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Ask HN: How to move into computational biology?
3 points by smattiso 8y ago|2 comments
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by smattiso 8y ago
I dont think that's it at all. Even in "undesireable" places the rents approach what a median income earner can afford anywhere. It's akin to why we have minimum wages. Without them people will work (out of desperation)
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by smattiso 8y ago
What is the cause in your opinion? Undersupply? Or an economic stable equilibrium that sucks for everybody besides owners?
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by smattiso 8y ago
As a percentage what are talking about? There are homes and apartments aplenty, the biggest issue is the economics of it. What would cause rents to go down? An oversupply? What would cause an oversupply? Barring some regional crash it would
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by smattiso 8y ago
Calling it an affordable housing "shortage" implies that we need more housing in order for it to become affordable. The fact is there is already plenty of housing (people live somewhere don't they?) the problem is that it i
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by smattiso 8y ago
Have there been notable cases of a malicious actor installing a compromised OS on a target's phone for spying purposes?
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by smattiso 8y ago
With Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. seemingly investing in so many promising technologies (ML, robotics, infrastructure, etc.) are we past the era when innovation primarily came from startups? It used to be that BigCorps didn't want to
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by smattiso 8y ago
Who knew holding in your pee was so dangerous?
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by smattiso 8y ago
It depends on what you mean by failure. If you build a MySpace/AOL/Netscape and 15 years later it "fails", most people will celebrate you. However if you spend three years in your garage building a CRM tool that never la
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by smattiso 8y ago
This seems like a strange comparison. Teens have eschewed FB in favor of Instagram and Snapchat for years. My feeling is that YouTube is simply becoming more popular and Facebook is becoming less. This is like saying that "America&#x27
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by smattiso 9y ago
This is why I wish I had gotten into video game development rather than app development. Once the game is finished it is (for the most part) complete.
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by smattiso 12y ago
I was exactly where you were and it didn't work for me. In my opinion the only way to build something substantial enough that is worth selling is to quit your job. If you put your whole mind to something you can accomplish exponentiall
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by smattiso 12y ago
What exactly are your golden handcuffs? I assume you are a developer in the US? Unless your handcuffs are paying like 300k+ yearly then one thing to consider is that you can probably find another similarly paying job without too much work.
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by smattiso 12y ago
I work at Google now. What made you decide to leave?
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Ask HN: Building a responsive single-page app using Zurb +?
1 points by smattiso 13y ago|0 comments
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Best practices for building a bidirectional web applications?
2 points by smattiso 14y ago|2 comments
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by smattiso 14y ago
that is impossible to estimate. If I were able to estimate that I wouldn't be asking this question. Also, your usage of the term NPV is flawed. Thanks though.
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Ask HN: I own a 2M pageview/month website, am I capitalizing on this?
12 points by smattiso 14y ago|20 comments
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Ask HN: Foreign coworking offices?
2 points by smattiso 14y ago|2 comments
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Steven Cohen and SAC finally getting busted for insider trading(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by smattiso 14y ago|0 comments
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by smattiso 14y ago
Awesome! I coded this exact same concept about 4 years ago (livetabber.com... your name is better). I was really hoping somebody would do it for real. Do you plan on adding functionality to help people create SoundSlices? I'll just list the
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by smattiso 14y ago
Relative volatility of KYAK was 3x the normal amount during the day. The news was released after hours. Long live insider trading!
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by smattiso 14y ago
I used to have terrible sleep problems. Insomnia, restless sleep, etc. I changed two things. No caffeine. No alarm clock. I sleep amazingly well. I'm rested every morning and I wake up at the same time everyday.
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by smattiso 14y ago
This is an art and over time you will get better. But I suspect there is no "solution" and this is part of being a programmer :) I mostly do OO programming, so I'll speak to that. In general there is no magic bullet and the only way to guar
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by smattiso 14y ago
Amazing list thanks!
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Ask HN: Examples of great landing/site designs?
7 points by smattiso 14y ago|2 comments
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by smattiso 14y ago
Hey I am trying to recruit good devs in Sao Paulo, but I am kind of clueless where to start. If you get a chance I would love to chat. Cheers. My e-mail is stephen@lightboom.com
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Ask HN: Memory usage and performance of Play vs Rails?
9 points by smattiso 14y ago|0 comments
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by smattiso 14y ago
This sucks. Craigslist is not setup to handle apartment searches at all. I literally just finished finding an apartment and I solely used padmapper. I can't imagine having to go through the process just using craiglist search. Bummer.
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by smattiso 14y ago
Let's assume your investments keep up with inflation but no more, which is very easy to do. Then essentially you are just living off of your principle. 5MM goes a long ways. 75k a year (in today's dollars) will last you 67 years. That's mor

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