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by hkarthik 14y ago
This is a really relevant article. These days there are legions of programmers who don't think about underlying issues and just throw clever hacks in to get things working and move on. Worse yet, some of these types end up in managerial rol
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by hkarthik 14y ago
The other big problem is increasing guidance from child safety experts to seat children in reversed seating positions. Once you take a normal infant car seat and reverse it, and the front passenger (or driver) legroom completely disappears
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Housing sucks in the valley too. Too expensive and car driven to appeal to the young hackers. Singles enjoy the city life and those with families get more value in the East Bay with SF just being a BART ride away.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Google becoming a billion dollar company without VC investment is possible, but it wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly, and it's quite possible that it would have been acquired by Yahoo or Microsoft. I disagree completely on Facebook b
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by hkarthik 14y ago
The linchpin to the whole thing is the easy VC money. It's what makes both the few startups turning into GooBooks and the many startups turning into ZombiePlatypus possible. As soon as the smart money that's currently focused on VC finds de
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by hkarthik 14y ago
yeah, I neglected to mention the toxic company F which does all of what you're saying. Except after they fire all the programmers, they outsource all of their product development overseas.
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The foreignness makes them cheaper in that it makes it easier for companies to justify paying them less and forcing their loyalty through the visa regulations. It has nothing to do with their qualifications which are often excellent.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
A significant issue is that nobody trains employees while compensating them fairly based on their aptitude. So the only option is for employees to bounce around to get new skills and better wages. Employers hate this and constantly complain
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by hkarthik 14y ago
They use a lot of Ruby too.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I see a lot of folks fleeing the Bay Area to go to Portland. Compared to SF, the cost of living is far more reasonable for experienced folks that have or want to start a family. The area is attractive with a lot of natural beauty, mild weat
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by hkarthik 14y ago
>> Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft. Somewhat off-topic, but I hate this quote. Replace Microsoft /w IBM/Oracle/etc and it's still a straw man argument. I recently worked for someone who came on to replace the CTO of Java-shop
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by hkarthik 14y ago
>> For a one-man project, nothing beats Google App Engine. I'd argue that Heroku is even easier than App Engine.
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Keep your application state out of your queue(weblog.therealadam.com)
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I'd recommend reading Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen. It's a great after-Rails intro to Ruby and uses a lot of specific examples from the framework to highlight how Ruby features make some of the magic happen in Rails.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Having done my time in "two tier" stacks, I would argue the biggest disadvantage they bring is challenges with testing. This could be unit, integration, or just manual acceptance testing. Having to spin up a separate environment or mock EVE
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I agree with this 100%. Coding tests and filters like this make sense when we have a market with an oversupply of developers that need to be filtered out. Right now, we're in the opposite situation with more jobs than skilled devs. I think
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Amendment One and Adzerk(team.adzerk.com)
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by hkarthik 14y ago
>> I don't think any professional will care about this. In fact, it's probably good news for them (us). Any barrier to entry means slightly less competition. I think it's unfortunate that the professionals would see this as a good t
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by hkarthik 14y ago
>> Nortel and Lucent were worth $200 some odd billion, around the time Cisco punched up to $600 billion. This is really good to know. Nortel has a pretty significant presence here in Dallas, TX and I remember hearing stories that th
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Creating a Company Constitution(team.adzerk.com)
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I checked recently, as I've got a family of four with two kids under 4 that need daycare. Basically I'd be spending more in daycare costs than rent for a 2-3 bedroom house. I spend about $700/month per kid here in Texas. Out there it's abou
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by hkarthik 14y ago
This post really resonates with me. I've felt the same way about a career as an engineer and have left many jobs in the past because of hitting a ceiling in terms of technical growth and ability to learn new things. I really started gravita
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Nice, I figured there'd be a brew for it. I'll give that a shot. Thanks!
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I've been wanting to learn Lua for a while and this seems like a good resource. But it'd be nice to have some Mac-friendly setup instructions. I'm sure I can figure it out for myself but others may find the information useful.
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Visual Studio 11 Express (Free) Editions will only target Metro Apps(osnews.com)
9 points by hkarthik 14y ago|4 comments
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Technical purity and premature optimization do not matter in the beginning. You can always achieve these things at a later stage when you bring on more experts and specialists. The things that matter are: productivity, mature and stable fra
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by hkarthik 14y ago
It's the same money as before, but it's just being distributed towards higher salaries for developers/designs because the other infrastructure costs of starting a company have come down so much. Even with the salaries being 20-40% higher, t
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by hkarthik 14y ago
Great post, Jon. I hope I can connect with my daughters and teach them to code when they get older. Very inspirational.
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by hkarthik 14y ago
It's unfortunate that there's not much info available yet, as I suspect most folks involved in these kinds of deals are tied up in non-disclosure agreements and need to wait for vesting options to expire before they can open up. I look forw
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by hkarthik 14y ago
I'm curious on the financials behind the acqui-hire deals when the startup is only seed funded with little to no revenue. Valuations based only on the seed amounts and equity doled out seem too good to be true. What kind of purchase prices

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