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by kablamo 14y ago
Winning the startup lottery would be awesome but probably requires some amount of luck. If you save (for example) 80% of your savings you can retire after 5 years and never have to work again. Its not for everyone but you might be surpris
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by kablamo 14y ago
Oh. Hey. This is my site. I will fix that.
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by kablamo 14y ago
The interesting part to me is they are selling their service via mashape.com which is new to me. Its a neat marketplace for "cloud APIs". Some of the APIs are free or freemium. Here is a list of the most popular APIs: - Facial recogn
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by kablamo 14y ago
I'm a Perl guy and don't know Ruby. Jekyll is excellent, but I ended up going with http://ruhoh.com which is based on (forked from?) Jekyll. That worked great. Ruhoh is sort of language agnostic. My biggest hurdle was grokking Mustach
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by kablamo 14y ago
> Attach to any running process and analyze away. Interesting. It never occurred to me to want this. What sort of use case is this for? It seems Perl is capable of something similar: use Enbugger::OnError 'USR1'; Then 'kill
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by kablamo 14y ago
The stats in the link are interesting. I recently discovered the Code::Statistics module ( https://metacpan.org/module/Code::Statistics ). It tells you the cyclomatic complexity of your code which wikipedia tells me is basically the numbe
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by kablamo 14y ago
The calculator assumes you never want to draw down your nest egg -- ie your savings will only grow larger. It also assumes you will spend the same amount in retirement that you spend now. Your rate of withdrawal is pretty much a wild gues
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by kablamo 14y ago
Thanks! I like the idea of a chart for annual rates of return. The withdrawal rate is a little tricky. The withdrawal rate is the percentage of your retirement nest egg you will be spending each year. If you decrease your withdrawal rate
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by kablamo 14y ago
I'd love to hear any ideas/reviews. I was inspired to create this calculator after reading this Mr Money Mustache article: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-sim... If you are interested in the math behind the calcu
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Show HN: When can you retire? An early retirement calculator(networthify.com)
6 points by kablamo 14y ago|8 comments
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by kablamo 14y ago
This is very cool. How do you plan to make money?
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by kablamo 14y ago
To find out how long you have until retirement try this: http://networthify.com/earlyretirement Also, the author's example was a household that makes $100,000 annually and saves 10%. They must work 52 years to save the $2.3 million neede
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by kablamo 14y ago
I have only watched one or two Charlie Rose videos, but I agree that Terry Gross is the best interviewer I have ever heard. By far. Hmm actually I think Adam Carolla is not bad either.
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by kablamo 14y ago
Interesting work. I've been thinking about doing something similar for a long time. I'm not on OSX though and I'm a Perl guy. Someone once suggested to me an encrypted text file + dropbox. You could use pgp or gpg for encryption. Also V
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by kablamo 14y ago
I've been thinking about this recently as well. I wrote a simple JSON logger for Perl recently. It will probably be on CPAN this weekend. Until then you can see it on prepan and github. prepan http://prepan.org/module/3Yz7PYrBSd github
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by kablamo 15y ago
Thanks for mentioning dotjs! I didn't know about that project. Basically its greasemonkey but easier to use.
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by kablamo 15y ago
Whoops I missed that. Thanks for explaining the difference. That feature is pretty cool.
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by kablamo 15y ago
Wow, great service. The integration is very smooth. Looks like it has a lot of potential. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see many Perl users adopting this. Perl has had a similar service built into CPAN for many years. The big adv
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by kablamo 15y ago
Interesting. But wouldn't it be better to buy on ebay and sell on craigslist? That way you don't have to drive around to pick up stuff and people come to your house to get things so you don't have to mail it out.
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by kablamo 15y ago
I'm very annoyed there is no ICS. Maybe I have to try this out cyanogen stuff. I was at a tech meeting in Singapore where a Samsung rep introduced their android tablet last year. Someone asked him when Samsung would stop putting touch wiz
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by kablamo 15y ago
Only Solaris is available for Kindle. I hate when that happens. Update: Actually Solaris is not available either. I was misled because there is a Solaris 'Study Guide' available for Kindle.
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by kablamo 15y ago
Is there a cache of the cache? Is it just me or is this not loading for other people as well? Update: Click the 'text only' link to avoid page loading forever.
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by kablamo 15y ago
I feel secretly rewriting software from scratch is rarely the right solution. Especially if management has already decided thats not the direction they want to take. Your job as an employee is to make your boss happy. If you don't have po
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by kablamo 15y ago
Thoughtful and interesting. This post makes me second guess myself. As a counter point: I wonder if this is a personal decision. Some people are interested in deep mastery and some people are interested in broad mastery.
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by kablamo 15y ago
There are lots of great languages. I think we can learn from each other. Perl has a lot of problems but also a lot of strengths. CPAN is one of its strengths. Compare CPAN: https://metacpan.org/module/Moose::Manual Then compare with ot
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by kablamo 15y ago
Cool. I also like that he set up a wiki where people can contribute interesting spark one liners: https://github.com/holman/spark/wiki/Wicked-Cool-Usage
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by kablamo 15y ago
As a vimperator user and command line person this is awesome. But obviously as a tablet or mobile phone user this would be not good. I think this could be easily fixed by having the drop down menu pop up when you click in the input field (
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by kablamo 15y ago
I think they just took a screenshot of some video game from the 90s. Duke Nukem? Doom? Seriously does this kind of image do anything for the scientists or is this just PR?
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by kablamo 15y ago
Interesting. Firefox is about equal to IE in Europe. While in Germany, Firefox usage is way ahead of IE: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-200809-201107 In antarctica everyone is using safari.
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by kablamo 15y ago
Do they really need $35,000 to do this? It seems like so many people produce apps first and get paid later, I'm not sure what makes their situation different. Thinking about this more, its brilliant that they put their project on kickstart

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