tsmith

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by tsmith 6y ago
> Anecdotally, I have never heard of anyone getting a job at a FAANG with that kind of salary working remotely from day 1. The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Boulder, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Boston, Seattle) are all cities wh
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by tsmith 7y ago
> This doesn't seem to have affected the stock price today The market is closed today (Presidents Day). We won't find out the effect until tomorrow.
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by tsmith 10y ago
I am guessing OP was able to decrease his/her taxes owed by $1500 (e.g. by deducting marginal income by $3000 at a combined state and federal marginal tax rate of ~50%). *Edit: or, as cbhl points out below, OP is married filing separat
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by tsmith 10y ago
> more losses than the capital loss deduction limit ($1500) Currently you can deduct up to $3000 of short term capital losses per year against other types of income (e.g. regular employment income), and any remaining balance can be carri
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by tsmith 11y ago
History has taught us that diversification efforts (i.e.: initiatives to correct systemic inequalities) unfold like this: White men "let" white women into the halls of power they created, and little changes for the rest of us. Su
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Cloud Workstation Howto: Chromebook + Chrome Remote Desktop + GCE VM(timbot-inc.blogspot.com)
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by tsmith 11y ago
Hiring for cultural fit is just laziness, and interviewers should stop using it as a "metric". Assessing for ability is extremely difficult - in the case of programming positions, technical interview processes either suffer from a
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by tsmith 11y ago
Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing). The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a single "spend time with my friends and
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by tsmith 11y ago
I'm moving to Seattle, and impulsively ordered 1Gbps residential internet service "just because" (from CenturyLink - IIRC it's ~$110/mo). I since realized that I had no idea what to do with a 1Gbps residential pipe,
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by tsmith 11y ago
I always thought MADD (Multiply + Add) made a great candidate for a single instruction set computer, if the program counter was usable as an operand to the instruction.
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by tsmith 12y ago
Is HN depressed? Two ragequit posts on the front page at the same time? Folks, the software industry is cyclical, and we are currently in the "good times" phase. Non-software people in other industries are seeing their occupations
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by tsmith 12y ago
Can this be used to run Docker images?
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by tsmith 12y ago
Doesn't work with SSHInATab - I can connect (after adding a keypair) but the things I type don't show up :'(
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by tsmith 12y ago
People understand that the compiler/executable doesn't run any faster the less newlines there are, right? This is cute, but as others have pointed out it, it isn't really a correct implementation of a hash table. Also, it wou
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by tsmith 12y ago
Sounds great! Where's the documentation on IPC / mutexes / threading? > todo > files, procs, tcp/ip, usb, .. Oh.
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by tsmith 12y ago
The only aspect that seems like it might fall under the category of anything except for age discrimination is the photo requirement. Summarizing the highlighted passages: - they want a go-getter - they want someone who enjoys working
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by tsmith 12y ago
If you have a pilot license, and call into the ATC to get clearance, can you operate a drone for commercial purposes (e.g. taking photos for real estate listings)?
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by tsmith 12y ago
The maze game is awesome. Unfortunately it seems the game has gone over quota...
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by tsmith 12y ago
In the OP, double-entry accounting is taken to mean that the two parties to a transaction each keep a record of it (and by extension triple-entry accounting is if three parties keep a record of it). This is a mis-use of the term "doubl
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by tsmith 12y ago
Excellent write-up, but having taken Corporate Accounting courses the "triple-entry bookkeeping" moniker tripped me up a bit - it's an inaccurate metaphor (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bo
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by tsmith 12y ago
> We eventually gained each others trust, and our visions started to coalesce, but only after spinning our wheels for 6 months. > Everyone on the team suffered from burnout. > 11 months later, our team decided to cancel the project
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by tsmith 12y ago
This looks really cool - I'd be interested in seeing more demos of printing circuit boards. Also, will the head work on something like a Prusa i3?
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by tsmith 12y ago
Isn't that an example of a "diversification" strategy, similar to the "join many clubs/activities in high school" approach? The fact that it's a strategy (and therefore involves prior decision making - spe
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by tsmith 13y ago
"Every new idea or piece of feedback about your start-up has immense value and it's up to the founder(s) to prioritize these ideas and suggestions and utilize them." The author seems to be in the fortunate position of never h
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by tsmith 13y ago
I'd been wanting something like this as I have a few physical mailboxes but rarely need the physical mail itself. Do you have any useful links to the 1583-based providers?
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by tsmith 13y ago
3p/minute = 5 cents US per minute, or $3 per hour? Seems incredible!
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by tsmith 13y ago
+1 I transferred midway through my undergraduate degree, and was surprised to discover that Karnaugh maps weren't taught at my destination school - they are such an intuitive and straightforward mechanism for whittling down complex log
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by tsmith 13y ago
Awesome blog post Jochen! And thanks for the Gridcentric shout-out :-)
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by tsmith 13y ago
I don't think the point is so much around what the CEO says about the engineering team publicly. It's one thing to proclaim that your engineers are the smartest in the world/industry/space; it's a completely differe
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by tsmith 13y ago
Actually, the Randomcat came in very useful for CatChat: http://habitual-cracker-680.appalot.me/install.html

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