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by xchaotic 8y ago
How is 8GB/mo LTE a good deal? Theoretically you should be able to use your allowance in minutes (or it's not really LTE)
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Have you ever been to Australia where iron ore is less than 1 meter below ground?
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Then negotiate a higher salary which is the statistically correct course of action. Many of my colleagues are 10+ years stuck waiting for an IPO that may never come.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I really appreciate any development / inroads that further improves remote working. I also used to HTC Vive. I think VR for meetings /standups is as disruptive to typical programmer 'flow' as a regular meeting, at least
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I am an unfortunate victim of that situation (banks would lend in local currency but would lend in CHF). It turns out banks didn't actually go and buy CHF to give you, it's just the way the loan was written as what ended up in dev
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by xchaotic 8y ago
you've 'wasted' time/money when you had it - at a later stage not at an early stage when every penny is critical. SO IMO you've proven that it was the right choice/sequence
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by xchaotic 8y ago
The only thing that's new is that the debt keeps getting higher during growth stage. Previously the idea was we loosen the policy and borrow some money when the economy is slow and we tighten when things are moving better again. But th
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Basically everyone is desperate to invest money somewhere. Bonds are one of the safest instruments and often pension funds are legally obligated to invest at least a proportion of funds in safe, not risky instruments. This will not end well
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by xchaotic 8y ago
The cases you see at Bloomberg are well evidence, lack of tech is not a problem here. It's a bit like CCTV - the crimes were recorded Blockchain or not. But they were not prevented, and Blockchain isn't going to help with that.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
That formula is for old British Pounds which are not even decimal. If go back earlier than that, there's records of whole villages being bought for a pound or two.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
as a consumer PayPal works well for me - it has extra layer of insurance that I never used but that certainly gives me 'feel good' thing. I can pay for things in one currency with a credit card in another. Yes the exchange rate is
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by xchaotic 8y ago
my current job, I was found (via LinkedIN?)by my current manager. I think LinkedIn is misleading as it wasn't just 'cold call' I was probably referred by by another colleague who I used to work with before. In other words &#x
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by xchaotic 8y ago
It's the other extreme, but Sweden is the same. If more of the world was like that, we wouldn't have subprime crisis
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by xchaotic 8y ago
It is this way for large projects. You write your function, the interface is tested, but the whole project becomes a big bloated mess. I don't think there's any better way to write large projects. Instead consider loosely coupled
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I am all in favour of equality, but the inequality we have now and the one we've had in the past produces these great and bizzare artifacts that people still value after centuries if not wins. We still go to see the sphinx in Egypt -
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by xchaotic 8y ago
after having seen a few shows, at one point I was sold on the idea of driving around in a restored, older car. But the truth is, my new, tiny run of the mill car has bluetooth, AC, 10 airbags, great fuel economy and is much more quiet and
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Please don't take that as my personal opinion, just a point for a good argument. If you have a nice family, raised and supported kids well into their adulthood, that is all very nice on a personal level, but globally what have you done
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by xchaotic 8y ago
The various media outlets seem to be overlooking the fact that he was retaliating for his own injury and near death experience?
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Worth mentioning that given the current cheap money, a lot of the investment is leveraged, on credit or timed. So you don't have to have 2m sitting idle in a bank to lead a round.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
as others are saying - you are correct - CAN is a shared bus so inherently insecure and physical access becomes a lot easier.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I'd argue that at this point you can still hire the self motivated people that you only need to lead not manage. 'Managing' programmers in general is hard enough, managing remote team in nigh iimpossible so don't do it,
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by xchaotic 8y ago
A related example is Zuckeberg charity - they simply moved some of their wealth to a charity but retain full control on how it's spent, it's just tax free now. http://fortune.com/2015/12/02/zuckerber
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by xchaotic 8y ago
The biggest concern I have with this is that it promotes what's already popular to the top. This means Blockchain and crypto are there and I doubt that's the most valuable thing you can learn this year.
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Well one arrives at such silly average because some have 0 commute and others have very long ones. Ever since we settled as a species, there was no commute to speak of - farming, merchants, blacksmiths all pretty much lived where they work
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by xchaotic 8y ago
Is it normal that I don't have close friends and that I'm solitary? Who cares what's normal, but your situation is quite common. However I'd advise that you force your self to work on the social aspect and have relations
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by xchaotic 8y ago
In most cases that setup does not absolve you from tax obligations where you live. I can see a benefit in setting up a business or branch in EU in general, if you have customers in EU. Otherwise why Estonia specifically?
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by xchaotic 8y ago
how is writing reliably to a queue any different from writing to a database? I'd say same principles should apply - journals and two stage commits as a way to verify writes?
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by xchaotic 8y ago
said no programmer ever ;)
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I can only work remote, for a variety of reasons - what are they? With a visa or some other arrangements you could work non remotely first, which would equip you better to working remotely later in your career. I am 100% remote now, but
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by xchaotic 8y ago
I've found out about it mid-December from social media contacts looking for hints. I did the first few then life and work got in the way and I am finally catching up to it. I also find that Python is an excellent choice for such ad hoc

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