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by owyn 7y ago
That seems like a pretty good result for 30% in additional funding. According to wikipedia, the federal gov't only provides 8% (or maybe 10%, I saw some different numbers) of the total budget for primary education at the moment... Tota
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by owyn 8y ago
Which is a bummer because JDK 9 added some nice convenience functions to the standard library. Like "transferTo" to avoid using like 6 utility functions just to move bytes around. It's stuff like this that will compile on J
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by owyn 8y ago
Good point, and it wasn't my intent to mock the farmers, it was aimed at the tone of the article which is like "this is a totally awesome lifestyle thing that you could totally do" while simultaneously pointing out that most
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by owyn 8y ago
Sure... I would love to play Stardew Valley in "real life" too but it's hard work and economically it's not that lucrative... Most of them got their land for free because it was in the family and when you look at their
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by owyn 8y ago
Oh, I did almost the exact same thing once in an SQL database reporting system, brings back memories! /foo/*/blah/*/y We were putting very hierarchical data into a "flat" database, but we still want
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by owyn 8y ago
I am just inferring from the blurb at the bottom that he does have a final book coming out and this is probably an excerpt. A final collection of his essays, “Everything in Its Place,” will be published in April
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by owyn 8y ago
Check out WAMP? It's websockets + RPC. http://wamp.ws And a server that implements it: http://crossbar.io https://github.com/crossbario/autobahn-js
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by owyn 8y ago
If you can, you probably should! I've come to believe that the best chances of getting a financial benefit (as opposed to just an experience benefit) from working at a startup is to be a founder. If you're "just" an engi
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by owyn 8y ago
There's a government document for that too! https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/employee-relations... But the short answer seems to be (from a cursory skim) that they are considered AWOL and that this is a r
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by owyn 8y ago
I don't often do this, but it's literally the first line of the article: "Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through the partial government shutdown...&qu
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by owyn 8y ago
I can't say this is the case here, but Warby Parker does have like a hundred retail outlets now. Frequently (as with Apple) journalists will just report the total number of employees including retail employees without breaking it down
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by owyn 8y ago
Oh, thanks for finding this because I was curious about checking out the code (that's why I found the broken link after all). I did a quick google search but wasn't able to come up with anything.
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by owyn 8y ago
The two most profitable companies I worked for used PHP. And nowhere close to the newest versions. The two least profitable both used C++. Even with those experiences I would never say there's a correlation between chosen language an
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by owyn 8y ago
Not new, this paper is from 2012. There's also a link to a google code project which is a 404 now. On the other hand, the MPI library that they compare against is still alive here: https://www.open-mpi.org
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by owyn 8y ago
I used Boris, and the php debugger as a pretty effective shell sometimes. mediawiki had eval.php, which is apparently now shell.php https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Shell... Based on my exper
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by owyn 8y ago
Yeah, PHP supports a REPL too! I sometimes found it useful when working on mediawiki to debug issues when a full blown debugger wasn't necessary. And if you were familiar with the various internal API's it was pretty easy to do s
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by owyn 8y ago
I don't know if anyone here knows who Polly/Heather is? If not, check out the suck.com archives (and her weekly cartoon Filler) for your 90's dot com boom era culture flashback. I agree, things change and sometimes you can&#x
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by owyn 8y ago
Fine work! This needs to be nominated for an Ig Nobel prize!
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by owyn 8y ago
The hardest thing I ever worked on was a calendaring system for scheduling ads on/off. The UI was great, but I just told them "oh, send me a cron format string for scheduling". It was easy for them to do, but very hard to ha
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by owyn 8y ago
Ah yes, the "Conjoined Triangles of Success" from Silicon Valley is a parody of this.
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by owyn 8y ago
And add some hooks so that it can automatically flip the LED red when you are actively typing code...
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by owyn 8y ago
This may just be down to wikidata's implementation, but the reliance on hardcoded unique id's everywhere is... bleh The following query uses these: Items: hospital (Q16917) Properties: instance of (P31) coordinate location (P625)
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by owyn 8y ago
That's a great question... I don't know! I have done the "founder" thing once (at #3), and at one point I had to lay off employees that I had just hired. That sucked. I think when I'm just the technical lead, I ca
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by owyn 8y ago
This is pretty late, but I was feeling retrospective on a sunday evening so let's see... the tldr; #0 = 0 #1 = 0, ~500k options on day 1 eventually underwater and unexercised #2 = 0 #3 = 25k #4 = 0, but left unexercised options that we
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by owyn 8y ago
Wow. That's a great reason to advocate for universal health care in the US, because it lets people work for a more risky startup without having to worry about that particular risk!
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by owyn 8y ago
Not a lot of info at that link. Project overview / documentation is here, that might be better? https://robigalia.gitlab.io/book/rosme.html As a meta comment, sprawling projects like this (with lots of sub-project
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by owyn 8y ago
At that income, the tax rate is 28% federal, 9.3% California, 6.2% fica, plus some other stuff. For back of the napkin budgeting I assume about 40%, which is more like 95k net. Then subtract 3k for an average 1br, 1k for a new car (payment
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by owyn 8y ago
Microsoft doesn’t have much impact in the SF area. It has been around a long time before the current rent/wage inflation bubble and is based in the Seattle area which is much cheaper... Netflix is legendary for paying some of the highe
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by owyn 8y ago
It's hard to say exactly and varies widely but I'd guess something like $120-160k range for a senior person even at most places that aren't the top 5. Stats I found say median pay is closer to $105k though (in 2017). Front-
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by owyn 8y ago
Since this is just a link to a source tree and I wondered myself what it was, I'll add that AV1 is an open, royalty-free video codec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1 Opus is the audio equivalent.

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