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by bertjk 9y ago
This is true, though I would also add "high performer" does not just refer to your primary job function, but also the secondary job of playing BigCO's internal political games.
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by bertjk 9y ago
Coming from a small-team Rails background, I tried React for a few months, then tried Vue. I found with React I felt compelled to replace and relearn large parts of my stack, and the learning curve as a result was very steep. In comparis
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by bertjk 9y ago
How big is the company? Is it just you? Do you have employees?
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by bertjk 10y ago
The price is typically set at a premium over the market price in order to persuade existing shareholders to tender their shares to you. As for what happens to holdouts that e.g. do not think the price is high enough, their situation is exp
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by bertjk 10y ago
It is interesting that you bring up the iPhone as a positive example of better accessibility. I always thought that physical buttons which could quickly become muscle memory and relatively simple function were way more usable for the demog
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by bertjk 10y ago
State of JS was a survey with questions and answers, this page counts "...stars added on Github, over the last 12 months". State of JS would better reflect the popularity of tools within the audience(s) that the survey was distrib
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by bertjk 10y ago
Hmm looks kind of like Celtra's AdCreator[0]. I wonder which came first? Has anyone used both who can compare the two? [0] https://www.celtra.com/adcreator
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by bertjk 10y ago
Product Hunt
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by bertjk 10y ago
Index funds tend to have some dividends, because while not all stocks yield dividends the dividends from the ones that do still get distributed to the holders of the fund.
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by bertjk 10y ago
They have raised cash by taking on investment from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (the sovereign wealth fund) and also selling off some major assets, most notably their fabs (GlobalFoundries) and even their HQ building. It is also wor
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by bertjk 10y ago
This is correct; you don't do an appraisal before getting a house, you get an appraisal before getting a mortgage. Typically you also get reappraised every time you refinance, and often the bank pays for it.
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by bertjk 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that when they say they start with Zillow, they are referring to the feature where it shows recent past sales in your neighborhood, which is an entirely legitimate input into determining a formal appraisal.
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by bertjk 10y ago
Interesting. Can you elaborate on the virtualization stack? Vmware? host in Win10 or host in Ubuntu?
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by bertjk 10y ago
His profile indicates that he graduated from UC Berkeley and previously pursued I-banking, so I wouldn't exactly call that "no degree, no experience." Also, a good coding bootcamp, properly applied, can easily be worth more
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by bertjk 10y ago
Rule #1 of advertising: Don't pay for your advertising...
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by bertjk 10y ago
> Some law firms even make a practice of buying up patents for products they have no intention of producing, purely to enable them to sue people for copyright infringement. sigh copyright != patent
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by bertjk 11y ago
Speaking of early rideshare entrants, I'm at least a bit amused that Ridester( http://www.ridester.com ) is currently being auctioned off on Flippa. https://flippa.com/5863667-ridester-com
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by bertjk 11y ago
Any presidential candidate interested in doing so knows that the first step to pardoning Snowden is to get elected. Pledging to do so now is a pretty sure way to fail at that.
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by bertjk 11y ago
But isn't this kind of the point? This gives you a programmatic way to specify to your media player just what content you don't want to watch. If this stuff gets popular, then the publishers should feel less pressure to censor
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by bertjk 13y ago
If you have 12 years of experience, are in the Bay Area, and can do mobile dev work, you should have no trouble finding a new job paying six digits if your entrepreneurial plans do not pan out.