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The argument I have heard is corporate profits are already taxed. The capital gains tax + corporate profit tax roughly equals normal income tax. Personally, I'd prefer higher capit…

I use my cameras to check in on my cat when I am out of town. Typically a friend only visits briefly once a day and I get peace of mind out of knowing that the cat is eating. If th…

I think this calculator is counting "State/Local Income Taxes" as a credit instead of a deduction. Input a salary of $60,000 and a $6300 deduction into "State/Local Income Taxes". …

In my experience, yes. I previously took it for alcoholism. I found it very broad acting. I stopped drinking compulsively. I also became indifferent overeating, smoking cigarettes,…

In the last month I've used hotels.com twice because it was lower than booking directly. In SF: Hotels.come was $180/night, hotel's website was over $300/night. In Copenhagen: Hote…

I don't think consumer software has been that valuable in my lifetime. MS Office, & Turbo Tax are killer apps that people pay for. People willingly pay for online games too. Other …

I think knowing the hardware is less challenging than previously. The trend is to make everything whitebox and then abstract as software. Hypervisors replace supporting many hardwa…

The Google dataset might not be the best for measuring this. Names and abbreviations rank highly. I think Warren Buffet might help contribute to the high ranking of 'warren'.

How is the response time? I thought using my 40" 4k Samsung TV had too much "mouse lag" for desktop use.

I assume you're thinking of this :-) https://xkcd.com/149/

I host my static website using Firebase and Google Domains. Google has easy integration between the two and seems to include all the listed benefits out-of-box.

IIRC just because it boots with ECC ram doesn't mean it is actually error correcting. I'm under the impression Intel spends considerable amount of money to prove their memory contr…

Sounds like you might be better off using Jenkins than roll your own. I use Jenkins over cron when I want easier auditing & authentication. I got the idea to use Jenkins as a 1-siz…

Anyone know the origin of the name they chose? Did they name their bot after the rapper Percy Miller?

I was loyal to AMD's CPU from 1999 - 2013. Price and not nerfing advanced features (overclocking, VM extentions) kept me coming back. However, there aren't many recent server/works…

I tried using FreeBSD 11 and XFCE as my development platform. Good: XFCE worked OOB with Intel graphics outputting displayport to a 2560 x 1080 display. Bad: Video playback in VLC …

I agree on the hardware side. However, more times than not I have to fight with the video playback tearing or dropping frames. I've had least amount of problems with ElementaryOS, …

Enterprise: Solaris and use zones. Internal/Personal/POC: FreeBSD 11 and use jails. Both get you ZFS and something lighter-weight than VMs. Need Linux? Bite the bullet and use VMs.…

Shout out to SmartGit. Syntevo has being making version control that don't suck for over a decade. Tried and true.

Thanks for posting this. This is the best perspective & concrete advice on DSU I've seen. I'm not a big fan of going through the motions, but understanding why we go through the mo…

Devil's advocate: I like it when ads have the technologies as keywords. Preferably listed explicitly & directly. I have arbitrary preferences like Apache Camel v Spring Integration…

@teams that have tried this, Do you find problems with bridging background knowledge across roles? For instance, you have programmers with 5+ years experience reading/writing code.…

I'm not sure it is just startups. I think larger/more established companies fit into this too, but they may just be emulating hip startups. I work at a 100-500 person company. I do…

No matter how tight you make the stand up, it still creates an artificial time to do a disruptive start/stop. A 5 minute meeting really leads to close to an hour of derailment. htt…