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Did you not pay US taxes for five years?

Even if you renounce US citizenship, I think you still owe US taxes for 10 years afterwards.

Renting something for a longer term is usually cheaper because there is less overhead and risk. Renting a single day requires extra overhead in cleaning and advertising plus the risk of not having it rented. My guess would be nightly stays would need to be in the neighborhood of 150% of the monthly price to make it worthwhile, and possibly much higher if there is a low season.

Most people in this area are now older. I'm approaching 40 and I was recently at a tech demo and everyone around me seemed to be older than me. I remember taking Assembly in college and our professor explicitly telling us that we would not need to know any of it, but it was a good foundation to build on. As far as I know, of the people in that class I'm the only one that ended up actually writing a ton of assembly after joining a semiconductor company. Most of the embedded people were from EE, but didn't actually have as much of a programming background. I had approx. 2 college courses dealing with hardware in undergrad and that was not enough.

So, it seems you need to either accept a recent CS grad who seems adept at programming and can learn, or pony up the 200k+/yr to poach someone if you want to hire quickly. Most people I know that have done embedded work tend not to move around a bunch and aren't motivated by small amounts of money to move jobs, so you'd have to offer a large incentive to find the good people.

One of my CS friends actually got on there, and he was a capable programmer at the school level. So maybe by sprinkling in a few competent people here and there they get things done. Was very funny, at some point they found out he knew something about C, so they called him in on a project that had been languishing for 6 months with some guy unable to complete it, my friend did whatever in a couple of hours and was the local company hero after that. It's quite possible the jobs they do just need a handful of people and everyone else is just padding the consulting rate.

I was under the impression pretty much everyone in CS knew what was up. When I graduated, some people I knew went to Accenture, who billed them out at $350/hour immediately. So you'd have a few dozen "consultants" with little to no experience and one or two people who had been on projects before. I assume all the big consulting companies operate that way.

I'm sure the state of Oregon screwed up, but I have little doubt Oracle was bilking them for every dollar they could get. Whether Oregon can prove this in court will be interesting to see, I assume Oracle will settle at some point, since they wouldn't want everyone to wake up and smell the $$$.

Seems to be a meme that "back in my day kids just played and that was good!" Yeah, sure I played with Lawn Darts that were basically 12" long pieces of flying death, but I'm pretty sure I was lucky not to get injured. I try and get my son off the computer to do things, but I feel all these articles are more anecdotal than factual. I let my son fire of fireworks and what have you, but having had to rush the neighbor's kid "who doesn't get much supervision" to the hospital, I can say there is no invulnerability shield around children. They should play and have some risks, but as I was recounting just yesterday how I engulfed my childhood best friend in a giant fireball from a a gasoline fire, I was thinking maybe there are some things kids don't need to be doing...

Lexus cars have more differences from the similar Toyota model than just a new badge. Beats are pretty much just a badge.

Yeah, that pretty much sucks. I generally try and ask people about what they did and drill into whatever it is they know, but most interviews I've gone on the interviewer wants you to know the stuff the interviewer knows/is good at.

I can confirm they have made it to backer #3811 as of last Friday for shipping, hoping it arrives sometime this week.

I just received the shipping confirmation for my 16-core kickstarter board.

Since they are relatively low volume, it seems to be pretty hard for them to get the necessary parts from suppliers reliably. I think they need a huge customer for just the chip (and hence plenty of working capital), or a large investment infusion to be able to deliver more boards in high volumes. They seem to be focused on finishing out what they have sold so far before committing to any new sales, which is probably a good thing since it's taken them so long to just fill the kickstarter orders.

I would expect to see them on HN again in the future if anything positive happens, it's how I found their kickstarter, after all.

That makes some sense to me, if you are a U.S. company you should have to comply with US law regardless of where you store the data.

Whether or not this particular warrant is valid is another matter.

I believe it to be the taxes. If they repatriate those dollars they'll pay a significant tax. I believe there are also bills in congress that may someday make it through to address this, but it probably won't be soon. Getting to not pay tax on foreign profits is just bad policy, imho.

I....do not grok article. I don't use function pointers and jump tables all that much, but I'm pretty sure you could add a function pointer argument to printNTriples and replace the printf() with it and get somewhere if you really needed to get there. Starting to feel like I might be getting to the "Get off my damn lawn, kid!" part of my life.

Hmm, how big is this company? I can't imagine a startup with a CTO that doesn't actually doing any coding until well beyond the bootstrap stage, this seems odd to me.

