20yrs_no_equity

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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I made the mistake of applying for a job there once. I was discriminated against. Despite being in a protected class, I was so surprised to be so obviously discriminated against by them. (I've interviewed a lot, I don't always get
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Plus anyone who thinks that "Public" schools are not for profit hasn't looked too closely. My "Public" University was basically a football program which had classes to try and justify its existence. Think Stanford i
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Reading their FAQs I don't think they understand how consistency works, or the CAP theorem. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems they are replicating what Couchbase does already (and has been doing in production for a long ti
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True, but to be fair the entire "startup" industry is highly optimized for people who are just out of college.
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One advantage of using elixir is that when you hire elixir programmers (or people with just some functional programming experience) you tend to get better programmers.
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If a given CPU can do X amount of work, with a C-based language you can maybe get 0.8X performance from that CPU. With elixir you might get 0.4X performance. From that perspective Elixir looks slow. But you can deploy 10 servers and thus ge
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The REPL is really powerful in elixir. You can get a command line into your running app, effectively. Elixir projects tend to go thru three phases- early its' green code and everything's working, then there's a phase where yo
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
You don't need to use an intermediate party to use bitcoin. You can submit transactions directly to the network from your wallet software without running a miner. The miners secure the network, but the nature of the system is that th
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
The devil is in the details. Banks have been talking about "permissioned blockchains" for awhile, and whether this is really a bitcoin alternative, or just using the blockchain as a jumpstart for interbank transaction software re
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You're right it doesn't automatically mean they have any particular insight into business, competition or technology. In my experience founders thinking they do is half the problem. Them thinking they do, and using the weight of
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I've seen this very frequently as well, and when pushing back or pointing out that it's not a good idea, they respond with the argument that we have to do what they say because we will want to raise another round eventually, or ju
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I'm not sure when those days were. Maybe the 1980s? In the 1990s VC firms I interacted with were made up of partners whose background was non-tech and associates who were freshly minted MBAs. (Who had lots of opinions about what we s
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There is a real dearth of VC critical perspective. The VC blog posts are not just content marketing, but they are also self serving. This is natural as you're going to write about things from your perspective. But VC and founders inte
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> businesses turning out respectable multi-million-dollar-a-year profits without ever being a target for a billion-dollar acquisition. Very hard at the seed stage to tell the difference between a business that will turn out to be a $3M a
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I was delighted to discover one of the startups is doing what I'm about to be doing. So they are ahead of me and they have gone thru YC. So they are primed for success, while I'm still busting my butt to get to the point where I
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
TBH a few down votes are not so bad, but the heavy downvotes are annoying... its' the harassment, and the threats, especially from moderators, and the snotty treatment... especially knowing that its' a game of smear the queer. You
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I first visited HN in the 2006 or 2007 timeframe. Possibly earlier. I've seen the site evolve, over the years, from a place where free discussion was valued to a filter bubble where having unpopular opinions results in slow banning an
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Multiple return is great, though sending a tuple back is how we've been doing it in erlang for 20 years. Not much difference between {foo, bar} and (foo, bar). Go's error handling however is terrible, absolutely the worst and its
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Google is not the only entity that operates at scale, and simply because google does it does not mean it is the correct choice. That's kinda cargo cultish. In distributed systems, go is fragile and dangerous -- because it will panic.
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Having a lot of experience in Elixir and Go I will say that the advantage of Elixir is not excitement, but that you can reason about your code and expect it to work. For years. Half assed go programs will crash. Half assed elixir programs
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Having written a lot of elixir code and now spending my days writing Go code, I think of Go as a tragedy of missed opportunity. If go did concurrency correctly, the way elixir and erlang do it, it would be the language I want to use for ev
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
I like the idea of a timely conference, but it feels like the whole idea of conferences is a bit dated. Sure unconference means that it is more informal and in this case more timely, but I'm not flying across the country for a few day
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This brings up a good question. Companies have to price their options to employees at the "market value". They often make the exercise price the same as the preferred share sale price. Yet the options are for common shares. How
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Part of the problem is that the instincts of treating employees poorly is so deeply ingrained that companies who think they are being transparent often aren't. EG: You ask them about the cap table and they give you a verbal, off the h
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
Hostile and unwelcoming is a fair characterization. Not all subjects have been that way, but this one turned out to be hot potato and so I tried to withdraw in the only way available on this site, only to have that used as an excuse to atta
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
[ And I've been slow banned. So there was no point in attempting to engage in discussion in the first place.]
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Why UE4 over Unity? I have downloaded both and while both have a steep learning curve the one for UE is steeper, and the initial experience is much worse. Seems they never really tested it on the mac much.
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It's not meant to be a deterrent to criminals, it's meant to keep regular people in line. It's very effective at that. This is why my suggestion that crimes committed against prisoners should be prosecuted produced such a har
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And should be responsible, including fines and jail terms, for any harm that happens to the individual while under their care.
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by 20yrs_no_equity 10y ago
[Redacted for not towing the party line close enough.]

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