tomkarlo

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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Not for the protesters. The complaint is that tech workers are driving up rents and housing prices in SF, not that they're causing traffic. (As I understand it.) If there was an office anywhere on Bart, people would even more likely
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
"Improving Bay Area Economy Pushing Caltrain Ridership To Limit" http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/11/29/caltrain-may-be-... And that's at just ~54,000 daily riders. The big tech companies
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The protests over gentrification that turned into brick-throwing were in Oakland. I can't imagine they'd prefer more people living there because of a short commute.
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You're right. My bad.
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Really? Citation needed here; at least in the US, that's the norm for white-collar jobs.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
If you're going to go into "debt", vacation debt is the right kind. It doesn't accrue interest, it doesn't impact your credit rating, and they can't subtract it from your paycheck in most states (like CA) if yo
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's just a part of the comp negotiation, the same as a starting bonus. It's not a rollover from the old job and it's irrelevant if you got paid out for it there. Lots of companies have mechanisms to let employees go into &qu
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Giving employees less vacation is just the same as underpaying them, except it's even worse for morale and turnover. If a business can't afford to pay it's employees a reasonable market rate, it either needs to hire more juni
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
An additional week off is maybe 3% higher pay. If you're a little guy, it seems like you should look at offering 3-4 weeks of vacation in your base package, given the dual benefits of attracting candidates and having happier, healthier
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Swapping the OS on a desktop computer has never been particularly accessible to most people, either. What percentage of desktops ever get a different OS from what they came with? I'd guess less than 3% if you don't include upgrade
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The real cost of a physical keyboard (at least a built-in one) isn't the cost of the hardware. It's also the cost of having to have a different hardware unit for each country you want to sell in (and often not just the labels, but
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's hard enough to make a profit on popular phones, as evidenced by the woes of HTC, Blackberry and others... making a phone for a niche group, especially if you can't charge materially more (and I mean $1,000 or more, unlocked)
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Maybe... but nobody really thinks of it that way, any more than they bother to worry about what fair market value of the assets (the other part of the purchase price) is for an early-stage tech company. They just care about the overall pric
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Are you referring to "Modern Meaning"? Maybe I'm not understanding what you're saying. It seems like you're implying that "goodwill" is a material part of the calculation of a purchase price prior to the d
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
> Goodwill is something you add to the value of a company to sweeten the pot during acquisitions but it should never be the primary value proposition. What? Goodwill is an accounting name for the excess paid to acquire a company beyond t
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
More likely he just was hard to schedule for a photo shoot, so they used a file photo and this was better than a headshot of him speaking at some conference. Unless there were new robots to show from Google, it wouldn't add much to tak
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I'd rather have an replacement faceplate that has a micro-USB connector that you can swing out to charge things. (They already have ones with a USB socket, which is great too.) http://www.lowes.com/pd_369050-63374-WP2UW
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Yeah, but it's not very long at all in Retail Time. It's taken us 20 years from Amazon coming online to Internet sales eclipsing retail holiday sales (which I believe is projected for this year.)
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Floors and their traction level are in fact already regulated as part of ADA for many buildings. And there's tons of building codes regarding your residential bathroom for similar safety issues - minimum clearances, height of fixtures,
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
With an aging population, there's going to be a lot more people who have trouble with doorknobs (due to common arthritis and other impairments) than those who have kids young enough to be stumped by doorknobs but not levers (say 3-5 ye
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That two situations are superficially similar doesn't mean they don't have different real-world implications, and shouldn't be regulated in a different manner. Driving a go-kart is broadly similar to driving a semi-truck, but
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Apples and oranges: you're conflating copyright/fair use with terms of service. Google's not claiming you don't have a right to reuse the text. They're placing restrictions on how you use their service to access tha
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I'm American and I never understood the back-pocket thing until I moved to the West Coast and started carrying my (bulky, remote) car key in addition to just house keys. Once you have those and a phone in your front pockets, something
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
>I don't know whether this is common in other industries, but at top American law firms, salary raises and bonuses are lockstep. That means everyone gets paid based strictly on seniority. At many firms, this even carries through the
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Don't hold your breath on that one. Does any major manufacturer have a flagship slider keyboard any more?
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Mass media usually trails, rather than leads, on these kinds of things. There were tons of gay parents before you saw any on tv shows as recurring characters, and they still insist on the stereotype of the nerdy male engineer. Unless you th
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's like saying TV should always make software engineers men, because most of us are. Simply perpetuating the existing bias limits our worldviews.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
I don't think it's a matter of "seeing" it as a game. It is a game, in that definition. (As opposed to the "things done for entertainment" definition.) It's a good thing to look at relationships and coup
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It seems like this is something that will self-correct over time; it's just a lag associated with the fact that our expectations are set during childhood but play out 20 years later as adults. One thing that would help is if TV and oth
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

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