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by pkteison 15y ago
Bitcoin is for the distrustful (for those who are more trusting, credit cards are sufficient.) Casinos require trust. How to reconcile the two?
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by pkteison 15y ago
Microsoft's debt would be issued in dollars. If the US fails to back the dollar, Microsoft's debt is also worthless, because it's also dollars. So it would make no sense for MS bonds to be rated higher than the US.
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by pkteison 15y ago
You know, I think I'd rather have an extra $19.50 right now than a light bulb that maybe pays off 4 or 5 years from now.
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by pkteison 15y ago
That may be the idea, but in practice young children are just officially banned from everything because dealing with the law is too expensive and/or risky.
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by pkteison 15y ago
Startups do well because non competes are not enforceable, so experienced employees can jump ship to a startup at any time.
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by pkteison 15y ago
For that remote job, just be careful to check the law first. Some states tax telecommuters. I do not believe California is one of them, but I also do not believe that will last forever since lord knows they need revenue. All CA has to do is
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by pkteison 15y ago
Solutions seem impractical. Hire proven world class managers? Recruit better developers? You can't do these things when already in a floundering position, because why would the best people in the world want to move to come work for the l
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by pkteison 15y ago
Salts, done properly, vary per user not per server.
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by pkteison 15y ago
I know it's not a representative sample, but all but 1 of my friends have cancelled cable in favor of Netflix + Hulu. So I'm continually surprised to hear that cable subscriptions aren't falling. What I really don't get is why HBO won't se
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by pkteison 15y ago
I spent a week vacation with 2 friends who work at the patent office, so w e had time to discuss over beers. They don't believe there is a problem. They rely so heavily on prior art, and have trouble with the very concept that something w
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by pkteison 15y ago
No, it's normal at big companies or non programming firms. Spare mental capacity is devoted to sports teams and American Idol.
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by pkteison 15y ago
That's basically the definition of coercion (wikipedia says "forcing another party to behave in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats, rewards, ..."). It doesn't strike me as justice.
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by pkteison 15y ago
This seems terrible. Regardless of what I think of patents, if I ever need the legal system I don't want to only get as much justice as a judge thinks a jury has time for.
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by pkteison 15y ago
Cobra does not apply to companies with less than 20 employees. If you like working for small companies it's very hard to switch safely, you need to interview and get hired with no gap in employment. The state of healthcare tied to companies
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by pkteison 15y ago
Why? The license commercial software uses gives you no rights to do much of anything, yet nobody thinks Adobe owns photos edited in Photoshop. Why should granting more rights change that? It makes no sense to me. Edit: And GPL already ca
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by pkteison 15y ago
I worked at an open source startup once. I was -shocked- to repeatedly run into the misconception that because the code was open source, anything -using- the code was open source. I saw several potential sales get tanked because the custome
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by pkteison 15y ago
Why are you embarassed by the first one? Targeted specific criticism is fantastic and hard to come by. The world needs more "this is bad -and heres why-" and less "yo Dawg I'm just not feeling it Dawg"
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by pkteison 15y ago
I went back into tech interviews recently after a 4 year break. It only took two weekends of skimming my old books to get enough up to speed to pass some whiteboard tech interviews, although I don't think I was quite ready for Google level
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by pkteison 15y ago
Tl;dr: Entire article is nothing but 'relying on js is bad'. Author discounts modernized entirely because it only works with javascript. Suggests you can replace it entirely by tagging your html tag with an ie class using conditional commen
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by pkteison 15y ago
I don't understand contract to hire. I get it from the employer perspective, but why do employees agree to it? If I was willing to work contracts (e.g. had a wife I could get health insurance and maybe some income-in-case-of-layoff securit
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by pkteison 15y ago
I interviewed with a firm that said the initially advertised salary was too high for my offer because I refused to describe myself as an expert in silverlight and opengl. If they find an expert in opengl, silverlight, c#, sql server, web se
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by pkteison 15y ago
Really? You could make life expectancy go up in much of the world with nothing more than clean water. But is that healthcare?
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by pkteison 15y ago
You can make money by buying a stock, having the business get more valuable so the stock goes up, and selling the stock at a higher value. Or you can make money by buying a stock, having the business make money and pay it out to you in divi
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by pkteison 15y ago
See http://www.appelsiini.net/2008/11/introduction-to-marker-clu...
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by pkteison 15y ago
I really like seeing people's thought process as they decide to switch something major, but if I were doing this same task, I think I would have tried more on speeding up the sql solution before scrapping the db. There are several ways you
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by pkteison 15y ago
There is a "dead man's curve". If you're low enough, you can survive a pure drop. If you have enough forward speed, you can turn that into lift. If you're high enough, you can get enough rotor speed to turn that into enough lift to slow
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by pkteison 15y ago
I monitor how I spend time at my computer by running rescuetime. Their productivity report makes me want to do better, so then I waste less time.
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by pkteison 15y ago
It's up to your bank to decide whether expiration matters, and they can vary their opinion by payment channel - expired card is more likely to be ok for paying a bill than it is for ordering from a web store. The merchant has no reliable
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by pkteison 15y ago
I worry that we will be missing out on the category of new design ideas that are developed while building something. Out of a factory full of people intimately familiar with making a widget, a few of those people should have some pretty go
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by pkteison 15y ago
I'm sorry, but this 'they wouldn't care' garbage is so obviously wrong that my 'someone is wrong on the internet' reflex has kicked in. You have never done anything that is legal, ethical, moral, and fine, but you still don't want the who

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