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by tomcam 1y ago
Gotta be honest… the phrase “ticks that can barely be seen” did nothing to improve my outlook on life
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by tomcam 1y ago
Just read this and laughed loud enough to wake up the chicken in my office. Thanks!
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by tomcam 1y ago
OK he's living the life
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by tomcam 1y ago
They're all plugged with concrete
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by tomcam 1y ago
Not sure if I missed this in the story, but the second incident started with the owner removing the battery. It was replaced by the joyrider. Here's what I don't get. Presumably the incident happened in the middle of the night? Di
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by tomcam 1y ago
suck it up, pal, I just repacked your wheel bearings
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by tomcam 1y ago
The downvoting patterns of HN are often disheartening and illogical af
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by tomcam 1y ago
EDIT: I meant $800K
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by tomcam 1y ago
> it simply taxes you on all assets as if you disposed of them the day you leave. Same thing in the U.S. but I think the first $800 or so is exempt.
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by tomcam 1y ago
Clear explanation, thanks. Seems that many companies have moved from California to Texas or Tennessee. Am I wrong?
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by tomcam 1y ago
I just laughed. You’re a better person than I. You misinterpreted nothing.
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Pianobook gets new creative director(youtube.com)
2 points by tomcam 1y ago|0 comments
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by tomcam 1y ago
Dutch Snellius sounds like an obscure baseball player from the 1940s
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by tomcam 1y ago
What search terms would you suggest?
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by tomcam 1y ago
> the church killed everyone that was talented and didn't join their ranks, effectively wiping out a lot of knowledge (by design) Citation very much needed
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QTractor GPL audio/MIDI sequencer(qtractor.org)
4 points by tomcam 1y ago|0 comments
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by tomcam 1y ago
My instinct normally is to bat for a single or a double, not a home run. But we have different needs than most people. For us, owning our real estate outright and making mid 6 figures or below pretax in a HCOL area is the target. Any higher
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by tomcam 1y ago
Love this project; thanks for letting us know about it. I have been voted "Least likely to succeed in Web Hosting Security" by HN for 13 years in a row, so apologies if this is irrelevant. But being able to know precisely what sof
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by tomcam 1y ago
Very well put
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by tomcam 1y ago
>> we are in a place with an order of magnitude less trouble building a business. > What is this claim based on? Blog posts I've read from I've read, largely in HN. Personal interviews in those countries. > Is there 1
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by tomcam 1y ago
You’re right IMHO, but now look at what it’s like to build a business in places like France or England or China or India and you’ll learn we are in a place with an order of magnitude less trouble building a business. Frightening.
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by tomcam 1y ago
Microsoft never ever got the mad props it deserved for its extensive testing and compatibility work. I remember going through reviews where we had to fix bugs from our competitors to preserve compatibility for earlier versions of their own
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by tomcam 1y ago
I worked in Building 2 and it was my best job ever. Loved every second of it. They knew the need for thinking time, hence individual offices. Buildings 1-8 were in a wooded area with trails threaded through the area. Gorgeous in any weather
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by tomcam 1y ago
I find Poles to be among the very best, but it may be a bias in the sample. Most of the ones I know were motivated enough to move to the States for awesome jobs.
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by tomcam 1y ago
So what methods do you use?
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by tomcam 1y ago
Pretty neat how you’ve become so good at summarizing what looks stupendously opaque to me.
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by tomcam 1y ago
Salary is an indirect and partially useful metric, but one could argue that your ability to self-promote matters more, at least in the USA. I worked at Microsoft and saw that some of the people who made fat stacks of cash, just happened to
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by tomcam 1y ago
Duly upvoted! I tend to agree. Yet the shibboleth of productivity haunts us still.
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by tomcam 1y ago
What bothers me more than any of this particular discussion is that we seem to be incapable of determining programmer productivity in a meaningful way since my debut as a programmer 40 years ago.
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by tomcam 1y ago
Interestingly, it's actually being done properly: * The US constitution has an executive branch consisting of a single person, the President. (The other two branches are judicial and legislative) * That person is given broad authority

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