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by kscaldef 16y ago
Yeah, I'm not getting where that number comes from. (And I love the suggestion that it's merely "upper middle class".) Personally, I can live a pretty nice lifestyle on "only" a couple thousand in disposable income a month. I really can'
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Back-references are the most common feature in regexp engines that make them non-regular.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
In practice, most regular expressions contain some literal strings. You can use Boyer-Moore to anchor the match, then do a full regexp match from there.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I agree with most of the points, but the first is a little iffy. I'd rather have someone just skype me their question than chase each other around all day doing the "yt?" ... 15 min later ... "yes" ... 20 min later ... "sorry, I'm back now
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by kscaldef 16y ago
My question is, why is this (develop/master) better than master/release branches? Or master/qa/production? Or do you view that as just an arbitrary choice of names (since there's nothing special about the master branch in git)?
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by kscaldef 16y ago
And "unhappy at work" isn't the same as "diagnosed as depressed by a professional". I have a feeling that the author wasn't using the word in the clinical sense.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I'm in that group, and I don't find these services particularly compelling either. Maybe you need to add "extroverted" to your list; I'm not sure. I tend to have a smallish number of people I'm really interested in hanging out with, and w
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> For example, I found unhooking our doorbells was more significant than not using the clothes drier. Wait, what? What sort of doorbell do you have? Also, did you figure that out just by trial-and-error of disconnecting things, or did s
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> I remember 20 years ago learning that styrofoam is one of the most recyclable materials Citation? I don't think I've ever lived somewhere that accepted styrofoam in curbside recycling, so I'm a bit skeptical.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
What do you think the benefits of YC are to a company started by previously successful founders? (Honest question... seems like you have mostly touted the connections you can broker, which I wouldn't think they need help with now.)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Perhaps that works for some people. However, I don't think there's more than a couple dozen people in the US who share my last name.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I could quit my job right now. I'd need to get another one eventually, maybe in 6 months, maybe in a year, depending on how tightly I budgeted myself. I've chosen to live within my means; to build up enough savings that I don't need to be
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by kscaldef 16y ago
"Wage slave" is always, in my experience, used in one of two derogatory ways: 1) In the original usage, as a condemnation of the whole capitalist system, or 2) In the sense that's more common in this crowd, to describe anyone who doesn't wa
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Fair enough, I respect that you're willing to admit that. But please don't call me a "wage slave" because of your fears and uncertainties.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Except that he then goes on to argue that the people who get FU money won't confront those questions because they can't be happy that much money, they'll have to keep going because of their "insatiable hopes of yet greater scores". And,
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I have to say, I nearly threw this article across the proverbial room after reading the second paragraph: > Before that point, you’re just adding frosting on the lifestyle cake of your wage-slave existence. Beyond that point, you can fo
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by kscaldef 16y ago
It's not really about the overall performance or cost of coverage. The advantage, in this case, of national health care is that you can't be kicked out of the "group" (i.e. fired because you're raising the insurance premiums for the whole
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> And most companies have good health coverage for the cancer. Well... kinda. One of the dirty little secrets of employer-provided group health care is that when you have one person whose health care costs vastly exceed the average, the
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Some things certainly changed. Coming in via the Overture acquisition (a company that was basically printing money and had one of the highest revenue-per-employee in the web industry), Yahoo felt extremely cost-conscious. For example, the
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by kscaldef 16y ago
I don't know many Overture people still left in the Search Marketing division. Over time most of the historical Overture teams were sidelined and all the important work moved to the main offices in and around Sunnyvale. (I worked for Overtu
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by kscaldef 16y ago
> Now imagine that they put the search in some difficult place so you are forced to see "their portal" you don't care about every time you want to search anything. A "difficult place" like http://search.yahoo.com/ ? That's existed for
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Entertaining, but after reading a few articles from this site, I feel like this commenter sums things up pretty well: > According to you, everything is narcissistic and there is no possible way for anyone to avoid being a narcissist. Yo
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by kscaldef 16y ago
The thing about Yahoo is that it's massively silo-ed. There's research teams doing fascinating algorithms and machine learning work. There's small hacker cores working on new crazy ideas and technology. There's also a ton of internal pol
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by kscaldef 16y ago
Both the Dow and the S&P 500 posted negative returns in 2000. (And, FWIW, Bush didn't take office until 2001.)
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by kscaldef 16y ago
From my personal observations, I'd say the 2x number is BS anyway. Yeah, there might be a few contractors really raking it in. And I don't exactly sit around comparing tax returns with my friends and acquaintances. But, I certainly get t
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by kscaldef 16y ago
That argument doesn't hold water. a) The people with jobs without benefits are paying minuscule taxes, so it's wrong to say they are paying for the benefits of public sector employees in that sense. b) Every time they buy something from a c
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by kscaldef 16y ago
You realize that lots of people don't get any healthcare benefits at all, right? Or paid vacation? Or company pension plan / 401k? Is that equitable? No. But the problem is more on the side of private sector jobs providing no benefits rathe
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by kscaldef 16y ago
She doesn't say that couples have to have the same passions. She says that you should at least know something about what your partner does, beyond just their job title.
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by kscaldef 16y ago
TFA says "Most of this was the government's contribution to pensions". But also consider that decent health insurance for a family is getting up near $10K a year, and federal employees get pretty generous vacation time, which is probably w
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by kscaldef 16y ago
This "study" is useless without comparing people working similar jobs. Federal civil servants are typically white-collar, well-educated, highly-specialized professionals. The average private sector employee is not. The overall impression

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