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by moocow01 12y ago
Consider that at least some of that should probably be reserved as the beginning of a retirement fund... perhaps 150k if you and your spouse are currently 30? Id look for some sort of reasonably safe financial vehicle to place that as reti
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by moocow01 12y ago
Google even suggesting ads on Nest is pretty disgusting to me. When I pay for a device from a company that is where they should be getting their profit - don't bait and switch and then serve ads to me.
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by moocow01 13y ago
No, he would have seen it coming
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by moocow01 13y ago
Play Framework 1.X has worked great for us and 2.X is getting there but Id only recommend to the more adventurous
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by moocow01 13y ago
Your right thats its a fuzzy calculation but I usually just consider that half of income goes to taxes one way or another... ~35% goes out to your standard/official taxes then you pay ~8% of whatever you spend to cover sales tax then y
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by moocow01 13y ago
at 150k approximately half your income is going to go out to taxes through federal/state/sales/etc/etc. so now with 75k you've got to pay for living expenses (taxes already removed) and lets be very generous and onl
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by moocow01 13y ago
So you are correct that purely programmatically its a bit wonky to construct an XML document using a bunch of strings and then pass that to the client and pray that that your XML (HTML) is well formed enough. I think the reason for why HTML
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by moocow01 13y ago
I'd say the simplest way is... 1. Identify organizations that you think very clearly help people. 2. Apply for a technical role with them. (Id say the majority of companies in any industry have tech roles to fill) In the above scenari
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by moocow01 13y ago
1) Yes as long as you sign the papers 2) Yes - you are effectively being strong armed into becoming an investor. Would you invest $[your salary / year] into a company that is running out of money and not paying employees? I sure would
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by moocow01 13y ago
"Would you rather have your children engineering the financial system creating more problems for us, or having a chance of saving the world?" Yep the financial system has a whole host of problems that everyone knows but "savi
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by moocow01 13y ago
For an initial stage startup for a mid-level person it actually doesnt sound incredibly off when leaving out equity although it is perhaps on the lower side.
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by moocow01 13y ago
The UI is honestly hard on my eyes. Its nothing horrible but I can feel myself strain more - it does matter to me though because, as most of us do, I look at screens a lot. I think if they could tone down the colors a bit I would feel diff
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by moocow01 13y ago
Yes. Ive had them previously many times and went to the ER the first time - I had a collection of terrifying symptoms that made me think I was having a stroke. You'll likely need to genuinely stop fearing the symptoms of having a panic
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by moocow01 13y ago
"I do the Right Thing for Google and the world" I think it pertains to technical or ethical or anything else. The risk is that what you think is the right thing may be the right thing for one person but the wrong thing for anothe
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by moocow01 13y ago
As could be posted at the top of just about every HN article this is highly situational. If you are in a prototyping, web advertising, etc etc business - sure, your probably just feeding your employer new business strategies to make everyon
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by moocow01 13y ago
Id imagine that Google Glass will fall under the same laws banning cell phones and electronics while driving so Im not so sure how much potential this has besides putting the ability to unlock your car on Glass.
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by moocow01 13y ago
Dance, Monkeys Dance! ... No thanks. No legitimate investor would find this exercise to be worthwhile nor would any legitimate entrepreneur find this to be worthwhile.
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by moocow01 13y ago
- Lots of legislative initiatives would be started, get half way finished and then be subsequently abandoned when the next exciting legislative initiative came along - All states would be renamed to end in .io or .ly - Political parties wou
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by moocow01 13y ago
Ill try to field this one being that Ive kind of moved around to a handful of different categories of companies and am constantly scratching my head over this. This is the best of the more realistic options from what I can tell... 1) You m
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by moocow01 13y ago
Wow the comment on the actual article with the screenshot of the ad banners gave me a good laugh
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by moocow01 13y ago
A lot of it is just actually due to legacy. It may be hard to understand here but tech in education takes a back seat in most standard schools. There are not a lot of (if any) resources in most schools available for tech support, upgrades
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by moocow01 13y ago
I have to wonder though if in aggregate if a predominantly rent based society will lead to even more wealth disparity. While the housing bubble was not exactly the epitome of economic health, we've seen what has happened in the bay area re
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by moocow01 13y ago
13. Provide everyone from marketing to sales to engineering with the same "standard" machine. And no, allowing the dev team to put in an extra stick of RAM doesn't cut it.
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by moocow01 13y ago
There are other forms of excess than monetary. Building an environmentally damaging shrine in a protected wildlife zone for a one time event qualifies as excess.
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by moocow01 13y ago
Many actually - they just don't realize they are in most ways conservatives.
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by moocow01 13y ago
Building technology actually has advanced at a really good pace and most construction has been significantly automated. Most homes and buildings go up amazingly fast due to a lot of prefab and modular designs as well as a lot of process me
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by moocow01 13y ago
It sounds like a major source of tension is breast feeding. Have you looked into hiring a breast feeding coach? Another note is that babies in my experience are oddly perceptive to the parents being stressed out or tense (not in any sort o
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by moocow01 13y ago
It means nothing. An employers perception of good will be different than your version of good. The usage is essentially an employer trying to set an early anchor for bargaining that is blessed as "good" by both parties.
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by moocow01 14y ago
Well a bit tricky to answer generically... everyone is different, lots of conditionals and unknowns to give a truly good answer. The good news is that it sounds like your parents are not stupid and neither are you. That being said while yo
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by moocow01 14y ago
"SimSensei can work out whether you’re exhibiting signs that indicate depression" Im not sure I totally buy it - Im sure it can pick up the signs with 90% accuracy but how often do the signs actually correspond to a clinically depressed per

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