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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Financially, based on my experience, startups do not make any sense as an employee. Absolutely. Also note that you are an extreme outlier for having had a 7 figure payoff. Most people who spent their entire career in startups will be l
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> It's really interesting to see $100M+ exits that have resulted in trivial sums for founders and early employees after multiple rounds of dilution and/or VCs with preferred shares taking home the spoils. My unscientific impres
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by dunpeal 8y ago
I suspect Dota 2 is a lot easier than Starcraft. I watched a video of that AI, and it was mostly tactical optimizations ("micro" in Starcraft-speak). The AI would position its unit just right, aim perfectly, optimize for maximum d
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Yeah, absolutely.
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> The company is profitable, they just set a target for year-over-year revenue gain that has not ever been met in the company's history, so that they'd have an excuse to pay less. And now everyone's pissed and the best fol
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> To add further, though salary cuts can be done by companies (this may vary across geographies), it's usually a little more cumbersome and also sends a different message to employees. It's a lot more cumbersome, and will creat
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As if in today's job market, keeping any engineer provides any sort of guarantee that the engineer will stay with the company "for the future". Most likely he'll stay until he gets a better offer (if he's a good per
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by dunpeal 8y ago
This is a great attitude, but it doesn't change the fact that discrimination exists and hurts real people in a very real way. No matter how skilled and engaged you are, there are plenty of places that will do their best to eliminate yo
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Well, FF+FB ruled supreme back when there were no decent alternatives, particularly on Windows - which was a very popular platform back then. We're talking pre-2008, which is before smartphones, most people were browsing on Windows, an
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Naw, dawg, this is what you replied to me originally: > Bad analogy, since the ISP lays a (figurative and real) pipe between Netflix and the user; this isn't correct for electricity. Most readers can just glance out the window and s
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And the delivery of electric power doesn't require any infrastructure, pipes, wires, etc? An odd argument by an account created right after this story was posted...
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"Our consumers are using dozens of entertainment devices for free" raged electric power providers. "They watch films, play video games, and even binge-watch Netflix shows for hours, using our power for which we receive no spe
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Exactly. People used to think computers will never beat humans in chess, clinging to all sorts of romantic notions such as that inherently human understanding was required for high-level play. And now my phone can beat the world champion.
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As a Seattle resident, what do you think of the argument that Amazon greatly contributed to homelessness in Seattle? I read somewhere that Amazon's explosive growth raised the property values in Seattle, which in turn caused a surge in
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by dunpeal 8y ago
The current disillusionment is a natural consequence of the preceding over-hype and over-exuberance. We've been there before. After the AI winter, many people argued AI will never come, and many achievements we already have (such as sp
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by dunpeal 8y ago
These sites are still there. In fact, many more of them, since the cost of hosting has dropped to near zero, especially for static content. The new development is huge sites providing expensive content and services for free, and using ads a
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> This is an easy argument to make For the record, I'm not making any value judgement or "argument" here. I'm pointing out that GP's complaining about issues that aren't really technical, but fundamental bus
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I don't want a stupid autoplaying video following me around on the damned page. I don't want Facebook to track me endlessly and mastermind what I see. Those autoplaying videos and trackers are the reason these pages are there
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by dunpeal 8y ago
Isn't its license - AGPL v3.0 - a problem? My understanding of the AGPL in this case is that if you publish a blog with Pelican, you have to also publish any trivial fork of Pelican that you create, even if only by a single trivial pat
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> The other possibility is that only those businesses that could afford to pay more are left now. What's wrong with that? I can't afford to hire a butler, so I don't get one. The government doesn't owe me one. Nor doe
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by dunpeal 8y ago
This comment is irrelevant to the US. You can fire people for any reason, or no reason at all. Incompetent programmers can and do get fired for performance reasons all the time. It's simply not an issue, and in reality if you're a
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I've always considered my peers to be physical engineers (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical), not finance or medicine people. The key question is what profession has a name that rings similar, but what are your other options as a
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Developers are the working men an women of today who "do things" where as managers are are the people who take the credit for benefits and revenue from software. A key difference is that managers of the original "working
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> And in some places they have. A lot. Yay, because I write software and this is good for me. In those places, wages often rose to compensate for commensurate rises in cost of living. Where did wages rise the most? SF Bay. How much did
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I think it's because very young people can get a six figure job right out of school, or even without a degree. DING DING DING! It was a clever scheme, and it even worked for a while. "We need a lot of people to study CS, but
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> I dunno. Developers already earn ridiculous salaries compared to pretty much any other profession. A common misconception. Check out other comments in this thread. Folks in many other professions, such as nursing, can make about the sa
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> To be honest, compensation is already _extremely_ high in the U.S. relative to the rest of the world Check out compensation for medical doctors, dentists, nurses, attorneys, sales people, and an endless list of others in the US compare
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> Isn't that like saying, Hey there's an oil crisis, what are you taking about, just pay more for oil. Which is exactly what happens during an oil crisis... :) Oil prices rise, and people who don't need oil so much stop pu
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> Nonetheless, I'd respectfully disagree that attempting to increase developers' productivity is a fool's errand. I never claimed that increasing developer productivity is a fool's errand. Quite the contrary: earlier
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by dunpeal 8y ago
> When you compare them to what other well educated and skilled professionals earn in those markets, you'll see that their compensation is ok, but nothing notable. There are lots and lots and lots of jobs that pay better, and may of

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