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by saryant 9y ago
Many of these prisoners will eventually be released back into society. As their future neighbors, employers, coworkers, customers, seems like it's in our best interest for them to be somewhat ready for that transition. As taxpayers, i
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by saryant 9y ago
Employers should absolutely stop offering high-fee funds. Large employers should be offering institutional funds. My employer uses Vanguard and gives us access to Vanguard's institutional S&P500 fund at 3.5 basis points. Our plan
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by saryant 9y ago
"Internet buddy" can be as simple as emailing someone with a question. Someone once emailed me with a question about a talk I gave at a conference. A few years later we ran into each other—he was working for a major client of my
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by saryant 9y ago
Yes. I literally got a job paying 3x my previous compensation just based on my StackOverflow reputation. IMO, best way to start, as a programmer? Regional conferences. Start speaking. My first talk was just a presentation about how we u
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by saryant 9y ago
I worked for a Techstars company that started offering a 401k at 1 employee (me). One of the founders told me it really wasn’t that expensive.
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by saryant 9y ago
I started biking to work last summer and after a few weeks my sweat levels went way down to the point where I'd just change shirts and put on a bit more deodorant when I got to work and it was fine. If you wear shirts that breathe a bi
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by saryant 9y ago
I have to agree. ORMs can be great when an application is just starting, because that's when you're writing the most tedious queries and statements, but beyond that I personally find that ORMs just get in the way. As soon as I ne
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by saryant 9y ago
Judging by the lifestyle of the playboy branch of the Bin Laden family[1], probably stick it in a safe deposit box at a bank in NYC or London. [1] yes, there's such a thing: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show&#x2F
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by saryant 9y ago
Rex Tillerson has a degree in civil engineering. Seems like perhaps that's not a panacea. (His predecessor at Exxon has a PhD in chemical engineering)
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by saryant 9y ago
(Not at Google, but Twitter has its own monorepo) Generally submit queue takes 10-20 minutes, longer if you're changing a core library. I find the larger factor is what kind of test has to run. Feature tests can take a while on CI if
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by saryant 9y ago
Their Github (!) has a collection of event sourcing libraries they've built on top of Scala/Akka. Their budget is big enough for a soft drink company to justify a sizable open source program.
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by saryant 9y ago
I have very severe anxiety attacks which I finally have under control partly through vitamin B and fish oil supplements.
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by saryant 9y ago
There are a lot of literalists in this thread. The average wage is dragged down because the age distribution leans so far to the left. That is, the average wage disguises the wages made by staff/principal engineers, which can be 3-5
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by saryant 9y ago
I think he's arguing that the average wage in our industry is low simply because the workforce leans so young, so a disproportionate number of software engineers are still junior—and making junior wages—compared to other industries whe
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by saryant 9y ago
Pretty sure he means "modal" as in mode average.
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Vanguard never owned subprime CDO paper in its money market funds.
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by saryant 9y ago
Property can be used to generate returns (rents). Bitcoin cannot.
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by saryant 9y ago
Virtually nobody has done more to give the average investor a fair shake than Jack Bogle. I think he deserves a little more credit than that.
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by saryant 9y ago
Nearly half a million people have been naturalized in the US so far in 2017, so I'm not sure how that equates to stopping immigration.
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If I drink that much caffeine I get very sensitive to anxiety attacks.
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by saryant 9y ago
Terminate, yes. Report you to the police, not sure. Chargebacks for small amounts are often paid by the bank itself because it's cheaper than actually disputing with the merchant, so banks will certainly terminate accounts of customer
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by saryant 9y ago
Frequent flyers don’t pay bag fees. Airline status comps those fees.
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by saryant 9y ago
There’s an informal flat-tire rule to help travelers if they miss their flight but still show up at the airport within a reasonable time, but passengers who skip a flight entirely will find their entire ticket cancelled. The specific rule i
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by saryant 9y ago
Unless those pipelines were cut off. Energy and geopolitics are practically the same thing.
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Some airlines still have lounges. Mostly the Gulf carriers and I think Korean.
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by saryant 9y ago
This isn't universally true. Lufthansa put their first class on some configurations on the top deck.
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San Antonio, Bexar County bow out of bid for Amazon’s second headquarters(mysanantonio.com)
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After the Fukushima earthquake I was walking from Ebisu to Roppongi (all the subways were shuttered). A cold evening and I wasn't properly dressed. Then I turned the corner and saw a machine with Tommy Lee Jones' staring down sel
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by saryant 9y ago
DARPA is a government agency.
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Well, there's already Guam. Not to mention Palau, though I don't fully understand the arrangement between that nation and the US.

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