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It's not only the worst part of capitalism, advertising works by exploiting human psychology. Once you see the ad its effects take place and there's no way to avoid it. There's no way to mentally forget stuff like brand recognition. The only way to stop its effectiveness is by having it blocked altogether.

It's hard to have a guideline. Each employer has different level of coverage and deductibles. Make sure you understand how the plan works and what it covers.

Most of the big well known companies have substantial coverage for you and your family. I know some of them have plans that have a yearly maximum out of pocket cost in the low thousands.

This guy got to Diamond with one hand!

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/28vkxa/fina...

Using AWS does not magically give you a HA infrastructure when you have a complicated service oriented architecture like Netflix. All the stuff mentioned here are still relevant even if they're running their own DC.

Just started The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17660462

It's been pretty good so far.

Not really. Fresh grad Wall Street analysts are paid probably comparable or worse than first year google engineers. You don't start making good money until much later on from bonuses. And at that point no one will call you in for a Christmas Day meeting...

I really want to setup something that's easy to use for my parents. Does anyone have any suggestions? Crashplan seems like the easiest choice. Does backing to to glacier with arq require any technical expertise after it's all setup?

That's a pretty funny thread.

Near the bottom you see this guy talking about his startup ideas and Drew Houston replies and asked him if he wants to help with Dropbox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088

If you're talking about the 5x revenue there are certainly a lot of public data on that.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl+goog+msft+facebook

Look for revenue/employee.

> I can't work on any open source projects because of the learning curve required to get familiar with the codebase

That's totally not true. You'll definitely be expected to contribute with in the first 4 month of starting at work, why are open source projects different?

The processes are probably similar as well. You need someone to help you on board, explain the big pictures, guide you through how thing are connected. Then you take bug, dig into the code and figure out a solution. This is probably what you'll do at a real job, so might as well get used to it. The hardest part is finding someone who is patient enough to guide you along and answer your questions.

Sounds like something is wrong with your computer or you have really old hardware.

Maybe take a youtube video that shows this?

My favorite stash option is -p which let you select which lines you want to stash.

Java8 will allow method implementations in interfaces called default methods.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/defaultmet...

That $1mm/engineer estimate is sometimes used for the valuation of a startup, not a yearly rate.

In my mind it's not so much that they're smarter but rather the value they add is more easily measurable. If the trades they make for a hedge fund creates a 10 millions dollars a year profit then it's easy to demand a million dollar bonus. The value of a startup engineer is much harder to determine in a year by year basis.

Are you talking about the employees? Surely they're still in the lock in period which prohibits any sort of trading including options.

The editor in one note is way better than Evernote, which is a constant frustration with anything even remotely complicated like a checklist or numbered list. It's too bad they don't have an osx client.

Modern Java with IntelliJ is similar.

It's the comparison between two individual companies in different field that is irrelevant.

My point is that the valuation comparison OP posted has nothing to do with "life without utility companies and imagine life without FB".

I agree that it's relevant in aggregate. If you're looking to compare "total capital interest" it would probably be better to compare the total market for utilities vs tech stocks.

My only point was that comparing the valuation of a single utility company against a tech outlier doesnt really make any sense.

> It seems like investment priorities or consumer demands are out of whack when electrical utility companies (PEPCO) are valued less than social media platforms (FB).

This is really not a logical comparison. These are 2 companies in different fields and have very different characteristics. Investors almost certainly have different reasons from buying one or the other. The comparison between their value is not really relevant.

Where did you see that it only works in IE?

How is it not welfare? It's free money from the government.

Wikipedia disagrees with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_California

"Northern California is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The San Francisco Bay Area (which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose), and Sacramento (the state capital) as well as its metropolitan area are the main population centers."

This is not odd at all in work places. Salary has a huge correlation with the demand when you joined and how hard you negotiate. There's a reason employers try their best to keep salaries a secret.

Awesome app!

Would love to add a feature where if you swipe left, all the comments in that thread get collapsed.

It's useful when there are long threads that gets totally out of hand and you dont realize it until you're 1/3 way through. This way you can collapse all of them without having to go to the top.

AlienBlue does this currently with reddit.

> Maybe Apple needs to go private so there won't be anymore pressure from the so called finance industry and they could concentrate again to build awesome products.

This doesnt really make sense in Apple's case since they're at a such a gigantic size. The closing market cap 381B - cash 145B is a huge number. Who's going to pitch in to buy the rest of those shares? Good luck getting that done without any input from those you call the "finance industry".

This is missing the whole point of the parent post though.

The OP's point is that even if you can ensure 100% of the trashcans dont contain bombs for a reasonable cost, the terrorists will now just put them somewhere else.

Panhandlers and the homeless are two totally different things. Of course one doesnt have to be homeless to panhandle.

By scamming, the parent poster was probably referring to stuff like "hey can I get a few bucks for a bus ticket" or "hey can I get some money for gas". That's pretty much always a scam.