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by coltonv 8y ago
I see this idea that adding classes to JS was a bad thing a lot, but even though I don't ever use classes in my codebase, I don't know why it would make sense to remove them before adding new features, or to stall new features bec
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by coltonv 8y ago
I disagree. ES6 made JS much more palatable but it's still behind most modern languages in terms of number of features and in velocity of new features getting introduced. Javascript has actually been extremely slow to get new feature
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by coltonv 8y ago
We use JWT for validating simple handoffs from server to server, allowing someone to briefly access a resources such as downloading a file from a server designed to do that. We set the expiration to only an hour, and JWT is excellent for th
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by coltonv 8y ago
I have some troubles with the state hook. It may look nice to a novice developer, but when I look at it I just see confusing magic. I read what's happening and I just say wait, there's no closure or class here, how this state is s
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by coltonv 8y ago
Earth is is not even close to a closed system. There's a giant thermonuclear explosion factory in space that pumps insane amounts of energy into our system. If earth was a closed system it could not harbor life as entropy increased.
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by coltonv 8y ago
Considering that those prices are for 1 million emails a month, I'd say price is so similar between all of them that you should just pick whichever one gives you and your customer the best experience. The hours saved for your employees
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by coltonv 8y ago
I had no idea this feature even existed. It was well hidden.
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by coltonv 8y ago
From the article: "Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers." They will keep it active as an internal network, but regular old joes won't be able to use Google+ anymore.
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by coltonv 8y ago
Google+ had terrible marketing and release, but it had some decent ideas that I wish other networks had carried over. The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family&qu
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by coltonv 8y ago
You're getting downvoted, but this is exactly what happens with most active managers these days. Seriously, go to a local branch of a big bank, start a managed investment account, they'll give you a 1-1.5% fee portfolio and tell y
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by coltonv 8y ago
This is one thing that frustrates me about investing in the stock market. The idea of calling trading "investing" feels so inaccurate. I didn't invest in your fortune 500 company, I bet on the idea that other people down the
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by coltonv 8y ago
Elections were originally on Tuesdays because "Tuesday was established as election day because it did not interfere with the Biblical Sabbath or with market day, which was on Wednesday in many towns." Why hasn't it changed? B
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by coltonv 8y ago
What happened? The economics of media we're reshaped entirely by the internet. In print, people buy your content and adds in a giant bundle. You get money upfront AND you sell dozens of ads all at the same time. You can produce diverse
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by coltonv 8y ago
I think it's important to recognize every startup is different, some may have dark sides others will be wonderful place to work. Furthermore, people are different, and what might be a dark side to some would be attractive to others. If
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by coltonv 8y ago
Don't try to time the market unless you dont have any cash savings. Have enough cash to last 6-12 months without a job and invest the rest. You'll do better that way than trying to time the market.
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by coltonv 8y ago
In my opinion the cost of setting up a compiler such as typescript ot babel is significantly lower than the benefit and organization that types, modules, and modern language features provide.
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by coltonv 8y ago
I love the react team for what they're doing here, but I have a feeling that the className -> class change would be a huge mistake. It makes it so that the ({ class }) => ... syntax would no longer work since it's a reserved
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by coltonv 8y ago
I see a lot of negativity that technology is going to stagnate in the next few years, often out of the "we were supposed to have flying cars by now" vein. But stuff like this makes me feel we may be in for some of the greatest med
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by coltonv 8y ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. Hotels cheap out on that stuff all the time .
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by coltonv 8y ago
Sure, and I never said the stock price and innovation are inversely correlated, but I have a feeling that it's a very reasonable idea that optimizing for stock price based on speculation in the free market is an imperfect way to encour
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by coltonv 8y ago
I've got no stake in this. I don't really care if buybacks are good or bad. But the author makes a point that buybacks, being so tax effective, make companies much more likely to spend their money on stock buyback rather than rain
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by coltonv 8y ago
I think it's poor form to just refer to the opposing position in an argument as a "meme", then feel as though simply referring to it as a "meme" makes it so you don't need to actually make a counterargument. I
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by coltonv 8y ago
Probably because he didn't make it clear that the reason he brought up Medicare for All was because the whole reason contractors are so prevalent is so you don't have to pay for healthcare for them, effectively separating your wor
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Mimir (YC S15) is hiring Engineering and Product to help instructors teach CS(mimirhq.com)
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by coltonv 8y ago
If tech was just look at a resume and decide to hire or not people would hate that even more than modern complicated forms of interviewing. There's flaws in the ways a lot of companies hire, but the process has to be complicated when y
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by coltonv 8y ago
Wouldn't that assume that every short seller would lose $420 per share? They probably purchased their shorts at like ~$350 per share, so they'd only stand to lose 420-350=$70 per share, correct?
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Mimir (YC S15) is hiring Engineering and Product to help instructors teach CS(mimirhq.com)
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by coltonv 8y ago
And the market might recover in 2 days and that day trader would lose money for nothing. In reality, trying to time the market rarely works out, and when it does it can often be attributed to luck. In general, just investing every month is
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by coltonv 8y ago
I don't think he's implying that literally everybody trades passively, of course Zuckerberg is going to actively trade his Facebook shares, I'm going to actively trade my stock options at Public Company X, the guy down the
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by coltonv 8y ago
I agree that passive investing works, but the real story, I think, is that the economy is guaranteed to grow on average if the population keeps increasing and innovation keeps happening. If the population grows 3%, we have to produce roughl

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