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Every legitimate business pays a living wage base to salespeople. Commission/bonus is where the "real" money is, not putting food on the table.

You may be ignoring 401(k) match, RSU (equity), bonus, and the cost of cafeteria food.

Writing language-agnostic code is an incredible dangerous idea, since, of course, it is completely impossible. What does "->" mean in Ruby?

Fortunatly for Go, `if (1); {}` will not compile.

Being famous isn't a problem. (It's a huge benefit, as we see in this article) Being on some official bureaucratic "troublemaker" list is the problem.

Hangouts clients talk HTTP or some network protocol, not Borg/Spanner/GoogleDataCenterMagic Google doesn't need to build open-source apps, just give users a documented way to send …

That's a feature, not a bug. Promoting gambling "for a good cause" is abhorrent.

That's not arbitrage, that's like poker: players gamble against each other (effectively betting on what other people will bet on, with a bit randomization in the mix), house takes …

If someone goes out of their way to specifically actively hurt me, for no reason other than perpetuate hate, then yes, I don't want them at my BBQs.

By what measure? For political influence, certainly not in dollars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_%28organization%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_the_K…

It's already done: https://quantifiedself.appspot.com/ (but could be greatly improved.)

"Five Years of '10 Years of Purely Functional Data Structures'"

That's not open source at all. That's "freely available", and easy to redistribute (not necessarily legally)

I love it. Founders sending fake-sincere emails to collect user data. Founder sending fake-sincere replies to collect business data.

#5 "Echo their name back at them" That is literally a specific advice to write low-quality "porn" content that stimulates superficially and then trigger an anger/betrayal reaction.…

You have interesting friends. Any email that puts my name in the subject line is spam.

Another horrible repeating of the "income inequality" trope, and then showing graphs of median income that don't get near the top l% of US earners, while citing a stat that the top…

200K income, you can easily afford to allocate 25% of that to a mortgage interest (plus 10% for principal, taxes, etc), $50K/year 3.5% mortgage -> 50K/yr * 100% / 3.5%/yr = $1.5M h…

Oh my. In my day they just gave us coupons for free personal pan pizza for each 10 books we read.

> You are asking, gwern, a question about what people like about your writings. tokenadult, do you have an Ed.D or Ph.D in Education? Or maybe something related to Social Work? Did…

If I had $10 for ever hour I'd saved, I'd have $1000 every day. In reality, though, "saving an hour" on one task just leads to "getting stuck for an hour" on another task.

Java/C++ programmer who observed that English lacks Perl's qq operator or python's r''

> Erdos liked to tell another version of how Kummer computed 7 times 9: "Kummer said to himself, 'Hmmm, the product can't be 61 because 61 is a prime, it can't be 65 because that's…

> that a course in introductory logic This is barely touched in standard geometry text books. 2-column proofs and all that. But most people don't notice it, and it deserves far mor…

Or someone who has never used it, mocking its imagined failures, shows that when people gets there hands on it, they will see it wildly outperforming expectations and achieve mass-…