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by joshAg 14y ago
I'm glad you're enjoying it! have you done any cool tourist-y things?
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by joshAg 14y ago
My coworker commutes from fremont to sunnyvale. It is quite a bit longer than you make it seem, especially when there is any sort of accident.
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by joshAg 14y ago
rents are annoyingly high, even compared to the bay area, and it is very hard to find a room/apartment if you don't want to live by yourself and don't have a roommate(s) already (so you can just lease a 2br+ apartment instead of trying to f
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by joshAg 14y ago
it's not the distance, it's the time it takes to get from A to B (during rush hour) and the distinct cultures. The cities all have enough of a distinct vibrant culture that locals can differentiate between cities. In another world, these to
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by joshAg 14y ago
here is a great explanation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4149211
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by joshAg 14y ago
true, but what's the interest rate for short term cap gains? i know it's (15,30), but i can't rememeber if it's just 18% or something more like 25%. and since i am efficient (read: lazy :), i just overestimated to 30% instead of wikipedia-i
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by joshAg 14y ago
true. but that's only for long term. i have no idea what short term tax is, but i know it's also less than 30%. i was trying to overestimate taxes (so that the reported annual income, if anything, would be less than actual annual income) an
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by joshAg 14y ago
assuming losing 30% off the top for taxes, taking 3% of the principle every year for "salary" is $126k. That seems like more than enough for me, too.
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by joshAg 14y ago
this is the case for many larger organisations.
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by joshAg 14y ago
with hugely inflated numbers that assume the best case scenario for time-savings, fancy charts and graphs, and perhaps even a buzzword laden powerpoint presentation during your annual review.
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by joshAg 14y ago
No, for making it so that the rest of the team doesn't have to deal with emails from 7am to 1am. Part of the PM's or manager's job (at least if they're a good one, anyway) is shielding the rest of the team from administrivia, so that they c
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by joshAg 14y ago
i think you're in a silent majority.
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by joshAg 14y ago
where does he say that modern-day detroit is worse than 1945 warsaw? i didn't see anything to suggest that that s/he thought detroit was worse warsaw. is it possible that you are reading to far into the comment?
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by joshAg 14y ago
that does seem like a rather large omission. how did he work around that issue?
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by joshAg 14y ago
does this factor in inflation?
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by joshAg 14y ago
> Name one piece of property you can use as you please without restriction? That depends entirely on how large your private security force is and how willing you are to bribe certain officials.
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by joshAg 14y ago
> I'm much more fearful of a legal regime that could step in and simply dictate the business operations of a private entity. They already do. In the US we call those dictatorial edicts regulations, and they specify how many business ope
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by joshAg 14y ago
almost certainly not ask "what would X do?" I understand the frustration with what apple has done here (which actually one of the prime reasons I haven't bought an iPhone or iPad; I don't buy computer products that don't give me root access
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by joshAg 14y ago
seems like i just found my new dvr/media box. that looks awesome!
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by joshAg 14y ago
I think he meant, why wouldn't a windows/unix/linux machine with similar hardware work just as well?
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by joshAg 14y ago
this explanation made the most sense to me. thanks.
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by joshAg 14y ago
I don't care about paradigm purity, but given the amounts of java and lisp i've written, I didn't see why java would benefit from a lambda.
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by joshAg 14y ago
why does a language designed around an OOP perspective need a lambda (which comes from a functional programming perspective)?
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by joshAg 14y ago
"I didn't write it so that 6 million people would be killed, nor did i write it for those people to use specifically. I wrote it to make people's lives easier and to advance human knowledge. I wrote it to create a tool that other could use.
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by joshAg 14y ago
allow me han, i still have notes from my social justice class in hs: basically, ethics:morals::superego:ego, in that morals are internalized but ethics are imposed by an outside authority. ethics are an outgrowth of human society/interactio
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by joshAg 14y ago
1080p, surround sound, perfectly mastered instead of being ripped from a dvd or a cam, and no threat of being sued.
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by joshAg 14y ago
I take it that's not the case in Canada?
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by joshAg 14y ago
Go was not designed to be portable assembler. break directly maps to a jump statement in assembler. fallthrough does not. Since C is designed to be portable asembler, it makes sense to include break as a keyword instead of a fallthrough key
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by joshAg 14y ago
There are many cases where fall through switch statements are preferable, but that's almost beside the point. C is basically just portable assembler with syntactic sugar sprinkled on top. Assembler doesn't have less dangerous switch stateme
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by joshAg 14y ago
Many people still like to claim that 'they' can only be used as a plural.

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