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Presently, in the US, inflation is 2-3% a year. Savings interest rates definitely don't keep up, but they don't fall so far behind that your money is evaporating.

Save up that 6 months of expenses, and each year keep adding to it to make up for the "evaporating" amount. An extra $1000-2000 a year should be more than enough.

Move the money into a CD ladder, which has a better opportunity for keeping up with inflation, once you're more comfortable (about 1 year's worth of savings). You effectively risk 1 year (but the cost of breaking a CD open early isn't that bad if worst comes to worst). You put your money into 4xCDs at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. As each comes to maturity you bump them to 12 months. So every quarter you have one quarter worth of expenses accessible. Keep 3 months worth of expenses in your checking account to ride out the wait for the first CD. Now you actually have 15 months of savings. A single, competent tech worker can easily achieve this after 3 years, probably earlier, outside high cost of living areas.
This is why Comcast hires all developers as independent contractors.
What I'm currently doing with my net salary:

~10% food

~10% utilities

~12% or more judiciously applied in historically stable investment funds and in savings towards future vacations/gadgets

~33% spent in housing

~35% spent (or not spent) in everything else, eating out, buying random stuff, clothing, etc.

Since a small scare, I always maintain an emergency fund easily accessible which covers 7 months of expenses at my current levels (housing, utilities & food)

Besides all of these I still have the luxury of living in a country where there's an unemployment pay that covers an hefty percentage of your last gross salary for at least 2 years since the day you became unemployed.

I can't tell you how less anxious and relaxed I became since the day I completed my emergency fund and started making proper savings and investments.
I've often wondered about this. Each time I've compared Jet against prices from other retailers, the results have been underwhelming. Occasionally someone mentions a slightly better deal on Jet, but nothing that would rationalize the hype around this company. I'm assuming that Jet was just intended to be a short term play, ending with a float to an established retailer.
In truth my original comment was to point out that the holding money comment was misunderstood to mean keeping money under a pillow when I took it as it takes money to make money, and those that have money risk little in terms of their physical welfare.
Art and architecture in 17th-18th century France was about demonstrating power and wealth, not appealing to innate human preferences.
Right. Hence the plausible deniability.
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A lot of commenters concerned about Bloomberg's potential editorial bias in running this piece, but it is interesting that it comes just a few days after they published "End of an Era as China’s Love Affair With U.S. Real Estate Fades"

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-26/end-of-an...
I think he was saying that transgenderists don't take things to the full logical conclusion of postgenderism. Not that I agree with that in any way, I just think its more representative of his claim.
Shouldn't you compare Django CMS to Wordpress, not pure Django? If you want to do code changes in Wordpress, you need to understand PHP + Wordpress conventions as well.
I'm pretty sure that stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of a "thing", regardless of what that "thing" is, is a federal offense thanks to CFAA, if nothing else.
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Yea, I'm sure ageism is part of it. But something definitely seems different nowadays (from both the interviewer and interviewee side of the desk), compared to 1999 or even 2005-2006. The focus these days seems to be "Find out ways to disqualify the candidate" and "Haze the chump", rather than "Find a good reason to hire him/her and then do it! We have a product to make!"
It's worth underlining that the only people in the world that give a fuck if a codebase is a tangled mess are developers. Everyone else is solely interested in ease of use and budget concerns.
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> "Why can't Microsoft implement an optional menu bar? It's ridiculous."

Not available from Microsoft, but...

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/add-classic-menu-to-microsoft-of...
WordPress is easy to start using, is fun and rewarding, makes people feel they've managed to get something done, works out of the box.

That is what competing systems have to beat. I do think that our own django CMS https://django-cms.org is a better system than WordPress - more elegant, more secure, more extensible and scalable.

But it's not enough to be proud of our beautiful internals, we have to give the ordinary, non-expert user a good experience too, and make them feel in charge of the system from the start. That's why we admire WordPress and want to beat it (and who would want to beat something that they sneer at - it seems a low ambition!).
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Designers and architects have always been an international bunch. Fashions are global and have been for a very long time. The Romans built things in a deliberately Greek style. French Gothic architecture was copied across Europe. Neoclassical architecture saw the Greek style return and used in government building around the world. The Victorians built the same stuff everywhere. Hollywood brought Art Deco to the world in the 1920s and 30s. The style which the author complains about so much is predominately the Mid-century Modern of the 1950s and 60s.

