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Great point about HOAs. I should talk about this. It seems like newer the property, bigger the HOA bullshit is.

THe house I bought is still considered ok for HOA fee ($30/month) but I know some newer communities are charging $100 or more per month.

I recommend buying a house that is may be in a community where HOA fees are low (hint: look for older homes in older neighborhoods)
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So is, Postresql, Apache, Nginx, Blender, VLC etc..
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Was looking for this comment.

Also ignores HOA dues (if the home is a condo).
recently i was pre-approved for a mortgage with just 5% down. this was for two loans actually, one is conventional 80% with typical interest rate, and one 15% 15 years loan at 6.5% interest rate. My plan was to pay off small one quickly and just use it to avoid selling current house before moving into new one. No PMI.
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I'm sorry, but if you can't survive, as a band, for 3 months by playing live gigs or temporarily getting a different job, then maybe....it was never meant to be?

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to listen to Taylor Swift and Jason Derulo all day long either, but if some indie band is so obscure and hip that it can't pay the bills for 3 months....I dunno....maybe they were never that good?

No band deserves some kind of regular income. Nobody does, in our society.

If I listen to your stuff for 3 months, for free, and like it, why would I stop after my trial expires? Heck, with a free trial, I'm more likely to discover your hip obscure super-cool indie band and more likely to support them later.
And I thought it was the sharing one ...

API-s have never been obscure. They have existed ever since there was any form of abstraction layer.

Is this the next absurd buzzword:

How to be API centrist platform?

API Driven Development

API Units.

APIPM - its like npm but for all api-s you use in your apps.

Enterprise API - instead of using api-s - just write xml
No, for reasons which relate to overconfidence of bankers and their ability to rate credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_insurance#History
Impressive, founders hold 10.9% each. ~600mm each at current valuation. Curious to see what it is in 6 months.
In every challenging software development job, you'll be solving problems you've never encountered before. That's the nature of software. Once you understand the problem, you move on to something else.

So, why is it such a stretch to ask people to solve Fibonacci? I don't understand this mentality. Reminds me of "why should I learn calculus? I'll never use it in real life!" from college. You're supposed to be a professional software developer, and should be able to handle an unfamiliar problem.

If you're a professional musician auditioning to play Mozart, you wouldn't complain that your audition piece is Beethoven.
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Think about what would happen if you typo a single character in each example.

If you miswrite "function" as "fnuction", you'll easily, quickly find out.

If you miswrite => as >= it might take ages to track it down.
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There's a lot of factors to determine whether it's better to buy or lease but the rule of thumb is usually: if you drive not more than 15,000 miles a year and like to get a new car every 2 or 3 years leasing is for you. If that's not the case it's almost always financially better to buy. This is if you're in the US though, European leases are usually differently structured and this rule does not apply.
Consider the purchase a hedge against faster house price growth. For the last 7 years, I've paid 1.09% interest on my mortgage (I'm in the UK; Bank of England rates are at 0.5%), while house prices have kept increasing . Which means that with repayment, I'm paying half as much as I would if I was renting. The rest is free for me to invest...

It very much depends on where you live, and how the markets develop what pays off. But I'm very happy I bought.

If you buy your house as an investment, it's a big risk. If you buy it as a hedge, and intend to stay long term, it's generally pretty cheap insurance against getting priced out of the area you want to live in.
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Most bands lose money on live gigs. At least this is true in the UK.
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The term "Virtual Machine" has a variety of meanings, depending on who you talk to - Kernels are using LLVMs, Java runs inside a VM, and hypervisors create sandboxed full-OS VMs. The full-OS VM requires/provides its own binaries, frameworks, and DLLs; not having to depend on the Host to provide these.

A Container is like a Hypervisor, but instead of hosting a full-OS VM, the Container holds a Docker, which is just the code and data. Containers are similar to Application Pools or SQL Instances, and there are "Container Databases" which are much more self-contained than the traditional database. Containers depend on the Container OS for binary files, frameworks, and DLLs.

I like to look at it as a spectrum: Bare metal - Virtual Machine - Container

At one end, you're both running the binaries and scheduling threads. In the middle you're running binaries but not scheduling threads. On the other end, you're depending on the Host to do both.
Both apply. Rate is typically credit based but also depends on the loan amount. PMI is for <20% down except in special cases.
It's not that you want to provide "every possible way to draw a line".. ideally your API provides the primitives necessary for a client to draw lines in all the ways that are useful.

