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by bicknergseng 11y ago
> a large number of people made poor choices Is it really a poor choice to buy a house? Should people have known that banks were intentionally misleading them? The banks are the ones that should have been telling potential homebuyers th
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
> Obviously revenue is a red herring I disagree. What if it were a company like Amazon that operates with over 100 billion in revenue but less than a billion in income (many years actually ending up red)? Would 500 million an appropria
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
According to Wikipedia, GS made $39.20 billion in revenue in 2015, with $6.08 billion in net income. I'd say a penalty of about half a quarter's worth of revenue and less than one year's worth of profit for being a major pla
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I'm with you. I definitely don't hate it like many seem to. No, it's not a to-the-letter portrayal of the book, nor does it do a great job of portraying the "subtleties," but it's probably much better off not d
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I actually just asked this question in another thread 2 days ago. Really interested in how it would play out from a legal standpoint.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
FWIW my comment also blew up more than I woulda expected. I wasn't really responding to your article even, more to Andre's flavor over the top anti-JSX attitude. It's like you said: each team is different and should use wha
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Not actually interested in if people are willing to do ethically questionable engineering work; I'm interested in whether or not the government can compel them to do so.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
What does code/template separation actually achieve? Ignoring JSX for a moment, why are templates a good thing? Are you actually simplifying something by using {{#each}} instead of .map()? Is {{#if}} really better than if()? Seems
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
This needs to be prefaced: this argument is overdone. JSX is not hard to learn. It's an order of magnitude better than the hampered DSLs of handlebars or dust, and I'm concerned that any engineer is so scarred that learning it t
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I just had a thought: what happens if Apple complies with the order (say they lose the legal battle or something), but individual employees refuse to build the software? I think the verdict is out on whether or not Apple, a corporation, can
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Didn't know that "focus" == "bias".
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
IMO, there's one big feature missing from git (and other SCMs in my limited knowledge of the field) that results in posts like this every so often. There really needs to be some concept of a commit group, one or more commits (probably
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Has anyone tried to make an open source version? Any 18f or USDS folks around who want to save us from Intuit and H&R Block?
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I wonder if there could be anything more toxic to a product's development than letting it compete.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
This makes me think of that study[1] about doctors being away on conferences. I think it likely comes down to recognizing that experience rarely, if ever, trumps solid analytical thinking. [1] http://archinte.jamanetwork.com&#x2F
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying. If you have a web application with only one data source built in, then GraphQL is not for you. In fact, that whole post wasn't for you. You probably should stick with a monolith until you ca
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
>>with the full power of the query language your datastore provides If your datastore exists in your server side rendering application. I would say that "chaotic front end needs" exist in applications that require data from
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
>You also wouldn't have these endless discussions about whether you should tax the poor 10% (because the tax affects them more) >No deductions for any special interest. >I'm not a huge fan of subsidies either, but if you
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
I've been wondering for a while if it would be more viable to crowdfund VCs or angels in place of limited partners. That way there are full time people dedicated to due diligence, risk management via diversified portfolios, etc. Of c
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
>> It blows my mind that people judge scientific work based on its funding source over its content and merits. Not saying its irrelevant, but good science is good science and bad science is bad science, regardless of who paid for it.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
INAL nor have I really thought into this too hard, but it seems to me the difference between microwaves and wifi in this particular situation is that microwaves were the incumbents and their functionality was not disrupted by wifi, where as
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
“Ugh, I only watch like 10% of the stuff on Netflix. Can’t I pay 89 cents instead of $8.99?” I mean... $8.99 is already 10% of the $89.99+ that you'd have to pay to get a cable subscription with premium channels and HBO, but I think th
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
18F/USDS peeps... would you consider bounty or reward style programs that reward all open source contributors? Eg instead of bidding for a contract, keep an open list of tasks/bugs/full projects and reward contributors whose
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Approximately 24.67 minutes for what it's worth. Marriott made > $12 billion last year and was fined $600k. I'm curious how much revenue the wifi fees bring in and whether that fine even makes a dent in income from that alone
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
>> Tsu users were creating fake accounts to boost their pages. Facebook says its users started reporting Tsu.co links as spam, which Facebook defines as "sending bulk messages, excessively posting links ... and sending friend req
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Pretty awesome experiment, but I feel like this just falls into the same ol' "lowest bidder to meet the absolute minimum" trap. Is there any thoughts on introducing some notion of quality? It seems to me like "lowest p
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Hey Sam, what's the status of the YC Fellowship? Are you going to do another round?
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Shades of gray. There's some significant gray area when it comes to more tangible things like servers, etc, but I think if you're having a hard time discerning between a group of individuals volunteering time and a group of indiv
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
Good luck saving half your income, even at $100k, in any of those places. Median rent alone in SF is way over half of that in a year... BEFORE taxes.
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by bicknergseng 11y ago
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Average... 12k is a small sum of money in SF. Assuming the founders don't want to live together in a studio, looking at >5k month in just rent. Ot

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