So no, fashion existed long ago. And it was global long ago.
Didi seems to be better at e.g. customer service. For example, their support can be reached by phone, and Uber support can be only reached via Email.

I'm sure people know, in China, call center operates way cheaper than in U.S. This and the fact that people are unwilling to use Email are some of the major sources of complaint on Uber I've heard about.
It is not a centrally organized movement.

> They seem to only want to be mad at police and not fix things.

Well, having some sort of change is the point of the movement. Cookouts aren't going to discourage the eager use of lethal force, even if they are good at reducing tension in the community.

I can't speak further on that without understanding to which city's movement you're referring.
This post might be competing for the "Most time spent on the front page" Award, right?
Doug is a planner's planner. He wants something jet has. Perhaps growth by acquisition but I suspect more.

Maybe it's a sign Walmart is doing better than it had promised and the time is right
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This sort of demonstrates my point perfectly -- if you look at the most successful people in the world, what percentage would you classify as a "programmer"? And of those, how many are actively programming?

TL;DR - If you want to be in the top tier of success, don't take advice from programmers.
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That is why I've ways favored the idea of having a secular, legal idea of a civil union that is independent of the baggage associated with 'marriage'. If two people want to have a joint legal status without being in a relationship, is that not a valid desire?
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" Uber has become one more casualty in China’s other wall, a towering fortress of restrictions, regulations and unfair play that keeps down American internet companies. "

The government is protecting the home grown companies as any other good government would do. So whats the problem ?
I hadn't seen the meme.

Based on the meme, I would say "mostly true." I would take issue with "volunteered," I would question what she laughed about (it's unclear, and so not very fact-check-able), and I would ignore the "advocate for rapists, not women & children" bit as it doesn't seem to be a fact I can check. I would just say as much in my presentation of the facts.

Perhaps Snopes would have been better served by not wording the "claim" headline in a way that was expressly true, before then saying it was false.

They could have taken the meme line for line and rated them individually, as well. That happens anyway in the supporting detail, and it's an easy way to organize the page.
It honestly never occurred to me to rate the literal claim. That's what google and newspapers are for.
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In general, the API community has consolidated around HTTP for realtime push, mainly because it's what developers know and it's super easy to use (you can just curl a stream for example).

Another thing to know about APIs is that the endpoints tend to be resource-oriented, and resources are often abstractions. For example, when you interact with Twitter's streaming API, no doubt there are some pubsub mechanisms going on behind the scenes, but pubsub concepts such as publishers, subscribers, brokers, topics, messages, store-and-forward, etc are hidden away by the API. You just fetch a resource and get tweets.

My feeling is that the most successful protocols used in APIs are going to be those that expose very little about the inner workings or topology of the server and other client entities.
I still can't figure out how these things actually deliver the package. Do they just drop it on my front lawn? That doesn't seem desirable. Does it drop it at a centralized location because my street has thick tree coverage? Don't most streets have thick tree coverage?
> my theory is to try to get yourself a job at a stabler tech company with proven profitability

How about just a stable company, then make yourself valuable there? Sure if you like tech, you can try for google, but there's so many companies which are dying for competent IT folks (even if their hiring practices seem to fight it) that you can provide a load of value to people in almost any situation. The question then comes up about are they positioned to pay you for that value - is it valuable enough to them? Gotta spend a bit more time finding those, but... they're definitely out there.

Basic advice - have a lot of savings, and if your main income stops, be extra frugal (and... hey, even be frugal now if you can). "Cash is king", and having buffer of months or years in the bank can give you time to be more selective and avoid making panic-decisions (which generally aren't when you're in the best frame of mind to make decisions).
I went to French immersion in Canada. We didn't 'miss out' on anything that kids did in English school. They still had to take a second language class (we didn't since we already had English + French). We just had classes like science, math and social studies in French as well. We still learned English, and of course live in an English-speaking region, so we missed out on nothing.
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Never understand what's going on in someone's mind when they try to do this. This only raises more questions instead of allaying doubts about your company's core technology
I have yet to see a maintainer of an open-source project who wasn't hopelessly excited when some UI-person took to their project and tried to do things with it.

Most programmers are aware that they are terrible at GUIs. Heck, a lot of these projects are specifically built without a GUI, so that someone else can create a GUI for it.

And if a maintainer is really opposed to it, then there's always the option to create a fork and see which version people prefer.
It's 0.4 in childhood, rising to 0.7 to 0.8 in adulthood.

