jcnnghm

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by jcnnghm 4y ago
Is there an underlying stream processor (e.g. Flink)? How many messages per second can it process?
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by jcnnghm 11y ago
Sanders plan will adversely impact the bay area, and home prices in particular. If you're making over $250k, the social security phase out goes away, you have 2.2% of extra income tax, and 6.4% of new payroll taxes. Add in 11% for CA
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Yelp Offers Its Software Development Platform to All Takers(fortune.com)
7 points by jcnnghm 11y ago|0 comments
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by jcnnghm 11y ago
Where do you think the people that would live in new luxury condos go if there are no new luxury condos? Any chance they may buy up existing rental properties and evict long-time residents?
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by jcnnghm 11y ago
Washington DC saw a drop in rents with substantial new supply - http://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/dc_area_rents_drop_3_a... .
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by jcnnghm 11y ago
There's a big difference between not liking something, and it not functioning.
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by jcnnghm 11y ago
Did the people that charged $200 million to build healthcare.gov get to keep the money after the project failed? What about the people that allocated that money, do they still have their jobs? It seems kind of disingenuous to ask engineers
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by jcnnghm 11y ago
If the people that can afford $3,000/month for rent don't have a place to spend it, they'll just bid up the price of the other housing. Nobody is going to build hovels out of the gate, affordable housing is luxury housing th
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by jcnnghm 12y ago
San Franciscans have no one to blame other than San Franciscans for the housing policies that are pricing people out of the market. Well meaning but ultimately deeply misguided liberals are still insisting that housing supply doesn't
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by jcnnghm 12y ago
I think that anything more aggressive that the right-of-first-refusal at the third-party offer price is unconscionable.
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by jcnnghm 12y ago
Goldman Sachs 2011 net income was $162,913 per employee. Average pay was $367,057. It's harder to get data on Google, but it looks like the mid-career median salary is $141,000. Google's Gross Profit (Total Revenue less Cost of Re
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by jcnnghm 12y ago
A Leatherman Multitool I recommend the New Wave, though I also have a Charge TTi. I find myself using them all the time, and they last a really long time. I still have, and use regularly, the Leatherman Super Tool that I got in the mid 90
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Go Home Facebook, Yelp Just Won the Virtual-Reality War(slate.com)
4 points by jcnnghm 12y ago|1 comments
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by jcnnghm 12y ago
Diversification at the corporate level isn't a good idea. Investors typically demand a discount (the conglomerate discount) for diversified corporations because they can easily diversify themselves by holding a variety of securities.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
In retrospect, I think this is the result of Facebook transitioning from a "private" social network to a public network, when they decided to accept anyone over the age of 13. When Facebook was college-only, I think one of the ma
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, CA (preferably the Peninsula) or Remote I'm a full stack Ruby/Rails developer. I started working with Rails in 2006, and I've been writing software for over a decade. Outside of Rails, I'v
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
1.85% of GDP is US private charitable giving, 38% higher than any other nation. Your assertion that America needs to catch up with the rest of the world is, at best, xenophobic.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The US gives about 1.85% of GDP, the highest in the world. Second is Israel at 1.34%. The US also volunteers more than all but two other nations, the Netherlands and Sweden. In 2010, the US spent almost 3 times as much on foreign aid as
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The global economy isn't zero-sum.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
That's not evidence of a decline, see http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+real+GDP+over+time . That would seem to indicate that other countries are catching up, not that the US is declining. Also, in real ter
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The Soviet Union put humans in space. And you have to be able to compete at all before you can lose a multi-decade arms race between superpowers. At what cost? How many Ukrainians did they starve to death in the process, how many "p
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The backwater pre-industrial, post-war torn nation that beat the US to space? No, I don't think that was why they couldn't compete Pretty amazing what you can do when you're willing to spend your country into insolvency and
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
That's mean individual wage, not household. Per capita GDP isn't a good indicator here. I'd be careful about suggesting naïveté while advocating for a minimum wage higher than the mean wage.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Given that the mean wage was only $43,460 in 2009, in order to raise minimum wage to $60,000 per year, your pay cut would be to minimum wage. The government would have to confiscate all income, supplement it with printed money, then redist
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
San Francisco has double the budget of some states for 600,000 people, do you really think money is the problem? 40% of the city revenue goes to non-profits as it is. The problems the city has is due entirely to mismanagement, incompetenc
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The cities problem isn't revenue, there are plenty of much better managed places that are nicer than San Francisco, without the massive tax base that the city enjoys. The people should be embarrassed at the state of the city. There a
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
I'd agree with that, with the qualification that $80-100k may actually be a bit low. In the United States overall, the upper quintile of income starts at about $102k [1], so an income between $80 and $100k would place you in the upper
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
The market is definitely not strong-form efficient. If it were, you wouldn't have any price movement attributable to earnings surprises, because the private information would already be priced in. More importantly, markets are only e
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
They aren't unemployed, they entered industries other than engineering, like finance, medicine, or law, because they expected higher pay there.
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by jcnnghm 13y ago
Quant engineers are exactly the people that all this clamoring is about. They are the star programmers that don't exist. Tech pay could go up a bit, and start attracting them with better working conditions, which would solve this b

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