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by dcosson 10y ago
I agree a company like Uber and their workers' incentives do end up misaligned in certain ways, and when that happens the contractors often end up losing. But that is all because of this system that we continue to perpetuate, for reall
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Interesting choice, and thanks for the detailed explanation. Sounds like at the end of the day it comes down to Exponent being committed to the user never having to build their own app. I can see that being interesting a to a single dev, or
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by dcosson 10y ago
One other downside is XCode. No refactoring support, and lots of errors that give you little help. For instance, if you're trying to implement a protocol which is itself a few layers of nested protocols, XCode will just tell you it doe
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by dcosson 10y ago
I agree, I actually really like that there's a high bar for asking. It makes it more likely someone will be able to fully understand and give a good answer. And I would say probably 50% of the questions I start typing on SO, I actually
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by dcosson 10y ago
What's kind of interesting is a lot of the target SO questions are implicitly opinion-based. For any "How do you do X" there might be multiple ways to do it so the question is actually "what's the best way to do X&q
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by dcosson 10y ago
That rule of thumb was probably intended for more "middle class" wages though, no? Above a certain level your other basic costs like food, clothing, travel (especially if you're having kids and can't do much traveling o
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by dcosson 10y ago
Great list, thanks for the thorough response
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by dcosson 10y ago
Just curious, what Postgres features are you missing on MySQL? I had only used MySQL until a year or two ago, and wondered what I was missing since Postgres seems to get more love/hype from the developer community for whatever reason.
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by dcosson 10y ago
This could be pretty cool. There are times when I search for something that happened recently (say, 20 minutes ago in a live sports game, or if I see 6 police cars blocking off the street out my window) and google has no record of it, or so
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by dcosson 10y ago
Looking forward to checking this out. One issue I have run into with homebrew is that due to varying packaging choices as a project grows, I've seen stuff move back and forth from brew core to cask to neither, and the old ones stick ar
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by dcosson 10y ago
Often one person will be in charge of taking notes while the rest diagnose (using things like server logs or email timestamps to get these times as precise as possible). Not just for the post mortem, it can be very helpful in figuring out w
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by dcosson 10y ago
Interesting. While javascript heavy, google groups always gets the job done fine for me. What I really dread is having to use something like the Postgres mailing list, which is painful with conversations split between multiple pages and blo
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Each version of the CLI is incompatible with the last version of the CLI. I'm pretty sure that as long as the CLI version is >= the server version, you can set the DOCKER_VERSION env var to the server version and everything wor
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by dcosson 10y ago
An interview shouldn't be purely theoretical, but I disagree that there's no place for this stuff. As an incredibly simple example that comes up all the time, if you get back a collection of items from an API do you store them in
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by dcosson 10y ago
While that's true, I think comparing the East Village back then to the East Village today isn't sufficient to claim that the entire city is too expensive today. Maybe a less drastic approach is fine - instead of "find a new c
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by dcosson 10y ago
Somewhat of a nit - in many cases the remaining employees don't pay via dilution for a fired employee keeping his/her stock. The option pool is set up beforehand and if the company sells or goes public and there is still equity le
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by dcosson 10y ago
Fin Exploration Company | Software Engineer | Full Time | SF We're building Fin, a digital personal assistant. We've ambitiously called it "the OS from the movie Her", powered by a mix of human and machine intelligence.
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by dcosson 10y ago
I had a similar experience trying to switch to docker-machine as it sounds like you've had with the new apps, and ended up giving up. It's super simple through Vagrant though, just vagrant up and set DOCKER_HOST to the static IP.
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by dcosson 10y ago
> In short, they don't think more building will benefit them in terms of housing, but will instead be bad for them in terms of quality of life The frustrating thing about this NIMBY argument, is that it's usually presented as t
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by dcosson 10y ago
Absolutely. And, same for healthcare IMO. Assuming no single-payer system, the group negotiating companies have to do with plan providers is just such a waste. I was part of a 3-person startup last year, and nobody (even going through Zenef
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by dcosson 10y ago
Even if they are a startup within Google, what does that mean for my security as a user? Do they store this API key with full access to a Google account the same way that an official Google app (e.g. Gmail itself) stores my secret data? If
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by dcosson 10y ago
Idk. It seems like the mistake was enacting these tax breaks in the first place, without putting the necessary effort into building enough housing to support the new jobs (or improving transit and building out more densely populated suburbs
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by dcosson 10y ago
> but I suspect that solving problems of existing cities will probably lead to better long-term results Isn't this what local governments are all perpetually trying to do in every city? The cool thing about this YC initiative is tha
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by dcosson 10y ago
The point about transit to other big cities is another interesting possibility, and I could imagine that as a path to bootstrap a city's own economy. If this hypothetical new city was ~30 min from somewhere like downtown SF or the Goog
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by dcosson 10y ago
This intel is like gold, where'd you hear it from? The lack of transparency is my least favorite thing about AWS. I see the value in keeping brand new services or huge feature additions secret until they're released. But for small
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Right, but that's kind of the problem. If I were signing up for the first time and needed a simple db, I might see the SimpleDB service in the dashboard and try it out, not knowing its been unofficially deprecated. Similar from what I
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by dcosson 10y ago
I'm overall pretty optimistic about AWS, but if they do end up losing to another platform I would expect it to be due to this general issue of not iterating on their offerings enough. I can't really recall them ever deprecating a
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by dcosson 10y ago
Not trying to troll, but I see so many HN comments about backups and I just don't have this need anymore. What are people using traditional backup software like time machine, carbon copy cloner, etc. for on their laptop these days? I u
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I use iOS and a password manager, and maybe 5-10% of apps I use have an integration for it (and I place the blame on Apple for this, imo if they actually care about user security as much as they want everyone to believe they do, they should
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It was announced that it was going open-source a few weeks or months ago, so maybe today's the first day it's up on github? Or someone just happened to notice it today.

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