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by mdakin 17y ago
Anyone running a small business (well over 10,000,000 people in the USA) will be deducting business expenses. It would be silly (nuts?) to fill out Schedule C but not deduct business expenses. I suspect an even larger number of people curr
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by mdakin 17y ago
I have often wondered why Republicans/Libertarians/other-tax-haters have never (as far as I know) made a serious effort to abolish the automated W2-style paycheck withholding. If everyone was required to write out checks to the IRS manually
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by mdakin 17y ago
Income is only part of the equation. You also need a mechanism to track all business expenses and various itemized deductions. That basically implies that you can't automate it without having all transactions tracked and categorized. W
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by mdakin 17y ago
Tangurena/micks56 provide extremely useful tactical information. But that information does not change my point. The objective is still to raise the $250 number. The strategy is still negotiation. Disclosure of bullying to the world at l
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by mdakin 17y ago
Negotiate a better price. If you can't agree on a price and Zillow cuts you off spread the word about that fact.
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by mdakin 17y ago
You might like The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. Not the greatest book but it's about a hacker trying to change things for sure. And some of the details and concepts are exceptional. Best black-hat hacker short story goes to "Burning
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by mdakin 17y ago
Very interesting. Perhaps next time I'm back East I'll try them out!
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by mdakin 17y ago
Your claim is of sync with reality at least with respect to travel between Boston and New York City. Acela Express is much roomier than a bus. Has laptop power connections. Some seats have desks/tables. You can get up and walk around.
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by mdakin 17y ago
Wow, it's much cheaper if you're a single male (no maternity benefits included) in Calif. at least (and Wyoming and Mass. from experience). I have a Blue Cross PPO right now for $85/month. They are upping the rate to $140. I will be leav
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by mdakin 17y ago
Your statement reminds me of one of David Reynolds's concepts discussed in his book _Constructive Living_. Which was an interesting and quick read although somehow a bit unsatisfying. I've not thought about the "why" of that satisfaction
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by mdakin 18y ago
Indeed it's wild. Didn't mention in my orig. post but at the ESC demo Ewing made the point that given the various overheads typical performance is closer to 100 kbps and bursty FWIW. Still fast compared to my first POTS modem which ran at
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by mdakin 18y ago
Yesterday at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose I saw David Ewing of Synapse demo his company's cool Python-controlled mesh networking hardware/software. The embedded devices contain a Python bytecode interpreter. You blast your c
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Tiny computers + wireless mesh network + Python → Awesome(us.pycon.org)
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by mdakin 18y ago
There is a personality questionnaire called the "Temperament and Character Inventory" which purports to partition personality into a few dimensions of temperament some of which (supposedly) emerge from the independent neurotransmitter syste
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by mdakin 18y ago
WebCore and JavaScriptCore are primarily written in C++ and all code within them is virally licensed under LGPL. Apple did not change the license. Some portions of WebCore and JavaScriptCore if compiled independently would be licensed und
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by mdakin 18y ago
I believe it's a combo of LGPL and BSD.
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by mdakin 18y ago
Apple certainly "gives back" substantial amounts of code. Perhaps not as much as you and I want but your statement is a misrepresentation of fact. The amount of open-source goodness Apple has added to WebKit (née KHTML) alone is ridiculou
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by mdakin 18y ago
The MIT probability class targeted at EECS students is 6.041. It is on OCW. It provides a solid foundation in probability with an emphasis on applications (rather than proof). Statistics is but one application of probability and is not h
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by mdakin 18y ago
Much can be learned by looking at other fields which do complex "design based" work and are much older than Computer Science. In particular the various other engineering disciplines and the discipline of architecture. In these fields you
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by mdakin 18y ago
Indirect link to the actual paper: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195430
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by mdakin 18y ago
The general rule for "meta" is: "meta-X" → "X about X." Examples: "meta-data" → "data about data", "meta-language" → "language about language", "meta-vanity" → "vanity about vanity" (a concept explored by the late DFW though he termed it "
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by mdakin 18y ago
All this experiment demonstrates is the extreme importance of style and presentation. If you say something negative in a joyful, entertaining way as opposed to a bitchy way people value your contribution more (enough more that the negative
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by mdakin 18y ago
I think the type of friend you want is rare. But there is hope-- these people want to find you as much as you want to find them! Do what it takes to meet and get to know as many people as possible. I don't mean to befriend them all by an
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by mdakin 18y ago
"Cooks Illustrated" is great but I prefer the recipes from their other site/magazine "Cooks Country." You might want to check out CC before subscribing to CI in case your palate is similar to my own.
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by mdakin 18y ago
Wow, memories. Reminds me of going to the 2600 meetings in the Pru's food court and hanging out with guys from the other sides of Boston who I'd have known no other way. Guys with whom I'd later go to college and/or start companies. Remi
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by mdakin 18y ago
emacs's integration with C/C++'s compile/build/debug cycle is insanely good. M-x compile and M-x gdb work perfectly. Integration with Common Lisp (SBCL at least) and Python are both also excellent. I can't speak about other languages/syste
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by mdakin 18y ago
emacs's "keyboard macros" feature is something I've not seen in any IDE and when you master it and start getting creative with it you can save insane amounts of time. Basically any time you need to make a bunch of changes of the same patte
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by mdakin 18y ago
You're welcome! Probably obvious but I recommend scanning or photocopying the exercises rather than marking up the book itself.
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by mdakin 18y ago
That's true for one-liners in any language.
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by mdakin 18y ago
Put it all on one line then! :) I just grepped some of my C/C++ code and my one-liners consistently look like this: virtual const std::string& getCommand() const throw() { return m_command ; }

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