coryking

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by coryking 3y ago
I'm looking to either switch back to writing code or continuing as a Technical Product Manager. What I'm really after is a cool problem space to fall in love with. I especially like exploring the boundaries between software and ph
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by coryking 5y ago
Or there will be a ton of them on thingiverse to 3d print...
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by coryking 5y ago
If they are part of your "family" in the apple ecosystem maybe it figures it out? Dunno.
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by coryking 5y ago
> I’m guessing because the vast majority of the market with a 4K Apple TV is not watching in stereo, but in surround with something like Dolby Atmos I bet a chunk of money it is the exact opposite. I bet for the majority of the market th
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by coryking 5y ago
> Prone to dust getting into the gap between the touchpad and the case so edge presses become even more inconsistent Yup. All the time. Especially if you use those sleeves people talk about. And you have to use those sleeves because othe
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by coryking 5y ago
> since I always just use my phone as the remote Our family does this only because the actual remote is such a pile of crap.
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by coryking 5y ago
That touch remote truly is the worst thing apple has made in a while (the round hockey puck mouse being the absolute worst). In addition to all your points... it just isn't that durable. All our normal TV remotes made it through our da
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by coryking 5y ago
I've done the 1099 thing before. I had an accountant and my own LLC. I made sure to have a separate bank account that I dumped 30% of my billable time into. Each tax season I'd cut a giant check to the IRS. I mean no disrespect to
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by coryking 5y ago
The IRS has very clear guidelines on the difference between contractor and employee: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
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by coryking 5y ago
> but why are they no allow to do the same job as a Google employee? That is how it is if you are a contractor working for any tech company. The actual shitty part about being a "contractor" is you are almost always a W2 for th
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by coryking 5y ago
> health insurance and how it's tied to employment Without getting too political, I really feel like untying health insurance from employment would transform the labor market and encourage far more entrepreneurial endeavors. People
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by coryking 5y ago
In my time at MSFT there was at least one staffing firm that was founded by a couple contractors who decided to just fuck it and make their own LLC so they didn't have to "pay the pimp" as some put it. If you went through the
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by coryking 7y ago
Dunno why the downvoted. Smart cars are objectively bad cars. For a similar price you can get much better cars like the Honda Fit. However, they did have their charm when you were getting charged per minute driving them. Handled like a g
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by coryking 7y ago
Let’s all be honest though. Those smart cars are total garbage. Horrible gearbox. Was like riding a go cart. Which... while I say they are garbage in that I never would own one. They were actually kind of fun to drive for a 10 or 15 minu
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by coryking 7y ago
Also no annual fees. Just a setup fee... which if you waited for a sale or coupon was waved.
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by coryking 7y ago
Bingo. Once Uber and lyft caught on it was only useful when there was surge pricing.
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by coryking 7y ago
It was over when they dumped those crappy smart cars. Those cars were the worst but they were perfect for the service. Easy to park and easy to find. And driving them was like driving a go cart. You either had full gas or no gas. I thin
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by coryking 10y ago
It sounds like you are try to build your own home-brew accounting system. That is absolutely insane. How do you ship this off to your accountant during tax season? How do you deal with accrual-based accounting concepts like invoices, acc
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by coryking 12y ago
And who is really going to do that? Do I have time at my day job to port some network packet editor to the platform of my choice? Is management going to fund such an effort, or are they just gonna pay for the app?
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by coryking 12y ago
There was actually several of them used by overclockers. I was always a fan of "waterfall". It made a huge difference in the CPU temperature! http://estu.nit.ac.jp/~e982457/other/cpuidle/idle.htm
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by coryking 12y ago
This is quite an inspiring article, thanks! Your photography could be improved if you got a white sheet of paper or maybe some posterboard (eg: http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-economy-white-poster... ). Put tha
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by coryking 12y ago
Ever heard of Vimeo? They are great. Higher quality. Better content. More control over your video content. Less BS copyright crap to work through.
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by coryking 12y ago
Why aren't these things somehow cryptographically signed like a lot of software? Seems like it would fix the problem. You could always do what Windows/OsX does when a USB device isn't signed and prompt the user with somethi
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by coryking 12y ago
What you describe is basically: Fiat -> Credit Card/ACH -> Bitcoin -> Fiat -> ACH (on supplier). You are basically adding at least two extra steps in a transaction vs. what exists now. How is this better than what exists n
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by coryking 12y ago
This is really a spreadsheet problem. Figure out the expected value of those stock options. Consider: 1) The odds that you will work there long enough to fully vest. This depends on you, but there are a lot of factors outside your control
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by coryking 12y ago
The problem with waiting until later in your career before working for "three guys in a basement" is by the time you get to that stage you are wise enough to realize that: 1) They probably have no earthly clue what they are doing.
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by coryking 12y ago
You mean, "Wikimedia now uses Coinbase as another payment provider to collect US currency for donations"?
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by coryking 12y ago
I guess I'm okay with this. It seems kind of silly to ship a liquid across half an ocean to the mainland... Now if I were to discover that the Kona I purchased while in Hawaii was actually brewed on the mainland I'd feel a little
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by coryking 12y ago
Cans of soup could also be shaped the way they are due to the fact that it might be easier to pasteurize a cylindrical can than a cube. The heat can be more evenly applied to a cylinder than a cube.
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by coryking 12y ago
The two lanes in the picture merge into one "center" lane. I've never seen that here in the states. Typically it is one lane merging into another lane. I'd wager the "merge into the shared center lane" makes

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