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by baron816 7y ago
Says $160,000 salary. I’m guessing that’s total over the 4 years, so $40k CAD per year. Still a great deal.
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by baron816 7y ago
What you’re saying is that there were a handful of bottlenecks that you caught immediately or were found with some simple profiling, right? Not that they made the mistake of writing their app in Python instead of assembly, as the article se
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by baron816 7y ago
What still scares me about nuclear power is the black swan events. If we have 100,000 reactors spread across the world, what’s the likelihood that over 100 years one of them, I don’t know, gets hit by a meteor and contaminates half a contin
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Ask HN: Which startups are still “only hiring the best”?
11 points by baron816 7y ago|11 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
I'm not sure if economists have developed some sort of model that would show when a consolidation would be beneficial in the long term for consumers, but I'd sure like to see one. We tend to not like it when firms collude with eac
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by baron816 7y ago
You don't become a $1.2T company by surfing a wave. Its stock price has more than quintupled. IBM's stock price is almost flat over 10 years. GE is down over the decade. Changing direction for a ship that large is very, very hard-
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by baron816 7y ago
I wish the author had included an example instead of just going after a straw man. There are lots of devs out there that don't know what they're doing or aren't permitted time to optimize their apps. Frameworks are a tool tha
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by baron816 7y ago
Andrew Yang is too early with the UBI, which in this case means he’s wrong. We still need humans to make things and the future. A negative income tax would work better now and would be a better segue to UBI.
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by baron816 7y ago
I get into a lot of fights with people about how stretching is a farce since yoga is so popular. Another running myth that gets brought up in the post is the “lactate threshold.” The misconception comes from the “acid” part of “lactic acid”
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by baron816 7y ago
Have long read The Economist and it has definitely influenced my world view probably more than anything. +1 to everything you said—it’s a huge help in conversations. Recently, their app has included audio recordings of all their articles th
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by baron816 7y ago
There’s some weird things about this article. 1) Their daughter likely would’ve qualified for quite a bit of financial aid, which potentially could have brought a fancy art college to within reason for her. That she never even applied to he
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by baron816 7y ago
We embraced minimalism on my team a long time ago—no tests, no docs or comments, variable names are usually 1 or 2 characters, no indentation, no code reviews or QA, no meetings, etc.
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by baron816 7y ago
Cloud computing was at one point a NBT. And it turned out to be a huge thing, but most people don’t even know what it is.
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by baron816 7y ago
So what are you suggesting? We have the government create a lot of unproductive “make work” jobs for these people? Kick out those who want to work hard and escape poverty, but were unlucky to be born in a different country?
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by baron816 7y ago
The vilification of the “tech bro” is really such a tragedy (I know, preaching to the choir here). We’re just people, trying to make a living for ourselves, and doing the things we enjoy. Our culture is no better than anyone else’s. But nei
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by baron816 7y ago
I’ve never seen it create a bottle neck, have you?
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by baron816 7y ago
Could be less expensive if the devs expected to work on it were highly experienced in Rust, but not experienced with JS, which sounds more like the case.
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Ask HN: How do you find people with certain expertise within your company?
1 points by baron816 7y ago|1 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
> they promote a view that the solution to all ills is lower taxes and less regulation. I’ve read the Economist for a long time and have never gotten that impression. That’s more the Republican Party platform, who they really don’t suppo
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Why Shade Is a Mark of Privilege in Los Angeles(nytimes.com)
2 points by baron816 7y ago|0 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
Ok. I’m not a corporatists.
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by baron816 7y ago
> what a lot of economists in the news say TV economists are definitely a different breed. Most real labor economists acknowledge that the issue is tricky. I (not an economist) don’t like the minimum wage since it’s really a poor tool
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Ask HN: Any front end engineers transition to ML/AI engineering? What's it like?
37 points by baron816 7y ago|8 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
That comes out to about 6 million people? Seems like a huge number to me.
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by baron816 7y ago
I switched from Chase to SoFi a few months back (kept my Chase CCs). Totally worth it. Didn't take that much time, although still more than an hour, plus had to be careful not to pull money out of Chase just before a payment was proces
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by baron816 7y ago
Yikes. Makes me appreciate my SWE career.
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by baron816 7y ago
My bad. I think I got it mixed up with Digital Ocean. Still, WeWork, StackExchange...MongoDB isn’t particularly loved anymore.
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by baron816 7y ago
Is it just me, or does it seem that New York tech companies are really struggling?
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by baron816 7y ago
True. That format can’t be extracted in its entirety. But what kind of format could? I don’t think it would need to apply to only 18-22 year olds.
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by baron816 7y ago
Startup idea: unbundle the party aspect of college. That kind of social life is not something you could purchase elsewhere right now. Figuring out how to replicate it would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people.

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