wonnage

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by wonnage 15y ago
It'd be pretty bad if it were in any of the stable builds of ruby that people actually use in production. As it stands it's a month-old bug in a bleeding-edge repo, not a huge deal. Nice that someone caught it early!
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by wonnage 15y ago
Yeah, you could probably conjure up a problem with any positioning, e.g bottom-speaker is pretty easy to accidentally cover when holding the phone sideways.
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by wonnage 15y ago
I agree with all of your points. I just dislike the knee-jerk reaction to "financial engineering", as though it's a total fraud.
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by wonnage 15y ago
While your comment is a great piece of rhetoric, I have to point out that nobody in their right mind would confuse a startup engineer with a financial quant. The quant has a much better understanding of statistics and probability, something
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by wonnage 15y ago
First off, venture capital != investment banking. Secondly, if your goal in business is to extract what you can from foolish VCs and run, you're destroying many things. One is obviously investor value. But you're also destroying all the oth
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by wonnage 15y ago
The whole target of his dissatisfaction is this quote on the Node home page: "Almost no function in Node directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers are able to develop fast syste
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by wonnage 15y ago
I think the idea they're pushing is, why force a centralized structure for product development/design decisions, when your programmers are intelligent and independent enough to do it themselves? It's not just a free-for-all where people wor
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by wonnage 15y ago
Sure, but the study tries to find the most cost-effective way of providing stimulus. If you don't care how efficiently that money is used then we might as well just employ a fuck-ton of people building bridges to Hawaii.
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by wonnage 15y ago
If Safeway makes 3% on everything this guy buys, that's 3% additional wealth that wouldn't otherwise be there, right? Meanwhile if you give it to a more profitable business, they'll make much more out of it. We're not pissing around stimulu
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by wonnage 15y ago
Oh yeah, reference Moody's, they did such an awesome job rating mortgage securities a few years ago. My own wholly unfounded reasoning goes as this: give a broke guy some food stamps, he'll spend it on food. So the government is essentially
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by wonnage 15y ago
Yahoo
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by wonnage 15y ago
I'm surprised nobody mentioned a Thinkpad! I code in vim and the trackpoint is awesome for the few blasphemous times I have to use the mouse.
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by wonnage 15y ago
Can someone dissect this a little more? My understanding is the pointer to str never gets written to the stack, and so str on the heap might get freed before zstream_append_input makes use of it. But how could the GC see this/what is the fa
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by wonnage 15y ago
I don't think you actually learn much from doing any of these things. For example, most of the developers I meet set up apache the following way: google a bunch of conf files; bash at it until it works; never touch it again. In any case, wh
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by wonnage 15y ago
If anything you should prefer Rails in this case. Django generates fewer files, but what if you want to customize the automatic stuff? I'm talking about the admin templates, etc. You end up needing to copy the files over anyway. I'd say the
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by wonnage 15y ago
Well, you also have the bias of wasting several weeks of your life trying to set up a laptop. Yeah, I said waste. Most people will counter by saying "but I learned linux!" No, you didn't, you learned to futz around with a bunch of conf file
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by wonnage 15y ago
Everything good on Craigslist is going to have a ton of competition, there's no way around it. Just keep your mind open to opportunities - I got my current place when my first choice fell through, but I asked the landlord if he had anything
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by wonnage 15y ago
Yep, and witness Rake releasing an update that breaks Rails, Rubygems releasing an update that breaks Rails, Rails 3 being a performance nightmare, gem authors nuking each others' namespaces... I think in general that Ruby has one of the be
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by wonnage 15y ago
"In the United States, residential rental buildings are depreciable over a 27.5 year or 40 year life, other buildings over a 39 or 40 year life, and land improvements over a 15 or 20 year life, all using the straight line method." Basically
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by wonnage 15y ago
I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but even Treasury I bonds were returning 5.93% (according to the calculator at http://www.treasurydirect.gov/BC/SBCPrice ). In any case, "home prices tend to rise" doesn't make sense if
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by wonnage 15y ago
Sure, and as a shareholder I can say that I always know better. In reality I probably don't, but it's a matter of principle. We own this company, and they're telling us that they'd rather use all the profits they generated (out of the money
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by wonnage 15y ago
Microsoft's had better earnings growth than any of the companies you listed. In the past 5 years Novartis grows its revenue from 30B to 45, MSFT does it from 51 to 62. Keep in mind that it gets harder the bigger you are - if you're already
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by wonnage 15y ago
If you factor in dividends the return would be something around 20% over the past 7 years. Crappy, but definitely not "flatlining". Microsoft makes twice as much as Oracle, pays a dividend, and yet has half the P/E multiplier. It's just not
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by wonnage 15y ago
64x being tame by dot com standards still doesn't make it cheap! As for the earnings argument, look at it this way - Apple and Microsoft both made about 18B after taxes in 2010. Difference is, Microsoft's been printing money for almost a de
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by wonnage 15y ago
The graph starts around the height of the internet bubble. It's a dishonest comparison. You can't blame Ballmer for not driving the stock back up to unrealistic levels. Meanwhile, Google is basically starting from zero - of course it's goin
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by wonnage 15y ago
Even a company that's growing ought to pay dividends in most cases. After all, if your shareholders have faith in continued good business they have the option of reinvesting their dividends. Companies that don't pay out are essentially te