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by ransom1538 11y ago
This is incorrect. You are simply not adding in rent. A $262,600 house would generate $1400 monthly rent, ~$117k in rent for the 7 years (not raising rent).
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by ransom1538 11y ago
I am happy this was brought up. I have been approached by companies to add in "SDKs" of this sort. They usually offer to pay you per user. When you have scale, these companies while the app is open can scan for other media they
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by ransom1538 11y ago
There are huge issues with current tech and death. Basically. If you die: 1) Your family (might) need your bank info, passwords, insurance policy information, asset lists. They are all doing this, while, their favorite tech guy... is dead
1654.
by ransom1538 11y ago
I was in gaming for 4 years or so. It was horrifying to see how much code that is not reused (excluding math/physics libraries). IMHO - The art pipline is the real time suck and can make or break a game deadline. Just think of the
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by ransom1538 11y ago
Yes. He probably preys on woman.
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by ransom1538 11y ago
My wife had a girls trip in Chicago. She made the error of just getting a "cab" and not using her UBER app. It turns out, what she got into was some kind of cab that didn't have a till. The driver was angry she didn'
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by ransom1538 11y ago
Studying a language is probably the worst way to learn it. Languages are so simple to pick up these days: stackoverflow, teamtreehouse, git, etc. Latch onto a fun project with a fun mission, learn languages on the fly, and finish it. In a
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by ransom1538 11y ago
"Also, capital gains gets taxed as income." That, is the most heart stopping sentence you can say to an American rich person. The tax structure is setup to tax the poor and middle class the hardest. If you are in a class that can
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by ransom1538 12y ago
You are totally correct. They avoid conflict. If engineers are told at the interview - "Your salary will be this, it will be posted online for all the other employees to see" I suspect the engineer to not be there Monday.
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by ransom1538 12y ago
Posting your company salaries does a few things: 1) It promotes mediocrity. 2) Creates a political cesspool. 3) Ties the hands of hiring team. 1 - Excellent people want to go places where they can make more. When excellent people learn ab
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by ransom1538 12y ago
I was there hacking in the beginning. With the Eris S, roger dickey, neil, kenneth, etc. They entered into a market with free users and based their predictions on this. FB cut them off by limiting the virality. That was game over 2012. (M
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by ransom1538 12y ago
Thanks removed.
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by ransom1538 12y ago
2008 - Facebook had a meeting with us Crowdstar describing how our current business model (quizzes) was getting their own section in their TOS, and would cease to exist. 2010 - After switching to a game model and doing quite well - neck and
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by ransom1538 12y ago
Please see this image: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/img/chrome_breakpoint... I am really confused. Why is this easier - this looks extremely buggy and complex?
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by ransom1538 12y ago
I had a really great time talking to the Facebook engineers during my interviews there. The main pattern I noticed was Harvard (i was applying in management). Even more so, the guys interviewing me were extremely talented and smart. What a
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by ransom1538 12y ago
Ok. I have been hacking in startups for 10 years or so. A few rules to note. 1) Startups almost always fail. Pretty much assume at any point you can be let go for any reason. If you can't afford to blow 3 months of salary and be p
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by ransom1538 12y ago
I probably am dating myself here. But with cloud infrastructure what is the point of these configuration management tools? To get the configuration of an instance just fire up a copy of instance. To install something new, have a script ins
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by ransom1538 13y ago
Rent becomes a fixed low amount over time due to rent control. Eventually rent becomes negligible. However, salaries continue to climb.
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by ransom1538 13y ago
I built a few large scale viral games at zynga, crowdstar, etc. These games eventually exhibited the same strange behavior. They would stop growing - then start a quicker decline into nothingness. We tried every thing: features, advertisi
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by ransom1538 13y ago
Stock the fridge with tons of beer, pay young 20 something engineers tons of money, then remove accountability. Also, the "non-boss" founders should just walk around talking to who they like the best. This will drive the company t
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by ransom1538 13y ago
I have a few serious concerns: Suppose have nodes A,B,C,D running with slaves and you have a user u1 start retrieving and storing data. The odds will be high that the user u1 stores keys on all nodes A,B,C,D since all the keys are based o