metamicah

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by metamicah 8y ago
> It seems like you're saying "yeah you're a girly man, that's what you are now, better learn to embrace it" rather than "learn to express yourself how you want". It's true, I am saying that. I thi
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by metamicah 8y ago
I share in your pain. This world is openly cruel to men that don't follow gender norms, and we often have to wear uncomfortable masks to keep ourselves safe from all the jerks out there. It is exhausting to wear those masks all day, an
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by metamicah 8y ago
No, it's corporate income tax, a direct tax imposed by the federal government on corporations. The rate can be 15% to 35% but there are so many deductions available that large companies like Amazon are often able to dodge it completely
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by metamicah 8y ago
The comment you responded to specifically says "in the context of the unlimited future of the company" which I took to be much longer than a year.
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by metamicah 8y ago
That 20% drop brought its stock value back to where it was a year ago, which was an all-time high for it then. Investors that have held it for longer than a year can still sell it at a profit.
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by metamicah 8y ago
Your desire for a "hipster small town, built around bikes and walkability" describes the cores of a lot of college towns: Olympia, Missoula, Boise, Eugene, Arcata, Davis, Bozeman, etc. They all have good coffee, too! Not sure if t
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by metamicah 8y ago
A lot of this advice (pay down high-interest debt first, have an emergency fund) is reasonable no matter what the market conditions are. But the common wisdom is that "time in the market beats market timing." Since these boom-and-
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by metamicah 9y ago
Some of these functions (like SIGN, STUFF, and PARSENAME) set off little alarms in my head that sound vaguely like a full-stack developer furiously yelling "DON'T HANDLE THIS IN YOUR DATABASE LAYER." Of course we don't a
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by metamicah 10y ago
YMMV but one method I like to mitigate the issue the article talks about is keeping documentation in source control, and requiring a change to documentation (or explanation why there should be no documentation change) in association with th
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by metamicah 10y ago
Maybe it's just practicality: there's not much business sense in having leaders that publicly work against some of the most deeply meaningful interests of a significant portion of their employees.
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by metamicah 10y ago
The NYT admits in this death notice for a spy that it was it manipulated by the CIA: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/us/austin-goodrich-spy-who... In 1976 George HW Bush declared that the CIA wouldn&#x
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by metamicah 10y ago
I'm a solo developer in a non-tech group and I'm all about this. I add every idea to the issue tracking system. I prioritize based on consensus, feasibility, and alignment with our group's strategy. Half the ideas won't
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by metamicah 10y ago
You mentioned how you're different from a bunch of dating apps -- do you see your app as primarily competing in that space? My first reaction was instead that if successful, your app would do more to disrupt the Meetup.com space than s