Saying that you can adopt a child and raise him to be smart is approximately as foolish as claiming you can adopt a child and raise him to be tall.
I agree that the early versions of EF were very buggy (v1-3). It would work fine and then you would hit a show-stopping bug with no fix. However, the recent releases of EF have solved those problems and works great. I can't imagine not using an ORM at this point, and after witnessing NHibernate's stagnation I would recommend using something officially supported by Microsoft.
The tech industry seems to be primarily a vehicle to grease the wheels of importing growth from the developing world.
And the reality is that there's never a good time to have kids. They always will disrupt your life (in financial and non financial ways) and you can never be fully prepared for that.

There are bad times and worse times to have kids, but not good times. In your 20s you have less money but more health/personal energy. As you get older the balance shifts (hopefully!).
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A lot of the consumer tech I like the most is Chinese made: laptops, smartphones, cars, drones. Another decade of this trend and China will have all production engineering knowledge in the world and the US and Europe none.

Maybe China stacks the cards in its home market, but its not like the US (and other Western countries) doesn't.
They don't insure the value of the mortgage, they insure the shortfall between what the lender recoup in foreclosure vs. the outstanding loan balance.
Any time ageism comes up on HN, someone trots out "the people who are complaining about being victims of ageism just haven't been keeping their skills up to date; keep learning new things and you will be fine." It generally goes unchallenged. I would consider that to be discounting ageism as nonexistent.
This is satire, right? Please tell me it's satire.
If people are ageist against millenials, who's hiring all the 25 year olds I work with?
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Europeans had been promised and conditioned that their countries would give a shit about privacy. It would have seemed unlikely to European founders that they'd be allowed to run a blatant commercial spyware operation like Google or Facebook; and in fact I'd bet that they would have met fierce regulatory resistance... until Google and Facebook waltzed in from the US and surprise, nobody put up any resistance until the war was won. Yeah, sure, long after the war was lost, some EU regulatory theater.

I actually bought a N900 back in the day. It was good. Nokia smartphones could have been a thing, not just because they were good, but they'd taken off just a few years later especially on privacy grounds. There's not nearly enough conspiracy theorizing about Elop blatantly Osborning Maemo...
"Everything is a key-value pair" is flat out wrong[1,2]: There are four key-value tables (commentmeta, postmeta, termmeta and usermeta), but most of the meat of Wordpress is stored in regular tables.

[1] https://github.com/ronaldbradford/schema/blob/master/wordpre...

[2] https://codex.wordpress.org/images/2/25/WP4.4.2-ERD.png

[EDIT: Corrected myself about the number of KV tables]
Oh neat, is that a thing now?

Yeah, since this Monday: http://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.3
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on the other side, there's an emotional cost to having kids at any age without being adequately financially stable or financially mature. Growing up in a house where parents are fighting about money constantly has its own price which is much harder to put a figure on. Money fights are also a big factor in divorce, which leads to its own set of financial issues for most people.
No, its that the fix is client side and painful. They can tell their users to fix it and they would rather leave than do it.
But that's assuming that readers go there to get only the fact without the accompanying context that is the real kernel of the issue. People don't go and check whether the fact iself, uncontextualized, is true; they want to see if Hillary really was the asshat that you would infer to be based on the stated line.

Snopes does it correctly; they say that the fact is true but it is evidently not the cause of the outrage that the original statement tries to create in the readers.
IMHO the US has been becoming country A more and more for the past couple of decades, but in the mean time a large of part of the population is stuck in (or clings to) country B, hence the particularly venomous presidential campaign season.
Does covert vs overt really matter to measuring the division?
There are better way to promote your enthusiasm for Beijing than making questionable claims of inferiority on the other cities though.
My argument against other large companies is:

1. They seem much more likely to undergo major layoffs than Google et al.. If you're not growing, layoffs seem to be a constant.

2. During layoffs, the first people to go are cost centers. IT is a cost center unless your industry is technology.

3. The difference in pay is astronomical. Like, easily 2-3x from the times I've tried interviewing. Even small startups pay developers better (in cash) than most non-tech companies seem to.

I'm not too worried about the savings thing. I think I'm covered for a decade if necessary.
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Wikipedia is wrong (due to massive leftist egalatarian bias in Wikipedia and their media sources).

