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by malyk 11y ago
Have you looked a company like rainforest qa or any of the other crowdsourced testing companies? Your tool seems like an excellent fit to have their users use so bug submissions are better for developers. That's the "easier"
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by malyk 11y ago
I wonder if a "sudden" interest in eastern religions/philosophy is a precursor to bi-polar diagnoses often. My aunt went through something very similar where she was just my normal aunt, then started going deep into buddhism,
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by malyk 11y ago
3 come to mind... First, as the lead on a team of 3 I wrote a web app in 2 months that caused the cancellation of a $30+M contract that had been given to a competitor. The team decided to try out Ruby on Rails for the first time (this was 2
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by malyk 11y ago
1.) We'd have to implement it so that starting somewhere on the pay scale, taxes increase so that by some point you pay back to full $10k you received. Naively: $25k income you pay back $1000 of the $10k in taxes at $50k, pay back $25
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by malyk 11y ago
I make somewhere around ~150k and feel like people in my income bracket should pay more taxes. I absolutely have no sympathy for a household making $1M "only" keeping $0.47 of ever additional dollar. And yes. I could write a check
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by malyk 11y ago
Lots of short side street trips (groceries, hardware, parks) and a few longer trips (hiking nearby, weekwnd getaways, etc) but I only drive it on the weekends. I take transit to work. Highway driving is brutal on the battery (in a mileage c
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by malyk 11y ago
But society provides an unfair distribution of the benefits of society. A black male born in west Oakland doesn't receive nearly the societal benefit as a white male born to a family a couple miles away in Peidmont. So why should we ta
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by malyk 11y ago
My 2014 volt regularly gets 42 miles on battery only which would change your calculations a bit.
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by malyk 11y ago
For me, all I really need are decent syntax highlighting, in file autocomplete, fast global search, and a quick file open by name (CMD-t on a Mac) to be productive. But, I've been doing 90% ruby for the last 7 years. I might feel diffe
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by malyk 11y ago
5x$5 for a breakfast coffee/bagel 5x$10-$15 for lunch 5x$3 for an afternoon coffee 3x$30 for dinners/drinks out per week ---- 4x$200 per week in food out 4x$100 per week for food for the home ---- $1200 per month for food. 5x$4-$1
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by malyk 11y ago
"Brogrammer" seems to me to be a reaction to the increasing number of "finance" types into the startup/tech world. The perception, if not reality, was that software development was the domain of "nerds" an
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by malyk 11y ago
There's an interesting Freakonomics episode about testing for Huntington's disease. Turns out some people want to know and some people don't. Me, I'd absolutely want to know. If I had a good chance to get it then I&#x
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by malyk 11y ago
This is exactly what happens in my. Sigh irbid on the other side of Oakland (Golden Gate). There are a few white residents that post suspicious person posts/images on what seems like every person that walks down the street. I've t
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by malyk 11y ago
mooreds answer is spot on. I'd add that experienced agents also know how to spot potential issues when touring houses, what work you should and shouldn't do to prepare your house for sale, and can provide a network of providers to
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by malyk 11y ago
As a student I loved word problems and hated the straight equation ones. It always pissed me off that there were 35 explicit 45 - 17 = ? questions and 4 word problems. I wonder what, if anything, that says about people. Should I start ask
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by malyk 11y ago
Just because this thread is filled with negativity... My wife and I have stayed in a bunch of airbnb's (Aptos CA, Oregon House CA, Portland OR, Palo Alto, CA, San Diego CA, Princeville & Kapa'a HI, Seville & Barcelona (Las
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by malyk 11y ago
In my backyard garden the argentine ants farm aphids and red scale (at least) on my plants. So...don't use argentine ants. They are jerks!
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by malyk 11y ago
And also: "They did not find strong evidence that organic foods are more nutritious or carry fewer health risks than conventional alternatives, though consumption of organic foods can reduce the risk of pesticide exposure." Limiti
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by malyk 11y ago
Roughly $100k after paying roughly 40% +/- in taxes. Very rough numbers of course.
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by malyk 11y ago
Freakonomics just did a 2 part podcast on sleep. Part 1: http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/06/the-economics-of-sleep-pa... Part 2: http://freakonomics.com/2015/07/16/the-economics
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by malyk 11y ago
I believe the 2016 volt will be a 5 seater. I have a '14 and the storage space seems fine to me. No kids though. I did put 14 large bags of mulch in the back once... The Volt also does a really great job with range vs. the driving ha
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by malyk 11y ago
When I started my first job out of college in 2001 the way the company did it for my masters program was to give interest free loans to cover the cost, then forgave that loan balance over the course of a few years (forget how long). I got m
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by malyk 11y ago
Ruby web dev here...I pretty much use liberal puts statements (actually the awesome_print) gem. It's never really been a problem for me with ruby. 2001-2007 I was primarily a Java developer and the debugger was essential. But since swi
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by malyk 11y ago
I believe california will buy cars that can't pass the smog check for $1500 for low income earners and $1000 to others. http://www.smogtips.com/vehicle_buy_back.cfm
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by malyk 12y ago
It's also available on Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/
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by malyk 12y ago
They probably didn't include the wastewater fee in that calculation. Here in Oakland we pay that same fee. Here's my last bill: WATER SERVICE CHARGE: 29.38 WATER FLOW CHARGE 7 UNITS @2.91: 20.37 SEISMIC IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM SURCHA
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by malyk 12y ago
My wife and I live in Oakland on ~$160k a year, own a home, and live a relatively lavish lifestyle. So yeah, I'm in a "worse" situation then I outlines and in reality, in the upper class of quality of life.
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by malyk 12y ago
I don't believe that there is any true definition of classes here in the states. Some look only at the numbers, some look at how money is made, some look at the type of work, etc. To me the distinction is all about quality of life. Th
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by malyk 12y ago
- In 2008 I moved from DC to SF and kept my job. - I started thinking about moving in May, near the end of June I brought it up as a possibility and to see if there was any possible chance it would work for my employer. In late July we work
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by malyk 12y ago
The Parking Is Hell Freakonomics episode is pretty good. In it they estimate that there are something like 800 million parking spaces in the country and recounted a study by Donald Shoup that estimates that up to 30% of traffic in cities a

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