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> Anecdotally, I have never heard of anyone getting a job at a FAANG with that kind of salary working remotely from day 1. The cities the parent comment mentioned (Ann Arbor, Bould…

> This doesn't seem to have affected the stock price today The market is closed today (Presidents Day). We won't find out the effect until tomorrow.

I am guessing OP was able to decrease his/her taxes owed by $1500 (e.g. by deducting marginal income by $3000 at a combined state and federal marginal tax rate of ~50%). *Edit: or,…

> more losses than the capital loss deduction limit ($1500) Currently you can deduct up to $3000 of short term capital losses per year against other types of income (e.g. regular e…

History has taught us that diversification efforts (i.e.: initiatives to correct systemic inequalities) unfold like this: White men "let" white women into the halls of power they c…

Hiring for cultural fit is just laziness, and interviewers should stop using it as a "metric". Assessing for ability is extremely difficult - in the case of programming positions, …

Also missing: put it in the bank (i.e. do nothing). The answers to the "greatest satisfaction" question are also telling. They are all job/business related. There's not even a sing…

I'm moving to Seattle, and impulsively ordered 1Gbps residential internet service "just because" (from CenturyLink - IIRC it's ~$110/mo). I since realized that I had no idea what t…

I always thought MADD (Multiply + Add) made a great candidate for a single instruction set computer, if the program counter was usable as an operand to the instruction.

Is HN depressed? Two ragequit posts on the front page at the same time? Folks, the software industry is cyclical, and we are currently in the "good times" phase. Non-software peopl…

Can this be used to run Docker images?

Doesn't work with SSHInATab - I can connect (after adding a keypair) but the things I type don't show up :'(

People understand that the compiler/executable doesn't run any faster the less newlines there are, right? This is cute, but as others have pointed out it, it isn't really a correct…

Sounds great! Where's the documentation on IPC / mutexes / threading? > todo > files, procs, tcp/ip, usb, .. Oh.

The only aspect that seems like it might fall under the category of anything except for age discrimination is the photo requirement. Summarizing the highlighted passages: - they wa…

If you have a pilot license, and call into the ATC to get clearance, can you operate a drone for commercial purposes (e.g. taking photos for real estate listings)?

The maze game is awesome. Unfortunately it seems the game has gone over quota...

In the OP, double-entry accounting is taken to mean that the two parties to a transaction each keep a record of it (and by extension triple-entry accounting is if three parties kee…

Excellent write-up, but having taken Corporate Accounting courses the "triple-entry bookkeeping" moniker tripped me up a bit - it's an inaccurate metaphor (see http://en.wikipedia.…

> We eventually gained each others trust, and our visions started to coalesce, but only after spinning our wheels for 6 months. > Everyone on the team suffered from burnout. > 11 m…

This looks really cool - I'd be interested in seeing more demos of printing circuit boards. Also, will the head work on something like a Prusa i3?

Isn't that an example of a "diversification" strategy, similar to the "join many clubs/activities in high school" approach? The fact that it's a strategy (and therefore involves pr…

"Every new idea or piece of feedback about your start-up has immense value and it's up to the founder(s) to prioritize these ideas and suggestions and utilize them." The author see…

I'd been wanting something like this as I have a few physical mailboxes but rarely need the physical mail itself. Do you have any useful links to the 1583-based providers?