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by qdog 14y ago
It's not a tax on death, it's a tax on assets. The fact you can live most of your life with a growing asset that is untaxed (just hold stocks and live off the dividends, for instance), vs actually having to pay taxes on the value of someth
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by qdog 14y ago
My wife has a win7 phone, very similar with the huge icons (part of the reason she bought it was she could see it without her glasses on). However, I hate using it. My android phone isn't what I'd call intuitive, but I do know exactly how
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by qdog 14y ago
The guess is random geyser's powered by CO2 plumes, so probably dangerous for the rover to check out directly. Or, maybe they will check it out during the time of the year it's cold. Not sure how far away the rover is from this, either.
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by qdog 14y ago
Last time I bought the cheapest dell laptop with a discrete card it was maybe $600, now it appears to be $719. That's only on the 'small business' more brick-like ones, though. The 'consumer' ones don't even offer discrete, but hey you ca
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by qdog 14y ago
I thought he was talking about some kind of street basketball underground I wasn't familiar with, just skimmed past that.
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by qdog 14y ago
You didn't get the same financial aid at UT? My impression is that if your family makes too much (ie: 80k or 100k/yr), you aren't getting anything but student loans. A friend of mine went back to NYU a couple years ago to finish his degree
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by qdog 14y ago
I think Gates owned too much of the company, this guy is talking about hires it sounds like.
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by qdog 14y ago
If one is disciplined enough to go for 4 years following a rigorous schedule, sure go for it. I doubt most people could follow this program for 4 years. It took me 8 years to get through college (those 9 am classes were too damn early...)
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by qdog 14y ago
He said so, at that time probably not a big deal to put it on a resume. These days, I recommend against it, as soon as most interviewers I know see it, it's suddenly high noon on the whiteboard to prove the interviewer is just as smart as
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by qdog 14y ago
Flame was signed by a trusted signer (Microsoft in this case) due to a bug that allowed code to be signed with a Microsoft key that was meant for something else. People would like to make behavioral stuff, but it's quite difficult. Sandbox
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by qdog 14y ago
On the other hand, the poster didn't say what this list of global variables is. Maybe they are just configuration values? Probably not, and mentioning threading and global variables probably means some kind of nightmare, but as I've recen
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by qdog 14y ago
I think the NFL and MLB already consider their stats proprietary. I wouldn't be surprised if someone patented something and won a couple years before the league made using that technology illegal in their games. That's a bit different, as
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by qdog 14y ago
A relatively new C programmer would probably come up with the C code. From the discussion of this topic it appears the C++ solution needs quite a bit more expertise to get right (I would not have known what exact C++ method to use, but I d
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by qdog 14y ago
Just the discussion of std::list<person> vs std::list<person *> that follows your comment makes my head hurt. It's like not only is c++ a language from a committee, any line of c++ code could be analyzed and argued over by
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by qdog 14y ago
I was disappointed to find out this wasn't about a revolutionary golf tee design.
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by qdog 14y ago
Doesn't use a version control system? I'm pretty much a cowboy, but I like version control. Although, actually, most people seem to view version control as some kind of Golden Stamp Process, instead of a "let me check-in regularly so I can
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by qdog 14y ago
People that don't study history are doomed to repeat it, or something like that. There's pretty much no reason to drop the old API calls, if you don't want it clogging stuff up, fine, make a separate library you have to throw a flag for
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by qdog 14y ago
One of the devices in my house is an older blu-ray player that has the Netflix streaming ability, but it can only play stuff from your queue! So, I have to put stuff in my queue I if I want to watch it on that tv. Otherwise, though, doesn
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by qdog 14y ago
They think it's 4 or 5 years old. I don't think that's very cutting edge.
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by qdog 14y ago
Right, I wouldn't expect the law not to be influenced by people. I don't think any of this is a new way of thinking, though. We have the right to trial by jury because of this, which sure isn't perfect, but there is no way for a perfect w
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by qdog 14y ago
A marketized law and order system would not solve any of the current problems with corruption. Perhaps you have heard the term "hired gun" or "mercenary". As always, the flow of money would still allow corruption, and those with money and
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by qdog 14y ago
I read a few paragraphs, started skimming, and eventually gave up, maybe it was only those first few paragraphs. It just didn't seem like a meaty article to me, and if it was, it was too much work for me to get to the meat. The internet m
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by qdog 14y ago
People being rich doesn't bother me, reading fluffy New Yorker articles about them just doesn't interest me. Other people obviously enjoy it, but it doesn't really read like the kind of article I look for on HN, or even in the New Yorker.
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by qdog 14y ago
Most people I've met who claim to be Libertarians seems to be very confused about how the world works. Usually, they have a pet idea (guns, pot, taxes, property rights, police forces, something) they are very hot about and fail to extend t
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by qdog 14y ago
That article read like The Great Gatsby, I gave up after a few paragraphs. I don't think I'm into idolizing rich people anymore, I probably would have devoured this in high school, though.
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by qdog 14y ago
I worked in Austin, Tx in late 1999 right across from the Dr. Koop building. Even at the time it was amazing how much money they were spending/had spent on things like that. I'm not sure they even fully moved in after it was built, or if
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by qdog 14y ago
I'm not sure we have a Buddhist (maybe some Indian guys, not sure, we don't discuss religion much, but they don't eat meat), but violent anarchists and almost-evil eastern bloc caricatures seem to be represented fairly well where I work. Th
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by qdog 14y ago
Had a random interview scheduled with Amazon a couple weeks ago when they were in town, they didn't even have regular whiteboards because of some mixup. So, they put these pieces of plastic on the windows that was adhesive on one side, wor
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by qdog 14y ago
I agree with #2 a lot, although when I start interviewing not sure that would make the first couple of interviews go smoothly. Usually takes me 3 or 4 interviews to get warmed up to the type of problems people like to solve in whiteboard i
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by qdog 15y ago
Any publisher could set the end-user price for any of their books (speaking of cookbooks, I recently bought a copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking in paper...$40, but I would not likely pay $40 for another french cookbook I'm not so

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