milesvp

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by milesvp 10y ago
And if there's some compelling reason not to charge, for the love of god, make sure the hours show up on the bill, with a seperate row for credited hours. You are doing your client a huge disservice by hiding hours you actually worked,
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by milesvp 10y ago
This only works in some magical tax depreciation scheme. In reality, monthly mortgage costs in an area are going to be market driven as are rental prices for the exact same property, and while the two axis aren't completely orthogonal
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by milesvp 10y ago
I imagine this to be a problem as well. One of the things I've been starting to hypothesize a lot about is gut biome effects on diet and nutrition. If you just up and change your overnight, your gut flora doesn't have time to evol
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by milesvp 10y ago
Sounds like you're a Johnny. http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/ti...
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by milesvp 10y ago
I'd bet you're under 35 ;) I've heard several reports that casinos can't get millenials to play slots, and I suspect it's because they're very unsophisticated compared to even the most basic video game.
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by milesvp 10y ago
I've seen a similar paper quoted in one of the books on my shelf talking about a really long chain of logic gates that evolved in an FPGA for some physically situated agent (aka, robot). The chain couldn't be doing anything from a
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by milesvp 10y ago
so, a cd. You can't buy an index fund, because for the timeframe we're talking there's a high risk the market will be down when a big opportunity presents itself. My problem with the article is that it's missing the impo
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by milesvp 10y ago
Probably a valid complaint against code like this. In an organization with a lot of more junior developers I might strike this code in a code review as being non obvious. On the other hand, I trust this code more than similar basic conditio
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by milesvp 10y ago
As a chat service, you may have some options for adding premium emoji, premium avatars, or other digital displays of wealth. Digital gifts can be another option. Ok Cupid is rumored to have made a lot on digital roses. Premium services like
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by milesvp 10y ago
Not really. Fundamentally all he's saying is that there is a huge benefit from seeing distortions to reality. If you prcieved all threats in a red outline as you walked down the street, you'd be better able to avoid them. You can
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by milesvp 10y ago
> but by far the single biggest driver of rising tuitions for public colleges has been declining state funding for higher education Nonsense. The single biggest factor in rising tuition is that student debt cannot be discharged. Which me
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by milesvp 10y ago
So much this. I don't trust an engineer who's never done maintenance work. And I really don't trust an engineer who's never been on call. I find that they write vastly different (usually much simpler) systems. Personally
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by milesvp 10y ago
It's always interesting to hear another person talk about this. I've seen an article or two talking about how under served the working class is in regards to software. Makes me wonder how much of it is economic, and how much of it
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by milesvp 10y ago
I'm not sure you're worries are about the right things. As an entreprenuer I highly value safety nets. The odds of failing are so high that without things like publicly supported bankruptcy I don't think I'd ever risk go
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by milesvp 10y ago
I doubt it. I suspect that for sufficiently complex creatures, sex is the rule not the exception. The benefits from genetic crossover are so powerful from an evolutionary survival point of view, that it very much outweighs the cost of coord
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by milesvp 10y ago
This. I've been programming this way for over a decade. Long before JSON was a thing. I find I rarely need anythng more than a list or a dict for most of the data manipulation I do. Being on the web has only strengthened my tendency fo
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by milesvp 10y ago
I would argue it'd be negligible. We live in a world fueled by fear, primarily because it's now so easy to hear about the edge cases. I used to blame newspapers for this, but it's gotten so much worse with social media. Now e
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by milesvp 10y ago
This video was fantastic. I became firmly convinced that optics were used during this time period when I saw the subtle optical distortions that could be explained by optics being repositioned during painting.
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by milesvp 10y ago
So this probably just shows my ignorance, but I was under the impression that modern browsers isolated running js to running on a single processor? The only part of the article to touch on this was the part talking about the operating syste
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by milesvp 10y ago
Not sure how much gut bacteria will help with weight loss, but it does seem to go the other way. One of my favorite papers in the field in the last couple years shows a potential causal relationship between obesity and gut biomes by using a
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by milesvp 10y ago
The best models that predict surface temperatures that I've seen have to do with the deep sea ocean conveyors ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation ). There's something like 3 major currents
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by milesvp 10y ago
This field feels like it's starting to blow up. I'm seeing lots of studies dealing with gut microbiomes. And from talking to a lab developer I know, it seems like this is largely because computing has become super cheap (think AWS
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by milesvp 11y ago
This. It's the only website I've found that actually has ads relevant to the site, ads I want to see and am receptive for. My understanding from what I've gleaned from their blog, is that this really worked out for them (thou
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by milesvp 11y ago
Don't try to fight your biology and never play to your weakness. I might generally agree with your sentiment, it feels like too many people are too willing to not take responsibility for themselves, but I can tell you I've needed
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by milesvp 11y ago
Without a doubt you can serve more traffic than that with python, more than likely, the bottleneck isn't your language. There's a good chance if all you did was port your codebase to another language, you'd have the same basi
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by milesvp 11y ago
Doesn't work well on Iphone 5s landscape. I usually checkout HN once a day on my phone. I find most sites that try to cater to phones degrade my experience...
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by milesvp 11y ago
There was an interesting post around this very topic related to Eve Online in the last couple of years. http://gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130405/189984/H... What was interesting was that the p
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by milesvp 11y ago
They may actually not have a choice. My wife is a lawyer who does a lot of work with non-profits, and maintaining non-profit status can require jumping through a lot of legal hoops. A quick google suggests GBCA is a 501(c)3 non-profit, so
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by milesvp 11y ago
I have to agree with kingmob. It very much sounds like survivor bias. My first reaction is that anyone who drops out due to a test has a high likelihood of dropping out because they can't do the test, which would leave you with a low c
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by milesvp 12y ago
This. I have to say my happiest and most productive period was when I didn't have a desk job. I found a trick that worked really well was to start the day with a list of accomplishments that I thought would take less than 6-8hours. Oft

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