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by dcosson 7y ago
Don’t understand this take at all. The public is free to just not buy the stock if they don’t want. You think the problem is that investors are leaving too much potential for growth on the table when companies IPO? They should wait even lon
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by dcosson 7y ago
I don’t see why there’s anything inherently better with having this happen at the local level vs the state level. If a majority of Californian voters have elected state legislators who will vote for these policies at the state level, that’s
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by dcosson 8y ago
If you ever order something online or get food delivery or take a taxi or uber you do use the roads, and the number of people who do those things somewhat regularly is a lot closer to 100%. But you might still be using the roads a lot less
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by dcosson 8y ago
IMO the original use case of just Bitcoin is still by far the most compelling. A non-inflationary store of value not unlike gold, but it can be transferred for a very low cost anywhere in the world in minutes. I think the same arguments tha
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by dcosson 8y ago
Github is actually a great example - i think it's getting better gradually, but for a lot time it was really obvious that it was server-rendered pages with a few ajax calls sprinkled in to do small things like update the status when th
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by dcosson 8y ago
What's wrong with Apollo?
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by dcosson 8y ago
Can I ask what startup this is? This kind of thinking is refreshing to see and pretty rare in my experience, to not just say you want great people but actually compensate like you mean it.
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by dcosson 8y ago
FWIW, we've had a lot of success with a super simple pull version of ansible. You can configure ansible to run against a local host instead of via ssh push, so we have a cron on all servers that pulls the latest configs from S3, runs a
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by dcosson 8y ago
You don’t spend much time with people that live in cities do you? I’d be less likely to move away if my city implemented congestion pricing, got rid of most street parking, and used that space and money for things like protected bike lanes,
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by dcosson 8y ago
Yeah, I have a really hard time seeing how this would be a nice culture to work in. Everybody is clearly not as valuable as everyone else, and it seems pretty inevitable that people would come to resent each other and stop working hard, if
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by dcosson 8y ago
Why did you want to not pay for health insurance? Even if you had found a legal loophole to do this, just about everybody is going to want health insurance and I’m pretty sure if the company pays then it’s not taxed, plus you can get better
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by dcosson 8y ago
Rent control is a terrible idea for the exact reason prop 13 is - it reduces mobility and flexibility for everyone, and completely screws over anybody new (immigrants, young people, people who get unlucky and their landlord happened to want
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by dcosson 8y ago
> I truly don't think most people that argue to work for a startup have internalized the compensation at the big tech companies. Completely agree. For instance I don't think anyone who throws around the term "market rate s
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by dcosson 8y ago
The "positive side" for the homeowners is pretty obvious - it lets them keep anyone that's not one of them out of the neighborhood. I don't know the specifics of this particular neighborhood, but if it's anything li
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by dcosson 8y ago
I mean, this just sounds to me like a pitch for AirBnB. They managed to solve this exact problem you're complaining about via the rating system and guests being attached to their real identity. The vast majority of AirBnB guests are ve
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by dcosson 8y ago
I was half onboard with his reasoning to remove the commit messages. But then I realized, they're only useless if they're bad commit messages. Especially if you're using PRs and using "squash + merge" for all your c
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by dcosson 8y ago
You don’t “need” almost anything, the point of new tools isn’t usually that you need them it’s that they make your life easier. Apollo Client makes a lot of things about frontend apps easier, which is possible because of the well-defined an
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by dcosson 8y ago
The SF Central subway project cost about $920M per mile, at those rates this $77B could be used for 84 miles of underground subway lines in the densest parts of SF and LA. That could be very substantial. (And not saying that's even the
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by dcosson 8y ago
Just curious, in addition to looking for those things do you do all of the same types of technical interviews for a principal engineer as for other engineer roles? I would imagine a lot of principal candidates are older, maybe a little rust
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by dcosson 8y ago
You're making some big leaps in your interpretation vs what's actually being said. I don't see a single comment saying she should sell because money is all that matters. A few comments are saying if she sold it to a housing d
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by dcosson 8y ago
The more interesting side of it IMO, is this situation has all the markings of Capitalism actually working well. Housing is a scarce and expensive resource in Manhattan that people are willing to a pay a lot for, and a factory will likely f
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by dcosson 8y ago
I think DB's could definitely do more to expose what the cost of various operations are, it would be great if you could "explain" a migration before you run it like you can with a query and it would calculate a rough cost, ho
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by dcosson 8y ago
> I'm struggling to understand the purpose of sharding if you can't pull a node offline and replace it while you deal with the wraparound. This is not usually the purpose of sharding though. Having a replica of each node or eac
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by dcosson 8y ago
Aren't there already systems in place within the legal system to allow this? Like small claims court or appealing a parking ticket, where you present the case to one judge and they decide rather than holding a full trial before a jury.
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by dcosson 8y ago
You don't think it's a little offensive and uncalled for to tell someone that it is inconceivable that anyone could be as stupid as they are?
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by dcosson 8y ago
Just wait til you actually work on some production code... For the most part you don't actually want to roll back schemas as you would lose data. And iterating on SQL schemas in a live app involves all kinds of tricky edge cases and ba
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by dcosson 8y ago
> pretended as if nothing was wrong about 3-inch long cockroaches running around all over the place. To be fair it actually is pretty common to see 3 inch cockroaches running around in Hawaii and other tropical places, even in reasonably
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by dcosson 8y ago
Interesting move. If major projects within Facebook are migrating away it seems pretty likely that Flow is on the way out. Which I think would be a good thing, it seems like a lot of projects and libraries haven't fully embraced either
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by dcosson 8y ago
I've heard this argument before too that Bird is a private, for-profit company. The company itself isn't riding around on the scooters, real people are riding them to solve real transportation needs. I don't see why it matter
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by dcosson 8y ago
Wait til you learn about cars! People literally leave them all around the city, for hours or even days at a time. Completely unencumbered as well, and taking up prime public space that could be used by the public in so many other ways. You

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