everdev

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by everdev 7y ago
If anyone aggregates these predictions, please share.
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by everdev 7y ago
> IsaacL nailed it the best Curious if the "wisdom of crowds" works with these future predictions or if only a few were on target.
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by everdev 7y ago
> Their downfall is thinking they actually knew what they were doing and therein lies their problem. I read an interview with the PlentyOfFish founder and he alluded to this. People would ask him why his site looked so bad compared to ot
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by everdev 7y ago
Kids and getting older make this a less bulletproof solution.
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by everdev 7y ago
Is that really a good "test"? Printing a string isn't hard in any non-hobby language.
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by everdev 7y ago
The problem is people do unfortunately see those things as harming them. It's a misguided attempt to control the culture of their community, but in their mind I think they really feel threatened and harmed.
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by everdev 7y ago
> more than 99% of those indicted are convicted, according to official statistics." That is ...incredibly high. Like China high. High conviction rates aren't inherently bad. Bias and a lack of individual rights are bad (which i
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by everdev 7y ago
I agree it's not perfect, but I'm not sure "lower conviction rates = better" is correct in all scenarios. That means the country is arresting and bringing the wrong people to trial. In an ideal world you're only arr
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by everdev 7y ago
> If X is not done by this date we will lose Y dollars. That Y number is almost made up to make things more urgent. Sometimes it's real though. Clients might have to make a vendor decision by the end of a quarter for example and wan
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by everdev 7y ago
> But a platform of “we’re going to make taxes painful so the government is afraid to raise taxes” gets a lot of votes. I've never heard anyone promoting the idea of keeping taxes complicated to avoid higher taxes. There's noth
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by everdev 7y ago
I'm guessing you locate your month on the top, then locate the day of the month and it tells you what day of the week it is. It's an interesting design exercise, but I can't imagine people using this day to day.
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by everdev 7y ago
Leadership. It doesn't mean you're fighting the fires but it does mean you're staying informed, keeping people motivated through long hours and bad news and ready to make difficult decisions.
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by everdev 7y ago
Affordable housing and homeless shelters are two different things. I doubt homeless shelters produce this effect on existing home prices. And yes, telling a hard working middle class family with kids to just declare bankruptcy and move on i
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by everdev 7y ago
> Oh, and hand-wringing about changing demographics and culture is not helping. Change happens. Integration is necessary. Culture matters to a lot of people. Why do you like one town versus another? Maybe the weather, maybe the jobs, but
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by everdev 7y ago
It makes housing affordable for new homeowners, but if prices drop rapidly existing homeowners can owe more than their home is worth. That's why it's not as simple as "build more affordable housing", not everyone wins if
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by everdev 7y ago
> If you could just put up housing on land you own and charge however much people will pay for it, this housing crisis would quickly be gone! It's not that simple. Rapidly increasing the housing supply has all kinds of effects on co
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by everdev 7y ago
> Not needing to buy another drive is always going to be cheaper for me and every other user. 128GB+ drives are standard on mid-range laptops. Even at 64GB are you really going to fill up disk space because of Go executables? CockroachDB
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by everdev 7y ago
> This would create the problem that people could buy an used ebook, read it, and then resell it afterwards for the same price, basically reading the ebook for free. If the author still got a cut of the resale price, this might actually
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by everdev 7y ago
Good luck! Most dating apps try to answer the "who" and "where", but the OP is trying to answer the "how" as well which is brilliant. Another twist I thought might be effective was suggesting a first date based
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by everdev 7y ago
Only in some business models. You could brand yourself as the "one and done" dating site of you're really that good. Or, come up with a payment model that's more like an a recruiter where you get paid when there's a
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by everdev 7y ago
As a previous employer of SWEs, this is somewhat correct. More accurately for me was salary was equivalent to the market price. I needed to maintain a certain level of talent to be competitive, so I recruited and found developers at that le
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by everdev 7y ago
Right, but if for each of the past 100 years you tracked people who put money in the stock market and held it for 45 years and averaged each of their returns you'd get a 7% YoY return after adjusting for inflation. Some would end up lo
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by everdev 7y ago
The S&P typically returns 10% YoY. 7% per year is the historical average adjusted for inflation: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
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by everdev 7y ago
They touted the network but I didn't get any meaningful business connections out of it. 1 year of working in Silicon Valley got me dozens of quality connections that turned into meaningful long-term projects.
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by everdev 7y ago
7% is adjusted for inflation. It's about 10% without: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
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by everdev 7y ago
I went to a 4-year college, but earned almost all of my money from self-taught programming and design skills. It's hard to justify the ROI on college. At $25k/year for a low-tier college, you'll spend $100k (if you don't
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by everdev 7y ago
Do you find that you're able to do cognitively demanding tasks while fasting? Even small fasts seem to sap my concentration and critical thinking. Once I eat again I feel like I think better.
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by everdev 7y ago
> I'm actually kinda annoyed when another service comes along Same. I don't like too much cable TV content, but it is nice that it's all bundled into a single service. I might enjoy one show on Discovery and one on NatGeo,
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by everdev 7y ago
Hard to beat ETFs over the long run without insider information.
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by everdev 7y ago
After the failed coup didn't Erdogan order the arrest of many who opposed him? I've never heard of an autocrat that doesn't directly or indirectly manipulate elections.

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