
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by jlebar 13y ago
This is good and necessary, but I see this as mostly symbolic. In practical terms, coercing a browser vendor into modifying their binaries to add an exploit is a comparatively risky and difficult way for the NSA to get a backdoor. There a
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by jlebar 13y ago
(I designed and implemented the vibration API in Firefox.) FWIW I liked this article. But one thing to note is that -- at least in Firefox/Firefox OS -- a page/app can only vibrate the phone if it's "visible". In
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by jlebar 13y ago
IME it's not only slow, but also very memory-hungry. As a result it's hard to use it to debug heisenbugs, because you have to have a decent idea of where the bug is, so you can start recording at that point. But of course if you
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by jlebar 13y ago
> Finally, [C-- is better than LLVM because] its use of C++ and templates makes the code size of LLVM absolutely enormous (20MB binary). In a world where my phone has 2gb of RAM, I don't understand why 20mb for an optimizing compile
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by jlebar 13y ago
The humor of this joke is in how many people (perhaps including its author!) take it seriously.
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by jlebar 13y ago
To be clear, using SIMD for JPEG encoding is not new. I'd be curious how this JPEG encoder compares to libjpeg-turbo's NEON encoder. http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/
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by jlebar 13y ago
We should really read what the Times has to say about this before we engage in armchair investigation. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-...

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