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488-300+300*.3

A quote from the article: "Just $1 million invested in a dynasty trust, and earning 12 percent a year, would swell to $1.9 billion in 85 years". So my question is how do I find a investment vehicle that gives me 12% return compounded year after year?

I don't know, seems pretty reasonable, Costco revenue is 105B. Walmart has >4x revenue, and 19m*4=76m, more than Walmart. Based on your comparison, Walmart is paying their executives fairly.

Same speed as instantdomainsearch.com, but that service does not track what you search.

He may have meant, if you quit after first year, you get 30% of the bonus, quit after second year, you get 30%+50% = 80%. If you are going to quit, you will probably quit after second year. So for most people who are quitting, MS would not have to hand out the last 20%.

It's all games, western games are also much more graphically intensive: http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield3 http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/ http://us.battle.net/wow/en/ http://www.callofduty.com/mw3

Not too sure why this surprises anyone...

I am not sure what kind of companies are the "slog it out" type. Which company can be profitable (I assume) and not grow much in 2 decades? If they are just cash cows, why can't the VC/entrepreneurs figure out how to reinvest it in other sectors?

Here is Joel's article when SO launched: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/09/15.html

I believe he also primed the pumps a couple of monthes in advance with Codinghorror, I was reading both at that time.

I found this to be adequate for my needs for now: tabhq.com. It basically syncs your chrome tabs with the web, and access the tabs anywhere by going on the site.

No from one bar to the next for the previous years, the gap is 1 year (ie, Q4 2010, Q4 2011 -> 1 year), but from the second last bar to the last bar, the gap is 1 quarter (Q4 2011, Q1 2012 -> 1 quarter)

very true, especially since node is single threaded, you might block other requests etc.

this works for me:

include it in routes/index.js, and everything in your routes dir will be exposed if you do var routes = require('./routes')

var files = fs.readdirSync('./routes') files.forEach(function(file){ if(file != 'index.js'){ var exp = require('./'+file); _.extend(exports, exp); } });

they passed 500 stockholders, so they must go public, per rule of SEC

I would love to talk to you as well, I am not too crazy about our current domain but most of the reasonable ones are taken... me@cs.mu thanks :)

If people think that the reason for Job's success is because of his attitude is indeed lacking in intelligence. It is more correct to say that Job succeed in spite of his attitude. This trait is perhaps the easiest to emulate, therefore it will be sad if people emulate Job's worst trait and think that it will make them successful.

I think it's because many things are constantly priced anywhere, such as cars, food etc. The only thing that is expensive is local, such as housing.

By the time I hit the second entry, TAOCP, i realized this list is a joke and save for some really smart people, no one else will gain much from pursing that book in it's entirety. Much better off with CLRS or even the first part of Algorithm Design Manual. The list is a classic list of books-i-wish-i-read-but-never-had-time-to.

Isn't that most users?

It was there, mentioned that he didn't intend for it to be released so early. However, a final draft is in progress, should be done in a few days.

Is it just me or is the source not easily discoverable? I found the wave protocol sources, but i can't really find the individual components. If anyone could point me to the right repo it would be much appreciated!

{"error":"bad_request","reason":"invalid UTF-8 JSON"} when i try signing up

The assumption is that like many natural phenomenons (height, weight, etc), driving skills are distributed normally, which means mean = median.

Google docs does handle most files for uploading and downloading. I don't use it much, but it's cheaper than dropbox, but less capable as well.

Well apple website still advertises unlimited plan: http://www.apple.com/ipad/3g/

google: search term site:news.ycombinator.com, it's very good, and it could be better than anything pg et al. can throw together in a hurry :D

I'm just curious as to which library (if any) you used for code editing. It looks nifty!

Drinking even one cup of coffee in the morning makes me extremely jittery during the day, unable to concentrate. As the direct result, i now avoid coffee as much as possible. Preferring green tea as it makes me more alert without inducing jitters.

In my experience, most linux distro's battery management doesn't even match windows xp out of the box (no clear way to tune it). It is the only thing that is stopping me from transitioning to linux full time.

Hey guys, i think he has removed the paywall.

This thread is very useful!

you know you are looking at the "height" of debating art when prodigious analogies are drawn between the topic at hand and Hitler.