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by qdog 14y ago
Something with quickly fluctuating value may be useful for trading goods, but very poor for paying wages IN OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC MODEL. Borrowing in a deflating currency is very difficult, as your future earnings are likely to decrease in n
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by qdog 14y ago
Monster.com and the company website usually have a bunch of job listings for the older companies. If you want to work at IBM, Intel, Comcast, Microsoft, Oracle, HP, etc. it isn't hard to find job listings. I'm not sure if if posting on HN
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by qdog 14y ago
Yep, having to play Crawl a few minutes a week is like piano lessons for my son now ;) Someday he'll understand why.
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by qdog 14y ago
Hah, no doubt. Not sure if it's good or bad each "I just learned vim" article has some random command I'm totally unfamiliar with I can't believe I haven't used. Obviously I'm just a vim user, not a power user.
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by qdog 14y ago
Interesting. I don't work for quite so sexy a company as Apple, and positions aren't going to get you working on much hot new tech, so I'm not sure I'd post "we're hiring". I assume most people here have no desire to work at boring old co
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by qdog 14y ago
You generally don't get taxed for holding personal goods, except real estate, at least in the US. I'm not a tax specialist, but it seems likely you would only get taxed on bitcoin transactions, ie: if you sell bitcoins for U.S. $ you would
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by qdog 14y ago
Getting a latte at a small coffe place that actually puts effort into it is like night and day vs. the big chains. There are quite a few shops around Portland, but I still end up hitting Starbucks at times because it's everywhere and easy
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by qdog 14y ago
You're assuming I don't ever use one of the other IDE's. I've used Eclipse on occasion (currently using it somewhat on Android development as a debugger) and I have to open up Visual Studio at work on occasion. Neither is better for me tha
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by qdog 14y ago
I rarely refactor across entire projects, but I'm fairly certain vim has plugins that can do that. As for finding what calling methods there are, as other have stated, you can use ctags, or go full throttle with Cscope - http://cscope.sour
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by qdog 14y ago
Not sure how you can accept Bitcoins as a payment form, unless you tie it expressly to another currency. With this much fluctuation, the only other option would be an auction. I think this makes it likely speculation is the only driving fo
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by qdog 14y ago
It's not my primary gaming machine OS, but I have an older laptop with XP on it that also happens to have Steam installed. For what I use it for, I have no reason to upgrade the OS.
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by qdog 14y ago
I don't have iOS available at the moment, so can't comment on the actual app. The screen shots on the bottom are off to the right of main web page for me in Firefox, though. The buttons to scroll through the screenshot still work, but I
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by qdog 14y ago
It would probably be beyond my abilities and knowledge to really write about the banking system fully. I would note, even the US has a long list of banks on the endangered list: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/03/unofficial-problem.
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by qdog 14y ago
If you ever read The Wealth of Nations, it has a long history of the value of silver(commonly used for money at the time), and the effect new mines had on the value (overnight 1/3 value loss not unheard of). There is essentially nothing in
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by qdog 14y ago
There seems to be some confusion as to what a bank is on this board. Every time you deposit say $1 with a bank, they lend out $.90 of it at interest for mortgages, payrolls, etc. It's these investments the bank makes that can (and do) wrec
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by qdog 14y ago
You would lend out your bitcoins at interest, just like you do with any other currency. Unless you want to be a direct lender, you'd still use a bank. Maybe the EU's policies led to the propagation of all the bad assets, but Cypriot banks
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by qdog 14y ago
Yeah...funny thing is blaming the EU. The banks were lending out the money on what turned out to be bad assets, not sure there's any cure for that where deposits don't get wrecked. Iceland before, Cyprus now, not sure what they think will
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by qdog 14y ago
Right, the line number is mostly just my habit. Occasionally I'll just yank with a regex, ie: y/<regex>, but that usually requires stopping to think. I guess my point is there are a lot of ways to do things in vim, and even just le
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by qdog 14y ago
Having to touch the mouse while just editing text slows me down and breaks my rhythm. My standard vim configuration is this: set ts=3 "I like a tab space of 3 map <F5> :set hls!<bar>set hls?<CR> "Turn text search hig
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by qdog 14y ago
Maybe he means Ubuntu for mobile? I kid, I kid! Having started working on Android recently, if Android is tomorrow, the future sure is dystopian.
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by qdog 14y ago
I live in Oregon, although this might limit some of the funding for certain schools, when I was moving between school districts for my son, I could not start him in the new school district until I was a resident. The only public school we
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by qdog 14y ago
They article states it's $13k/year in cash. Not sure what the value of the medical benefits, but $13k/year would be pretty miserable on a family. I know someone who subsists basically on minimum wage and made just about $12k last year, he
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by qdog 14y ago
Yep, our local c++ tough guy figures he's a 6/10 in c++ knowledge, and we're unsure if you can make it to 7/10. Yet, millions of instances of his code are still successfully running as we speak. I once had someone ask me if I was a c++ exp
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by qdog 14y ago
Indeed. Corrected. Whether "what happens at PyCon stays at PyCon" is the right approach, I'm not so sure, but that seems to be their new guidelines.
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by qdog 14y ago
Adria stated they had been talking for a while, indicating there were previous comments. PyCon determined the guys had said something offensive. So, either PyCon lives in fear of Adria, or other people also found the comments to be overtly
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by qdog 14y ago
I think this person's opinion is rather colored. Google has been about ads since before they were public. I personally don't have a Facebook page, and don't use g+ that much, so I'm not as infatuated with social networking as much as some
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by qdog 14y ago
Most of the time time they do have multiple charges with murder, especially if the gun is illegally acquired. Whether or not the sentences for multiple convictions are concurrent or end-to-end may be the sentencing judge's discretion, not
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by qdog 14y ago
Actually the article seems like a lot of conjecture. I should have prefaced my comment by saying that if they are right, perhaps there is a higher resolution and this might be why. Whether they are right I don't think we have enough eviden
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by qdog 14y ago
If you assume the cones and rods in the eye are still the same size, but the eye is bigger, if the portion of the eye covered in receptors remains a constant ratio, a relatively small increase in eyeball size would probably make a large dif
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by qdog 14y ago
$1000 seems a little pricey, however, a grapefruit sized, sleek computer has a lot higher Wife Approval Factor than the "On Sale" computer case with red flashing LEDs I used for my server. Even at $900, I'm not getting one pre-sale, but so

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