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by jkchu 9y ago
MSFT? It has gone from ~$30 per share to ~$70 per share over the past 5 years.
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by jkchu 9y ago
https://www.tesla.com/blog/tragic-loss I think Tesla's original statement is relevant to post here. Although likely somewhat biased, they provided a succinct explanation to the reason why the Tesla did not brake a
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by jkchu 9y ago
Quora is free as well. It just requires you to create an account to view all answers.
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by jkchu 9y ago
For me personally, I bought my Surface Pro for its capabilities as a drawing tablet. Comparable dedicated drawing tablets run close to $1000, so shelling extra for a fully functional laptop was a no-brainer.
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Perhaps your idea of something "worth reading" differs from the average person. Either way, no real benefit in despairing over what other people choose to purchase/read. Maybe you have a unique taste in books, that's a g
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Really? I personally feel adding a touchscreen to a laptop is pretty much useless. The smudging of the screen far outweighs the negligible usability improvements (are there really any?). At any rate, Apple has already been using their touch
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by jkchu 9y ago
While I fully agree with the author that coding interview questions are not great, I think something important to keep in mind is that "fixing" programming interviews it is an incredibly difficult problem to solve. I think the bes
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by jkchu 9y ago
The article mentions that he kept the remaining shares (as opposed to selling them as well). I wonder what is the general strategy for founders to cash out their stocks? Of course holding the shares for 1 or 2 years to get short/long-t
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by jkchu 9y ago
Glad you mentioned Riot Games. I stumbled on their dev blog this year and found their content to be excellent. I personally really enjoyed their post about their messaging service: https://engineering.riotgames.com/news&#x2F
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by jkchu 9y ago
Link to the AT&T tv commercial from in the article: https://youtu.be/TZb0avfQme8?t=30
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Typography Handbook, a guide on best web typographic practices(typographyhandbook.com)
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Building Apps for Passive Income (2015)(medium.com)
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I feel that a lot of people receive a lot of joy from selecting good food from a variety of options. I think with the immense popularity of websites/apps like Yelp, people are even more picky eaters than ever before. I think this makes
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by jkchu 9y ago
I just want to thank the author for a very well-written piece. I found it incredibly interesting and really connected with the format/flow of the post. I would love to see similar posts for various frameworks and languages.
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The article mentions this several times. He still is a technical writer, and it is his primary source of income because he only writes when a good idea comes to him. I would be curious to find out how much he got paid for "Arrival&quot
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by jkchu 10y ago
But the closest thing to a $35k electric car from BMW, Mercedes, or Audi is BMW's i3 - which I think is targeting a different market.
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by jkchu 10y ago
I flew into Dallas during a storm once, plane was struck by lightning many, many times. It was pretty spooky, but that was all. The lightning simply passes through the exterior of the plane. However if there is a gap in the exterior, then
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by jkchu 10y ago
I wrote a piece a while back around implementing your own ranking algorithm. Thought this audience might find it relevant/interesting. https://jkchu.com/2016/02/17/designing-and-implementing-a-ra...
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People who use Uber are not setting the price, they are simply picking the cheapest option. I don't think it is fair to assume or expect that the average Uber customer is fully aware of the latest news and controversy.
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I think a lot of his stances and statements on privacy are with respect to internet privacy as it pertains to Facebook's users and the success of his company. His stance, in my opinion, focuses more on users having control over what th
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by jkchu 10y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "programming at scale"?
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Interesting that you talk about project that never shipped, When I read OP's question I was thinking about already-shipped products that became too hard to run and maintain. I am curious how long your products/projects were in dev
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by jkchu 10y ago
Great write-up. There is truly no better way to learn about starting a business than actually starting one, no matter how small and simple it may be.
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This is great advice. I'd like to add emphasis to the importance of creating something that is tangible and complete. The extra effort it takes to actually host and launch a web application or to release an app to the app store will go
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by jkchu 10y ago
just a warning, pretty sure this is a scam. and all those other comments are fake.
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Yeah, I was definitely surprised when I realized that too. And then when you think about it, almost any type of work involving a large number of people working at the same time should have the same dependency of documentation and communicat
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I agree that some of the headline around this video are a bit overstated, but it is nevertheless a deserving credit to Tesla's autopilot system for handling the incident so well. I also agree that an "alert and competent" hum
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With platforms like Heroku and Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk, I feel that deploying side projects is actually quite simple. Of course there will likely be some troubleshooting the first few times, but once you get your app running, deploy
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The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg (highly recommended) Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson (recommended) Modern Romance - Aziz Ansari (audiobook recommended) Boomerang - Michael Lewis (great if you have a light interest in macroeconomics) Elon M
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by jkchu 10y ago
Consider reading relevant parts of 'Creativity, Inc.' by Ed Catmull if you want another side of the Jobs & Pixar events.

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