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   by x87678r 6y ago

   I thought the main reason people use Firefox is that they dont like Google in the first place? Bing is my default for that reason.
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   New XPS 15 has great trackpad and is a good alternative. Its not any cheaper than MBP though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCM8FZlFTas
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   Good point, I thought USA was the only country in the world that had household income instead of individual.
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   One thing I've noticed in America compared to Europe is that the top salaries pay more which allows more stay at home wives. In Europe a manager/doctor/tech worker doesn't earn as much and its more likely that the wife i
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   Also she literally says she performance isn't the most imporant, she wants to improve the economy rather than shuffle ownership of existing corporates. > When you invest in a startup, the money directly goes to the economy to build
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   Great article, not many people write about this. The return is higher than I expected, though it wasn't clear about over which time period.
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   Property taxes are a huge burden where I live. Esp when you retire and have lower income you still have to pay $1-2k every month in taxes which is nearly as much as SS pays. Marginal is well over 50% in NYC, CA. eg top bracket marginal is 3
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   Here is a nice French Style Farmhouse for $2.5mm in NJ, about an hour away from Manhattan. Only 5 Beds but still 36 secluded acres in a nice town. https://www.trulia.com/p/nj/mendham/375-cherry-ln-mendham-nj..
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   by x87678r 6y ago

   One thing about US houses is that the property taxes are really a huge burden. Around here its 2-3% of the property value every year. Most Europeans think Americans pay low taxes, but if you live around NY its normal to pay 40%-50% by the t
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    The Lindy effect: The Lindy effect is a theory that the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things like a technology or an idea is proportional to their current age, so that every additional period of survival implies a longer rem
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    Most commuters never drive on the freeway. Especially in Europe where most cities do not have freeways inside the city.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    As always new languages have a huge benefit of having new code bases. If you take a C++ job now, 95% of the time it will be a code base that is at least 10, and likely 20-30 years old. If you start a Rust job it will be modern.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    I use Transferwise and Soundcloud all the time. In games CD Projekt makes the Witcher series. GTA started in Britain. Rovio & Supercell are Finnish. ARM is huge but is being bought by Americans too. There is a lot of faded glory. Nokia
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    Interesting, I immediately thought they would have a transaction log, I didn't think it would have the delete as well. Its a real problem that we used to have trained DBAs to own the data where now devs and automatic tools are relied u
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    I used to think this. I was surprised when DHH said hey.com uses MqSQL as back end. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275901955995385856
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    What about those clouds of swarm drones? The future is scary. American https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW77hVqux10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKbGc9TUHc Chinese https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    Anyone got a good opensource Jira alternative I can install locally? Most alternatives are cloud as well.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    Curiously in your opinion who ended up being more successful?
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    SV will probably end up like NJ, still one of the most advanced and prosperous places in the USA.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    I used to think that then I burnt out. When the manager does nothing but the crap, the manager is going to leave. The proper way is to distribute the crap evenly.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    How's my driving? Ring 555 5555 if I hit you.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    I've been a dev for 20 years and I have a second hand Ikea table that works great and a $60 chair from staples which I'm thinking of upgrading to Steelcase from ebay that is a few hundred. My old PC is much quicker than my crappy
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    If something happened to him, how would I get access?
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    I can't see in the ToC https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    My Dad has all his photos on a PC and HD backup. If something happens to him I know I can recover it all, I'm glad he doesn't rely on Google Photos, dropbox or similar.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    A few years ago the disks all crashed, did you run your own hardware? I can't remember the details. Have you switched to cloud hosting?
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    Everything for my PC is one of: 1) Web based (something lightweight like ChromeOS can do it) 2) Command line (easy to ssh into a remote box) 3) IDE (heavy) I only need a light weight terminal for 1&2 but 3 keeps tripping me up. Would be
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    For you youngun's if you wanted "pictures" you'd have to go to alt.porn.*, choose an interesting title, get a bunch of posts with text data (wait for them to download), cut and paste them into a single text file then uud
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    That's true, CPI is high for young people, CPI is low for boomers.
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    by x87678r 6y ago

    Inflation has been here for a while, house prices have exploded, education and healthcare are unaffordable too. Sure TVs, cars and clothes have reduced in price so now they really make a tiny impact on your budget. The real problem is CPI i