throwaway1979

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by throwaway1979 10y ago
I don't see a big deal with 1 year tenures. Under 1 (3-4 months seems suspicious). I imagine people leave after 1 year if they took a job that wasn't a nice place but they had some incentives requiring them to stay a year (sign on
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
Every update of the game I've encountered seems to make things worse. With the tracker debacle and a few new bugs that come up when come up when catching pokemon, I've almost stopped playing. Really sad where this game could have
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
I've lived in both the Bay area and NYC. I can tell you the culture in NYC is very strong and hard to match. My spouse and I often look back fondly at the fun times we had in NYC. Chicago also has a very fun vibe depending on where you
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
Err .. how does one get an SS statement? I'm 37 .. don't recall seeing one. Do you have to request it? As far as I know, I contribute into SS every paycheck.
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
As a single, insignificant data point: I just bought my first Windows laptop after 2008. I kept waiting for Apple to release Skylake professional machines. Just gave up waiting for them. Ended up getting a Windows Signature machine, which c
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
How does 500K USD seen affordable? Also, try raising two kids in that condo.
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
Given that current prices were completely out of whack, and that the govt kept warning that something will be done ... people who bought at the peak deserve what they got. I've been sitting on the fence (since the math didn't make
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
I am not sure about the work less/work less hard comments. I get paid a decent, fair wage by my employer. I personally consider it "justice" if I do my best and give them my best. As a new father, I have to fight to work hard
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
This is not correct. The weather in San Diego is a lot better than the Bay area but the cost of housing is a lot less. The tax is access to high-paying tech jobs.
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
Can you elaborate? Is this some kind of xenophohia like we see in other parts of the world? Or is it they want to learn how to do everything in the entire vertical chain (with a focus towards moving up the value chain)? Or something else en
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
You are correct in principal ... we should all have it better. However, now that I'm a bit older, I ask questions about productivity and such. If we are earning more than we are actually producing, someone is paying the bills. It is ei
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
According to the book (the author did do some financial analysis but I forget the details), if these states sell a small fraction of their assets, they will be able to pay off all their debt. I'm definitely not agreeing with the author
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
I'm not well-versed in EU politics but I find some parts of what you say surprising. After Brexit, there were reports of racist signs some idiots had put up. These weren't against syrian refugees, but rather against a particular f
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
It isn't just sale of public institutions. In many cases, it is attempts to maintain the status quo when circumstances have clearly changed. Public sector pensions are a perfect example of this. I think most software engineers don&#x27
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
I just disabled forced update on my box. It was shocking that MSFT did not make the process straightforward. Ended up downloading a third party tool. Shocking! Recent MSFT behavior was making me think they've changed. I guess not. This
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
Completely agreed. When I tried my hand at gardening, weeding was the hardest part .. we ended up neglecting our garden for a few weeks and the weeds pretty much took over. And this is despite having laid down a layer of black plastic and m
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by throwaway1979 10y ago
I've used Vyos and was generally impressed. The part where we used Vyos was not exercised to capacity. One thing that confused me was how most (all?) networking hardware of today makes use of custom ASICs (e.g. chips from Broadcom) to
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
Do you have any book recommendations?
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
Housing should follow the normal economic laws but it doesn't seem to. Part of it is regulation, and part of it is an odd kind of scarcity. If there were no housing regulations, I'm sure you' get a lot of new housing in the B
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
I thought each host needs an entire /24 subnet, and the pods that run on the host get individual IP addresses. Am I mistaken?
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
I've been playing with Swarm and like what I've seen so far. WRT Kubernetes, on a platform other than GCE, is Flannel required for networking?
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
Meta question. I only see upvote icons for the top comment and its first child. I see both up and down vote icons for children lower than that. Can anyone explain the logic? I understand there is some logic in the voting mechanism to preven
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
Most systems I've worked with have a core piece that embodies the "hard" algorithm (as you say). The 80-90% of code required to make most user-facing systems work is not "hard" algorithm code in my professional expe
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
Maybe it was just me, but I found the data to be a bit depressing. I'm a GenXer and there are days when the tech industry seems to be run by a generation I have trouble identifying with. The data in this reports suggests I'm not j
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
If you are starting a new cloud provider and offering something like containers (say LXD), you have a big problem on your hands. IPv6 and v4 aren't really interchangeable from an end user perspective. Also, techniques are NAT64 are sho
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
As a datapoint .. we're from the Toronto area ... we looked for renting a home in a remote community - a few hours away from Toronto. I am shocked to see how urban prices have creeped into the area. 450K for a nice house in the booni
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
This is going off on a tangent but I think you are spot on. It isn't just two incomes fueling the credit increase but also the insanely low interest rates. I don't think female workforce participation will/should go down, but
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
I'm disappointed for a different reason. I'm just sick and tired of the delta new thing. Frontend dev as it is practiced today is horrible ... libraries and frameworks seem to have shelf lives measured in months! I was watching a
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
Swarm isn't shabby either.
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by throwaway1979 11y ago
"Productivity ground to a halt for six months" My experience feels the same way. I am beginning to think Agile works for UI dev and small teams of inexperienced folks building relatively simple projects. If you have a large team

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