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by rmk 5y ago
This is good advice for something like finance. But many software companies are out to "disrupt" very broad areas, and unless you intend to stick in one such area, I doubt there is a whole lot of benefit to doing that. For example
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by rmk 5y ago
I think you are being unfair towards GoF. GoF came out when Object Orientation was the rage and it provided a useful compendium of solution archetypes that can be used in response to (solved, recurring) problems. That is not to cast aspersi
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by rmk 5y ago
None of these books are very technical in nature. Some of them are, in fact, as far as you can get from technical, e.g., Explain the Cloud like I'm Ten. If you can't read books, then you are missing out on a lot. It's importa
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by rmk 5y ago
Fiction - Night Over the Solomons, Louis Lamour A rollicking read of daring exploits of GIs in the Pacific Theater (fictional). Louis Lamour writes well; excellent light reading. - Tales of the South Pacific, James Michener Tales of quirky
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by rmk 5y ago
Having driven some of the older models ('10-'12 sedans), I found their transmission/gear shifting not as refined as Hondas from the same period. They do strike a decent balance between digital and physical, though.
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by rmk 5y ago
America, especially the West Coast, has a very strong driving culture. If you want to get somewhere, you get in the car. That's the default. I did this on my first visit to Seattle.
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by rmk 5y ago
Tech employees are in the same boat as the locals: they can't own homes either, and they are constantly treading water with long hours and heavy ageism to keep making money that keeps them in the middle class in the Bay Area. It's
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by rmk 5y ago
Yes, some of the databases support native ip address types that can be manipulated efficiently. Better to use that (like inbuilt json querying capabilities in postgres) than come up with your own. It is still not clear how is it better to d
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by rmk 5y ago
I think you are leaping to conclusions here. It is possible that most people want to keep HN focused on technical conversations and use this as an opportunity to learn something (I certainly do), which is why you are seeing many more commen
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by rmk 5y ago
Why not store the IP Address as a 32-bit number (IPv4 addresses)? Why store it as a string in the first place? This is something I did not quite get. Also, wouldn't it be better to split out the domain from the email address for ease o
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by rmk 5y ago
This is a poor analogy. Writing code is a technical discipline or a craft, as is technical writing. "Writing English" is not, for any place where English is the business language. From there, the analogy breaks down. If you want a
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by rmk 5y ago
In the USA, Estate Tax is synonymous with Wealth Tax, and it is the commonly-understood usage. There are very few countries that tax (financial) assets where no gain is realized (i.e., they are not sold or exchanged). The Netherlands (and a
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by rmk 5y ago
No, it's not a wealth tax. Wealth Tax is usually understood to be the tax imposed on wealth transfer, for example when a wealthy person dies and the estate passes on to his heirs. Wealth Tax is not verboten in the US, it's actuall
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by rmk 5y ago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/24/golden-hamm... This is a painful read. $814 for a container for pencils? Really? Even more egregious is highly-paid (and I really mean, highly paid, even
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by rmk 5y ago
This is a twist on a somewhat similar system used in the Netherlands, I think. Over there, you pay 4% (or something like that; some amount of gains are 'assumed') on the assets you are holding, such as stock, every year. https:&#
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by rmk 5y ago
> You're making a lot of excuses for your country by taking a very narrow view of everything I said. I was always told Americans sing the national anthem in the morning at school to brainwash the kids, this clearly worked on you. Wa
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by rmk 5y ago
> 'It's sold in Wal-Mart, in America, it _must_ be safe' Actually, this is a pretty reasonable heuristic. If this happened in India, say, then the story would have been very different. American regulatory institutions
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by rmk 5y ago
Because it's good to use goto in some situations? It's perfectly fine to use goto when using the procedural programming paradigm. It's common to goto an 'error' label (from any number of spots within the procedure)
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by rmk 5y ago
The alienation aspect of work in software is quite real, especially in companies that put many layers between developers and the end-users. Although Marx was prescient in this regard, the remedies he proposed are far from ideal... The autho
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by rmk 5y ago
The average American in the midwest can still live a pretty decent life on the 50k. An American making 50k in a major city such as San Francisco or New York City is forced to endure long commutes, but can still make it work, somewhat simila
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by rmk 5y ago
Most of my comments stem from personal experience; the assumption is that you are comparing someone who makes a similar amount of money here. > I take 6 weeks off (vacation) per year to sail in the Mediterranean and to SKI in the French
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When a cobra became a murder weapon(bbc.com)
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by rmk 5y ago
It's generally difficult to optimize taxes beyond a certain level, but of course, there are tax attorneys who can advise you on that. If you are in CA, maybe you can move to a no-income-tax state and whack 12% off your tax bill. That r
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by rmk 5y ago
c) should just pay their taxes that they legally owe . Optimizing taxes != Tax Evasion
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by rmk 5y ago
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. There is very little doubt as to whether America benefits from legal immigrants.
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by rmk 5y ago
> America does invest into itself. But Americans generally don't want the investment. This is far from the case. Case in point: nearly 3 trillion and counting in public stimulus over the last couple of years. In fact, even the Repub
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by rmk 5y ago
I think Canada and Mexico belong to two separate categories. It is true that the US benefits from highly educated immigrants from Canada AND Mexico. In fact, the US benefits in this regard much more from India and China, than Canada and Mex
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by rmk 5y ago
It’s not clear whether America has benefited from the massive uncontrolled immigration from Mexico, and it is far from clear the free trade agreement with Mexico has been a huge plus. Companies have simply used trade agreements with Mexico
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by rmk 5y ago
It's interesting that a person who was a complete antithesis of good had such belief in the inherent goodness of the average person. Speaking of NeXT, why does it get so much discussion? It was a commercial failure, and it can hardly b
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by rmk 5y ago
I think you are facing problems that many other senior candidates are facing in this job market. The number of candidates on the market is at a high, and companies are being extremely picky about who they want to hire. Add to this the fact

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