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by shimon 17y ago
As a consulting programmer, I can imagine you might get paid $420/hr in a few rare cases: 1. You built something really complex and a very rich client needs emergency help with it. 2. You are extraordinarily famous and a very rich client fe
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by shimon 17y ago
Typically, municipalities control what gets built where by "zoning" various territories. In most municipalities for at least the past 40 years, large parts of the city are zoned for commercial, industrial, OR residential usage. You cannot
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by shimon 17y ago
There are many "internet-only" bank accounts in the US that reimburse you for ATM fees. I use http://www.salemfivedirect.com/ , which reimburses up to $15 of ATM fees per month, and Etrade bank does something similar. Being free to total
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by shimon 17y ago
Do you mean http://www.sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/ ?
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by shimon 17y ago
It seems hard to define "offshoring" clearly enough to write a law for this tax. Couldn't you serve the same goal, though, by encouraging companies to hire locally, i.e. subsidizing job creation? There are lots of ways to do this, such as
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by shimon 17y ago
Emacs users: try the comment-dwim command, usually bound to M-;. This will toggle the commented-ness of the selected code and be relatively smart about it. "dwim" stands for "do what I mean". :)
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by shimon 17y ago
You could do this with RSS. Let me add an RSS feed to my account, and consider each new item in the feed to be a new revizr document owned by me. Consider changes to the item text to be authoritative changes, i.e. versions approved by me.
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by shimon 17y ago
In twitter's search, the emoticons are not literal search terms but keywords that select for messages considered positive or negative more broadly. This might mean that :) translates to (cool OR awesome OR great ...) or it could be some fuz
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by shimon 17y ago
Bezos' claim is bullshit; of course they want to use their reader to advantage their store. Long-term, the book-selling business is probably larger for them than the hardware business. But as long as they have the dominant reader device,
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by shimon 17y ago
Finally, the return of web pages that only render correctly in IE! I've been missing that terribly since all web designers started using Firefox a couple years ago.
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by shimon 17y ago
It's certainly a challenge to balance the two, but from what I've seen there is a large range of workable tradeoffs. We all want to validate the particular tradeoff we've chosen, but ultimately the way you go is a question of your own valu
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Widespread Google packet loss observed today(blogs.zdnet.com)
30 points by shimon 17y ago|7 comments
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by shimon 17y ago
This is a good example of hacker writing in 10 paragraphs the sort of thing that has often been diluted into a 250-page business book.
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by shimon 18y ago
This argument only makes sense if you believe Google's ability to generate money from YouTube will actually get worse as YouTube becomes more popular. Why? Because bandwidth is getting cheaper. It won't be long before running YouTube costs
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by shimon 18y ago
In the shorter term, there might be some special sauce in this site that can imbue a potentially boring task (creating and reading decision trees) with enough emotional meaning to make it work. For the decider, there is the appeal of having
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by shimon 18y ago
I've been hacking Django apps around 50kLOC for a couple of years and have found it generally very well designed. It is true that the best-documented interfaces often don't meet your needs exactly, but I've had a lot of good results reachi
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by shimon 18y ago
Do you know about generic views? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/generic-views/ ...and ModelForms? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms... In my experience, "simple CRUD" often gets complicated by permis
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by shimon 18y ago
How about this: 1. The YC founder-investors probably lost 30% or so of their wealth in the recent stock market decline (maybe they did better, maybe they did worse, but they probably feel poorer). 2. At the same time, YC has continued to im
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by shimon 18y ago
Exactly right. It's not painful enough to bother yet. When it does get painful enough, maybe IPv6 will still be the frontrunner, or maybe something else will emerge, but we should not expect to figure this out for a few years.
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by shimon 18y ago
I know it varies by state, but where I live (MA) the small claims limit is $2000. When you take into consideration the amount of time you're sinking into the case, and the risk that you might not win, there is only a small range of damages
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by shimon 18y ago
On the contrary, it would have been amazing if Google had sent a highly trained lawyer to deal with this. The amount in question, about $760, is probably less than a day's wages+benefits for a Google lawyer. If you want to optimize for jus
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by shimon 18y ago
You're probably thinking of an emacs mode that does this on its own, but it would also be excellent to have an emacs minor mode that integrates with Etherpad. Ideally, you just do M-x etherpad-buffer and emacs tells you a URL that you can
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by shimon 18y ago
I think this is partly the point of the article: when you're forced to rely on objective metrics, you will avoid some of the questions that distinguish good performance from great performance. That's one advantage of tiny companies, which
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by shimon 18y ago
If you can crank out 9 or more hours of actual billable work per day, you are seriously an endurance champion and can probably make a ton of money consulting.
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by shimon 18y ago
It seems like you still want to work in the same field, and are mainly considering school because of the credential it offers. While that addresses one reason employers might be throwing away your resume, it isn't on its own enough to make
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by shimon 18y ago
I like this not just because it's fun to meet up and hack with other folks, but because it gives people a way to post/discuss/brainstorm ideas. It's always more fun to discuss these things in an open, social setting where the emphasis can
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by shimon 18y ago
+1 for providing a damn useful service. It is ridiculously hard to find even something as simple as a wiper blade or light bulb online, and a service that provides an amazon-quality shopping experience, especially across multiple sites, wo
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Working from Home Part 2: Now about how it doesn't suck(geeksinboston.com)
28 points by shimon 18y ago|9 comments
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by shimon 18y ago
The existence of those factors is not hard to communicate. Your manager will probably understand and sympathize, but without a measurable cost or benefit, how is she going to argue for them in a committee with other managers? Sure, we get
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Working from Home Part 2: Why It’s Great(geeksinboston.com)
19 points by shimon 18y ago|9 comments

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