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by bkjelden 11y ago
After working for ~2.5 years on the web stack, I've spent the better part of the last year working purely in C++, and I can agree with the author's sentiment here. Both languages have warts, but JS is a small enough language (at l
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A copy of Frontpage in middle school is what got me in to programming, back in the day. One of my earliest memories of 'coding' (It seems silly to call it that now, but hey, I was 13!) was opening the generated html files to remov
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This just seems too black and white for the current environment, though. A seed stage startup? Sure. But if Uber made you an offer tomorrow, would it really be prudent to value the equity at $0?
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It's more than just overhead - going public forces you to think in terms of quarterly earnings reports. It's very hard for a tech company to thrive in that kind of environment - capital expenditures required to develop new product
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Interesting that MSFT is down ~4% after hours. The Nokia write-off had already been announced...
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Those cities are becoming great places to live, but if you work in tech the opportunities in the bay area still dwarf everything else. Some industries are very centralized in one city - tech in the bay area, finance in NYC, entertainment in
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x2 on the intellisense. When I moved my team's JS code to typescript, I found myself way way faster with the improved intellisense. I wrote most of the code originally and understood it well, but even for an experienced developer, soli
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I think the key differentiator between successful "uber for X" companies and unsuccessful ones will end up being the customer experience in the industry each company attacks. Before uber, getting a taxi sucked . Talked to anyone
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I'd gladly pay this amount too, if it meant I got all college football and NFL games. A one stop shop for all games would be a huge convenience, too. When my favorite college team is playing early season games, sometimes it's a
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My fear with this is that it'll end up like cable tv: you pay for it and you get to watch advertisements.
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Facebook's userbase is so large, many users are functionally anonymous. Before online communities, most people interacted in social circles small enough that their identity actually meant something to the other participants. But on wid
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not sure if you meant "car miles" when you said sales, but another point: * Cars are way more reliable than even 10-15 years ago. Growing up my parents had a rule of thumb that a car was a ticking bomb over 100k miles. Today, a
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Cars are pretty much a requirement in a rural area like that. But on the plus side, cars are a lot easier to own in those areas. Parking is usually free/cheap. Traffic is very low, etc.
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In the parts of the US discussed in this thread - there really isn't a rainy season. They get moisture pretty much year round - snow in the winter, rain in the summer. So more frequent gradings are needed if the traffic is heavy enough
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I had always heard that ND had all concrete interstates (the only state with no asphalt interstates, in fact) because of the harsh winters.
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Very cool! I love it! A couple small things: * hitting the backspace key while editing any of the numbers seems to clear the entire box * a cool expansion on this project would be to allow one input to be a variable - e.g. my current contri
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10x Engineer: A developer who incurs technical debt so fast he appears more productive than the ten developers tasked with cleaning his mess up.
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I've found something a little different: Americans who berate America at every chance they get, always pointing out how Europeans have solved Problem X and we are so dumb for not adopting their simple solutions. Of course, one only nee
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Just like with features - explicitness vs conciseness is a tradeoff language designers have to walk. I feel like, in general, the C# team does a great job balancing things.
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The C# language designers really do a great job maintaining the perfect balance of language features. C++ allows way to many things and no normal human could ever hope to understand the entire language. Java went too far the other way - it
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One thing I've noticed seeing the Lexus cars drive around Mountain View is that they're incredibly cautious. I wonder what will happen once they become more commonplace, and human drivers realize they can be incredibly aggressive
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It's because the content people used to consume on those channels is now better consumed on the internet, and the audiences for that content have followed. Given that, those channels can either go out of business, or pivot to provide c
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It's interesting to me that they didn't include Microsoft in their data. The article itself states that Microsoft employs 100k people in the Seattle area - more than the ~78k they show for Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon combi
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I have seen a number of software jobs at US government contractors (mostly defense), where 9 hour days are standard, and then you get every other Friday off.
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Set theory & basic boolean algebra (De Morgan's laws, etc).
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This is why I think their valuation is less absurd than it seems. Their rate of adoption among college age and younger demographics is astounding. Way faster than facebook, or twitter, or any other social network was adopted. I think a lot
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yes - good catch. I wonder if there was any marketing analysis that went into choosing $35, in an effort to get people to pad out their orders with unneeded purchases, or if it was strictly chosen on the break-even point for their cost of s
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The news here seems to be that same day delivery is now free in certain metros, for prime members. Amazon has offered same day delivery for a while, they just charged extra for it.
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The issue arises when the buyers don't understand the risks involved with these securities. In the last real estate crash, investors didn't understand they were buying mortgages made to people who had no business owning a house as
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It's pretty obvious to anyone who does the numbers that there is more at play in bay area real estate than just tech salaries. A mortgage payment on a SFH with a reasonable commute to the big tech companies (i.e. anywhere on the penins

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