jackowayed

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by jackowayed 11y ago
Some of what 1password provides is a synergy of security and convenience. 1password's browser integration can save you from phishing, because it can tell g00gle.com from google.com every time and not offer to fill in your google.com
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by jackowayed 12y ago
If you read the caption, the real issue here is a horrible abuse of the rent control law. When the renter signed their lease, the unit was covered by rent control, putting very tight restrictions on rent increases and evictions. However, th
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by jackowayed 12y ago
Definitely worth looking into http://esofund.com/
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by jackowayed 12y ago
That's another advantage of Bus Rapid Transit over trains. It's much cheaper to run one bus than one train, and the vehicles are generally smaller, so they run more of them for the same usage, meaning you generally aren't sch
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by jackowayed 12y ago
The point is that the incentives are such that it's not necessarily rational for a young startup to ensure their product stays perfectly secure. Startups are so precarious and need so much attention on other areas that for most types o
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by jackowayed 12y ago
Looks like total units: http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/counties/SanFranciscoCounty.... Though I was actually surprised it was so high. That's units, not bedrooms, and it's only a city of ~800k people. I gues
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by jackowayed 12y ago
Per hour rate seems somewhat misleading given the split shift. There's 15 hours between the start of their work and the end of their work, and the gap in their day is short enough that they often can't make great use of their brea
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by jackowayed 12y ago
For most changes of habits where it's possible, taking a hard line is much easier. When I went vegetarian, I went cold turkey. The first two weeks, I wanted meat all the time, and it was hard to resist the temptation to eat it. The nex
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by jackowayed 12y ago
Exactly. Think of them like a television network. A major television network (eg. CBS) airs both in-depth news coverage, trashy reality shows, fictional comedies/dramas, and sports. More and better timeslots go to things other than new
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by jackowayed 12y ago
This could have so easily been phrased much more nicely and more substantively. What is Tanenbaum's legacy? What microkernels are in use?
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by jackowayed 12y ago
He doesn't put his name on everything. Apparently he's contributed to over a hundred buildings and could have had his name on many of the if he wanted to. I heard that he didn't even want his name on the new dining hall, but
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by jackowayed 12y ago
If it was developed for the CIA, why aren't the resulting patents owned by the government?
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by jackowayed 12y ago
I hope they're keeping statistics on how long people are on the line before hanging up.
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by jackowayed 12y ago
They're actually dealing with recruiter spam on the other side. "I see you need people, I have 'great candidates' for the roles that I would love to setup for interviews." And they said some go to the lengths of cal
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by jackowayed 12y ago
The reason is that the Bay Area is far more of a unit than originally, so things grew up independently basically in each county. San Francisco, the city, has one main municipal system, Muni. Caltrain grew out of commuter rail that's ex
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by jackowayed 12y ago
Let's save the word rape for literal rape.
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by jackowayed 12y ago
But it also makes sense to hedge against the market to some extent, right? Have some amount in safer things (bonds, even money market and/or some t-bill equivalent), things that sometimes go in different directions than the market (eg.
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by jackowayed 12y ago
It's worth pointing out that the chocolate pictured is $8+ for a 2oz bar. It's small-batch, handmade in the nice part of the Mission with carefully-sourced beans. Basically as San Francisco as it gets. Seems like the cost would ad
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by jackowayed 12y ago
One issue with that is that it gives government incentives to keep people in their vices. As an imperfect example, police departments that plan on funding a significant part of their budget from speed tickets aren't encouraged to educa
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by jackowayed 12y ago
I'm not sure how important of a mindshare property it is. I would guess most users don't even realize that Microsoft owns Skype.
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by jackowayed 12y ago
They already do tax laundry. At Facebook and Palantir, last I heard the laundry is paid for by the company, but it's considered a fringe benefit, and employees who use the service have to pay the taxes on that extra income.
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by jackowayed 12y ago
Avast is pretty bad given that they make virus protection
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by jackowayed 13y ago
If I were in your shoes, I would frame the rest of the time as professional development, which is likely a positive sign that might convince them to give you high rates that at times grow. "I aim for about 25 hours/week of client
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Yep. Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System is cited in basically every distributed systems paper ever, and the ideas in it are behind, among other things, Amazon's Dynamo. It's also fairly accessible. On
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by jackowayed 13y ago
This guy may need therapy. That's not her problem. It's terrible that anyone should experience what he put her through. (Regardless of the founder's wife stuff, he produced an exceptionally hostile work environment by active
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Most DB systems will be tremendously helped by having far more RAM than that to cache, and also usually by having fewer nodes than you get when only having 20GB total disk space per node. The main place where I could see this being appealin
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by jackowayed 13y ago
I just git clone old projects into a Dropbox private folder. I can easily keep the whole repo history even if there are multiple branches, but it doesn't take up GitHub usage at all. Of course, if you had Issues or the like, none of th
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by jackowayed 13y ago
Pretty much all CS departments don't want solutions for most assignments (open-ended final projects excepted) on GitHub for a simple reason: they reuse assignments term to term because it is incredibly difficult and work-intensive to d
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by jackowayed 13y ago
"Unemployment rate" is usually defined as (number of people looking for employment) / (number of people employed or looking for employment). So if you're not in the labor force (student, have given up looking for work, o
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by jackowayed 13y ago
MSR is very well-regarded, rather autonomous from Microsoft's product division, and likely larger than any university's CS department. It's not much easier to get a principal researcher there than a professorship at a great u

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