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by dunpeal 8y ago
> To big to fail doesn’t really protect them if they lose their costumers. In fact, if they lose their customers they will no longer be "too big to fail".
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> You are never getting returns for free Sure, but you can buy US treasury bills, and then your risk is "lose some money if the US government defaults", which is very low. We all live every day with risks far greater than tha
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> That's an extreme measure and is probably overkill right now as the loophole that states you don't have to do anything to weaken your security will likely be used as a challenge against building in any backdoors. I saw that
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by dunpeal 8y ago
What's the impact on you going to be like?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Pretty sure Huawei is getting targeted for a reason, and not just because it's a "successful hardware company". Neither the US nor the UK have any interest in protecting Samsung from competition. My guess is that there's
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by dunpeal 8y ago
OK, I think full taxable income is a nice suggestion. But it will require legislation, i.e. probably will never happen. Moreover, the point of the article is that NCAs are a long-term drag on the economy. If the main reason there's SV
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Not a bad attempt, but what's "full pay"? For most senior engineers, the base salary is just a part of the compensation package. What about bonus? Also, most employees move for a better opportunity, which often means a much
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'm actually an engineer :-) I used "smartass" because it's a move that superficially seems clever, but is actually completely futile when you look at the broad picture - as my comment shows. I don't know if us engi
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Make them fair, not unenforceable. Nice idea. How do you do that in practice? How does the judicial system decide what NCA is "fair"? The cost of the NCA to the employee can be heavy. How do you "fairly" value it?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Non-competes are so vague that nobody knows how much to demand even if they were possible to negotiate (which they aren't). A friend of mine received two offers for almost the exact same compensation. One had a non-compete clause burie
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by dunpeal 8y ago
A candidate demanding another $100k on top of a fair offer, whether to sign a non-compete or for any other reason, is not going to get the offer. There's a myth that SV engineers can demand whatever they want and get it. No, they can&#
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I'm sorry, but your arguments no longer make sense. You keep making claims, then reliable data is presented to refute these claims, which you ignore, and pile up more unsubstantiated claims. Most recently in this thread, you claimed: &
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Their are around 1.17 million programmers in the US, that’s far from an elite field. There were 162.63 million people employed in the US as of October 2018, according to the BLS: https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOu
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> One of them mentioned their actual IQ. Very few people had their IQ measured properly. Either way, I doubt you ever worked with a programmer who really did have 90 IQ. Not to put too fine a point on it: such a person would appear dumb
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Automation is less about replacing every system administrator as it is allowing companies to have fewer of them. Which eventually means it’s not a full time job and it’s folded into other tasks. Sure, but that's exactly my point.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
How do you know someone has "90ish IQ"? Do you regularly administer standardized tests to your co-workers? To inject some reality into these wild numbers being thrown around so casually: 90 IQ is the bottom 25% percentile. Someon
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I really doubt anyone can be paid a decent salary to do something "directly comparable to laying bricks". Brick laying is completely repeatable iteration, requiring no modification or thinking. Anything "directly comparable&q
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> With that being said they were all quant majors in undergrad, and actually enjoyed coding. Right, this is top edge of bootcamp folks, and these guys do get hired and do succeed. You're talking about folks who completed a tough STE
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Many coding jobs are equivalent to being a brick layer (intellectually) Anything remotely as simple and repeatable as "brick laying" gets automated in the industry. Nobody pays the requisite >$100k/yr in the Bay for
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I’d argue, that if you can complete CS50x and CS50x Web, then you’ll never need a site like udacity. Sure, but that's a tiny minority of people. If you have the capacity to complete deep CS courses, you can buy a book for $12 an
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Did you forget that Facebook used to play David to Myspace's Goliath? There was never any shortage of competitors, and Facebook wasn't the first on the social media scene by any measure. It came out of nowhere and toppled the domi
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by dunpeal 8y ago
These are good points, but the bottom line is "we don't really know". So I'd caution against assuming the number is very high just because it fits our hopes.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
But Go 2 is also introducing backwards incompatible changes, no?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
For the their purposes, the people who would care are those who are currently maintaining a significant Go codebase. So even if you did Go full-time for 5 years, but then switched to Rust and now work full-time in Rust, you would not mind a
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by dunpeal 8y ago
It's a nice feature, but several other languages have that, including languages that directly compete with Go.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
These numbers seem pretty accurate, and I wouldn't expect that they're off by anywhere like a factor of 10. Think about it: the number of programmers in the world is certainly not off by 10 factor - no way there are 180 million pr
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I don't really see a reason why there'd be a large iceberg of Go developers in China. There's no reason why programmers in China would use Go in higher proportion than elsewhere in the world.
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by dunpeal 8y ago
How can you have an "explicit requirement" not to end up like Perl 6? Nobody planned to "end up like Perl 6", it's just something that happens when your new, backwards-incompatible version of the language doesn&#x2
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> We are constrained by the fact that we now have millions of Go programmers and a large body of Go code Are there really "millions" (plural) of Go programmers? Sounds like a bit of an overestimate, no?
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> low-skill but non-automatable jobs that require organically-optimized things that all people have but machines don't, like fingers and eyes. Machines already have those. They're just more costly and clunky than humans, ofte

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