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by skittles 13y ago
The readme has a typo: dervied should be derived
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by skittles 13y ago
Why is it fair for Linus to get tips for Linux kernel commits? My understanding is that he rarely (if ever) writes code for the kernel anymore. He just takes code from his lieutenants and merges it. Maybe he doesn't feel right takin
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by skittles 13y ago
So would you rather pay a master $33,500 for 2 days of work or a novice $33,500 for a year of work (and possibly no results)?
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by skittles 13y ago
Teaching kids about personal finance is important, but making your kids pay for large expenses isn't a good thing. I've seen so many kids start out life having to pay for their own car, insurance, and college. Most of them drop
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by skittles 13y ago
He mentioned that they use the servicestack.text library. I've looked into servicestack recently (using the nuget packages), but then found the library to be pay-to-play. There's an older version (v3) that is BSD licensed that i
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by skittles 13y ago
After looking into this, it looks like the IRS will ding you if you pay yourself less than what it would take to hire someone to do the same job.
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by skittles 13y ago
The self employed pay 15.3% of gross income to FICA and Medicare taxes. This amount cannot be avoided (no tax breaks). Employees pay roughly half this percentage. It's also very easy for the newly self employed to see the money roll
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by skittles 13y ago
I thought mongrel2 was a dead project. Are you working with it, or on it? Nobody has committed any code in a long while.
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by skittles 13y ago
The answer is simple. A doctor won't be sued for not giving an obese person diet pills. These drugs aren't very effective, and they have side effects such as raising blood pressure. A typical doctor will just tell you to be mor
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by skittles 13y ago
No. Outlook.com, which is hotmail rebranded. It's pretty good.
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by skittles 13y ago
I'd like to have a Dylan dialect based upon Clojure concepts (the Sequence abstraction and immutable collections being two that come to mind). It would also need Clojure's idea of being a hosted language to get past the lack of l
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by skittles 13y ago
Then watch the Fat Head documentary and be confused once again.
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by skittles 13y ago
UK is smaller than Oregon. Oregon has a population of 3.9 million. UK has a population of 63.2 million. It is cheaper to get Internet to concentrations of people (more income per line).
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by skittles 13y ago
Brother has deb and rpm packages for that printer.
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by skittles 13y ago
Anders is in charge of TypeScript. That alone should have been enough.
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by skittles 13y ago
I want to like T-Mobile, but I'm in the middle of the US with access to 100+ Mbps Internet but no T-Mobile signal in my house. T-Mobile is pushing itself hard in my area, but they just don't have the coverage.
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by skittles 13y ago
Seems like many otherwise smart people think in terms of "how likely am I to need this?". Insurance should be thought of in terms of "how screwed would I or my family be if...?". If somebody depends upon your income, g
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by skittles 13y ago
Back then all the people that used Unix at work or school didn't really have a descent option for home use. Linux filled that void and came at a perfect time when a lot of the GNU utilities existed but without a completed open source
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by skittles 13y ago
We're getting to a point where most people use at least two distinct operating systems daily for their tech devices. I think this really opens up the possibility of ditching pervasive software for cheaper alternatives. So what if Lib
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by skittles 13y ago
I've always assumed those companies are weeding out older applicants. They are going after fresh graduates who are smart. That's all they want.
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by skittles 13y ago
I notice a pattern. "Good" jobs pay well and are not likely to kill or maim. "Bad" jobs aren't necessarily low paying. They are just dangerous. I'm not sure this is a valid way to separate the good from the
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by skittles 13y ago
What's frustrating is working for a company that calls you a programmer that then expects you to be a business analyst, systems architect, DBA, QA person, and coder all in one. That's how it is where I work. We do have additiona
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by skittles 13y ago
It's human nature to stop "screwing around" in order to get "real" work done and make your boss happy. The only way to keep 20% time is to force everyone to take it. If others on your team stop doing it, then the
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by skittles 13y ago
I've learned a few things to put a stop to this problem. I think in "engineer" mode. Engineers get things done that work. Creative perfectionists don't. I start a project making sure that I can build and deploy the s
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by skittles 13y ago
Because you don't want to be in a high performance jet when the VM decides to do garbage collection during a critical maneuver.
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by skittles 13y ago
Be careful with T-Mobile. I live in a fairly small town (about 12,000 people) that is practically a suburb of a bigger town (over 200,000). I have 18 MBps Internet from AT&T Uverse, and the local cable company just started offering a
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by skittles 13y ago
It's almost impossible to build a new coal-powered plant in the US currently (EPA has driven up the cost). Current plants; however, produce cheap energy. Where the EPA causes trouble is with "new source review". They punish energy compan
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by skittles 13y ago
I believe that lots of people really can't do math. Most people are fine until fractions. Many people never gain any intuitive feel for what "2/5 * 7/8" even means. It only gets worse with algebra. They can often learn the mechanics of
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by skittles 13y ago
I think it is best to do incremental estimates. "How long until you have the service deployed to staging with a single 'ping' operation?". When that step is complete: "Ok, now how long to get operation Foo working end-to-end?". This requ
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by skittles 14y ago
One conjecture he made is definitely wrong. Medical bills for uninsured individuals are usually higher than those for insured (due to insurance companies negotiating a better price).

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