The best research using twin and adoption studies puts IQ heredity at ~80%, with the other 20% from unknown factors. Incidentally, there is zero impact from childhood environment.
I wish Github had a way of running these sort of checks before accepting/rejecting a push. (I can understand why they would be reluctant to run arbitrary user-supplied bash on their servers, though :))
IVF. Plus a year of cheaper failed treatments leading up to IVF.
I thought I’d never use Rails as example for a lightweight web framework, but Rails has to be the standard – and anything heavier than rails has to be completely discarded.
The message is loud and clear for senior engineers (10+ years experience): startups don't want you. They may say they do, but they really don't. And the message from SV big tech is also clear: we don't want you unless you're in the inner club (Google, FB, Amazon, etc.)

The solution is to avoid these companies. There's a huge world outside SV. These may be known as "boring" (banks, insurance, etc.) but they will not have the stupid ageist algorithm games known as "technical programming interviews". And they respect experience. And they won't have an ageist culture, it will be ok to go home early and be with family.
Google partnered with the government for data sharing (PRISM), so the Government could probably easily get any data that Google will be collecting...
Cool stuff, what's the significance of "!" as a return value? Haven't seen that one before.
I'm not sure why "noisy" domains rated X would be any worse than other domains with the same rating X.

(rating does not equal # of points; hacker news takes a lot of other factors into account, resulting in a position on the front page and amount of time on the front page)

I'd trust the continuously tweaked hacker news algorithms. We do know that certain domains are penalized.

If you want to avoid the cruft, just use some sort of service that only shows you the best posts on hacker news. hckrnews.com is one that I like, use the filtering in the top right.
6 months in the bank is pretty standard personal finance advice. The rest is just good, solid career advice that applies to a greater or lesser extent any time.
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I made a toy SSH API thingie a couple of months back; https://github.com/jagheterfredrik/sheet
Something like this could be used as a backing store for package managers like npm or apt or ruby gems or pypi.
> having buffer of months or years in the bank can give you time to be more selective and avoid making panic-decisions

Absolutely agree!
I have no experience with phonegap/Cordova. But to the first part of your question, please see my answer below/ or above. to another comment.
There are ways to ride out the crashes both in and out of the industry.

When the 2001 dot-com crash hit, I voluntarily left my job as a *nix systems administrator at AOL before the walls fell in. I went back to school to finish my Bachelor's and joined college Army ROTC. I joined ROTC for several reasons: it was a new career for me, one that would develop my leadership and prepare me for bigger things. Being in ROTC also gave me the structure that I needed to succeed in school and finish my degree quickly. It also gave me a small stipend that helped me buy food. After graduation, the tech industry improved and I wanted to get back into it. I served in the Army Reserve (and still do!) on the weekends while I worked as an engineering manager during the week. The Army had been key to maturing as an employee and as a leader and I found it easy to join the ranks of middle management post-college.

I rode out the second "crash", the recession of 2008, at Rackspace. A managed hosting/technology company like RAX is a great place to be when times get tough. When big businesses need to cut back, they trim IT staff and outsource their infrastructure to a place like Rackspace. We stayed very busy and profitable during the recession. When things improved six years later, I bailed and went to work for a Rackspace customer and that's where I've been ever since.
>They contribute to the issue of renters being unable to buy.

But on the other hand, they give renters a good deal. Buying at a high price:rent ratio means a low cap rate, which makes for a bad investment. So the landlord is essentially giving ownership returns to the renter, while keeping price risk themselves.

To the extent that rents are also high, this shows that the problem is not, in fact, investors but instead a limited supply of housing.
Owning the fastest supercomputer in the world is mostly irrelevant these days, because the entire thing just gets partitioned into smaller chunks in actual use. It's just never in anyone's interest to run a job that utilizes all the resources.

At the end of the day, most of these computers are just a pissing contest and are rarely cost effective, and are almost always a huge pain in the ass to use.
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1. It's a photo from the Tesla Gigafactory. So that's his own event.
2. I am not sure, what's a bigger problem, increasing plastic waste or the dearth of 'sustainable' cars.
I respect the man for his efforts, but this is ironic, no?
> Everything in the database is a key-value pair.

Isn't that the crux of the whole NoSQL "revolution"?
What is your nationality so others can make sweeping generalizations?
I do NOT work for Jet. I've considered it because they're very local to me, even closer than the NYC startups.

Edit: I've been through the buyout ruining the company culture, so I definitely agree with you there.