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811.
by saryant 12y ago
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful” - Warren Buffett
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by saryant 12y ago
The added difficulty over the (for instance) Enron scandal is that this time, we don't have a nice set of publicly available SEC documents to look through (obviously not talking about GOOG/FB/TWTR). But with so many firms gr
813.
by saryant 12y ago
What does the Citizens United decision have to do with any of this? Standardized tests have been written by private companies for decades, it didn't just happen recently.
814.
by saryant 12y ago
That was how I felt when I encountered an online community about bedbugs. OTOH, immensely useful...
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by saryant 12y ago
Yes, the park rangers at Yellowstone and meteorologists at the National Weather Service were all consulted on those decisions and deserve equal blame as the people up top and the torturers themselves.
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by saryant 12y ago
> So far it's the best style guide I've seen for Scala. Much more pragmatic, and actually very close to the way I naturally write Scala. I love the instruction to avoid symbolic methods unless they are really using symbols that
817.
by saryant 12y ago
Here's a talk cataloging them: http://confreaks.tv/videos/pnws2014-towards-a-safer-scala
818.
by saryant 12y ago
Nothing in that example was asynchronous.
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by saryant 12y ago
It was sarcasm.
820.
by saryant 12y ago
I worked remote for about six months for the company I currently work for. I actually miss that arrangement. I solved the problem of being alone by working from a coworking space where I shared an office with three other people, none of us
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by saryant 12y ago
Southwest is still living on the goodwill they generated from their huge fuel hedge last decade. They don't allow their fares to be shown in the aggregators but they've convinced a large segment of the population to start their s
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by saryant 12y ago
He wasn't arrested in the US, he was arrested in Abu Dhabi.
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by saryant 12y ago
Isn't that what lawyers are for? I paid mine a small fee to review my equity agreement before I signed and I made it clear to my potential employer that I couldn't sign until my lawyer signed off on it.
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by saryant 12y ago
Sort of like the common response to questions about non-competes: "Oh, we never enforce that!" "...then why can't we take it out?"
825.
by saryant 12y ago
Working in Beijing.
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by saryant 12y ago
That has nothing to do with the fact that if your systems are distributed, you will have eventual consistency. If System A needs to tell System B about an event in order for A and B to remain consistent, but B is down, you've got event
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by saryant 12y ago
I once worked for a design agency that was building the website of a major super PAC run by the son of a governor that most people on HN probably despise. I was tasked with turning the designer's PSDs into a Wordpress site and one sec
828.
by saryant 12y ago
There's CoreOS the OS and there's CoreOS the project. The OS is just a self-updating barebones Linux distro built for hosting Docker containers.
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by saryant 12y ago
Good point. IIRC, if you buy the ETFs directly from Vanguard, there is no transaction fee, making it even less expensive.
830.
by saryant 12y ago
Some Vanguard index funds have a $1000 minimum and you don't have to risk your money with a (frankly) sketchy investment like this.
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by saryant 12y ago
That's why they waive the charge for their loyal customers. 5 stays or 15 nights in a year at Hyatt and you get Platinum status which includes free wifi (though Hyatt just made wifi free at all their properties). At Hilton it's 2
832.
by saryant 12y ago
That's more or less what Akka is for.
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by saryant 12y ago
If HFT lets Vanguard lower their costs, the savings of which are passed on to their customers, that's more money in the retirement accounts of regular people. I just got an email that the expense ratio of my Vanguard target date fund i
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A Bug's Death (2003)(nytimes.com)
21 points by saryant 12y ago|6 comments
835.
by saryant 12y ago
What problems have you had? We're using a similar setup but SkyDNS has been pretty trouble-free so far.
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by saryant 12y ago
IIRC their revenue is about 4x Apple's.
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by saryant 12y ago
> US tech industry is mostly reduced to making online chat room apps for cellphones That may be the face of the US tech industry that shows up on TechCrunch but the reality is that the rest of the industry is far more varied and much dee
838.
by saryant 12y ago
Some are catching up. I stayed in a hotel last year that had a Mac Mini hooked up to a smart TV with a wireless keyboard.
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by saryant 12y ago
8 won't even be the outermost loop once 99 is completed.
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by saryant 12y ago
I spent a summer commuting from Katy to University of Houston's main campus. Westpark toll to 59 passing through the 610 interchange. Westpark's off ramp lands you in an exit only lane to 610, so you immediately have to merge over

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