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by malyk 14y ago
All the technology stuff is great, but as for this being the city of the future? Pass! It's far to spread out. It's not very walkable. There's too much space dedicated to parking. etc. It fails almost every test for being a good city.
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by malyk 14y ago
Of course. If everyone was a perfect little rational automaton then they would weigh all the factors and choose appropriately. Bu they aren't. Social and cultural norms, advertising, pride, self esteem, distance and on and on influence peop
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by malyk 14y ago
The various streaming packages are pretty good for live sports IF you live outside your home teams region AND your team isn't featured on national broadcasts often (applies to the NHL for sure, not sure about the others). NHL Game Center Li
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by malyk 14y ago
Yup, great if it works for you and is convenient. My wife and I have folding bikes that we use to bike to BART (closer than any casual carpool pickup). When we lived in SF my wife walked to work and I took a bus. So our daily commute cost w
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by malyk 14y ago
That is true in oakland too. Or actually, maybe it's berkeley. it's tough to know living on the border!
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by malyk 14y ago
My wife and I moved to Oakland in October. The reasons we moved were basically: - We wanted more interior space. Our SF loft was awesome, but was one giant room, and we wanted to be able to have guests and give them (and us) some privacy.
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by malyk 14y ago
The main Rails app that I work in is a medium sized app and runs at 220mb memory usage on a dyno on averae. It spikes to the 350mb range occasionally probably from image generation with rmagick or PDF generation.
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by malyk 14y ago
But you NO how to comparison shop. And you have access to a supermarket that has what you want. And you have the time to cook. And you have the time to save. And you have pots and pans. And you have adequate food storage containers. An
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by malyk 14y ago
If you are using the NewRelic add-on you can go to the "dynos" tab and see the memory footprint of your application over time. The Heroku memory cap is 512mb, so if you stay a decent amount of space clear of that then you are likely to be
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by malyk 14y ago
It's also fatally broken in landscape mode on mobile safari.
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by malyk 14y ago
You are definitely correct. My post was a little snarky and written way too quickly to get any real point across. My real point is that, regardless of whether or not wage stagnation has occurred, the "middle class" is not in a good positio
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by malyk 14y ago
What about happiness? Hope for the future? Ability to have your spouse raise the kids at home while you earned enough to pay for a house and car? And the idea that life expectancy is what counts is absurd. 79 years of fighting for jobs w
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by malyk 14y ago
Oops, didn't mean your directions but the OP's, of course. Just thought this thread was a good place for the answer and you had a nicely formatted pyramid. And, for the record, I'm a programmer, think I'm reasonably intelligent, and still
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by malyk 14y ago
This phrase: "...adding the two numbers to the right and left of it on the row above it..." Doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What is the "it"? row 1: is obviously easy. row 2: I think you are adding 0 to 1 and 1 to 0 to get 1 and 1 row 3
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by malyk 14y ago
A great book that was recently released that talks about how to "fix" cities is Walkable City by Jeff Speck. Very compelling read. http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp...
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by malyk 14y ago
Median household income in the US is $52,762. $75,000 is roughly the 70th percentile. $75,000 is A LOT of money. It amazes me how skewed peoples views of income are here at HN. Most of us live in a fantasy land of $100+k jobs, stock opti
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by malyk 14y ago
The big difference is that NFL players are typically drafted at the age of 22 after they've gone through college. NHL players are typically drafted at 18. Very few of them go the NCAA route. Those that do go that route can't be paid in an
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by malyk 14y ago
You live here. You agree. If you don't, move to somalia or something. (somalia is tongue in cheek, obviously).
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by malyk 14y ago
Anything north of berkeley and you run into the same suburbia that exists in the south bay with your applebees and big box stores. Emeryville is like that too, but the North Oakland/Berkeley area is really nice and downtown Oakland is gett
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by malyk 14y ago
Also remove the cap at which you no longer collect SS from payrolls. It's something around $105,000. You don't get taxed for SS on any income past that amount. The SS tax structure is one of the most regressive taxes we have.
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by malyk 14y ago
And why does it matter if it's already been taxed once?
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by malyk 14y ago
And its not all sslenpoint sites either. We've been up through the whole thing. Which is critical seeing as we are a gifting company that provides an easy last minute gift!
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by malyk 14y ago
I just moved in to a house that has a gas on-demand hot water heater and I basically can't figure out why we use so much energy to keep gallons of hot water on hand all the time. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I think the upfront c
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by malyk 14y ago
Except that tax rates in canada are about the same as they are here in the states.
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Or do basically anything at all, really.
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Of course, the blog post seriously breaks when viewed on an iPhone (and rotated from landscape to portrait) and breaks the back button. Lame. Otherwise the app update looks pretty good.
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by malyk 14y ago
Hmmm, maybe that is it then. I'd be surprised if I was getting that data rate on my 3G connection (iphone 4s, at&t). I'm still shocked it happened so quickly though. I guess 5 GB isn't what it used to be! ;)
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by malyk 14y ago
Last month I moved and didn't have an ISP at home for the first 3 weeks or so. I set up tethering on my phone and a 5GB data plan. Yesterday I got a notice that I was over my data limit. I haven't done a whole lot of web surfing in the new
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by malyk 14y ago
I've never studied for an interview. I guess I have some internal feeling that you should hire me based on what I know...not what I crammed for the night(s) before an interview. Or maybe it's confidence? I don't know. I've been programmi
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by malyk 14y ago
Jeff posted a question in the Programmers Symposium of the Ars Technica forum asking how the members there felt about forum software. Personally, I think the ars forum works perfectly. I can't stand newsgroups, for instance...i'd be in hea

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