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by htormey 6y ago
Has Michael said that micro strategy self custody publicly? If so where? Most institutional holders don’t self custody their own crypto for a variety of reasons ranging from governance (who signs off on coins going where, especially if Mich
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by htormey 6y ago
Re your point about hacking. They likely don’t self custody their own Bitcoin as they used Coinbase to purchase it and they have an excellent institutional custody solution with insurance and cold wallet storage: https://www.coin
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by htormey 6y ago
Yeah I could totally see that. It’s a conversation me and my wife have been having a lot lately. I’m thinking about moving out of SF myself. Probably Oregon or Washington but we haven’t made any decisions yet. We want to see how the world l
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by htormey 6y ago
I manage a team of 10 people in San Francisco and confirm a similar pattern. 8 of them have moved out of their SF apartments either to move somewhere else more spacious or in with their parents outside of the Bay Area. Other people I know a
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by htormey 6y ago
Okay, given that the original comment that prompted this thread was: “ The WH is finally getting to its main goal, reducing immigration overall.” Do you agree or disagree that discouraging foreign students will have an impact (even a small
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by htormey 6y ago
Correct. However many companies will hire someone on a OPT and then apply for a H1B. If you don’t have OPT they probably won’t go through the hassle of sponsoring you for a visa if they want you in a US office. 3 years of OPT gives a compan
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by htormey 6y ago
It’s not about skipping lines. A tech master’s degree allows you to get a job prior to them applying for a h1b via the OPT program. Without that most companies that don’t have overseas offices won’t hire you if you are from countries like I
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by htormey 6y ago
F1 is how many H1B students (such as myself) started on our road to becoming an immigrant. A large part of the appeal of an expensive USA graduate course is that it allows you a way to get a job in the USA after. It works like this in tech.
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by htormey 6y ago
Was this ever not the case for the majority of software engineers?
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by htormey 7y ago
They talk about looking at flutter in the article.
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by htormey 7y ago
React Native is widely used in both Instagram and the main Facebook app (market places). It’s also used in a number of other apps they make (oculus, ads manager).
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by htormey 7y ago
Microsoft Office has gone all in with React Native as well. Here is a recent comment from Andy Coates talking about MS Office Android performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20413046 Other article talking about it
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by htormey 7y ago
Here are some details on Hermes perf with sample code: https://mobile.twitter.com/htormey/status/114935339023051980... Here is a video comparing start times for a Hermes/non Hermes RN app: https://
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by htormey 7y ago
Binance hack was 44 million (7000 * current btc price) not 400 million, right? https://www.ccn.com/stolen-bitcoin-moved-spiders-web-binance...
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by htormey 8y ago
Wasnt this the premise of earn.com?
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by htormey 8y ago
When I worked on the main iOS app at Facebook they used multiple solutions in parallel in the app (ComponentKit, AsyncDisplayKit, RN). So the fact that some projects are using some new server driven technology for some features doesn’t real
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by htormey 8y ago
The H-1B visa is not designed to encourage people to start new companies. It’s for people coming to America who want to work for existing ventures. If you are from India or China you will likely spend a decade or more on this visa before yo
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by htormey 8y ago
Aside from it being fun to work on a small team early on in your career a startup is a great place to gain experience if you come from a non traditional background or didn’t go to a top tier university. Experience and fast career progressio
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by htormey 8y ago
Nah, that wasn’t my experience (apple/Facebook). Just look at the levels posted here: https://www.levels.fyi Hitting 400k total comp if you have the right experience (5-10 years, good brand university or companies) is total
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by htormey 8y ago
Bugs yes, crashes no. If you go with React Native research how to include the JavaScript stacktrace when submitting a crash report to crashlytics etc. It will make tracing things easier. A big problem with React Native is upgrading versions
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by htormey 8y ago
“ -Would you do it over again?” It depends. I’m a native iOS engineer whos spent a bunch of time doing React native development. I’ve worked on multiple React Native projects that have shipped. If I was creating a new app from scratch I wou
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by htormey 8y ago
I agree with you. "Easy" is very subjective and to be fair, I never said that meeting any of my 3 criteria was going to be a walk in the park. Just getting a visa to work in the USA like I had to do is hard and disqualifies most o
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by htormey 8y ago
Nah, you don't need to get all political to make those numbers. ~300k total comp is not that hard to obtain as a salary if you meet the following criteria: 1) Are willing and able to work in SF/Seattle/NYC. 2) Have a degree f
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by htormey 8y ago
Where are the bulk of their users based? I assume China right? Surely the ARPU in China is way less than the USA where FB/Snap/goog/twtr own most of the market.
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by htormey 8y ago
This is pretty on point. I work as a consultant in the Bay Area with a number of startups and I see these trends. I know several startups doing Berlin offices. Also, contracting work seems pretty easy to come by over here.
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by htormey 8y ago
I’d also make the argument that restricting migration out of a country can be of benefit to that countries economy. This was the case with South Korea after its civil war: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sout
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by htormey 8y ago
Didn’t the EU have strict capital requirements for countries joining it? I am from Ireland originally and I seem to recall this being a topic of discussion when I was younger. I would imagine that countries within the EU don’t have the same
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by htormey 8y ago
Look at TrueUSD. They are a US based company that holds USD in escrow and do this: https://www.trusttoken.com/trueusd/ I was at a talk by them last week and they talked through the process they used to stay compliant.
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by htormey 8y ago
Large consumer apps generally are iterative affairs where the engineers & designers have a big say in the final product. At any given time Airbnb probably has multiple cross functional teams building different features. These teams are
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by htormey 8y ago
"keeping in mind that rumour that Facebook was removing RN from some of their projects" Where are you getting that from? The React Native team at Facebook just put out a roadmap that seemed to indicate they were still very committ

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