steveax

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   by steveax 12y ago

   Or perhaps the AA interlude was very intentionally ironic.
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   by steveax 12y ago

   Probably also worth reading Niven's Ringworld since it was part of the inspiration.
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   by steveax 12y ago

   And why isn't anyone calling for Brennan's head on a stick for lying about this? Really, I'm mystified.
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   by steveax 12y ago

   I live in a neighborhood that has lots of crows and lots of walnut trees and not much car traffic. The neighborhood crows have figured out that dropping the walnuts in the intersections increases the chances of them getting crushed. I'
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   by steveax 12y ago

   Or more accurately, top marginal tax rate. A lot of folks don't seem to realize that if they enter a new "tax bracket", only the taxable income above that threshold is taxed at the top rate.
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   by steveax 12y ago

   I think you missed the point, ie: refuting the dire predictions of the anti-tax crowd, none of which came to pass. This will no doubt fail to stop the usual hue and cry in the future, as that particular demographic seems to be evidence proo
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   by steveax 12y ago

   Specifically, the Himalayan Blackberry [1] which was imported in the 1800's and escaped. They are a scourge [2] up here in the PNW. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_armeniacus [2] http://pnw-ipc.o
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   by steveax 12y ago

   I think you're right; I also think that is a common attitude of those of us who were gaming at the time of hysteria (as the author was). Maybe this article is for the author, a reclaiming of how awesome gaming was for some of us, and d
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   by steveax 12y ago

   Indeed. I think this must be karmic payback for how onerous the "process" of canceling an AOL account used to be.
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    by steveax 12y ago

    Rubbish. Individualism did not build the interstate highway system, or sewer systems or even the internet. Please put down Atlas Shrugged long enough to take a look around you.
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    by steveax 12y ago

    It's a 10% shift in the rate (and nearly 50% higher than the low point), so yes, it is significant.
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    by steveax 12y ago

    > It’s a fact that employees are underpaid. I just have to comment on that line in the conclusion of the article... When Forbes, Forbes!, states unequivocally that employees are underpaid, it's probably time to sit up and take notic
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    by steveax 12y ago

    Eric, bravely, was open enough to share his experiences about his daughter's illness. I think many, like me, have followed along in this heart braking journey and Eric's authentic words have captivated us. Eric, my deepest condole
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    by steveax 12y ago

    There are other language interfaces to OSA. Frontier's UserTalk was an early implementation (and much more useful than AppleScript IMO) IIRC, there are also Python and Ruby bindings as well.
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    by steveax 12y ago

    Limiting the number of IP addresses that can access a free account seems entirely reasonable as does cycling the subdomains after a few hours and would surely cut down on the attractiveness to abusers. BTW, paid ngrok customer here and I lo
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    by steveax 12y ago

    Depending of course on the top marginal rate of the beneficiary of the dividend.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Yes of course. All markets are the same. High frequency teachers FTW!
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Frontier was one of my first experiences with programming and I still have a soft spot for it. Small nit: Frontier was the environment (object database, etc.), UserTalk was the scripting language Frontier used.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Just use the link to the CSS file in development an have your build tools concatenate everything for production. Certainly not a show stopper.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    There's lib-sass[1] a C implementation, but it's not at feature parity yet. [1] http://libsass.org
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    by steveax 13y ago

    What, no mention of _The Whole Internet Catalog_? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Internet_User's_Guide_and...
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Indeed. Panoramic photo VR tours were also gonna be the next big thing for real estate (remember QTVR?) but that only made sense for one-of-a-kind high end properties. Everything else is a commodity.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    I'm not advocating pinning it on a few individuals but rather a whole bunch of individuals. Compare the convictions for the recent fubar to the S&L crisis.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    The stay out of jail part isn't even part of the equation these days is it? Considering how many people are in jail for almost destroying the world a few years ago, I'll go out on a limb and say the chances of that are effectively
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Indeed. The big tell in the OP was the call for opening up H1B's. Also, training? hello?
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    by steveax 13y ago

    If you look around the table and can't spot the mark, it's you!
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Are you using Virtualbox VMs, or VMware VMs? My seat-of-the-pants experience is that VMware shares are more performant.
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    by steveax 13y ago

    > I would hate to be the person who earns just over that arbitrary 100k line. Yeah, that would be terrible. How could one survive?
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Genuinely curious, why that much effort to use LESS over Sass?
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    by steveax 13y ago

    Not to mention Kissinger, cough.