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by saryant 11y ago
But what is the right thing? Fannie and Freddie shoved mortgages through the pipeline to both increase their profits and fulfill their stated goal of increasing American home ownership. The latter is what most considered to be "the
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by saryant 11y ago
His comment doesn't make a ton of sense given that you can buy property in Manhattan and California (and the rest of the country...) without holding American citizenship. Moreover, Malta is clearly selling this as a means of entry to t
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by saryant 11y ago
Same with "exactly once delivery".
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by saryant 11y ago
This is why there's a "flag" button.
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by saryant 11y ago
I was in a CA high school as it fell apart (Benicia High in the North Bay). The district was in the hole to the tune of millions and cutting everything they could. Multiple teacher walk-outs a year, terrible morale. An administration mor
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by saryant 12y ago
How will Pony achieve this in a distributed context? Isn't this essentially asking for exactly-once delivery?
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by saryant 12y ago
Less editorialized coverage: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/04/30/abbotts-letter-puts-j...
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by saryant 12y ago
That's good to hear. My ex-fiance was there 2008-12 and it was brutal those years. Took her years to recover.
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by saryant 12y ago
Though not without its costs. The suicide rate at Caltech is disturbing (though I say this as someone who nearly lost a loved one to that).
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by saryant 12y ago
I come from an incredibly conservative family (literally had pictures of Reagan and Cheney on the wall) and they had no problems with my engagement to an Hispanic woman.
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by saryant 12y ago
I agree in broad strokes, in that I did exactly that with my last company. My first full-time programming job was as hire #1 as a tech startup (I was fired last month after two years) and while I'm now consulting, the full-time offers
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by saryant 12y ago
I feel the same way as a 2012 college graduate. Most of my college friends are still unemployed or working in marginal work (temps, office admins, phone support). On top of that, most are buried in student loans (private college) whereas
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by saryant 12y ago
L_Rahman may not have used the word "startup,", but he did say "first hire" so it's reasonable to assume we're discussing a startup. Obviously the negotiation will go differently if we're talking about, sa
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by saryant 12y ago
You're right, those numbers were simplified and don't take into account fees or taxes. As you say, the basic assumption still holds: 50k saved in the next five years will be worth significantly more 40 years from now when you ret
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by saryant 12y ago
Re 2), you should make sure your salary is at market-level and more or less ignore equity. Chances are you'll be let go or the company will collapse before it's worth anything. If you have a reasonable salary, equity is just a ch
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by saryant 12y ago
Venezuela has almost no dollars. They don't have the money to import toilet paper much less multi-thousand-dollar battery installations.
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by saryant 12y ago
Wow, that article isn't about the conference at all, it just serves as an anecdote. The quote the conference uses in their media serves, if anything, as nothing more than a flippant missive meant to contrast the writer's own view
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by saryant 12y ago
I find it interesting that I can't find the NY Times quote they've splashed all over their advertising about being a "conclave of tech's high priests." I can find other people quoting the quote, but I can't fi
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by saryant 12y ago
Exxon was involved in a lot of side ventures in the 70s and 80s, largely due to an excess of capital with few places in the industry to invest it and a fear that the rise of oil nationalism could fatally deprive Exxon of the booked reserves
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by saryant 12y ago
This is my big problem when I'm working in Ruby or JS and it's someone else's code. Every time I look at a new function I have no clue what the parameters actually are without spelunking around to figure it out. I always fe
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by saryant 12y ago
And colloquially, "engines turn or passengers swim."
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by saryant 12y ago
As someone who just spent two years as employee #1 at a startup before being fired last month, I don't regret it, and while my salary was below market, it wasn't too bad and I had a lot of fun. I went in with no full-time softwar
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by saryant 12y ago
Out of the box, the start script from "play stage" does not redirect stderr. Though I didn't think to check the classpath when I was poking around the TechEmpower github repo. I wonder if a logback.xml slipped in somewhere
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by saryant 12y ago
This is great! I go to Japan about once a year and for 2016 I'm thinking about spending a month or two working remote from Tokyo. I recently got back from doing the same at a coworking space in Thailand.
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by saryant 12y ago
Yeah, you should see a java.net.BindException in that case. Play sends it to STDERR rather than STDOUT, I thought maybe that output was being redirected but that doesn't appear to be the case. The other primary cause of that "oop
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by saryant 12y ago
Generally that error happens when Play tries to bind to a port that's already in use. Looking at the start scripts for the Scala projects, the RUNNING_PID file is just being removed if it exists but your script should probably kill th
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by saryant 12y ago
The chart says Play Framework didn't complete but looking at the output, the logs say it did. https://github.com/TechEmpower/TFB-Round-10/blob/master/peak... What am I missing?
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by saryant 12y ago
Stack ranking didn't help but Enron's problems were far deeper and had more to do with a fundamental lack of oversight. Stack ranking, if anything, was a symptom of the same disease that led Skilling to insist on mark-to-market ac
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The New Screen Savers to Launch May 2nd(twit.tv)
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by saryant 12y ago
Sure, it'll stay secret. Entirely within the confines of the French government. Just like the output of the recording devices they installed on Air France planes in business class. Those were never turned over to French companies.

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