Do you keep ownership over those tools when they're integrated into your employer's product? What are the terms on your employment contract? This can get muddy.

> I could never understand why some people don't understand that people buy into a community because they like the community in the state when they bought into it.

And the guy who bought 10 years before you hates you, the newcomer, changing their neighborhood and ruining its character.

Probably not since I haven’t tried to force dramatic changes to the character of the town. And I’ve poured quite a bit of money into renovating my home making the neighborhood even more desirable.

In essence I found a neighborhood I liked and I’ve made sure I fit in rather than an interloper that is trying to make a quick buck at the towns long term expense.

Tax rates are marginal, this is wrong.

American restaurants are lucky to have 1-2 readers and usually they're hardwired in the back by the registers :(

The article is from someone whose final-boss interview was with...joel spolsky. And it was a pretty useless-in-the-real-world question he was given as a coding exercise (base -2 number conversion).

The base -2 question was asked by someone other than Joel, and definitely fits in the category of interviewer vanity questions.

Yeah interview before Joel was base -2 conversion. Joel's interview was mostly a chat and we mostly talked about my dog (and other things I'm sure but I only remember talking about dogs).

Look up a consignment shop in your area, take your stuff to them, they'll handle it and give you like 30-50% of what they sell it for, done.

Pawn shops exist and will give you about that percentage for your stuff.

For that small subset of "stuff" which is likely to sell quickly at a suitable profit in the local market as understood by the pawnbroker.

That is exactly the economic reason this idea doesn't work. Pawnbrokers know the value of things and how much effort they can invest in any one item. Selling anything they won't take yourself usually means that you'll have to invest a fair bit of your time to sell it. Anyone doing this commercially can't afford that labour unless the item is worth at least something like €100!

Yes. Or to go even older, this is a rehash of consignment stores/estate sales/liquidation centers, but with the internet involved.

Proficient enough for a diplomat to go to the host country and not cause an international incident.

More like indirectly influenced by Java by way of C# (Anders Hejlsberg designed both C# and TS)