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by loumf 13y ago
My father died of a brain aneurism when I was 2 years old (he was 26). If not for the safety net of SS insurance and VA benefits, I would have had a much harder childhood. I would love there to be more. I also think that discounting what w
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by loumf 13y ago
It's a significant market, not just in size, but in willingness to spend money. I didn't find Windows complex -- One nice thing about the MS world is the homogeneity of the stack, which makes a lot of things easier if it works for
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by loumf 13y ago
He made it his job. He sells polyglot e-books and courses.
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by loumf 13y ago
> the latter is undisputably true unless you're over the age Medicaid and unemployment do not depend on age. ACA provides healthcare insurance subsidies based on income, not age. SNAP and other programs exist as well. The US safety
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by loumf 13y ago
This was a ruling in 1985 based on physical theft laws being applied to copyright. <s>It also never made it to the Supreme Court.</s> (edited -- sorry misread this part) Since then, many other laws have been passed, and it&
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by loumf 13y ago
I think the author is pointing out that an applicant is more likely to believe that a job is interesting and a company is good to work for if their friend works there and is recommending it. So, those other things are taken into account, b
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by loumf 13y ago
This jibes with an anecdote in "Peopleware". A client staffed new projects by posting them internally where anyone could apply. The authors studied how projects were chosen by applicants, because the client was worried that impor
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by loumf 13y ago
That was in the rules and quickly abandoned. What they care about is that you don't load new code from the Internet. Ostensibly, the reason is security, but the real reason is they don't want you to make an app store. JavaScript
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by loumf 13y ago
We are willing to pay for SaaS monthly because the nature of the service is that they have to keep providing it for us to get value. Is that true for fonts? If the foundry stopped working, would I not be able to derive value from the font.
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by loumf 13y ago
Seems like a pretty small sample size. Shouldn't we expect it to be less like the overall market?
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by loumf 13y ago
Banks used to fail all of the time with depositors losing assets. This caused a lot of problems, so we enacted some regulation. Now banks still fail (several weekly, without much notice), but depositors have mandated insurance. Are you aga
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by loumf 13y ago
It is only correct if the random SF and Florida salaries are correct. I work in rural MA and make considerably more than the given SF salary (non-remote). The SF salary is probably better on average (the 50 percentile), but I stand by my s
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by loumf 13y ago
Why base your saving % on your salary? Again, delta is all that matters. From my experience, that delta is higher in low expense areas. The assumption I'm making is that the typical HN'er is a top performer who can demand top per
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by loumf 13y ago
Show HN should be set to text, not a URL. Then link in a comment (so it's clickable).
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by loumf 13y ago
For savings, the only thing that matters is the delta between expenses and income. I live in rural Massachusetts and had no problem maxing 401k for 20 years. I used to live in NYC and the delta is way higher here even though the raw salar
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by loumf 13y ago
There are CRM plugins that do it for you automatically when you view records. At the low-end, when I go into Mailchimp, there's a pay plugin (that I don't use) that puts up social information. If anyone emails me, Rapportive brin
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by loumf 13y ago
Commuting on what? My long commutes on Amtrak and Buses have access to power -- which means my MacBook is fine. It is really a hard tradeoff of screen size to portability if you don't need to worry about power. If you do need to worry
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by loumf 13y ago
Learn C the Hard Way. If you basically know C, skip forward -- it starts from nothing, but has some real gems that advanced C programmers would benefit from going over. http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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by loumf 13y ago
This is an excellent initiative. However, their focus is on in-school internet, which may be a problem in some places, but not near me. The in-school internet is fine, and they even have some technical classes. But, to a kid, that wants to
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by loumf 13y ago
I'm not part of an organization -- it's mostly 1:1 with people I find through other volunteering (Big Brothers, talking at middle schools, etc). We wing it based on their interest. I posted because PG said a YC non-profit was look
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by loumf 13y ago
They just have to go to central places (cafes, libraries). It's not easy. Also, not everything we do needs internet -- we tear apart and rebuild desktops -- that's actually a fairly easy thing to teach even a young kid.
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by loumf 13y ago
Not for a desktop computer for programming purposes. Access to google, stack overflow, github, hosting, etc.
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by loumf 13y ago
Bill Gates did a pretty good job before that (whereas Jobs and Page&Brin brought in adults)
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by loumf 13y ago
She was an investment banker, I believe (or some equivalent) at the time YC was formed. I seriously doubt PG would take on a cofounder that couldn't pull her weight, even if he were in love with her.
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She has a CS degree.
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by loumf 13y ago
In a footnote, PG says the poor need hardware to program. I work with poor kids (and volunteer to teach technology to them). Hardware is relatively easy to come by (there are cheap options and donations), but access to the Internet is not.
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by loumf 13y ago
Unfortunately even modern webpages are very bandwidth intensive (by LTE standards) compared to what is usually served up to phones.
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by loumf 13y ago
If the unlimited is for the phone, then it may be illegal to circumvent[1]. Even if not, it's against the terms of service and certainly unethical. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_piggybacking
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by loumf 13y ago
Looks like there's a way to skip the checkin with a code that you get from the business.
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by loumf 13y ago
Probably because the post was incongruous with why they subscribed in the first place. 10% of what number? Which post gets you the most subscriptions? Picking Sam Walton as a role-model of happiness is unsubstantiated -- he was definitely

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