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by eldavido 11y ago
It's not that simple. Keep in mind that "wealth" as such can't be stored, it has to be invested/put into something; the market's assessment is that the liquidity, safety, and convenience of treasury debt is a d
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by eldavido 11y ago
Email me if you want to discuss this further. My email's in my profile. I came from using Rails to doing DDD-style C#/.NET development. It feels very "enterprise" but then, there are some very good lessons I've lear
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by eldavido 11y ago
Agree re: methodology. There are really two problems in the model layer of a database-based app: - Moving data into and out of the database, the "Data Access Layer" - How the model objects interact and behave once moved into memor
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by eldavido 11y ago
Re (1), I just tried to get a loan from Wells Fargo last week for a consulting business with a few hundred K in annual revenue, and it was an incredible pain in the ass (multiple years of balance sheets/income statements, tax returns
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by eldavido 11y ago
@sama: right on with this. SV $ metrics are always measured in revenue growth, not free cashflow, margin, etc. Measuring revenue works fine for high-margin businesses, which software has been for a long time. Now that we're using VC to
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by eldavido 11y ago
This is one of those classic "caught in the middle" problems. Small companies won't be able to afford decent support contracts, big companies will vertically integrate by developing/hiring in-house expertise. The last pl
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by eldavido 11y ago
Don't worry about it. People who get paid to assess the actual -- not perceived -- quality of tech talent for a living (hiring managers, bigco recruiters) aren't fooled by this. The mere amount of stamina it takes to complete an I
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by eldavido 11y ago
Not to mention LLVM which Apple's entire compiler stack uses these days
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by eldavido 11y ago
I go back and forth on this; the issue is the lack of a better option. I for one would love to see a viable tech community emerge in Chicago -- we could all be near family, afford houses, hell maybe even inject some much-needed tax revenue
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by eldavido 11y ago
Be that as it may, they forgot Max Levchin and the entire Paypal Mafia. That's a pretty large omission IMO
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by eldavido 11y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Asking universities to teach "hands-on learning" isn't productive; you'll get plenty of that, that's more recent and marketable, from practical work experience. I'd rather the univ
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by eldavido 11y ago
I'd be more interested in something representative of a broader sample than just those who've "made it". The interview in the article advises "Bet on yourself instead of saving in retirement accounts", I wonder
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by eldavido 11y ago
The real question is how dev salaries stack up around the rest of the US. Bay Area developers have higher social status than their colleagues in other places, which (admittedly very anecdotally) seems to correlate with better pay. Are there
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by eldavido 11y ago
No it isn't. Clearly Google's management believes the new structure is accretive to shareholder value otherwise they wouldn't have done it. I really wonder about this though. Conglomerates have a mixed track record [1] and fr
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by eldavido 11y ago
This is a good point in an otherwise PR- and spin-heavy announcement. If Google plans to pursue capital-intensive projects a la Fiber, it'd be better to have those separated to allow use of (much cheaper) debt capital collateralized by
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by eldavido 11y ago
Have to disagree with this. If you live and work in a language for a timescale measured in years, you're just going to know that certain things "look weird" compared to others. Example: almost everything in Ruby is a member f
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by eldavido 11y ago
Mozy for personal (non-prod) computers. it's like $60/year. Set and forget, my computer was stolen last year, was up and running a day later, most of which was spent purchasing the new computer (Macbook) Prod is more complicated,
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by eldavido 12y ago
Two great books on this topic you may have already read - Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" as well as Supercapitalism by Robert Reich. Reading these two works has really shifted my view on regulation and govenment in general f
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by eldavido 12y ago
Right, except (1) it's your obligation to change the law as a voter and (2) profit-maximizing companies have every obligation to act in their shareholder's best interests, within the bounds of the law . So really, it's up
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by eldavido 12y ago
I completely agree and the sad truth is that we software people do it to ourselves by devaluing the contributions of older/more experienced people. OTOH if we move toward a more professional / credentialed / high-status profe
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by eldavido 12y ago
In most software jobs, it's impossible to directly quantify value-added. So the engineer's salary is 100% determined by your employer's (or by proxy, manager's) opinion of how much value you add. And those opinions are q
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by eldavido 12y ago
I'm about halfway through it. The first half surveys how many powerful institutions including churches, the US education system, and companies encourage/reward extroversion, perhaps without realizing it. I'm somewhere in the
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by eldavido 12y ago
I'm in the middle of "Quiet" right now and have tried to read TMS on and off over the years. I could really go for a reading group on this if you know a few other people who are interested and/or local to SF.
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by eldavido 12y ago
Hi John Former-MS guy here working in SV. I could tell you work at MS by some of the terms you use which aren't common outside the company (e.g. "SKU") but MS people say a lot ;) You should set up your profile on HN so that p
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by eldavido 12y ago
Just worked on deploying OpenAM on tomcat with Docker. A few things stuck out to validate the "hard to deploy in containers" point: (1) node.js/Ruby/Python scale with processes, not threads. There's no supervisory&#
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by eldavido 12y ago
I like how finance is "slower" on the west coast. Less of an HFT/trading/options emphasis, vs. sales/partnerships/BD/making stuff people want.
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by eldavido 12y ago
Ruby/Scala: Keep the language small, "Let our community enhance/extend the language" by writing DSLs (this, Rails, Chef), even at the expense of consistency Python: Consistency trumps all, ship a large, complete stdlib,
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by eldavido 12y ago
First, recognize that this is the feeling of learning . Being the smartest in the room is great for the ego, less so for long-term growth and improvement. So be thankful. As far as the prima donna attitude, first realize that in a typical
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by eldavido 12y ago
The economist is taking the position of the buyer (not maker) of software -- the prototypical business that buys a CRM tool to manage its customer relationships. Seen as a good that increases the productive capacity of a company or the econ
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by eldavido 12y ago
You're correct that the marginal value of great code vs. good code is...marginal, MOST of the time. But I think the 1% cases are where the big (200k+) comp packages are for ICs. Stuff like perf optimizations at big scale, 1% adwords CT

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