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by tolmasky 7y ago
Losing an entire year of 1.2K rent breaks even with 1.7K rent after roughly 3.3 years , breaks even (1.7(x-12)=1.2x, x = 40 months). And that’s if the new tenants stay with no churn and you don’t play the same game forcing them out for a
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by tolmasky 7y ago
What in your second paragraph doesn’t apply without rent control? In other words, what makes 7% the magic number? Your entire argument seems based on market forces (if you raise too much, your tenant leaves and if there’s no wealthy people
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Heh, this is the story of how Slack got built. Slack was built as an internal tool while building Glitch, an online game. From Wikipedia: > Slack began as an internal tool for Stewart Butterfield's company Tiny Speck during the deve
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Would you wear a Nike band for $3M a year?
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Context is always key with these kinds of reactions. Few people feel that hex editors are unnecessary, they probably don't know they exist. The reason you see this sort of thing with Kubernetes is that for whatever reason its hype over
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I think this is a good article, but ironically I think all three tribes would actually describe themselves the same way many times (whereas this article implies they'd describe themselves, or what matters to them, differently). To use
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by tolmasky 7y ago
No, I saw that -- maybe you missed every other flavor-of-the-week coverage for the past 10 years? Panic refers to user's reactions -- not what the news cycle generates for a given week. When information about Uber came out, at least #d
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by tolmasky 7y ago
What mass panic? Did I miss the part where entire towns were burning their iPhones? Most people don’t know or care about security, and even if this was “sensationalized” do you honestly believe everyone didn’t just forget about it a week la
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I'm aware that funds aren't necessarily discretionary, but could the money spent on all this technology be redirected to teacher salaries (or other basic supplies) if the technology is dumped? I'd be curious to see the breakd
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Funnily enough, I did this as a quick example for my generic-JSX blog post a few years ago ( http://tolmasky.com/2016/03/24/generalizing-jsx/ ). You can see it here, it creates JSX definitions from Babel A
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Great, will they be offering free trade-ins? These are $2000 computers that have a major broken component. Not to mention, the second a computer comes on sale that doesn't have this issue, the resale value of the current MacBooks wil
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by tolmasky 7y ago
The worst part is that I can tell this keyboard is actually having a detrimental effect on my typing abilities. Since being on these keyboards for years now, I've noticed that my typing speed has slowed, as I spend a significant amount
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Sure, and my comment in no way disallows that. My point is that there seems to be an assumption that complex behavior comes from complex rules, vs. the complexity of the behavior being assumed to have no necessary relation to the complexity
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Is this perhaps just an error in confusing relative and absolute terms? That is to say, being that we know that simple rules can generate complex results, it is thus possible (likely?) that a series of complex results will result from simp
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Right -- this is exactly the kind of language that turns people off. It is a vague analogy with no practical advice that compares the act of programming to the art of a skilled painter, giving a field that strives to have the restraint and
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by tolmasky 7y ago
In high school AP Computer Science uses Java (20 years ago when I was in high school, they were just transitioning off of C++). You can see what the earliest programmers are being taught here: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org&#
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I feel that it is in fact possible to learn from history, and what humans tend to be good at and bad at, and derive useful directions for the future. "Use the right tool for the job" and "no silver bullets" are certainly
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by tolmasky 7y ago
These are arguably identical statements. I think Milton Friedman's "Theory" was descriptive, not prescriptive: ultimately shareholders can sway a corporation, and thus the corporations' "duty" is "to"
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Well, at least prior to 2003 there was a strong incentive to prefer gains from stock sale since it could get long term capital gain tax rates (15% now, 20% at the time) vs. dividends which would be taxed as normal income. Since then however
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I do mean this completely naively, as I was not even aware that "exchanging knowledge for money" required a license before this, but why do you feel this way? I'm so shocked that this isn't simply about certification (ak
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I am fine paying everyone is whatever convoluted ways, but I'm not OK with this translating to a miserable UI experience. At least TV had a single interface. I don't want to manage apps for shows, and have to search within apps or
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If we merely had the same copyright we had when the country first formed, this entire "your books turn off thing" would possibly be completely acceptable: a subset of works would be onerous and somewhat annoying for 28 years, afte
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by tolmasky 7y ago
We actually have a vaccine for Lyme disease that was pulled due to the Antivax hysteria. I believe an article was posted here on Hacker News before, but here is a link to one otherwise: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp&
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Have you had a chance to try our project, https://runkit.com ? The two projects intersect a bit, but given your specific concerns it may be more along the lines of what you're looking for: 1. Specifically, we have gone throu
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I wish it allowed you to supply an email “formula” (for example “apple-sign-ups-${supplied-unique-id}@my-domain”). I understand this is a particularly “pro” request, but I’d still like it. Again, from a customer angle I’m not 100% sold on
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by tolmasky 7y ago
This would be a customer action — it affects one person. Unless you’re implying they’d disable the phone of every user of a certain app or something to that effect. With these emails they could trivially, and surgically, cut off a developer
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Hasn’t happened for GPL3, and I would bet it won’t happen for these either. More importantly, the one-click solutions offered by amazon, GCP, etc. will always be the GPL2/MIT/etc licensed products, while the others will require yo
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by tolmasky 7y ago
> Apple made a computer "just for the pros", like HN begs for in every butterfly keyboard thread. > It's for people who don't know what a CPU core is but know how to produce a platinum album, get an Oscar nominatio
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by tolmasky 7y ago
The question is not whether the author made a fortune, but whether they were upset that tremendous more value was captured by others. I’m sure Amazon has made way more money on AWS last year by leveraging Linux than Linus has in his entire
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If OP feels it is there place to insist what the OSI should label as open source, then they open themselves up to the should game. Also, this is meant more as a “if you do X, expect Y” statement. If you open source, expect high uptake not p

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