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byfrancium de neobie
tober 18, 2013 @08:53PM
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Attached to: Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper
Well, I'd rather save $2k - $3k every month and have housemates. That's $36k per year of extra cash for Christ's sake. You roll that into Tesla in the beginning of this year and now it's $150k (okay you'd need to be quite lucky to do this); or you roll that into BitCoins whenever there's a panic; or you just save it up and wait for the next market crash. But as you can see.. if you save and invest that, it becomes Porsche or even Ferrari money pretty quickly.
... and... that's still not enough for a good house :(
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byfrancium de neobie
tober 18, 2013 @06:47PM
(#45170971)
Attached to: Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper
If you're a fresh grad or a young person making good salary, you can always rent a single family house and share it with a few teammates. I've been doing this for 2 years now and rent expenditure has been pretty low for me.
The real problem though.. is even if you make $200k+ per year here, it's still difficult to buy a house in a decent school district.
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byfrancium de neobie
September 18, 2013 @07:44PM
(#44889693)
Attached to: Tesla Working On Autonomous Cars: Musk Wants Teslas With Auto-Pilot
If you're driving for fun.. you should go to a track.
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byfrancium de neobie
December 08, 2012 @02:31AM
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Attached to: Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox
The language works. The libraries work. The programmers like it. And there exist a fairly big set of products and services built from it that are successful as well.
That, is what matters in the end. By your own logic, languages like C shouldn't have existed at all.
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byfrancium de neobie
cember 03, 2012 @06:33AM
(#42167379)
Attached to: No More "Asperger's Syndrome"
If a person with AS, who knows he has AS, doesn't find his AS attribute negatively affect his progression in life...
Then, there's little reason for him to regard it as a disorder.
It doesn't matter what you think of him, you are not him. You can only make educated guesses, at best.
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byfrancium de neobie
vember 25, 2012 @07:47PM
(#42090029)
Attached to: Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve
Correction: It should be 0.1 billion, or 100 million discrete units, for each BitCoin. Anyway, it's enough granularity for most practical purposes.
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byfrancium de neobie
vember 25, 2012 @07:35PM
(#42089959)
Attached to: Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve
A BitCoin can be divided up into 8 decimal digits. So one BitCoin contains 1 billion discrete units that can be used for transactions.
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byfrancium de neobie
November 07, 2012 @12:06AM
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Attached to: Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?
An offer of a few million dollars is quite common for just talent acquisition. It's extremely unfair for the rest of the world, but it's also no biggie.
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byfrancium de neobie
ovember 06, 2012 @01:46PM
(#41896691)
Attached to: Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?
There's a lot of trash talk in startup circles (the, I work 120 hours per week and everyone in my team is a rockstar, kind. or, I'm sure my company will be worth 10x more than Facebook, kind. etc.) - but in the end of the day, $million dollar offers don't occur every day considering how many people are looking for exactly what you're being offered. I once had a $2M offer for my startup when business was good, but as soon as business went south for various reasons, everything is gone. I don't regret it too much - I got a nice job in a different company after my startup folded - but I'm not a millionaire now.
Yes, I'm sure you think your company will be worth $10B+ in a 5 years down the road right now - everybody does. And I can bet a big part of that perception is caused by the VCs and other entrepreneurs you talked to. Let me give you a clear answer to that as someone who has-been: even considering you're someone extraordinary, that's extremely unlikely. I don't mean to break your spirit, but you need a lot more than just being smart, hard working and charismatic to do that.
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byfrancium de neobie
ay 15, 2012 @01:16AM
(#40002621)
Attached to: Solyndra's High-tech Plant To Be Sold
The total default rate is 3.6%, out of an expected 12% - that's better than expected, and that's what matters. If you want to be shocked by big numbers you need to look elsewhere. On a national level a measly $0.5B is nothing.
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byfrancium de neobie
March 10, 2012 @07:28PM
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Attached to: <em>Battleheart</em> Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable'
I see. I suppose you must be selling your application profitably on every single platform - from toasters, TVs to smart phones and desktops, with hundreds of millions of devices in the field, then? If it's that easy, what's your ranking in the Forbes list?
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byfrancium de neobie
January 04, 2012 @09:17PM
(#38591794)
Attached to: Linux 3.2 Has Been Released
There's no fsck.. So unless you're 100% sure your Linux machine never crashes and your power supply is never interrupted - don't.
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byfrancium de neobie
August 04, 2011 @05:20PM
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Attached to: Stanford 'Intro To AI' Course Offered Free Online
Knowledge is valuable. If you don't value the bit of knowledge taught in the course at $100, that's your choice. But I'm sure there're people who think it's well worth it.
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byfrancium de neobie
August 03, 2011 @04:23AM
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Attached to: US Patent Regime Is Absurd
Yes... they're just cut 20% from you, even though you obviously have little negotiating power compared to them. Maybe you should look at how record companies treat their artists.
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byfrancium de neobie
July 13, 2011 @03:18AM
(#36745860)
Attached to: Six-Drive SATA III SSD Round-Up Shows Big Gains
If your data is important then you wouldn't store it in just one drive.
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