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by hkarthik 13y ago
and way, way more people use it and are familiar with it.
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You're specifically focused on technologies, which I will admit don't change that fundamentally from generation to generation. But the way software gets built, deployed, and used has changed a lot.
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> The author's argument makes as much sense as saying a professional baseball coach should be spending 30% of his game time actually playing with his team. This is a bad comparison because baseball hasn't significantly changed
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I think this works as long as the engineering managers follow a few guidelines: * Don't code 20% of a full solution with your 30% time and expect the other engineers to pick up your work and finish the other 80% to make it production r
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I think there are some good points made in this post that apply to business-related activities that developers often remain woefully ignorant about. Freelancing definitely makes you reset your expectations a bit more, whether you work as a
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I don't think anyone disagrees with you that there may be an outlying segment of the general human population that can "outwork" others in certain, specific circumstances. However, I don't think this advantage is genetic
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I'll bet in a short time, we'll see usage of drones inside the warehouses to sort out packages and load them onto trucks for long hauls more efficiently (and with less labor cost) than what's currently being done by humans.
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Planning on learning enough Erlang to understand BEAM and the OTP ecosystem, and potentially picking up Elixir if it makes sense to do so. I think there's a lot of interesting ideas around high availability and fault tolerance to explo
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I see the same thing happening in Dallas, albeit with healthcare professionals, lawyers, and executives. The urban core is still prohibitively expensive for many, especially those with families. You really have to get out into the suburbs b
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by hkarthik 13y ago
It really depends. We have 2 children so good schooling is a must and the better neighborhoods in SD cost a pretty penny. I currently live in Dallas, TX and for me the numbers work out this way: * Housing is 2-3x more expensive for comparab
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by hkarthik 13y ago
It's actually hard to beat San Diego in a few respects: 1) The weather is just perfect all year long. 2) The cost of living, while high, isn't insane compared to places like the Bay Area or NYC. 3) The public schools are actually
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by hkarthik 13y ago
In my previous job, I made the mistake of joining an early stage startup as a full time employee with almost the exact situation (experienced founder with "if I build it, they will come" syndrome). My advice is to pass on the oppo
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Well put. I agree with everything you've said. I will say that I've noticed a distributing trend which points to a lack of integrity among some of the Indian programmers coming straight from India. Two things in particular were as
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by hkarthik 13y ago
So is it time for private drone owners to form a lobbying interest to protect their rights? Maybe find an aging actor with a booming voice to use as a political spokesperson?
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I think the key is that at a young age, they lack the self-control needed to know when to pull themselves away from the screens. They need to be reminded to go to the bathroom, eat meals, go to sleep, etc. By not being proactive with limiti
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by hkarthik 13y ago
yeah we tried that in the middle ages. It was called feudalism :)
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I saw it across manufacturers the German manufacturers: BMW, Mercedes, and Audi. On the Japanese side, Nissan/Infiniti abused the hell out of their 3.5L V6 in every car they made for more than a decade. Regarding the BMW M5, the F10 is
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Hate to break this to you, but the internals of most "premium" vehicles when it comes to things like engines are largely unchanged year to year. I test drove a lot of premium vehicles last year and found most of them were using en
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Because quite simply, they can't. To buy it, they would borrow the money from China. China would provide it by using the BTC they own at whatever price they choose to sell it at.
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I wish I had lived in an urban area like SF, Chicago, or NY at 25 and then settled down in the suburbs a few years later. Instead, I've spent almost my entire career in the burbs or burb-like centers.
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Holding right now, but if I see a correction over the next few days I will buy more. My goal is to get to 100BTC and then just sit on it for a while, with some slow withdrawals as needed.
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by hkarthik 13y ago
The limited, but minimally viable materials to build the shanty towns is very analogous to using RAD frameworks like the ones you mentioned. I think the real problem is the subjective nature of deciding when an app is too big and needs to s
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by hkarthik 13y ago
My feeling is that the automatic punt while you're up has also become a sportsmanship/etiquette thing now when your team is ahead. If you're up by 2 touchdowns and you go for it on 4th, I can't think of a single announce
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Just going on community size is rarely a good yardstick for framework choice. Look at the team you have today, the team you want tomorrow, the scale your app is likely to grow (both in terms of traffic and code base size).
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by hkarthik 13y ago
Portland, Oregon: Relatively inexpensive compared to the rest of the cities on the west coast, with a great, burgeoning tech scene. Also lots of great jobs if you (or your spouse) decide to go work for someone else in the future.
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by hkarthik 13y ago
>> Some folks say graph databases are more natural, but I’m not going to cover those here, since graph databases are too niche to be put into production. Is this really true? It sounds like both relational DBs and document DBs are a p
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by hkarthik 13y ago
I've been a US-based remote worker for close to 3 years now. I started doing contracting work in Rails while I worked full time in .NET (while going onsite everyday). I also networked a lot within the local Ruby community. When I was r
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by hkarthik 13y ago
1) Being one or two time zones away is pretty critical to having more overlap during the day. While it's possible (in some cases) to work completely asynchronously, it's notoriously difficult to pull off in the early stages. 2) Ba
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3.2.14
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He specifically said it was false for a certain group of people (those in banking). People in banking/finance have a very skewed sense of reality when it comes to work and fair compensation. You generally have to take their anecdotal a

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