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by MCRed 11y ago
How it is different: Microsoft used to issue press releases about how they were going to build a product in category X, killing all venture capital in category X. In many cases they never built a product in category X or if they did it suc
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by MCRed 11y ago
No. At some point about 5 years of experience, your salary plateaus.... that is if you're getting a job as a person who writes code. Managers don't seem to make more either, so it seems you have to be specialized and have a really
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by MCRed 11y ago
Due to a startup failing I had occasion to do two job searches in the course of a year. For one, I had %100 correlation-- when the call was a video call (Even to HR reps who know nothing about technology) I wouldn't get called back.
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by MCRed 11y ago
It's a resurgence. The old McCarthyism died out after awhile, and he is saying this is it coming back, and thus "new" to distinguish it from the people who were going after "commies".
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by MCRed 11y ago
Please explain how Apple a company that made a computer in china, and then sells that same compute run china, and keeps the profits from selling the computer in China is "stashing its profits overseas". This argument presumes that
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by MCRed 11y ago
Inflation is growth in the money supply. It has nothing to do with wages or prices or any of that other stuff. Those are affected by inflation. But inflation, by definition is changes in the money supply. That is the economic definition o
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by MCRed 11y ago
Apple is making significant inroads to the android wold by converting significant numbers of Android users to iOS users.
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by MCRed 11y ago
He also defended AirBnBs founders when they were publicly blaming-the-victim: customer whose house had been trashed by meth heads after renting it out on AirBnB. Eventually the company seemed to hire a crisis consultant and started acting b
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by MCRed 11y ago
>Real business value-creating requirements tend to resemble an arbitrary puzzle Actually they don't. I say this with 25 years experience as an engineer and a couple patents and a long history of solving very hard problems. The ha
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by MCRed 11y ago
A fun programming challenge is building an open source platform or some other software that scratches your own itches-- it's being a creator. Solving arbitrary puzzles someone else has set in front of you, in order to get a job, is not
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by MCRed 11y ago
Sure, there's always an opportunity for building a better X. I'd like a better google in fact, and the App store has always had poor search. The question, though, is what is your business model? If it's just a demo of your
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by MCRed 11y ago
This is pretty huge. The last major break thru was getting superconductivity in Y1B2C3O at liquid nitrogen temperatures (-200 C) back in the 1980s. I worked in a lab with the discoverer of this phenomena, Dr. Paul Chu. While -70 is still
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by MCRed 11y ago
A better solution is: http://factom.org
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by MCRed 11y ago
I really would like to see Couchbase analyzed... and for aphyr to marry me.
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by MCRed 11y ago
I do not believe those two responses are unrelated. Amazon is a company for whome PR is a key product. While excellent customer service is key to their growth, their PR campaigns are key to their stock valuation. This is why they put out
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by MCRed 11y ago
I worked for Amazon, I found it an abusive workplace. Not just because after a re-org I was taken away from a good boss and put under an abuser, but because the culture of the company is set up by people who clearly don't respect emplo
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by MCRed 11y ago
I do many searches a day, but I use the built in search in iOS... pull down from the home screen and get a search box. Hits apps, emails, everything in an integrated search. The backend of this is "SIRI" (I believe it's the
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by MCRed 11y ago
Interesting... as I have taken to giving the random LinkedIn recruiters two rates-- one an on site rate and one a remote rate. The remote rate is my normal rate, which is lower than the on-site rate which has a healthy have-to-go-into-an-o
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by MCRed 11y ago
Of course. I don't think anyone is pretending like Elixir isn't built on top of erlang.
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by MCRed 11y ago
I learned erlang first, years ago. I absolutely fell in love with it. Somewhere when I wasn't writing a lot of erlang code, it crusted over and now the erlang syntax bothers me. While elixir is more than a syntax, yes, that is part of
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by MCRed 11y ago
Elixir is what I would choose. I think of deployment as a one time cost. So, the cost of exrm+docker solves your build problem and then your deployment is like a "single binary". (except its a single docker container which is suf
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by MCRed 11y ago
There's a huge difference between not having internal recruiters call up employees in a company directory to try and poach them, and preventing those same employees from choosing to apply. The former doesn't affect wages, but the
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by MCRed 11y ago
There would be no real advantage to this short term debt at %0, even if you're panicking, because you're trading dollars for dollars. EG if you're panicking about the value of the dollar, buying treasury with those dollars t
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by MCRed 11y ago
I don't know what rational investor would take US Dollars and invest them in Treasuries for no return. The treasury has default risk (however small you feel it is) and only pays back in dollars. So you incur the dollar risk anyway,
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by MCRed 11y ago
While I'd love to have google fiber... it sure seems to be taking a long time to roll out. Will it ever be in small rural towns? Will it beat satellites there? There's a big jump between dialup and low end broadband. I can get
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by MCRed 11y ago
There's a tradeoff there in the number of satellites needed and the amount of fuel needed to maintain their orbits... the closer to the planet, the more drag. I suspect the larger number of smaller satellites will also produce lower
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by MCRed 11y ago
I recently learned about MAID SAFE-- http://maidsafe.net -- but I haven't researched it much. I would be interested if someone could compare and contrast the two.
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by MCRed 11y ago
I think you're thinking of it backwards. Amazon Prime video working on iOS and AppleTV is in Apple's interest because it means however many prime members will use those devices. Apple's content strategy is purely about sell
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by MCRed 11y ago
The biggest streaming competitor to iTunes in the video space has got to be Netflix. And Netflix as well as HBO, Showtime, and many networks have had apps on iOS for many years, and AppleTV for a couple years (and presumably with the bar l
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by MCRed 11y ago
Remember, this is Amazon. A PR machine whose primary product is their stock. The Amazon web store is almost an afterthought. I will bet that in a year these devices will be on sale there. (Amazon's going to give up selling the iPhone

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