jogjayr

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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Just to put numbers to this, if you are levered 5 to 1 (20% down), inflation is 3%, home price grows at inflation, you are getting a 15% nominal return on your investment in the home, and a 12% real return. I'm sorry I didn't
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I was referring to the relative accessibility. You need $50k (or $25k if we're going for 10% down) to even start living in the median house. Even a $100k house would require you to save up $10-20k. $2.5k is a far lower bar to start bui
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> NIMBYism exists because home ownership is basically the most accessible mechanism to grow personal wealth in the US. That has to be due a lack of financial education and knowledge of what options exist to grow personal wealth. You ne
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> Most people in the Bay Area don't need AC. I second that. The Bay Area has this gloriously perfect climate where you need nothing more than a table or ceiling fan in the summer, a small electric space heater in the winter and noth
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> I picked up a Foundation novel in a thrift store a few months ago in a moment of nostalgia and found myself cringing so much that it was a relief to reach the end. Leaving out the tacky technology (nuclear-powered kitchen knives? reall
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Skyhigh Networks | Senior UI Engineer | SF Bay Area (Campbell) | ONSITE OR PART-TIME REMOTE | https://skyhighnetworks.com/ We're looking for a senior UI engineer who is interested in working with Angular, Webpack and (
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by jogjayr 9y ago
If chargers become widely available then this is only a consideration for long road trips. Otherwise your car can be charging at practically any time it's not being driven. Meaning it stays near full battery most of the time you start
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by jogjayr 9y ago
The article cites bike lanes in residential neighborhoods being less safe. I've never found bike lanes to be useful in such an environment anyway. Taking into account traffic and stop signs bikes are effectively already as fast as cars
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> There are millions in my country (India) who safely use bicycles, mopeds, and motorbikes. Every part of that statement is true except for the word "safely". I first got my driver's license in India, drove motorcycles and
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by jogjayr 9y ago
I don't know what specifically in webdev you're looking for but my company is hiring frontend engineers (we're in Campbell, CA but OK with part-time remote). We work in enterprise cloud security and don't hurt people AFA
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> patent pools are hard for small companies to enter into. Per my understanding, patent pools also don't offer any protection against non-practicing entities, correct? Since patent trolls don't use any patents themselves, a def
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Yeah it's a fine line between "insurance" and "protection". The key distinguishing factor here is the protection pool actively seeks to invalidate bad patents. It could also lobby for patent reform. By doing so, it
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> So why would anyone buy in before they get a letter, Plenty of people have already gotten a letter; if they all pooled their resources they'd have a decent defense fund already. > , or maintain their membership once they'r
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by jogjayr 9y ago
For smaller companies and orgs, or individual software developers, I wonder if it now makes sense to pay into some sort of common "patent troll insurance pool" (I'm sure someone's suggested this already). If any member o
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by jogjayr 9y ago
Haven't worked on Clojure for a few years but would love to know more details about your Hackathon
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> You could eat nothing but 1000 calories of pure sugar a day and still lose weight Yes, if you were locked in a room and passed exactly 1000 calories of sugar cubes and water every single day. Most of us live in the real world with food
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by jogjayr 9y ago
> The worse the developer, the more tests he'll write. Some of the worst developers I've worked with never wrote any tests. Like zero tests. Actually in one case negative number of tests; the engineer deleted tests I wrote beca
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> My trainer in India used to come drunk to sessions - he said whiskey dampened all the pain. The combination of any sort of neurological impairment and the lifting of heavy weights over your head and throat sounds like a bad accident ju
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> Unfortunately for a public library more footfall doesn't equal more revenue That seems...backward. It would seem that with more footfall and circulation, the library should be able to justify a larger budget from the city. And unl
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> After landing we discovered that checking in at the right time might get us further ahead in the line but we tried that, checking in within minutes of checkin opening and were still pretty far back in the lines. "Minutes" isn
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I don't actually have an opinion either way because I don't understand the tax system well enough. But I'm curious, why do you think: a) money pulled out of business for personal consumption isn't driving the economy? -
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Not that one class alone. But it may very well be that students use predominantly Java throughout their degree, starting with this course. I got my bachelors in India so we started with C++ and learned Java for just one course in year 3. Bu
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Maybe? I'm not sufficiently familiar with either one to state that they would be appropriate. I haven't progressed beyond "Hello world" in both. If they support manual memory management and pointers (I seem to remember
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Making Java an introductory programming language was a misbegotten idea IMO. I can sort of see the justifications: "it'll make students workforce ready", "it's a modern programming language and teaches OOP" etc
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by jogjayr 10y ago
This is the best news I've heard all month! The levels of abraded plastic in our water have gone up steadily over the past half century. While not so much of an immediate threat as rising CO2 levels, it's still something we'l
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by jogjayr 10y ago
The "IPO-ing will make me exceedingly wealthy" scenario is certainly one way to get an 60-80 hour work week. The other is to be in a business that the employee is passionate about for intrinsic reasons. If the employee is a &quot
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by jogjayr 10y ago
Hackathon programmers remind me of tourney knights in the Dunk and Egg novellas by George RR Martin. They serve no lord and don't fight in real battles. Instead, they make their living from prize money earned jousting in tourneys.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
This, except I'd put it in a low-fee index fund. Or some sort of rental property.
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by jogjayr 10y ago
> how do you maintain your energy or sense of self when you are consistently trying to meet other people's needs? Some people thrive off interactions like this, I think. If that's not you (and I count myself in that category al
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by jogjayr 10y ago
I've tried that but often the other person also doesn't say much. For instance, I distinctly remember a conversation I had with a woman at an alumni gathering where any question I asked about her work was met with monosyllabic res

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