The primitives that you provide relate to the overall goal of your API. Do you want people to use it for mathematical graphing? Will they start with an equation? Or is this for a website, where all you really want is <hr/>.
"ordinary mortals" who can make their payments on a 30 year mortgage will have it paid off in 30 years.
It took me three tries to buy a house this summer. I lost the first two to overseas buyers with all cash.

One of the properties was vacant and owned by a Taiwanese citizen. I guess they really don't care about ROI.
I don't agree this is true for the vast majority of situations. If you have the income to support the higher monthly payments, it's a viable option. I put down less than 10% and am willing to live with the higher rate and Mortgage Insurance in order to Not Be Renting. And if you can eventually pay the loan down a bit such that you end up with 20% equity, the MI goes away.

Median home price in Bay Area is what, $900K or so? 20% of that is $180K in cash. I don't know many people who have this, yet there are plenty of home owners here, and I wouldn't be willing to say that the majority of them made a bad decision.
As a someone looking for a payment processor, I now know that the only way we'd be lucky enough to receive support is if we wrote a Hacker News thread that made it to the front page.

It's weird to find out this way, as I was procrastinating on HN instead of researching.
> Good programmers really enjoy talking about the details of the technology and how they solved challenging problems.

I don't really enjoy talking about anything and usually do so as a necessity. I guess I don't fit in with the extrovert engineers people are looking for. I also contend that not being able to talk well about how you did something doesn't mean that you aren't good at it. Talking about doing something you are good at is a different skill. Being be able to communicate is important sure. Is it the number one thing you're looking for? And candidates have to be happy about the ordeal too?
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Do you honestly enjoy programming though? Or is it just a job?
It's only required for trademarks. Copyrights and patents don't require defending every case to maintain ownership.

Perversely it might actually be a good thing if you did have to for patents as it would force trolls into the open early on (ie before their claims run into the millions).
Leasing is always worse unless you prefer to have new cars every 3-5 years. If you need a car for the length of the lease term only, it's better to privately buy a 5 year old Corolla/Civic for $12k and sell it 3 years later for $10k.
So basically if you make an investment, you'll be better off than not making one if everything goes well. I can agree with that.

But why a house? I could just as easily say that if you take a loan to get a McDonald's franchise, then once that's paid off you'll at least have that store. Or the same logic for any other investment.

And the counterargument would be that you don't want to be fully leveraged because there's some risk involved in that. In the case of a loan maybe something will go wrong and you won't be able to afford the payments. Or maybe a new opportunity arises and you don't want to live in that town anymore and need to sell, possibly at a loss.

Maybe I actually should go out and buy a house. I just get this feeling that I don't really fully understand all the risks involved in this decision.
> just hoping that some in the Go community see the value of debugging production problems!

I just can not remember where I heard it (some podcast maybe), but is my understanding that the Go Team hinted the possibility of something like JMX coming to the Go runtime.
Why pen/paper and not some sort of computer? Even coding in Notepad seems better to me than paper, and can't be that hard to set up for an interview.

(I think a longer work sample test on the candidates own time is probably still better, but any approximation is better than nothing)
A thought experiment: you have a job that pays exorbitantly well, and you want to offer it to someone. It isn't particularly difficult, and any reasonably well-informed, self-motivated college graduate can handle it. How do you hire for that job? The demand is likely insanely high.

Spoiler alert: you create an insanely complicated funnel to weed through huge quantities of candidates. And if talent isn't the primary determiner of success (remember that the job isn't that hard), how do you distinguish people? Simple, you work them nearly to death and see who comes out alive.

I'm not saying that is exactly the situation here, but I think as a mental model it's not that far off.
There's a light for the camera, they should just add one for the microphone.
What I would advice is to design the API (public part) without considering the internal code (private part).

We often change our point of view on how to solve a problem (private part), but rarely the problem itself changes (public part).

Iterate away your (internal) architecture as much as you want, but when dealing with the API (your external world interface) make sure to put yourself in your user shoes.
As of about a year ago GS IBD analysts and associates are required to be out of the office from 9pm Friday to 9am Sunday unless they are granted specific permission to work extra hours by the head of the group.

