megaman8

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by megaman8 8y ago
It means Alternate account. players are pretty bitter about the use of ALTs because they're used to join opponent alliances and then spy on them. hence, most alliances now have a pretty rigorous "getting to know you period"
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by megaman8 8y ago
It was always worthless Options that could never be sold. One company's options I worked for 6 years, was worth about 4K after taxes, fully vested. Our typical bonuses were 1-2%. A 10% bonus was considered very high.
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by megaman8 8y ago
> "hope to make 400k" Even with 10-20 years of experience in the bay area at small, medium, large size software companies, I've never ever made anything close to that amount.
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by megaman8 8y ago
after logging in with facebook, there is a in-game sign-in if you don't want to use the facebook login. Due to ALTs we can't really allow non-fb signups.
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by megaman8 8y ago
If you enjoy the more political aspects to space strategy games and the inter-alliance diplomacy derived gameplay, you might want to give my game a try: https://www.clicktaz.com
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by megaman8 8y ago
Depends on where. Location, can increase your salary by 50% or more and increase your cost of living by 200% to 600% or more.
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by megaman8 8y ago
Seems quite comprehensive, perhaps more than any web developer needs to know, but a good resource nonetheless. For FE, I'm glad DOM manipulation is in there somewhere. These days with modern frameworks becoming a big thing an all, I f
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by megaman8 8y ago
As a consumer, at this point (unless they can make it fly), I'd rather have them add reliability and reduce the total cost of ownership.
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by megaman8 8y ago
Chicago may be blue, but it has relatively few regulation for housing compared with cities here. And the cost of labor is lower there than cities in CA.
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by megaman8 8y ago
What's crazy is, even with the insanely high rents, they would still need to go much higher in order to make high-rise construction profitable. I think we really need to start looking at what exactly is driving all those costs in thes
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by megaman8 8y ago
That's a neat little game. So creative, simple and intuitive to play. Best of all I didn't have to read any tutorials to get started. By the way, if you're interested in making your own tile based RPG game, I'm develop
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by megaman8 8y ago
employees don't have enough bargaining power to push wages up, so FAANGS only need to pay a 50% premium for wages, relative to other parts of the country. The decision makers who decide where people work would rather have the convenie
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by megaman8 8y ago
I don't see how this is a good investment for them. Keeping it empty means, they're loosing 1.3% + the cost of maintenance, HOA, and insurance (1.6% total) every year. And since we're towards the top of the 12 year micro bu
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by megaman8 8y ago
As we speak, Austin is following in CA's footsteps. The very same ones kicked out of CA, are now voting NIMBY in Austin as well.
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by megaman8 8y ago
You have to remember, the % increase in housing inventory was already extroadinarily low. So if that tiny number doubles, it's not as big of a change as you might imagine.
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by megaman8 8y ago
This is an excellent point, and is the Primary reason why we have this housing crisis. Things like zoning and regulation can theoretically be fixed, if voters wisen up. But the longer this goes on, the more middle class residents will leav
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by megaman8 8y ago
There's pretty decent demand right now in some areas, but it depends on where you're located. Here in the bay area, there's good demand in SF and palo alto, but very few jobs in the east bay and lots of talent. But, it&#x27
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by megaman8 8y ago
several of my VR friends who have VR headsets don't seem to use them very much, often going for months without using it. I would guess that means the current experience is underwhelming. there's still a lot of work to be done he
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by megaman8 8y ago
You're right. Here in the exurbs where there's 6 lane highways and one way is completely clogged, I can see miles and miles of empty space where housing could've been built, had the zoning commission any common sense at all.
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by megaman8 8y ago
There is a vast amount of regulation at play now. On techcrunch I read an article that said developers now have to use super computers to analyze all the regulations, in order to plan constructions now, all due to over-regulation.
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by megaman8 8y ago
much of the defense spending is hidden in other areas: like Dept of energy, dept of veteran affairs, homeland security, etc. So it's a lot bigger than it looks.
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Show HN: Habit activity tracker, with graphs of all your excercises(habit.world)
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by megaman8 8y ago
I find it hard to believe that skin products actually change your skin quality. My wife has been applying all kinds of creams and products to her face half an hour or more every day for decades. We're the same age and our skin qualit
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by megaman8 8y ago
despite all the advertising, it may surprise you to learn that it's actually quite rare for people to buy expensive clothes. i looked it up one time. i think it said less than 1% of the jeans sold in the US cost more than 50$
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by megaman8 8y ago
I hope all these mostly useless malls get replaced with things are that more needed: libraries, decent grocery stores, farm co-ops/local farming, and especially housing. At the end of the day, humans need shelter more than they need s
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by megaman8 8y ago
It's not their problem because way too many people want to work for those companies.
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by megaman8 8y ago
I suspect when someone asks you to tell what they really think of them, the word really should come with an asterik.
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by megaman8 8y ago
somehow this post reminds me of Joel's post on Fire and Motion. Joel wrote about the fact that Microsoft would come out with more and more APIs to slow down developers in the industry from developing more apps on the windows platform.
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by megaman8 8y ago
This is extremely concerning: >> “I disagree with the statement that these funds are protected by SIPC,” Stephen Harbeck, president and chief executive officer of SIPC As a result, I will not be signing up for Robinhood, that's f
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by megaman8 8y ago
For a new site, this sure has a lot of content. Seems like there's a lot to read there. It is refreshing to see that not every start up is successful. Ultimately, I think, most software startups all fail because of 2 reasons: 1. buil

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