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by dangjc 8y ago
It's a sign public equity markets aren't structured well that companies aren't encouraged to think long term. The most successful companies in today's markets don't even allow common shareholders to control the comp
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by dangjc 8y ago
Flutter seems like the killer app that could revive Dart. In comparison: Javascript For mobile with React: no AOT compile. Relies on loading the entire JS VM which adds startup time and can require bundling a large library on Android. Canno
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by dangjc 8y ago
Dart is being positioned as a cross compiling, Android and iOS (but not web) development language with the Flutter platform. It very much seems like a replacement for Kotlin's usage on Android, but only if you are also switching to thi
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by dangjc 8y ago
I wonder if Dart will supersede Kotlin now that Flutter is getting attention on mobile.
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by dangjc 8y ago
Carbon taxes are a very market oriented approach, not a silly idea. Natural gas extraction and transmission turns out to emit more methane to the point of negating its lower CO2 emission benefits. https://e360.yale.edu/feat
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Demand for online coursework leads bay area campuses to close(sfchronicle.com)
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by dangjc 8y ago
Yeah SOMA is quite pricey. I live in the East Bay though and I find prices out here are comparable to the rest of America for food and drinks. Even in SF, once you get away from central areas, prices are pretty ok.
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by dangjc 8y ago
I'm in the bay area, and the main thing that is expensive is housing. Groceries are cheap. Eating and drinking out are the same as other cities. To help the middle class, remove restrictive zoning policies. It's a uniquely America
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by dangjc 8y ago
I don’t think content providers like newspapers feel exposing snippets that are so informative that readers stop engaging with the main site are being provided a valuable service. Google has long since moved away from simply providing ten b
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by dangjc 8y ago
Capital gains are only taxed for American investors. Foreign investors get away scott free. Their proceeds are highly unpredictable and even more cyclical compared to corporate income tax. There are too many ways to defer or never pay them.
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by dangjc 8y ago
It's probably not possible to win over NIMBYs. Incoming population will always create more traffic. Taller buildings always overshadow something. They have almost no interest in letting in more people. The key is recognizing that it is
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by dangjc 8y ago
More and more young people come to CA to start their careers, but then take the experience (and ability to command high salaries) and move to a cheaper state. We're eroding our talent pool with the crazy high cost of living. The area w
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by dangjc 9y ago
Cool. I have something else that uses Eigen in WebAssembly, so that hasn't caused any issues btw.
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by dangjc 9y ago
I did this for a while. It’s good for increasing your brown fat.
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by dangjc 9y ago
Is it lite enough to compile with Emscripten and use via WebAssembly?
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by dangjc 9y ago
JS is enough for most application code. There are libraries that have and always will be in C, C++, or something similar, and it would make the most sense to wrap and expose them for different environments. JS makes no sense for shared libr
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by dangjc 9y ago
Would grad schools recruit more Americans if a) their international intake was capped b) they were forced to offer more livable stipends c) the odds to get tenure track increased? Grad school is a pretty bad deal for US citizens, and so muc
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by dangjc 9y ago
I'm not generally anti regulation, but for housing it's ridiculous. New housing should be granted by-right permission. NIMBY's have a major empathy gap and should not have a veto.
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by dangjc 9y ago
Bus rapid transit is a great compromise. They have special right of ways with dedicated signaling and lanes. But no need to lay rail so costs are much lower.
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by dangjc 9y ago
Not always blow themselves up. Just continually reinvest. In their people, their products. The problem with our economic system is how short sighted corporations have become.
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by dangjc 9y ago
React is nice because it encourages encapsulation and componentization. Redux feels like it discards all that. Your OO encapsulation gets disassembled into pure functions and dumb state. Pure functions are great to reason about, but redux a
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by dangjc 9y ago
Webassembly is incredibly hard to debug in the browser. Source maps give you a decent stack trace, but you can't evaluate variables. I'm hoping this situation improves.
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by dangjc 9y ago
I've traveled a lot too, and haven't ever had things stolen. But I know people who have. One of my friends had his iphone in a waterproof protector strapped around his neck for Songkram in Bangkok, and someone in the crowd walked
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by dangjc 9y ago
Yep, but laptops are treated with way more caution and attention. Phones are constantly whipped in and out, left on tables or benches, used around kitchens, toilets, swimming pools...
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by dangjc 9y ago
Why are people comfortable carrying a $1000 piece of equipment that can be dropped or stolen in an instant in their pocket? My Nexus6p takes great pictures, runs everything smoothly, and I don't have to freak out as much if the $350 su
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by dangjc 9y ago
Do anything recommended by http://www.strongtowns.org
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by dangjc 9y ago
You mean Ajit Pai's FCC or Tom Wheeler's FCC? Because under Pai, they seem to be rolling back all the regulations meant to control the industry and seem to be very much under their influence.
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by dangjc 9y ago
The regulators need to crack down on this. If Comcast controls the regulators, they need to be broken up. No one company should have that much political power.
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by dangjc 9y ago
I didn't think 1 based arrays would be a big deal, but whenever I try to port code from Julia to almost any other environment (C++, python/numpy, scala, JS), it becomes one of the hardest things to reason about quickly and correct
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by dangjc 9y ago
California is proposing per-capita dividends for their cap and trade auction revenue. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/3/15512258...

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