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$145K take home pay is surely like $200+K/year? It's $240k/year in Canada. If your spouse is going to work too, I admit that is a lot more doable. Is it? Saving $1.5M by age 40 gives you a $30k/year life annuity (2%
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If you and your spouse can live off of $45k while you're still earning, you can save ~$100k per year and accumulate $1.5m by the time you're 40, easily. To spend and save $145k net income per year, you need a gross comp of $240k
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I have trouble imagining why I would use this stack instead of writing JS/HTML5 directly To develop cross-platform code (e.g. for desktop and web targets)?
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Thanks!
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Hmm I get an error at that URL: "Not found! Sorry about that. We cannot find your Hacker News account, n00b101, listed on any current applications. If you received an email to update your founder profile make sure you followed the prec
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The application says "We will send an email to each founder to fill out additional information about themselves." Could someone post what those additional questions are? It would be super helpful because we are trying to prepare e
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I think this is useful. You have researched brokers and robo-advisors serving Canadians and presented it as a comparison. Some suggestions that I have: 1. It would be useful to include info on what APIs are offered for automated electronic
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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John Hull Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives by Satyajit Das
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ran in any other language When you say "language" here, are you referring to the web languages (HTML, JS)?
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That's very interesting. Have you collected statistical data on these bit errors? Is it always a single bit error? I'm assuming you are using GeForce cards and not Tesla cards which have an ECC memory protection mode? I've tr
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We do cryptocurrency mining on an industrial scale and constantly see single bit errors from hardware that is brand-new without modifications. That's very surprising and interesting. How do you detect these single bit errors?
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So where are the masses of serious C#/ Java/ <pick-your-language> developers using transpilers to write the logic of their web applications? I think it is catching on with C++ game developers, who want to be able to run th
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WebAssembly will hopefully end JavaScript's stranglehold on the web. The justification for using JavaScript for server/desktop/mobile applications seems to essentially be that a certain large group of programmers only know Ja
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by n00b101 10y ago
I read Snow Crash when I was 13. Then I lost countless hours trying to "live the dream" with Active Worlds [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Worlds
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Learn how to sail. * It is generally impossible to sail a boat "single-handed" (alone), you always need a crew, so sailors are forced to socialize. People who own sailboats are perpetually trying to find people who will help crew
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the percent of such individuals holding engineering as opposed to management, financial or other positions, and using more than Excel and eighth grade level mathematics (arithmetic, a little bit of algebra, a little bit of statistics, and
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Does this support column-oriented database designs?
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Quick search brings up what looks like a viable alternative: http://www.thegreatscrape.com/
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Sad fact, all of the original Wallace and Gromit sets were destroyed in a fire in 2005. [1] [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/...
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That makes sense. I misunderstood that part of the article.
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> In the days following the event, Younis ... used the organization's software to collect data on whether companies raised money on Investor Day. A handful of companies had. Others reported positive conversations. A little surprisin
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Send me your resume, we are looking for C++ devs.
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This is so cool. I wonder if it could be scaled down even further, maybe by using a different developer board (FPGA?) instead of Raspberry Pi.
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The least efficient accelerator of all ... GPUs Interesting, could you please elaborate on why you think this? Any data you know of on the subject? What are better alternatives in you view?
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If I can summarize what you are saying, we have been experiencing early symptoms of end of Moore's Law for the past 5 to 10 years, and nothing drastic has happened yet, so there's nothing to worry about? Consider the possibility t
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“My current assumption is that 5nm will happen, but it won’t hit high-volume manufacturing until after 2020,” said Bob Johnson, an analyst at Gartner. “If I were to guess, I’d say 2021 to 2022." ... In R&D, chipmakers are also loo
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If you have a self driving car selling them to Uber rather than taking the profit for yourself is just stupid, much like selling bitcoin mining hardware - if it's worthwhile you might as well just let it make you money? Counter-examp
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The down payment is equity, it's not really the same as protection. Although the higher your down payment, the lower your leverage risk. Let's say you put $100k down to purchase a property for $500k (i.e. you borrow $400k). If the
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It's not my area, but I have a hard time believing that any competitive, modern IVI would be missing GPU integration. Just looking briefly, both Qualcomm [1] and NVIDIA [2] automotive systems have on-board GPUs. [1] https://
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The new configuration system in Qt, allows your define the content you need from each module in much more detail for your project and easily allows for feature based tailoring of the Qt modules. We are starting with enabling this fully for

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