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by arnvald 5y ago
It's unbelieveable, especially considering their values 10 years ago. Brooklyn Nets were acquired in 2010 for $200m, and then sold in 2019 for $3.3b - 16x more in 9 years!
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by arnvald 5y ago
1. Currently no team is officially for sale, but in the last 5 years at least 3-4 teams were acquired, so thinking long term, there will be opportunities to buy a club 2. I think this is the biggest issue - not even that the league won&#x27
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by arnvald 5y ago
I think in a sense it's a fun idea. I highly doubt it will ever materialize, but it's ok to dream big and work towards that dream! I imagine this community might educate themselves in how to run a business like a sport club, what
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by arnvald 5y ago
I think as a concept they might stay and find some use. In terms of art and collectibles though, I predict a huge crash within the next 2 years. People now pay thousands of dollars for algorithmically generated images. How many of buyers pa
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by arnvald 5y ago
Disney should easily be winning globally, but outside of America they're failing to launch their service in new countries. I have friends in Europe who'd pay for Disney+ to be able to watch Star Wars and Marvel series but they can
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by arnvald 5y ago
Copy.ai uses GPT3 under the hood. Not a product for devs, but still a growing business
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by arnvald 5y ago
Hi Evan, I'm happy you found this comment heartwarming. Your work on Rubinius (and even more - Puma!) was really amazing, it had a big influence on my career
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by arnvald 5y ago
If people believed that this is the end of PoW the prices of GPUs would already be going down, because people would know that they have at most 7 months of run (until end of Q2) and that they'd be massive selling of graphic cards. I do
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by arnvald 5y ago
I've never used Rubinius in production but over 10 years ago, when I was still relatively new to Ruby, I used to read Rubinius source code to understand how some Ruby methods worked under the hood. Even though Rubinius has never reache
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by arnvald 5y ago
There are a few other interesting things mentioned in the article: > Employers are also forbidden from monitoring their employees while they work at home. I'm wondering what that includes - any software that tracks mouse movement, a
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From init.vim to init.lua – a crash course(notonlycode.org)
2 points by arnvald 5y ago|0 comments
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by arnvald 5y ago
Earlier this year (Q1) they raised another round at ~100B
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by arnvald 5y ago
Not sure about ByteDance, what did they rebrand from? Snap - this one worked, but I think partially because it's a name drop, rather than a full rebranding. I think it has higher chance to be successful (like "Apple Computers&quot
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by arnvald 5y ago
Do these rebrands even work? I see a couple of examples in other comments, like Comcast -> Xfinity, Philip Morris -> Altria, but this is the first time I see the name Altria. Even earlier this month when I was reading an article about
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by arnvald 5y ago
> I knew junior engineers who could have code circles around way more senior That's a good point, there's a lot of nuance to that, but when I hire junior devs I still think of them as an investment, where for the first X months
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by arnvald 5y ago
Hi Dan, author here. Thanks for your comment, I agree with a number of your thoughts here. > One point made in the OP is that big companies don’t hire junior devs. That's something I didn't phrase well in the article. A lot of
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by arnvald 5y ago
I agree with you - I regularly see advice on Reddit, Twitter and other forums to change jobs after 12-18 months, often people recommend juniors to jump ship as soon as recruiters reach out, that the first job should be just foot in the door
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by arnvald 5y ago
Hi! Author here. > Please tell me where all these seniors are coming from, because we certainly couldn't find a single qualified one during twelve+ months of interviewing. Are you looking for some niche skills? I've interviewed
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by arnvald 5y ago
Hi! Author here. You're right, I don't think there really is a solution - in such a large and global market it's impossible to convince enough players to start contributing more towards common good. On a macro scale we'l
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by arnvald 5y ago
Hi, author here, that's a very fair point that I didn't consider. It totally makes sense that the number of available jobs looks smaller than it is, because some of them are never really advertised in public. Thanks for sharing th
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Why nobody hires junior developers and what happens next(notonlycode.org)
147 points by arnvald 5y ago|212 comments
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by arnvald 5y ago
There are a number of reasons, first is that by working from another location you might be breaking the law, second is taxes - if you stay somewhere long enough they might argue you need to pay income tax there. Lastly, data protection laws
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by arnvald 5y ago
That's interesting, are there different types of Maestro cards? I also had one years ago, but it didn't have CVV so I could not pay online. My current one does not even have a real card number, it has just my bank account number o
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by arnvald 5y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm planning to create a couple of courses next year and I considered using Udemy, because I use it quite a bit as a student, but I see I need to do some research before I lock myself in some platform. By the way: A
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by arnvald 5y ago
I've literally never paid a full price for a Udemy course. I'd only do it if I was in rush to start some course quickly, but otherwise I just wait, usually less than 2 weeks, and I can pay 70-90% less
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by arnvald 5y ago
Coursera also has a number of courses provided by companies, even by Google ( https://www.coursera.org/google-career-certificates ). You're right that Coursera has content from universities, on the other hand Udemy has i
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by arnvald 5y ago
I like that, too. The only thing that bothers me is that Maestro cards can't be used for online payments, so if I buy something from other countries (where shops don't support iDeal) I still need to use credit card, and support fo
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by arnvald 5y ago
Payments business is huge and there is a lot of space there. A few global competitors are: * Braintree (acquired by PayPal) * Checkout.com * Adyen (more enterprise oriented) + there are a lot of local players, e.g. Mollie is popular in the
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by arnvald 5y ago
Some time in early 2000s I was following FXP boards and playing with scanning open ports on IP ranges. Remote-Anything was quite a common way to gain access to someone's computer and turn it into a pubstro. A lot of people back then we
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by arnvald 5y ago
Exactly, whenever I join a new team or a company I go to read the docs, and then whenever I bring some questions people say "oh, that's outdated, none of it is relevant anymore". Technology can support the efforts to keep doc

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