kudokatz

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by kudokatz 8y ago
> I have a degree but honestly can't say I've ever really used anything from algorithms or compilers courses on the job I ended up having a job writing programming language tools for a bit. Then there was some graph stuff one
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by kudokatz 8y ago
A deliberately-one-sided note of the downsides of home ownership: http://jlcollinsnh.com/2013/05/29/why-your-house-is-a-terrib...
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by kudokatz 8y ago
> These articles always ignore leverage. Generally, with 20% down you are leveraged 5:1. Don't forget that leverage works both ways; it magnifies the downside as well.
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> The big ambitions and dreams are gone so I don't feel that much pressure to achieve anymore. Also at that age the options to change one's life are pretty limited compared to being in your 20s. I would like to respectfully dis
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by kudokatz 9y ago
I can relate to both mindsets. I stay more frugal despite not needing to, so $700 is a lot to me. But the vitriol of saying "thou shall" is what I dislike. The psychological trauma of fearing the spending of any money is real .
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> Each file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk’s contents this is exactly the strategy described at the Google Cloud Summit 2017 relating to how security is managed for their pla
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> How long before we get to a situation where this is a realistic proposition for many people? the FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) movement is showing how most people can do this in a matter of 20 years instead of 40, w
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by kudokatz 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/793/ https://xkcd.com/1831/
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by kudokatz 9y ago
just out of curiosity, what drives you so strongly with themes of "lacking empathy" and "evil"?
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by kudokatz 9y ago
"The Arkansas-based company reported strong growth online, with e-commerce sales soaring 50 percent in the fiscal third quarter, a year after it acquired Jet.com. That's a slower pace than in the prior period when digital sales we
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> They probably knew it was "risky" in the sense that they were extending themselves but perhaps underestimated the tax consequences or risk of the company's fortunes turning "[over-]extending themselves" - risky
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by kudokatz 9y ago
Dealing with JRuby will just be that much more to manage, but will introduce the JVM in a single app. You don't have to do everything at once if you break into separate apps/boxes/services. We're growing to the point of
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> You're saving more than 50% of your pre-tax money? That is impressive and unusual. Many in the Financial Independence community are upwards of 70%. Having a partner with the same goal can keep that savings rate as high even with
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> In your 20s, your main competitive advantage is your ability to take risks. Why is this some "special ability" of 20-somethings? I definitely prefer the approach of becoming financially independent and then having 50+ years
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by kudokatz 9y ago
I feel the same with not having Clojure around at work anymore after I quit my last job. That said, at the new place that uses Rails we instilled a culture of avoiding stateful updates, preferring hash structures to mountains of object defi
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> There is also a very merciless bile people are constantly aiming at these new Amazon employees Yep, and that part is sad. To me it feels like they're projecting the few arrogant new-hires' attitudes onto everybody. Also, as
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by kudokatz 9y ago
It's also important to make sure people are well-rounded. If one can tweak an architecture to put a queue in the right spot, she/he may still be the person that cannot properly implement simple concepts like "separation of c
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> I don't see why not. There is such a thing as an implied contract. What do you think would be the reason that it wouldn't fly? IANAL. You cite a concept from contract law, but forget another: frustration of purpose. Saying
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> constantly breathing down their necks to cut corners and "get it done" meanwhile holding them accountable for any mistakes It's not just cutting corners in the actual implementation, but also the metrics and management i
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> the people who have the most trouble with work/life balance in development jobs, at least out here, is that they are too afraid of saying "no" absolutely true (at least in my case). I'd rather do that than end up o
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> It's also a problem when those same companies want to bitch and whine about a "talent shortage" or a lack of diverse candidates so much this. Why do companies get to receive all sorts of incentives to hire when candidat
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> 30 year old programmer with a 2 year old child at home ... nix him on the "merits" of ageism A choice, conscious or not, to dedicate time to raising a child at the opportunity cost of myriad other ways to spend time is not re
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by kudokatz 9y ago
anecdotally, I see a higher-than-normal correlation between those who are "more theoretical" and those who cannot adapt to change or differing situations. There's also an immense cost to not having CS fundamentals in terms of
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> When did you last switch jobs? I recently went through a round of employment where I quit my job at the beginning. The tone of this implies that lining up a new job without first quitting is outdated and negative. From the other side
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by kudokatz 9y ago
but the ruby community takes modules to magic extremes. Just take the overload of include vs. extend as one example. Some modules don't even have any reasonable error messages or try to detect when someone stomps on their names or da
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by kudokatz 9y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/ "Users can comment on files, send them to others for feedback, and upload new versions without having to resort to emailing multiple versions of their files as attachments. Users c
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> Now you can afford a mortgage that costs [more due to market distortions] sounds like a great way to push up prices!
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by kudokatz 9y ago
Their choice to buy a house like that in such a market and have a kid on top of a huge mortgage with almost no free time. Consider an alternative: live together in a tiny $3k/mo apartment, save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> like the ability to buy the flat after living in it for a certain number of years The market would price this in, and then renters would just pay more for that right. Why not just leave the system as-is and let them buy if they choose
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by kudokatz 9y ago
> Home ownership lowers income mobility by reducing the competitiveness of the labor market Yep. But I still bought anyways, even though houses are what I consider "bad investments" if looking at them in the abstract: * high t

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