tthomas48

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by tthomas48 13y ago
Actually UT heavily distorts the rental market, since while the students are poor, their housing is being paid for via loans or parents. So rents usually run higher than market rates near universities. This is why Universities frequently ha
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by tthomas48 13y ago
I think you're actually mapping areas where the market is being prevented from providing enough rental units for one reason or another.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Actually for a school that self-selects students and is a private education those college continuation rates aren't so hot.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
facebook/webdriver
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Honestly my bigger issue (and I'm not a twenty-something engineer) is that it's such an isolated campus. I might not mind working in the suburbs, but even the suburbs are moving towards walk-able interesting places, rather than th
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Selenium is awesome. I'm using it in Java and PHP. I had a run in with it in its 1.x days and it was too unreliable to maintain the tests. Now it's fantastic.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
I think this goes back to the fact that start-ups are not get rich quick schemes. I was at a successful start-up that was acquired by a fortune 500 company. I got north of $500. From talking to many other software engineers, that is a prett
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by tthomas48 13y ago
It's actually easier than that. Techies are more likely to be atheists or not attend church. That's where most of the "charitable" giving in the US goes. A replacement for that would be fantastic, but there just isn&#x27
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by tthomas48 13y ago
It is frightening that people may be listening to him. Surely there's at least one Republican available to Fox News who understands web technology.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
I'm in Texas and we have at-will employment. You want super-easy hiring and firing, that's great. But because you can fire me at the drop of a hat, I cannot take the risk in tipping my hand. Feeding my family is more important to
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Some of the words are spelled correctly, though.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
The economist would say that this would be most likely to get you C and D players. People who are having trouble finding or holding onto a job and are truly desperate would be the only ones an economist would expect to answer 'yes&#x27
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by tthomas48 13y ago
I like to call the iPhone's "Easy Mode" - "You can't do that".
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by tthomas48 14y ago
Anyone have a linux version? I'd love this.
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by tthomas48 14y ago
I was comparing to a small Texas town.
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by tthomas48 14y ago
Heritage.org is a conservative think tank. I suppose they're saying economic freedom isn't that important for a strong economy? Because you'd think if it were important it would correlate more strongly with economic size and growth.
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by tthomas48 14y ago
I think this is the heart of the matter. Why are people disengaging? I have the same experience as you in central Austin which, while not NYC, is still one the biggest cities in the US. I encounter people I know everywhere I go. The grocery
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by tthomas48 14y ago
Towns aren't free market. We fund roads millions of times more than public transportation. We let developers build infrastructure and then hand it over to towns which get to maintain it. So the free market basically has no responsibility fo
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by tthomas48 14y ago
It's probably more fair to compare this to WWI. With US gun owners being the equivalent of the cavalry, and the US military being the machine gun. But go on discussing the relative merits of your horse breeds...
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by tthomas48 14y ago
GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
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by tthomas48 14y ago
The Middle East does not argue against it. Guns haven't been the thorn in the US military's side. It has been improvised explosive devices. Guns require a person to pull the trigger and have a single point of failure. They're not that effec
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by tthomas48 14y ago
Especially during a recession? 95% of Americans are never going to make that money ever. The state of the economy is irrelevant.
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by tthomas48 14y ago
I feel like this is the you can't have the same job for 30 years story told over and over again. Yeah. New economy. You have to have skills. You can't just buy a good job.
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by tthomas48 14y ago
It us bizarre to me since the most in demand employees are basically high tech liberal arts. A mix of engineering, art, psychology, and performance is pretty much the killer skill set right now (and I'd imagine in the future. My BA in thea
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by tthomas48 14y ago
It correlates with a massive decrease in crime. It's interesting, but I live in a fairly mixed-income and higher crime area and guns are very unpopular here. I think ultimately it's some sort of weird reaction to extreme safety. Our brains
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by tthomas48 14y ago
Don't mess with the narrative. If hard work isn't the only thing that contributes to success you're going to destroy a lot of people's entire world view. But yes he was lucky. Just like the fact I'm a programmer right now has a lot to do wi
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by tthomas48 14y ago
Remember it's an amendment . Which means it can be repealed. We also at one point had an amendment outlawing all liquor and then another that repealed it. The inverse could be done easily with the 2nd. I'd imagine it's something that won't
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by tthomas48 14y ago
I concur. This is one of those cases where gut reaction proves to be a really bad idea after just a couple minutes of introspection.
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by tthomas48 14y ago
You forget the other side, though. There are tons of people like my in-laws who used to get all sorts of malware thanks to IE, and once they switched to Firefox or Chrome no longer do. There's a pretty large group of non-technical people ou
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by tthomas48 14y ago
The solution in this post doesn't work. It just changes your settings for the ads on the right. Not the ones in your feed.

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