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by wgerard 8y ago
Interesting - so wait, if I send someone in the UK bitcoin and they sell it immediately for GBP, does that count as a capital gain? Or just if the price changes between when they receive it and convert it to GBP? EDIT: I guess it doesn&#x27
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I use it for that purpose all the time. Not to dig into your business too much, but: Any weird tax/legal implications around that? I didn't want to dig into it too much (just because often these things are rabbit holes with u
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by wgerard 8y ago
By no means am I a bitcoin-enthusiast, but I've shared this story before: > We had to send a payment to someone who lives in a commonwealth country - what a pain in the ass that was. For the first time I actually saw a use for bitco
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by wgerard 8y ago
I don't know if it's that necessarily. I think most people understand (in theory, anyway), the benefit of working smart. I think there's an assumption that the most successful people both work smart AND hard, which is likely
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It's not totally clear to me that hard work involves quantity (the OP, seemingly) over quality (others who have started fewer, more successful businesses). In general, there are lots of activities which give the appearance of hard work
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by wgerard 8y ago
> Deploying to Java app servers was not exactly hard to get running. I thought that too - not about Java per se, but similarly that "getting this app server running is designed to be easy." Then, I had to help someone debug an
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by wgerard 8y ago
Ehh, I somewhat agree but you're generalizing a lot. To pick one example: containers have been invaluable for setting up reproducible dev environments (via docker compose), even across just a few people. It doesn't take very long
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> I think the US desperately needs a "mommy track" for college that encourages women with young kids to go to school part-time and take 6 to 8 years to complete their degree. I think this would solve a lot of problems. I'm
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by wgerard 8y ago
It would likely just encourage convoluted corporate structures that would function more-or-less equivalently to the ones we have today.
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> Are they allowing downloads for offline viewing? They do for quite a few items in their catalog - probably not even a majority, but quite a few nonetheless.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Seconding this opinion. Haven't read Graham Hutton's book, but LYAH was just really poorly structured IMO. Some chapters are really basic and easy to read (like the chapter on recursion), and others are insanely dense and thick an
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by wgerard 8y ago
Definitely a valid question! I think it's hard to define what "worse off" means here, mostly because it's hard to put a number on the value of entertainment to people (other than the obvious ones: ticket prices, etc.). I
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by wgerard 8y ago
LA (along with NY and maybe Chicago) is the exception that proves the rule. Most cities that tell teams to shove it just end up losing their teams to other markets: In this case, San Diego and St. Louis.
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by wgerard 8y ago
You sound a bit defensive about this so I'm going to stop responding, but I'll leave you with a thought that I responded to a sibling comment with: > I think this is actually why this conversation rubs people the wrong way: I&#
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by wgerard 8y ago
> About this story--was it that they prejudiced all the women they interviewed as quiet, or did they just happen to interview a bunch of women who happened to be quiet because that's what our culture expects of women? I'm not s
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by wgerard 8y ago
> There's a reason it's a "culture fit" or "match" and not "culturally identical" or "culturally homogeneous." The problem, of course, being that they often end up being synonymous. Simil
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I suspect that most people use "culture fit" to mean people that share company values Ah, but there's the dog-whistle-rub: What are the company values? My guess is that they're sufficiently vague, like "works w
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by wgerard 8y ago
Oops! You are correct, though it looks like the SG-1000 was never released outside of JP. Still, not pre-crash.
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I would never hire anyone that I didn’t think fit in with our team...why would I do that? Because you might benefit from having someone with a different perspective in a professional environment. An older parent might not "fit in&
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by wgerard 8y ago
> A lot of the companies in video games around the time of the blow up are gone now, but some of them survived -- Nintendo was early and is still around, Sega survived until much after the crash. Wait, but the Famicom wasn't even re
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by wgerard 8y ago
I always wonder if this "hype->saturation->blow up->recovery and ultimately more stable and serious growth" cycle applies to other industries as well - arguably that's a bit of what happened during the dot-com boom t
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by wgerard 8y ago
they used "lesson" in the quote/article when they almost certainly meant "lessen".
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by wgerard 8y ago
I feel like if you're embarrassing other people in code reviews, you have a culture problem that probably won't be resolved by doing private code reviews.
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by wgerard 8y ago
Ignoring the graphs, curious how much of this is just a response to community. Anecdotes abound, beware. Even as an older (for gaming, anyway) white male, the community in some competitive games is just really unappealing - it basically rem
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by wgerard 8y ago
> I don't understand this comment, does Emily Sanford think all these stories are made up? More likely she's not immediately attributing these stories to "dogs intentionally come to the aid of humans." People anthropo
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by wgerard 8y ago
Eh, I'm not sure I would read into this as "Seattle is super egalitarian". Microsoft has made a lot of people (relatively) extremely wealthy, as has Amazon. Seattle's probably catching up quickly to some of the cities on
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by wgerard 8y ago
This looks really great! We're really eager to apply, but we're just curious what it means to "complete" the course - would we need to be in Mountain View during those 10 weeks to attend the lectures in-person?
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by wgerard 8y ago
Total anecdote: Kinda sucks when shows leave Netflix and don't get replaced; half the appeal of Netflix is the ability to quickly switch between Futurama and Always Sunny, and more importantly to be able to watch those shows on a platf
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by wgerard 8y ago
I thought Amazon (or at least the AWS side of things) was supposedly fairly good about blameless post-mortems? I remember people were praising them as such when this outage happened: https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926
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by wgerard 8y ago
> Computer science has always had this tension between being an actual "hard" science and an applied engineering discipline I actually would go much further: I would say that the tension is between an applied engineering discip

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