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by mmt 8y ago
Although I agree that there exist (at least) these two compensation situations, I disagree with the subsequent assertion: > Moving due to B is only needed in small companies, large ones generally have room for people to grow. I have pers
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by mmt 8y ago
You may be remembering proprietary (e.g. Sun) versus commodity (the prices for which were even lower, according to the table in the sibling comment). This sort of markup still exists in "enterprise" hardware today, which is why mo
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by mmt 8y ago
The article also quotes a misinterpetation of a misstatement of Moore's Law: > "Computers [have] doubled in power every 18 months for the last 40 years." This, along with the salary estimate you mentioned made all the numb
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by mmt 8y ago
> 'cloud' is making IT personel obsolete, when it's just someone else's computer and IT staff. Worse, it's just someone else's computer and mostly just hardware-IT staff, and that's not the difficult or
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by mmt 8y ago
This corresponds, IIUC, to a 45-minute minimum ride on public transit, not counting waiting and walking times. I'm not sure if driving is any faster, but maybe not, when parking and walking (if in-building parking is unavailable or pro
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by mmt 8y ago
Moreover, that payment would translate to a 35-year loan term, and lengthier terms tend to mean higher interest rates, as well (even on secured loans like mortgages or car loans).
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by mmt 8y ago
I think, perhaps, you misunderstood the OP's objection, particularly with respect to feedback loops. It may not be safe to assume the inputs are biased [1], but, then, it's also not safe merely to assume that they aren't. Wha
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by mmt 8y ago
> All seem to want a security deposit equivalent to one month's rent. Also, the California statutory limit on deposits is two months of rent, so, with a law-abiding landlord, that's an upper bound.
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by mmt 8y ago
(True also for Los Angeles, though at least that has the Pacific Ocean) This is the (not so?) subtle quality-of-life aspect that people seem to forget when mentioning other cities as alternatives. The Bay Area isn't popular/expens
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by mmt 8y ago
> you know that the only thing you can do is put every hour you have into it to try and make it work This, of course, illustrates, why it's difficult: when one knows something that happens to be false. That's why it's im
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by mmt 8y ago
> will require more 60-70 hour work weeks to pay back. Except if 60-70 hour workweeks created the debt in the first place, subsequent ones can be expected to create even more, rather than (net) paying any back. Perhaps a better remedy wo
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by mmt 8y ago
Although your simile is reductio ad absurdum , a version of this idea does, occasionally get surfaced, in the form of using (modern) small, lower-power processors (e.g. Atom, mobile ARM) in very large numbers in the datacenter. While touti
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by mmt 8y ago
As a sibling comment noted, it's not a pressure sensor [1] but an induction loop. The Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_loop#Vehicle_detecti... has fairly extensive details on modern implem
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by mmt 8y ago
> People like pager duty because they get to spend extra time with their families, because they like to go camping, or because they want the extra cash. Adequately compensating on-call is, of course, the right way to do it. All sorts of
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by mmt 8y ago
> 1,200 $/mo is more than enough to get a room to yourself in the nice neighborhoods One of the difficulties potential renters can run into, especially ones from out of town, is that no matter how nice the neighborhood is from a res
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by mmt 8y ago
> And unless you can immediately land that dream job I'm not sure it has to be immediately , but your point still stands, and it's often ignored by proponents, which is that merely acquiring a graduate degree does not automati
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by mmt 8y ago
I got two takeaways: The early hires (especially engineer #1) can have a huge influence on the culture. I think that's important to note both for founders and for prospective early employees. > devs have only worked longer than a 40
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by mmt 8y ago
Moreover, such requirements can be listed, even if they're only occasional parts of the job (and might reasonably be accomodated away by having someone else or a piece of machinery perform that portion instead). For example, I've
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by mmt 8y ago
> (x rem n + n) rem n Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is also attractive because it can be applied even to an "actual modulo" operator. That is, because "(x mod n + n) mod n" has the same behavior as the above,
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by mmt 8y ago
I was using 3.75PB (assuming 45GB compressed 6:1 so 7.5GB per person). I'm not certain , but my intuition is that, even paying AWS for the CPU time for compression, that would be cheaper than paying for the uncompressed transfer charg
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by mmt 8y ago
> The private bank lends funds at 5% interest Hang on.. is that the rate the bank is lending at, or their yield, including any losses from things like defaults and costs? > the added benefit of total control over its funds. Actually
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by mmt 8y ago
> bought by non-tech savvy PIs. I'd hope that's not just viewed as an opportunity exploit information assymetry by tech/IT services firms. I do believe, however, that scientific computing needs are similar enough to genera
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's a problem if the message cannot be parsed and is dropped. Agreed, but you now seem to be implying that this just happens because syslog , rather than misusing the tool. Earlier, you asserted "Plug any two syslog impleme
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by mmt 8y ago
> I disagree. If you really look at the problem space, it turns out that "classic cron" is just a "batch scheduling system" that is poorly implemented. I'm a bit confused. It still sounds like you're describ
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by mmt 8y ago
> 750,000 GB = 750 TB, and you can buy an 8 TB hard drive for $150. So for $15,000 you can store 500,000 human genomes. As others have mentioned [1], the raw sequencing data (still) has to be stored, so 1.5GB is off by about 30x. Even at
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by mmt 8y ago
> It gets even worse when you consider samples from tumours, where biologically relevant mutations are often found in only a subset of cells. To discover these mutations, a coverage of 100x is often recommend This point brings up another
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by mmt 8y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448089
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by mmt 8y ago
Thanks! Obviously a typo, since the keys are adjacent on a qwerty keyboard, but why I would have ever typed it instead of copy-pasting is beyond me.
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by mmt 8y ago
> It’s ok for the narrow set of use cases that it is good at My comment was partly in jest, and mostly hoping to spur conversation, not as a true disagreement or criticism with your comment. Still, saying "It's OK" for tho
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by mmt 8y ago
> You'll excuse me but your comment come off as if you don't trust the government and any regulation to achieve its goal. It's almost a satirical US view. Although it's true that I'm generally skeptical of this f

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