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by scrozier 3y ago
Pledging your fortune to charity is not taxation, and calling this a tax bracket is misleading.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I came, I sat, I conquered. So simple, yet immediately effective. (Full disclosure: I'm a regular meditator, so it's pretty easy for me to slip into mindful awareness.) Thank you for this!
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by scrozier 3y ago
Fair enough.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I appreciate your optimistic take.
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by scrozier 3y ago
Shopsin's is not closed! They are now at Essex Market (Essex and Delancey, in the Lower East Side). Next building over from me. I think some of Kenny's offspring took it over (but not sure of that). Not quite as fun as the old pla
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by scrozier 3y ago
It's amazing to me how much can be written (and published, and rewarded) about something so obvious. Parents, this is why your kids' tuition is so high.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I think this is a valid point. bash is an overly complicated tool...so I'll write another tool on top of that (with none of the decades of debugging that bash itself has undergone) to make bash...LESS complex? The problem is with bas
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by scrozier 3y ago
They are not arguing semantics, they are getting to the very premise/context of the paper.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I think it was the "uh." :-) If I read it without it, it's not so bad. And I know we all dash off comments quickly sometimes. Apologies if I overreacted.
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by scrozier 3y ago
Here's another way groby_b could have said the same thing: "I spend a lot of time designing UI for international users. In these circles, the issue you're talking about is referred to as 'BiDi' text input. If you wo
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by scrozier 3y ago
Instead of gatekeeping "the space" with insider abbreviations and belittling the author, you could appreciate that they raised awareness of the issue.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I listened to his Röckdöts on YouTube. Pretty interesting, and done well by the Third Coast Percussion Quartet.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I think _maybe_ he meant that you can't tell that you heard a C and an F, only that you heard a perfect fourth. Even that's not 100% true: some people can tell. And it's certainly not what he said.
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by scrozier 3y ago
As a musician and a computer scientist, I'm always interested when music stuff gets posted here. I looked this guy up; he's a bona fide composer, apparently. He looks at music in a very technical way that doesn't sound much (
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by scrozier 3y ago
Well, not incredibly wealthy by American standards. Working man. No college. Worked at an oil refinery in the Toledo, Ohio area. But he was so frugal that he accumulated stuff, including real estate, throughout his life, and was the benefic
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by scrozier 3y ago
A few years before dad died, I flew up to help him "clean up some stuff." I did make some progress against the poison ivy in the back yard, but he wouldn't let me in the house and, in the end, we took two phone books to the r
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by scrozier 3y ago
Dad had 6-8 boats of various descriptions, but one part of the description of each was, "unusable." He also collected outboard motors, which sat on stands in the musty cottage basement. Never thought to combine the two, I guess.
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by scrozier 3y ago
This is insightful. My father died 2 1/2 years ago, leaving my siblings and me with 6 houses and 3 commercial properties, all full--basement to ceiling--with junk (except one of the commercial properties, which was rented). "They
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by scrozier 3y ago
lol...I came to post this EXACTLY. Having been in, or on the periphery of, the startup world for a long time (ending about ten years ago), I've come to see it as pretty vapid, unimaginative, and even downright destructive. If a bunch o
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by scrozier 3y ago
I'm afraid this sounds really generic and a bit desperate. I don't see any of the guiding principles really looking at Tumblr's strengths.
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by scrozier 3y ago
Not sure how you read that into my comment. I'm saying that trained, skilled designers don't need formulas and tools like this to achieve pleasing and functional results.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I'd be happy to be wrong, but this sure feels like another instance of a numbers/formulas/algorithm-oriented person wanting a shortcut to visual style. This site is full of these, in many areas of endeavor. As a musician, I p
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by scrozier 3y ago
Or...you could work with a designer whose training and experience it is to make things like this look nice and work well. Instead of trying to have an formula or algorithm for everything, just because that's what you know.
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by scrozier 3y ago
I know it's not a contest, but I just turned 65. I'm currently an individual contributor at a small-ish SaaS company. I've been a systems programmer, software development director at a well-known retailer, consultant, and (mo
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by scrozier 4y ago
I think you're just missing the whole venture capital/startup ecosystem concept. VCs and founders are well aware of accounting principles and can/should plan accordingly. BTW, I founded and ran four companies and faced this v
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by scrozier 4y ago
Well, yes, increased tax revenue, of course. There may be no/little difference in the long term; that's over my economics pay grade. It seems like the model of raise a lot of money, spend a lot of money, expense it, pay no taxes,
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by scrozier 4y ago
> Do you see a difference between software development in a consulting business model (instant one-off benefit) and software development in a saas product business model (benefit over multiple years)? Yes. Not sure what that has to do wi
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by scrozier 4y ago
That could well be. But maybe it's not so obviously a good thing as it may sound to startup ears. Matching income and expenses is a pretty good way to keep your financial head about you.
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by scrozier 4y ago
Founders work for free because they're investing, taking a risk like all investments. If they lose the bet, they lose. No harm, no foul. That's true of any investment you and I make. People lose money on investments every day. The
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by scrozier 4y ago
> any employee you hire who's doing software development would cost you (1 + 4/5) times their salary in the near term How can that be true? You only pay them once, not 1 4/5 times.

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