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That doesn't agree with my experience. I switched from Turbo Pascal to Turbo C in the late 80s while doing DOS development because it was a better tool for the job. It had nothing …

Your description sounds somewhat similar to the concept of Ikigai: e.g. https://medium.com/@jantegze/finding-your-ikigai-17afa04d681 It adds "the world needs this" and "you can be …

I think I would give this advice to just about anyone who is trying to follow their interests and build a career at the same time: It just sounds like you enjoy learning. That is g…

I agree that everyone is paying for them via the tax incentives. But I think the media portrayal is often incorrect about who benefits. The benefits of tax-exempt bonds are split b…

There are going to be costs, but maybe this is actually a relatively low-cost option for helping to get prisoners back out into the world (and not back into prison). It is certainl…

It seems like firms that are large enough to manage multiple offices do exactly that. In the games industry electronic arts is a good example. They have offices in Vancouver, Montr…

A bunch of this is for the "transitional work program" which sounds more like a way for prisoners to get out of prison more smoothly: http://www.doc.louisiana.gov/transitional-work…

I also have a model S, but I have owned a couple of other high performance gas cars that are much more responsive on the 55-65 or 40-70 acceleration test (passing at highway speeds…

This is happening. Sergey Brin reportedly invested over $1B in Calico (biotech / life extension).

It's worth mentioning that none of these techniques actually apply to the case where you exercise stock options - other than the one that says basically "take options as compensati…

Here's an article that explains how starbucks uses a similar strategy to reduce their tax bill: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-starbucks-tax-idUS...

Are there people who receive millions of dollars in income via stock options who pay a lower rate? If so, how does that work?

I like this idea but it is probably difficult to implement. Can't drug companies make slightly different versions of drugs and work around this kind of arrangement? In that case th…

e.g. https://twitter.com/ID_R_McGregor/status/717376471296151552

I'm surprised that this discussion of tipping doesn't include the fact that it implements price discrimination. It's possible that the reason tipping is so often the end point of s…

There are many cases where using fixed size types can save a significant amount of memory (and your application is constrained by memory on some platform) or CPU time (design to mi…

They are using this data for Cost of Living according to the Hired article this article is summarizing. hired article: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017 cost of living data …

It clearly says adjusted to the cost of living in San Francisco. This article does not say anything about the cost of living model. It does say that Seattle's average is $126K vs S…

Modeling analog amplifiers to produce good sounding guitar distortion is well understood in the music DSP plugin industry. There are several products for doing this (search for tub…

It's worth noting that opening a file can have much longer latency than the disk read number in this table on consumer machines due to two factors: a) power policy causes hard driv…

tivo+cable card is pretty close to this now - especially since they added the button to skip ads in recorded shows. It definitely could be better, but if your primary sources of vi…

Other than the bug reproduction instructions it seems like you could train a piece of code to convert requests to a format like this using machine learning. It could save someone f…

In my opinion, it's easy to feel that way when you are used to gas cars. You are already comfortable with the downsides of gas cars and less comfortable with the downsides of the t…