mantasm

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by mantasm 5y ago
This is not true. Green cards are distributed across countries respecting the 7% limit, but the remaining green cards are distributed to those in the backlog.
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by mantasm 6y ago
This depends on the state, e.g. in California: "Strategic default works in California because this is a "non-recourse" state. Unlike in many states, a mortgage lender in California has only one type of legal recourse in the e
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by mantasm 7y ago
The numbers at the bottom of the check are all that someone needs to initiate an ACH transfer out of your account!
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by mantasm 7y ago
The company becomes equally less valuable after a buyback. Consider a company with value of $1000, with 100 shares outstanding. Each share is $10. Buying back 10 shares, the company spent $100, so the company is now worth $900 and has 90 sh
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by mantasm 8y ago
It's a little more complicated than that. Say a company is worth $1000, and has 100 shares outstanding, for a share price of $10. They can pay a dividend of $100, reducing their value to $900 (share price of $9) and paying out $1 per s
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by mantasm 8y ago
Yes! Funnily enough, the fact that equity grants are "options" to purchase stock at a strike price less than the real share price is much less valuable than the optionality you describe of continuing working to earn the rest of a
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by mantasm 10y ago
Interestingly enough, you don't need Apple's support to do that: https://github.com/st3fan/dovecot-xaps-daemon . Apple didn't have to build an API for them, they simply provided documentation for how to u
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by mantasm 10y ago
My interpretation is that "O(...)" informally means "Theta(...) in the average/amortized case". In the average case, Quicksort is Theta(n log n).
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by mantasm 10y ago
I was about to correct you until I realized you used big-O instead of big-theta notation. Informally we tend to use big-O to mean big-theta which only adds to the confusion.
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by mantasm 11y ago
I would argue it's not the difference in wealth, but the cost of living, that entices these people to move to poorer areas. The greater difference in wealth may in fact hold them back, for fear of criminals with even less to lose than
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by mantasm 11y ago
How would you implement analog parity? Parity doesn't translate well as a concept into the analog space. You can take an analog signal and "quantize" it into sixteen possible values so that you can apply a parity algorithm th
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by mantasm 11y ago
Am I the only one who misread this as an API that returns the number of shares outstanding in TWTR?
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by mantasm 11y ago
I wouldn't segregate the general approaches to life in that sense. Providing different prices to different groups of people does not result in "everyone winning". It's a classical example of market segmentation, price ba
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by mantasm 11y ago
Go made choices that makes it a good language to be compiled to. Compilation-wise: it's incredibly fast and compiles to static machine binaries. Runtime-wise: it has great concurrency and communication primitives.
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by mantasm 11y ago
class="two-thirds columns" enforces a strong coupling between the HTML and how it is presented. To change how wide a column is, you change its class. To change how wide an image is, you go into the CSS. To change how wide a column
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by mantasm 11y ago
It's very doable, but Sass or similar is necessary. For example: http://neat.bourbon.io/
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by mantasm 11y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of semantic meaning in most popular grid frameworks. Years ago, we moved away from layout with tables because <table><tr> is a horrible way to separate presentation from content but <div class=&
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by mantasm 12y ago
Properly implemented crypto takes a constant number of instructions to encrypt/decrypt, regardless of key, plaintext, etc. Time to sleep() would vary across processors, os-es, and even load (!), so it's not exactly a workable solu
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by mantasm 13y ago
http://www.mycareercity.com/defaultC.aspx is launching pretty soon (i.e. within a week). They're aimed at more junior-level developers I think.