It is stupid that the new rule makes people go home from midnight-7am. It would be a lot more aligned with the working hours of investment bankers if that were changed to a 2am-9am embargo. However, the optics would probably look bad; "midnight" sounds a lot more wholesome than "2am". So instead, summer analysts are going to have to be waking up at 5:30 or 6 to make it in by 7am sharp, which is going to absolutely suck for them.
The home price growth rate is decisive here. If you expect it to be flat or negative, the scales tip heavily towards renting.
I think this is true for basic maintenance. Repairing something broken or about to cause problems like a roof is necessary. Beyond that I've noticed that house price seems to depend more on location than overall condition. There doesn't seem much financial incentive for homeowners to update their house.
think of it this way. In Europe etc, you pay higher income taxes but then you get these benefits. In US, you pay a bit lower income taxes but then you pay these additional taxes like property tax. Did I mention that some states in US charge property tax even to keep a car ? (looking at you Virginia :)). But then we don't have things like VAT etc. So it evens out somewhere I guess. Except healthcare situation. That is a topic for a separate discussion.
That doesn't match "helloo".
It's messed up, but my guess is simply that they're trying to limit prisoner communication with the outside world and they don't want the general public to see how they're run.
Author here. I noticed before both mdb support and the Delve project that other have mentioned, and I find them great. The point of my excitement for godebug resides in the fact that it's an easy to work with, zero complexity added tool to replace most tedious println() debugging sessions. That is, the non-exciting stuff.

Not all bugs only happen on production load, architecture, etc. Many times (with DNS servers even more so, I'd say) bugs are simple state or logic bugs. The Heisenbugs exist. The complex resource-constrained races exist. And I find it fun to track them down, but many bugs are much more mundane, and godebug is a great tool for catching those.

Speaking instead about hard to trace production bugs, I think the Go design and library deserve their daily share of praise here, since they solve many of those problems. Take Valgrind (or ASAN). Amazing tools. Completely useless in Go -- the language is memory-safe and will make that kind of bugs both hard to introduce and immediately detectable.

And about concurrency, first of all the simple design makes bugs harder to introduce and easier to reason about. But even when they make their way in I find provisions like net/http/pprof and its various profile a pleasure to work with. And finally there's obviously the race detector.

Still, I can't wait to see more tools developed to cover different Go debugging needs. Today I'm just happy about making my println() session much more pleasant and elegant :)
Depends on what level of education; K-12 is generally funded out of property taxes.
Downvoted you when I meant to upvote you. Sorry.
But when you rent you have the option to move to another city if you don't like how your tax dollars are being managed. Especially when you are retired/unemployed and thus don't have to worry about living close to your job. You don't even have to move far necessarily depending on the type of tax you are trying to avoid.
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In some areas the 3% property tax approaches the 3% mortgage rate. Your housing costs are only halved by paying off.
If they make a point of advertising they're a woman, yes.

http://i.imgur.com/3TY3Aya.png
Why would someone who's ostensibly been paying property tax for 30 years suddenly be surprised on the 31st year?
> I'd like to add this is also why HOAs are worth avoiding. Imagine owning your own home but losing the freedom to do whatever you want with it and now having to put up with HOA bullshit instead of landlord bullshit.

HOA bullshit is along the lines of "Don't paint your door pink", or "Consult with HOA / Neighbors before putting up a fence". Even a hugely regulatory HOA is more free than a landlord.

> Ultimately HOAs are anti-freedom, but nobody bats an eyelid because in the US only "freedom from government" is taken seriously, while freedom from employers/companies/organisations is all but ignored as a social issue. It is disturbing.

HOAs are the smallest government that people are going to be potentially a part of.

Maybe I prefer living in an area that cares about a somewhat consistent architecture? Maybe I like living in an area where the HOA mows the lawn for me.

If you don't like HOAs, then don't get a house with an HOA. But for me, I lose "freedoms" I never really cared about (I don't want a pink door, I'm not going to lease my property short-term with AirBNB), and gain assurances (such as no Hookers / Sex Orgies next door as my dumbass neighbors screw themselves with AirBNB).

Finally, and this sounds a bit classist... but HOA dues serve as a barrier to keep selfish people like you away from the neighborhood. This is definitely the case for gated communities, although it isn't a major concern for me personally.

But snooty people want to live with only other snooty upper-class people within the neighborhood... and HOA dues serve as a non-trivial barrier for them and their community.

There are plenty of reasons that make HOAs beneficial to the neighborhoods they serve.
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> all android phones have that issue

Citation needed.

