jstelly

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by jstelly 9y ago
That doesn't agree with my experience. I switched from Turbo Pascal to Turbo C in the late 80s while doing DOS development because it was a better tool for the job. It had nothing to do with microsoft or windows (v3.0 was not yet out
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by jstelly 9y ago
Your description sounds somewhat similar to the concept of Ikigai: e.g. https://medium.com/@jantegze/finding-your-ikigai-17afa04d681 It adds "the world needs this" and "you can be paid to do this"
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by jstelly 9y ago
I think I would give this advice to just about anyone who is trying to follow their interests and build a career at the same time: It just sounds like you enjoy learning. That is great, but it sounds like you also want a career. If you wan
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by jstelly 9y ago
I agree that everyone is paying for them via the tax incentives. But I think the media portrayal is often incorrect about who benefits. The benefits of tax-exempt bonds are split between the municipality issuing them and the high-income i
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by jstelly 9y ago
There are going to be costs, but maybe this is actually a relatively low-cost option for helping to get prisoners back out into the world (and not back into prison). It is certainly cheaper than keeping them in prison. It says on that pag
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by jstelly 9y ago
It seems like firms that are large enough to manage multiple offices do exactly that. In the games industry electronic arts is a good example. They have offices in Vancouver, Montreal, and Edmonton (a huge team grown out of the BioWare ac
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by jstelly 9y ago
A bunch of this is for the "transitional work program" which sounds more like a way for prisoners to get out of prison more smoothly: http://www.doc.louisiana.gov/transitional-work-program I don't know anythi
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by jstelly 9y ago
I also have a model S, but I have owned a couple of other high performance gas cars that are much more responsive on the 55-65 or 40-70 acceleration test (passing at highway speeds). That's the only common case where the tesla loses t
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by jstelly 9y ago
This is happening. Sergey Brin reportedly invested over $1B in Calico (biotech / life extension).
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by jstelly 9y ago
It's worth mentioning that none of these techniques actually apply to the case where you exercise stock options - other than the one that says basically "take options as compensation if you can because you don't pay taxes unt
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by jstelly 9y ago
Here's an article that explains how starbucks uses a similar strategy to reduce their tax bill: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-starbucks-tax-idUS...
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by jstelly 9y ago
Are there people who receive millions of dollars in income via stock options who pay a lower rate? If so, how does that work?
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by jstelly 9y ago
I like this idea but it is probably difficult to implement. Can't drug companies make slightly different versions of drugs and work around this kind of arrangement? In that case the US would get the "best" version of the dr
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Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg(edfries.wordpress.com)
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by jstelly 9y ago
e.g. https://twitter.com/ID_R_McGregor/status/717376471296151552
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by jstelly 10y ago
I'm surprised that this discussion of tipping doesn't include the fact that it implements price discrimination. It's possible that the reason tipping is so often the end point of systems is that price discrimination is much
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Insomniac Games’ Cache Simulator [pdf](deplinenoise.files.wordpress.com)
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by jstelly 10y ago
There are many cases where using fixed size types can save a significant amount of memory (and your application is constrained by memory on some platform) or CPU time (design to minimize cache misses happens all the time in high performance
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by jstelly 10y ago
They are using this data for Cost of Living according to the Hired article this article is summarizing. hired article: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017 cost of living data comes from here: https://www.num
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by jstelly 10y ago
It clearly says adjusted to the cost of living in San Francisco. This article does not say anything about the cost of living model. It does say that Seattle's average is $126K vs San Francisco's $134k (Seattle becomes $180k when
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by jstelly 10y ago
Modeling analog amplifiers to produce good sounding guitar distortion is well understood in the music DSP plugin industry. There are several products for doing this (search for tube amp VST plugins). It isn't a new concept.
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by jstelly 10y ago
It's worth noting that opening a file can have much longer latency than the disk read number in this table on consumer machines due to two factors: a) power policy causes hard drive to power off. Spin up time is on the order of second
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by jstelly 10y ago
tivo+cable card is pretty close to this now - especially since they added the button to skip ads in recorded shows. It definitely could be better, but if your primary sources of video content are mostly cable/TV channels it is probabl
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by jstelly 10y ago
Other than the bug reproduction instructions it seems like you could train a piece of code to convert requests to a format like this using machine learning. It could save someone from a lot of stress! (I agree with your point but even sol
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by jstelly 10y ago
In my opinion, it's easy to feel that way when you are used to gas cars. You are already comfortable with the downsides of gas cars and less comfortable with the downsides of the tesla. It would be easier if the tesla were strictly b
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by jstelly 10y ago
Back when I experienced this, we called it "Gear Lust." I made a rule that I had to do a significant project or performance with each piece of music gear I bought before I would let myself buy any other gear. That worked and was
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by jstelly 10y ago
Good to great has a big problem with survivorship bias. It's fairly low-investment to read, but I wonder how much value there is in adhering to the principles it recommends.
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by jstelly 10y ago
The article links to a more accurate piece. He did buy the property for $15M. He then created an easement preventing development and donated that easement to US Fish & wildlife. He has also bought other property for the same purpose.
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Objects that recycle ambient radio signals can get online without a power source(technologyreview.com)
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by jstelly 10y ago
There are lots of developers in their forties and some in their fifties at our company. We would be happy to hire more.

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