Unless your are failing to get your code working there is almost no good reason to tell you to leave, this seems like some sort of power play. I would tread carefully if I were you. Even if they did decide it's better off without you "Expect to leave in 3-6 months" is a giant WTF? Why tell you now unless they are going to sweat you to give up equity. Telling you you aren't a good coder is a good way to get you to feel like your contribution to the company is less than it really is, but it sounds to me like you must have done all the work. Even if this CTO helped with the scope and guidance to get everything going better, what would they have if you took all your work and left with it? (Not saying you should try that, just realize how much of what is important did YOU actually create) Unless almost everything you've done is getting thrown out, you are probably undervaluing your contributions, from what you've said.

Good luck.

I have no bitcoin, but I've been audited. Unless your intent is to avoid taxation and you don't mind the risk, you should definitely pay tax on any bitcoins you've mined.

Well, one can hope, but based on their history of takedown notices I would plan on how to remove references to infringing materials.

Cool demo video, seems simplistic but useful for people that want to draft over and over. However, I would plan for a takedown notice from WoTC. I've thought a bit about Magic programs, and it seems to me you might need to have a Generic Card Game Program where someone can load datasets, and not host or provide any datasets for copyrighted games yourself. This would add some friction to the ease of use, but I'm not sure there's a better approach.

Sunglasses YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Hula hoopers weren't compared to strippers, the gawkers were compared to how "customers" behave at the strip club. I know lots of women who do not enjoy being "gawked" at, including my wife and daughter.

I don't think it was expected for CL to be stripped of her clothing for stage diving, even if it maybe wasn't the best idea. However, if her gender wasn't female, she probably would have had no problems stage diving. I was insinuating that blaming the victim was your viewpoint, which it still seems to be.

Possibly, but the story didn't mention any conflict over the person she is/was seeing.

The founder's wife definitely seems to have a problem with Julie, but it isn't clear from the tech crunch article why that was originally.

So, if you hula hoop in public you are asking to be ogled?

Was she asking for it? Was she asking nice? Yeah, she was asking for it Did she ask you twice? - "Asking For It" Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson

"We had just gotten off tour with Mudhoney, and I decided to stage-dive. I was wearing a dress and I didn't realize what I was engendering in the audience. It was a huge audience and they were kind of going ape-shit. So I just dove off the stage, and suddenly, it was like my dress was being torn off of me, my underwear was being torn off of me, people were putting their fingers inside of me and grabbing my breasts really hard, screaming things in my ears like "pussy-whore-cunt". When I got back onstage I was naked. I felt like Karen Finley. But the worst thing of all was that I saw a photograph of it later. Someone took a picture of me right when this was happening, and I had this big smile on my face like I was pretending it wasn't happening. So later I wrote a song called "Asking For It" based on the whole experience. I can't compare it to rape because it's not the same. But in a way it was. I was raped by an audience, figuratively, literally, and yet, was I asking for it?" - Courtney Love

I work for a large, bureaucratic company. The only restrictions on dating (and we have a ton of HR rules) is about reports. As long as you neither of you report to each other or have any influence on position etc., corporate has no problem with dating.

I can't imagine a startup caring unless you actually cause the drama, and this doesn't sound like that case.

Grow up.

I worked somewhere where a female co-worker hired a "stripper-gram" or something for another male co-worker's birthday in the office. I was single and not even dating at the time, but felt extremely uncomfortable with an actual stripper in the office, myself. So, even though they seemed to be consenting, I didn't appreciate having a stripper in the office, and neither did several of my (also male) coworkers.

I can imagine any amount of ogling would be uncomfortable, regardless of consent of the participants, to an observer.

You don't normally use <color> on black? Get off my damn lawn, kid.

I find your lack of C on the back end...disturbing.

I can't get over the fact people keep printing articles without adding anything to the mix.

Assuming the Satoshi Nakamoto identified is not the Satoshi Nakamoto who invented bitcoin, you'd think they'd try and get some formal writing with an FOI request or something to solidify the writing analysis instead of relying on postings to model train forums.

I don't see too much different in Ruby, either. I haven't really been exposed to Python, so I don't really know why people use it so much.

Most people I have encountered who have chosen a language have done it in a seemingly arbitrary fashion, so no, I don't believe either of your statements.

I used to not like Perl because of having to touch other people's "ascii puke", but I've gotten past that and still think of it as the best language for manipulating text that I've used.

YMMV

Probably, and copyright. Blizzard sued bnetd for reverse-engineering to make a compatible server. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

FD: I no longer play Blizzard games due to this action.

Ah, I thought it was a direct contract with the government, not a contracted person from an agency, my mistake.

Of course, I guess I should have assumed that, there aren't many direct government jobs for this type of thing anymore, it seems.

40x99x50=~$200k/year. That doesn't seem unreasonable compensation, what am I missing?