thomaspaine

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by thomaspaine 17y ago
From your description, you qualify for rent control, which means your landlord can only raise you rent at the rate of inflation (with certain exceptions). From http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol.html : San Francisco's rent control law covers
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
My current employer found me through LinkedIn. I get messages from recruiters on there every now and then that I probably wouldn't have gotten otherwise, so it seems like it was worth the 15 minutes it took me to setup and maintain my accou
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Weird, I wrote something almost identical to this. Still waiting on permission to open source though.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
That would have been a good article. It's too bad that the only content here is "IMVU uses memcached and it reduces database load". Not exactly earth shattering. I have no idea why this is getting upvoted.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
It didn't occur to me that I could hire someone until I saw this: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bipan/i_used_to_have_a... It just so happened that the previous day when my girlfriend asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I gave
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I want a personal assistant for 5-10 hours a week. Not a virtual one because most of the things I want done are in meat space. Stuff like filling out forms, doing my laundry, waiting in line for me at the DMV, and dropping off my netflix re
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
The people behind Color of Change (they do a lot of other projects too) are hiring python/Django developers in the bay area by the way, full time and contract. If you forward me your info I'd be happy to send it upstream. My contact info is
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Keep reading. "Further, no difference was found in HFCS intake and total overall caloric intake in the groups given 12-h access versus 24-h access. Both groups consumed the same amount of HFCS on average (21.3 ± 2.0 kcal HFCS in 12-h versus
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
That's really the only part of the movie worth watching to be honest. Save yourself 90 minutes and just watch that scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
If you're actually making average software developer pay, how is it that you don't have money left over at the end of the month to tuck away into savings? You're either spending like crazy or you're being underpaid. Anyways, if your passion
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it. I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
What? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/db/models/#id5
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I agree, I wish more companies would lay out up front how much they expect to pay you. Every super talented developer I know is already working a full time job or it's equivalent. I've found it's a lot easier to lure people away from their
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Django-cachebot: Automated caching and invalidation for Django(github.com)
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
All right, in the black-scholes example I admit that those are not axioms in the traditional sense. Maybe the expected utility axioms would be a better example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_utility_hypothesis#von...
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
You'd be surprised. The first thing that comes to mind is modern macro-economic forecasting, which is built on a host of controversial axioms. These forecasts are little better than Roman augury, and one could argue they are actually a net
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
>if user gets duped by this kind of ads, they probably deserve to get duped. This is not the correct way to think about the user experience I'm wearing my glasses, and it honestly took me about 30 seconds of scanning to figure out which
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Not every programmer majored in CS. In fact, these days unless you majored in CS or EE, you probably won't get any exposure to lower level programming unless you learn it on your own. For people who get into programming via other domains (m
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
That's one of my favorite things about rap lyrics. Lil-Wayne expressing that he's only mediocre at killing people just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Would you mind backing up that assertion? I would argue that technological advances are a large part of what makes the west's standard of living greater. Just look at the huge leaps in GDP made by the Four Asian Tigers, China, India, etc, f
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
The problem is that experienced people cost a lot of money, and since they are typically older with things like a family to support, mortgage to pay, etc, are going to be more risk averse. Especially in the early stages, all projects are mo
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
The app we use for analytics currently works by logging events to the file system and loading them into a mysql database every 5 minutes. I'm trying to convince our sysadmin to let me switch the backend out to use redis, since the only thin
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
95k - 220k seems like a pretty big difference to me, that's more than double. I too was in a position not too long ago where I had to choose between a small $X salary at a cool company and a salary of 4*X at a less cool company. I was even
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Just FYI, it looks like John K is doing an IAMA on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aocjg/iamajohnk_ren_an...
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
> Most of the complicated stuff really can't be applied to stuff like data on civil wars, since the data doesn't meet basic assumptions of the models I think this is precisely why we have more advanced statistical techniques. There are
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
I guess it depends by what you mean by "advanced statistics". Is correcting for heteroskedasticity, a fixed-effects regression, instrumental variable regression, etc advanced? Because if so, all of that is pretty common practice in say, eco
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
Funny you should ask, I just ordered a copy of a stats textbook I used back in undergrad because I remember thinking that it was pretty clearly written with lots of examples. It's "Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists" by
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
http://www.thesixtyone.com does a good job.
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
One of the co-founders went on to co-found thesixtyone (YC W09)
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by thomaspaine 17y ago
You could say the same thing for 2009, 2010, 2011...

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