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by klochner 16y ago
The author got a lot of things right, but I'm suspect of his main thesis - that you can't relate to the lower class if you go to a private school. There are few to no downsides to going to an elite school, other than cost. That said, the
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by klochner 16y ago
The author doesn't mean Elite in the sense of "good" or "high quality". The Elite he's referring to is the Upper Class. The culture at the top Ivies is nothing like that at any of the schools that you listed. State and tech schools have a
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by klochner 16y ago
related SO thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/164432/what-real-life-bad...
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by klochner 16y ago
So you expected the article to be devoid of opinion?
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by klochner 16y ago
regarding #2, diet fads come and go every decade or so. imho the jury is still out.
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by klochner 16y ago
buy a stool that lets you sit at the same height as standing, then just raise your desk.
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by klochner 16y ago
Everyone realizes the rant was from 2006, right?
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by klochner 16y ago
PHP devs are the silent majority.
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by klochner 16y ago
tl;dr: Multinational corporations hold cash in foreign subsidiaries to avoid paying taxes on profits, and would get taxed on those profits if they bring them back into the U.S. (repatriate the profits). This study shows the following: - Fir
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by klochner 16y ago
ditto for me in San Francisco
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Why Google has so much cash on its balance sheet(people.hbs.edu)
12 points by klochner 16y ago|17 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
Google will get taxed if it brings any of that cash back into the US ( repatriates the money) to pay dividends or acquire domestic companies. The same goes for Goldman, et al., unless congress passes another "repatriation holiday" in the n
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Income Inequality: Too Big to Ignore(nytimes.com)
2 points by klochner 16y ago|0 comments
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by klochner 16y ago
Some of those would not be recognizable as the batman logo if presented alone.
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by klochner 16y ago
good point - browser compatibility is kinda important if it's meant as a sharing tool.
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by klochner 16y ago
what about this one? http://drawhere.com/site/www.yahoo.com/
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by klochner 16y ago
My company (rentmineonline.com, seedcamp '08, fbfund '09) has been running this kind of service for rental communities. We recently launched a partner site that isn't industry specific, (RefYo) I'd love to get your input about desired featu
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by klochner 16y ago
Options are only more attractive until they go public, which won't be 5 years. How long did it take before Facebook started sucking post-ipo employees from google?
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by klochner 16y ago
I've seen it suggested that you file taxes anyway: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_you_have_to_file_taxes_every_ye...
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by klochner 16y ago
What percentage of people actually visit google to search? It's much less "instant" if you add in the time to get to the google page. I user the address bar in chrome and my browser search bar in firefox.
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by klochner 16y ago
This thread needs an auto-responder for everyone that missed the satire.
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by klochner 16y ago
Interesting idea, it was only a matter of time before someone applied the "Social Graph + foo" idea to jobs. The jobs space is pretty crowded & competitive though, we already have: - obvious places like LinkedIn or craigslist -
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by klochner 16y ago
Summary and analysis of a topic based on reference materials is a prerequisite for any academic research, hence University students are given this kind of exercise all the time. Any University graduate should have learned that cut+paste = f
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by klochner 16y ago
Funny, cute, or sad, but http://notironic.com/
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by klochner 16y ago
You will definitely need to profile/optimize and hand code some queries. I ran into a bad one a while back (2.2.2): @foo = Foo.create @bars = Bar.find_all_by_some_attribute(:a) @foo.bars = @bars #--> slow! http://kevinlo
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by klochner 16y ago
No one outside of a small group of geeks cares what your hn karma level is, so just relax about getting downvoted.
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by klochner 16y ago
Sigh
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by klochner 16y ago
Really? I reply with clarification and receive anonymous downvotes in return? hyperbole isn't a fancy word for exaggeration
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by klochner 16y ago
Just to be clear on hyperbole: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hyperbole
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by klochner 16y ago
I imagine that would be a relatively easy fix, more likely they took the record down to debug internally without getting flooded with requests.

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