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by ui-explorer12 7y ago
I like their table/blob and queue storage, but maybe it's because it's relatively mature and the domain is well understood. Most of the comparable services from other providers are generic analogs. I'm not sure I feel mu
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by ui-explorer12 7y ago
Shouldn't STEM (and to a greater extent STEAM) refer to degrees that combine the component areas into a program and not a degree that is solely a single component? Yes, I understand you do very little Chemistry or Physics in a Comp Sci
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by ui-explorer12 7y ago
>> if people would want to quit after a week or kill themselves after a month of pair programming we would see a lot of backslash against it. That's been my experience. Even at the few places I've been were some do pair prog
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by ui-explorer12 7y ago
The same thing happens when you've been with a mobile/telecom/etc company for a long time. They milk you for every penny they can get and give all the promo pricing to new customers. The pay sales higher commissions for new s
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
good point - there is far less reporting and PE has a much longer time frame than the 2 quarters everyone but Warren Buffet cares about
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
I think it really depends on a couple of important variables, including cash flows and company management. Our private equity overlords care mostly about the macro goals that are generally well defined in advance (sales targets, M&A bud
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
yes - so maximizing your use of any method to reduce your tax burden is (a) the smart thing to do and (b) the (a )moral imperative of a corporation. not a judgement call, just not sure how you frame the raison d'etre for something th
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
tax evasion is illegal; tax minimization is lowering your tax burden using existing laws and is not illegal. Governments should reduce the number of unintentional loopholes but (a) it's far easier to pass new laws than amend old ones,
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
add to your points this gem: >> places like Twitter and Medium that remain open and free. WHAT? Perhaps only in the most literal sense of "they don't make you pay money to read", but that's not really what people m
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Microsoft has also demonstrated a far stronger commitment to developers over many decades compared with Oracle, who never sell or promote that far away from the C-suite.
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Would you do a 4-hr take-home assignment? What if I gave you a $100 amazon gift card? There's a big difference between making someone jump through countless, one-sided hoops and asking for a little effort. The challenge IME is finding
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
>> We need a musk like character to shake the medical diagnosis status quo. You first to trust your life and your loved ones to the SpaceX or Tesla of the medical world. But - disruption! Fake it till you make it!
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
tonnes of cancer screening; many biopsies. It hurts to quantify it this way, but the pot to fund health care is not bottomless in either a pure public or privately insured system. It needs to be spread across the entire population, and acro
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
yes - it's relatively cheap when you're youngish (i.e. kids < 20) which is when your family would need it the most. Treat the premiums as a sunk cost (you know, actual insurance) instead of some sort of investment or convertibl
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Yet another way the market is rigged against the main street investor. Successful founders of this vintage love to build their company on public money, then use their considerable leverage to take the company private after dramatic growth.
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
My first reaction was similar to the GP - not sure you can throw out the word "officially" when it refers to something you say you did at 11 years old, unless it's documented or there is some sort of record. When the overall
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Why would someone need to preemptively learn both React and Vue? I can get saying you want to understand how they accomplish their respective roles, but is there an actual (non-crazy) scenario where your core, day-to-day job depends on real
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Or maybe you've just decided that it's both pointless and impossible stay on top of every latest project, even if you live in a particular ecosystem. Hold true to the course of solid fundamentals and learn what you need, when you
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Agreed - they're not stupid, it's just not their money. If I can reap the glory of a new stadium, or hosting the Olympics (as my city just narrowly avoided) while you pay the bill for years to come, that's a winning propositi
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
What you're describing is how property taxes already work. If the land value rises (however unlikely that is) most property taxes are based on assessed value which would increase your tax bill.
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
how is carrying an ipad and a bluetooth keyboard around easier than a small laptop that has so many more uses?
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
>> Which means if you reserve a new release, be prepared to wait. Except we wait 2 or 3 years for the damn thing to be written; a little delayed gratification until your hold comes up is such a minor, first-world problem. Popular publ
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
The newest Zelda is like that as well. I finished in a couple of weeks; my wife has been playing for almost a year and just finished the main quest. My daughter just enjoys exploring and cooking dishes with all the ingredients. The attentio
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
These fires burn hot enough to melt any metal in the construction, consume all the oxygen and create an atmosphere equivalent to the surface of Venus. What you're proposing is essential a giant oven.
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
if you think a giant concrete parking structure would (a) work to shelter in place in the face of a giant, wind-powered fire or (b) be appropriate in a northern California locale like paradise you are more out of touch than the president te
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
>> Privacy First Products - A curated list where you can discuss privacy first products Cool! will I be expected to sign-up with my FB/Google/Whatever social media account to join? </s>
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
I looked at many of these for an assessment at my company. We started a little broader with some css-only solutions as well but they tend to only take you so far; the controls are nice. Key aspects for us were (1) React-based, (2) TypeScrip
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by ui-explorer12 8y ago
Blueprint from Palantir is also a solid framework built on TypeScript. It's desktop-first which is quite different from most