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   by pkghost 16y ago

   The article discusses payroll tax, which employers pay, not income tax, which employees pay.
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   You become the stories you listen to. Be mindful of the diet of ideas you feed your mind. This applies not only to your reading list, but also to your own thoughts.
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   Where does short-term risk come from? And what's the difference between HFT and LLT? If anyone knows of good high-level reading material on the subject, I'd appreciate a link so I can spare you more dumb questions. I admit to having drunk s
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   What value does HFT create?
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   I find that exercise (particularly yoga) and Loving-Kindness meditation dramatically improve my ability to concentrate and be mindful. The benefits of exercise and yoga seem obvious, so... Loving-Kindness, or metta, meditation is essentiall
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   College is a time for exploring the expanses of human knowledge, the beauty of human relationships, and the depths of the human soul (1). I can think of no other social construct or institution that provides as many broad avenues for person
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   Have you ever worked on a product team? I can almost guarantee you the developers had very little to do with the lack of standards support. That's a feature, and features are decided on by PMs, who are usually on the short leash of middle/u
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   moral of the (as yet untold) story: rocket science and javascript don't mix. browser differences aside, javascript represents all numbers as floats, so as you attempt to store larger and larger numbers, you will find yourself with less and
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   by pkghost 16y ago

   Umm, hello? Modest Mouse? Meth? // nostalgic Portland ex-pat
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    If you have faith in our copyright system, it's probably not worth worrying about. Fulltext of the bill: http://bit.ly/aGMT4L
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    200 Google Stock Units ~ $100,000 over 4 years (probably). $110k + $25k = $135k.
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    yay for clay and the middle way. he reminds me of uncle ben: "with great power comes great responsibility." he has a similarly level response to the problem of information overload (instead, filter failure): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    I don't understand your target demo well enough to pass judgement, but I did notice that the word bane is misspelled "bain" in one of the testimonials. Superficially, it looks clean and corporate. I'd also guess that you won't get a lot of
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    I'm relatively new here and don't read reddit. What about the article doesn't fit here?
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    So, what's the jest of it? Someone told me that if you finish it, the joke is on you ;)
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    Seconded. There's more than a bit of literature documenting the benefits of mindfulness/insight/vipassana meditation, which, besides an increase in the ability to focus, include reduced stress and anxiety: http://bit.ly/9OKHt9 (google sch
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    thanks for the explanation :)
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    My answer comes from the perspective of a recent grad who has spent a year at a mid-sized SF social gaming company, working only recently on the back-end (i.e., not a scaling expert). A few things I've learned w/respect to scaling in my con
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    Ditto, and I'm also regularly vexed by Apple's neurotic control over the iPhone platform and sync process. It took me 45 minutes to put an audiobook on my phone the other day, and that was after it told me syncing would cause me to lose 30
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    1. You can't teach tall. 2. Stay out of jail. My readings: (1. Recognize your innate gifts and use them.) (2. I love you, have fun, don't be too youthfully indiscrete.)
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    emacs. first job out of college, got put on a team that used emacs, so i learned emacs. things i love: non-modal interface (used vim in college, found myself frequently cursing its modes: "do what i think, not what i type!"); lives on every
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    they're going to have issues when they announce how much money they have as a non-profit Not so. Firefox is a product of the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit organization. The Mozilla Foundation is the sole shareholder of the Mozilla Cor
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    Thanks for the pointers -- didn't realize rich formatting was available. I think you misunderstand me. I find it odd that an author would expect me to take his/her writing seriously if he/she doesn't take it seriously enough to run a spell
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    Certainly, I've fallen victim to the same assumption, even going so far as to read words that aren't there in my text simply because I expect them to be. But my question was directed specifically at spelling; what do you think of authors wh
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    Aak HN: Spelling erors in a blpg post?

    3 points by pkghost 16y ago|7 comments
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    Dude. The concept fundamentally side-steps the issue of scaling by turning each user's computer into a server: http://tonido.com/images/tonido_cloud.png Tonido looks like iApache* + dynamic DNS for those whose IPs aren't static. * I imagi
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    I took a look at it again today and it had been seriously reworked (no more outline layout, revised copy), but the last-revised date hadn't changed. Color me annoyed, but not surprised.
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    by pkghost 16y ago

    His first point (10) is flatly contradicted by Facebook's TOS, which was revised 4 days before his blog post. You do own your data, you just grant Facebook the mother of all licenses to it. The license is revoked when you delete your accoun
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    by pkghost 17y ago

    adjustable keyboard stand (desk attachment). sort of like those keyboard trays that slide out from underneath (which i hate), except the thing i'm thinking of lets you pull the keyboard to a decent range of positions in the XZ plane (if you
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    by pkghost 17y ago

    let us not overlook those who stand while at the keyboard. you don't have to do it all the time, either -- get an adjustable keyboard thingermajig and push your chair out of the way for a few hours a day.