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by malyk 12y ago
When people ask me where I'm from I say "DC". I actually grew up in Alexandria, VA. But I'm not lying to those people[1], I'm trying to give them a general idea of where I'm from that they are most likely to
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Interesting and seems to match my experience. My guess is the freedom to try new things would be a way to maintain or improve ones happiness. There are a ton of things I wish I had time to do/learn/experience, but the general tre
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by malyk 12y ago
You should re-calibrate your winning condition to "spends the most time relaxing" instead of "makes the most money". Really, you should do whatever you like, but part of the problem is that our collective winning conditi
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Here are some constraints that I can come up with in a minute of thinking. 1.) Land costs. If you are building inside a major city land costs are huge, and you need acres of land. Outside of cities can be less expensive, but it's sti
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by malyk 12y ago
Some of the best clubs in the city are in the Tenderloin. Some of the best music venues are in areas that are "questionable". Same with the various theaters, the symphony, the opera, etc. They are always packed with people. Peop
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The videos were super choppy for me. Maybe you could preload some percentage of the videos before they start to play?
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Thanks. I'm not sure either. It's my impression that most people, maybe not on HN, but most people, think of the "top 1%" as people who make absurd amounts of money. But the reality is that it "only" takes $38
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by malyk 12y ago
According to this[1] New York Times graphic the following household incomes place you in these percentiles. Top 1%: $383,000 Top 5%: $188,000 Top 10%: $140,000 Top 25%: $89,125 Top 50%: $50,742 Top 75%: $25,411 Top 90%: $12,154 Give that th
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by malyk 13y ago
It's not that it's too hard, it's just not something I want to worry about. I think some people like to really organize things and some see it as a hassle. For myself my inbox has essentially two folders. Inbox and Archived
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by malyk 13y ago
The government has certain contract set asides to help various types of companies get contracts. It's basically like affirmative action for contracting (vary broadly speaking). Basically if you have a female/minority/veteran
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Exactly. And we've built an environment where it's not possible or not pleasant to build these types of places.
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Rent for my 1 bedroom/1 bath, 1000 sq ft. loft in SF: $3200 Mortgage for my 2 bed/1 bath, 1200 sq ft. home in Oak: $1900* We had to pay ~$70k in closing costs, so it isn't /easy/ to just go and buy something, but on
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by malyk 13y ago
This is possible in second tier cities in the states. My wife and I bought a house in oakland at the end of 2012 and do exactly what you say. We're building a permaculture garden in our yard (which is only 40'x50' in back,
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by malyk 13y ago
On a general consumer website since the start of 2014: IE: 32% - 11: 42% - 10: 16% - 9: 18.4% - 8: 20.2% - 7: 2.4% - 6: 0.07%
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by malyk 13y ago
Note that the whole essay retargets tarsnap as a secure backup business. Not paranoid geeks.
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For geeks. Not for business people who have to make the decision to pay for it. Of course, you don't make the change if you don't want to become the B2B mega secure backup business that patrick is pitching. But if you do want to
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by malyk 13y ago
I think he meant that pluralism didn't give women the right to vote for a long time.
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The pattern matching IS SEXIST! That's the whole issue. Your using gender as a "pattern" to match against. The point is to try to overcome making that match.
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by malyk 13y ago
You don't have the storage/backup and organization costs. I don't ever want to "own" a song or movie again. They're all online. I use rdio now, but if it went away I'd use spotify. If that went away I&#x
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by malyk 13y ago
That takes care of the hardware, but not the UI/UX.
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And while "the market" is trying to figure this out a generation of people are suffering with no/minimal income, no real safety net, etc. The market is great, but you can't just sit around and wait for it to figure thing
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by malyk 13y ago
I bet dhh is going to say something like "then refactor your controller into a service/interactor/etc., but not before". YAGNI, and all that.
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The Murders Before the Marathon(bostonmagazine.com)
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Each one of the leagues has their own league pass so you can watch online. That doesn't work well if you want to watch the local team due to blackout restrictions, but it does if you just a general fan or you've moved away from yo
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by malyk 13y ago
It also had plenty of unintended negative consequences. See suburban sprawl, oil dependency, the health impacts of commuting, and a ton of other negative impacts.
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What's wrong with doing it manually, especially if you have good tests?
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I think that analysis is also short sited. Yes, they where upside down on their marginal costs right now, but that's because they went the minimal engineering effort way and used AWS to get things started. By raising a large(r) round
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by malyk 13y ago
I currently work at a Real Estate startup. It's a very interesting space with an enormous amount of opportunity for innovation including search, mortgages, notaries, inspections, document delivery/storage, legal, moving, CRM, etc
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I think the growing consensus on using a dvcs is that you should work on easily separated chunks of functionality in their own branch. Commit whenever you feel like it throughout the lifecycle of working on that feature, then go back and s
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by malyk 13y ago
You might be able to research leg-room when you buy a ticket, but there is no way to guarantee you get the same plane or same seating configuration when you show up at the airport. Over New Years my wife and I flew United from IAD to SFO. C

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