"Ok Google" functionality is an expressly required opt-in. I had to go out of my way to turn it on.
I'm not intimately familiar with the California climate, but this project in India dealt with infrequent rainfall and capturing runoff: http://www.permaculturereflections.com/2009/07/india-talupul...
The replacements in modern php were faster and more secure. But don't let your prejudice undo your argument.
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I'd love to work for a retriever or pointer. Herders or guard dogs would probably be okay, too. Terriers would be nightmare bosses.

I can only assume that I have never noticed these putative canine job postings because I have been looking (or smelling) in the wrong place. At the interview, should I attempt to alter my personal odor, or leave it as is? Will I be asked to sketch out an implementation of "disc fetch" on the whiteboard, or will I be given an actual flying disc and a long hallway? Should I remove experience working for cats from my resume, or leave it in?
If the demand is so high, why not simply lower the pay to winnow the candidate pool? Why bother with the insanely complicated funnel instead?
Doctor loans are similar - they don't need PMI but I'm not sure if the interest rates are higher than the regular mortgage loans
If Britain hadn't opted out from the EU's Working Time Directive, it would be illegal.

https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...
> Has anyone actually confirmed that Chrome is continuously sending audio back to Google?

That's not relevant. The problem is that they _could_ do that (for some subset of users, potentially) and in most cases no one would even notice it.
postgres, python, inkscape, XFCE, various shells, GTK, Qt, even libreoffice (which has gone through astounding refactoring), vim, emacs, apache, nginx.

I don't think there is a rule.
As mentioned elsewhere, Core Foundation is open source (http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-635.19/), though IIRC only parts of it currently work on Linux. Calling Core Data "Apple's best stuff" is a serious stretch, if you have ever used Core Data :)
In your example, renting is the only option if you don't have that $30K to put down.
> I'm sorry, but if you can't survive, as a band, for 3 months by playing live gigs or temporarily getting a different job, then maybe....it was never meant to be?

I specifically mentioned that as an option - hence why this is a much larger concern for labels than artists (though I'm sure it's a concern for artists as well). Also keep in mind that a live tour takes months to pull together. Apple hasn't given artists that sort of lead time.

And all of that having been said: in what other industry is it normal to say, "Well, if you can't handle a full quarter of decimated revenues dropped on your head with weeks notice it was never meant to be"? Many SMBs couldn't weather that storm. That doesn't mean they're fundamentally broken.
Herd mentality.
Hey - your account is much older, all that time and still unable to say anything of value. What a tragedy!
Not sure I agree with the downpayment math considering growth in Seattle and Redmond where I am is between 7.5% and 9%. 20% downpayment for a $750K home (modest here) would be $150k which could take you a few years to save during which you're watching your dream home's price pull away from you.

I hear you about the risk of being underwater and your proposed solution is to build up a pile of cash that you're prepared to lose if your home price drops below purchase price. But what prevents you from building up that same pile of cash after buying the house if you need to get out of the mortgage? You're going to lose it either way if you want to move and you're underwater.

Incidentally if you are interested in a zero down mortgage, Navy Federal is a great option, alternatively you can look at places like the NASA credit union which is easier to become a member of (no military affiliation required, IIRC you just join the NASA society or something like that).
who said anything about a "default mode of social interaction" anywhere in this thread? additionally, i think you'd do well to cite your sources for the assertion in the last sentence because right now it sounds like you're both attempting to diagnose me and misrepresenting my statements.
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Because your pay is high too! If you can find people to work beneath you for cheaper, why can't they replace you for less money?

Edit: also, they do that with intern/entry-level banking jobs. Internships pay well, but it's nothing like what higher-level bankers make. Same with entry-level analysts.
This is one of the best, most comprehensive explanations of the various operating concepts going on inside the J58 I've seen.
On the front end you can get babel to work with sourcemaps fairly easily depending on what build tool you use.
There are roughly 3 governments every American is part of. Maybe 4.

1. Federal Government

2. State Government

3. Local Government (usually County level)

4. City Government (sometimes)

Property Taxes fund #4 and #3 typically. Sales tax (kinda like VAT) fund #4 and #2. Income tax fund #1 and #2. Obviously, it changes from location to location. Some states don't have property tax or sales tax.

Schools and Police are typically a function of #3.
Just make it a => (a <= 7), that is perfectly fine for me. (I replaced the b with an a, otherwise it looks pretty pointless or maybe a strange closure hack.)