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by jalopy 11y ago
Why haven't you moved back? Genuinely curious.
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by jalopy 11y ago
Great, great article. I'd like to add: This, I think, is one of the big reasons why startups prefer hiring young people (ie, recent grads) - young people just don't know any better. They have the barest idea (if any) what dilution
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by jalopy 11y ago
What else is opportunity cost in this case but risk that an early employee at a startup misses out on a much better financial endpoint at a non-startup with much higher salary and benefits (401k matching, etc)?
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by jalopy 11y ago
Very helpful insight, thanks. To summarize - the value added services of billing, monitoring and dispute resolution make it worthwhile for the contractor to use the service.
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by jalopy 11y ago
How can you build a platform that doesn't race to the bottom but allows it to extract the value added (and hence profits) from collecting and vetting great talent? I always imagine the interaction with supply (quality freelance develop
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by jalopy 11y ago
To me, this doesn't look as horrible as the article makes it out to be. I get a ~90 day notice that my job is ending, during which time I continue to work the same hours and have time to apply to other positions inside and outside of D
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by jalopy 11y ago
Anyone have insights into the latest and greatest tools to search for and remove possible malware installed by Hola?
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by jalopy 11y ago
Not sure how Ruby the language is unique here. Doesn't the rest of the statement apply when you substitute any other language?
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by jalopy 11y ago
Agree with all the responses to my top level comment, in that management is ultimately responsible for setting and maintaining the engineering culture. It can be tough, however, to balance competing (tensioned) requirements - if you have to
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by jalopy 11y ago
Love this article, but I'm not sure the origin of the sloppy practices described there always originates with the VP/Eng, CTO or CEO. I've worked with plenty of engineers who just don't want to write tests, or tighten up
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by jalopy 12y ago
Does anyone else feel like this is reinventing the JVM Garbage Collection technology - which has at least 20 years of calendar experience and countless man hours of engineering research in the real world? Whatever your thoughts are on Java
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by jalopy 12y ago
As an avid consumer: I approve of any device which makes it easier to get this product to my mouth. :) Very well done!
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by jalopy 12y ago
Complete noob (to hardware/ARM stuff) question: Why would I buy this over the much cheaper Raspberry Pi 2? Does it just have a (much?) faster processor?
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by jalopy 12y ago
I read this as beneficial to the wireless data carriers. Toward the bottom: "there will be no rate regulation, no tariffs, no last-mile unbundling" Meaning no more MVNOs and no more competition other than the "big 4&qu
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by jalopy 12y ago
Wow please release this either standalone or even better as a feature of some MS movie production tool. iMovie needs some competition.
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by jalopy 13y ago
Thanks - you captured a good part of my argument. I'd make a small correction though. I don't consider it "trading" as much as "investing". As a former quant trader and a current (and forevermore) value investo
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by jalopy 13y ago
Yes, but Greenlight Partners (Einhorn's fund) is a Limited Partnership that can include Pensions, school endowments, etc, in addition to "other rich people". Vanguard's CIO (Gus Sauter) has mentioned in a CNBC interview
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by jalopy 13y ago
TL;DR: Defending HFT’s argues for rewarding market participants who simply jump in front of the line b/c they see other people doing it, at the expense of participants who have worked hard to decided which line to get into. Here's
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by jalopy 13y ago
Would you mind discussing your idea a bit more? Curious...
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by jalopy 13y ago
JetBrains is the only software company whose products I actually want to pay for, if for no other reason than I want to keep people that bright and hardworking fed and comfortable, so they can continue making great products. Very excited to
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by jalopy 13y ago
Interesting thesis. Which one is Google? :)
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by jalopy 13y ago
I've toed this line for a long time, but concern about performance is really starting to be an issue for me when I make a decision about what language/framework to use. Here's my line of thinking: " If another language c
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by jalopy 13y ago
Interesting, as that's very much how my mental model of how Rails works: 1. The routing layer is all about declaring a resource which gives you all 7 major REST operations, and 2. there's a nice facility for responding_to any data
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by jalopy 13y ago
Congrats to a first class team and product!
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by jalopy 13y ago
Holy cow this is an awesome concept. Haven't tried it yet, but if it works it's completely transformative. Can be used as a teaching tool for anything - not just for pair programming. Very, very cool! Thank you for charging money
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The Antidote to Burnout is Progress(tomtunguz.com)
80 points by jalopy 13y ago|31 comments
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by jalopy 14y ago
That's a very detailed and thoughtful response. You make some valid points. Maybe I'll try to craft some more complicated benchmarks that replicate normal CRUD operations found in most webapps.
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by jalopy 14y ago
As a Rails developer and admirer, this is eye-opening. I love the framework (and Ruby especially), but these numbers bear some serious consideration. 30-50x performance difference gets really... real, no? The standard refrain of "throw more
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Companies Flee California(money.cnn.com)
2 points by jalopy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jalopy 16y ago
Is it possible for Sencha to start charging developers or users at some point in the future under the commercial license?

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