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by joeblau 9y ago
If your engineers are this good You don't need support :roll-safe: But seriously. I don't know too much about support salaries. Most of the salaries seem in a good range. The only one that stands out for me is maybe
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by joeblau 9y ago
There really is a place in this world for straight up news.
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by joeblau 9y ago
Ah okay thanks for helping. I guess in the case of RaiBlocks, since you're only transacting currency (not Turing complete smart contracts) there isn't really a need for fees to prevent the halting problem like you have with Ether
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by joeblau 9y ago
I would too, but this is the Cryptocurrency space; When has anything ever been balanced?
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by joeblau 9y ago
Can someone help me understand. If a block chain (or whatever you want to call your token of choice) doesn't have any fees, how is it different from just having a database. No fees mean that every transaction has the same value so the
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TX Highway: Bitcoin Cash vs. Bitcoin Core Live Transaction Visualizer(txhighway.com)
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by joeblau 9y ago
That background is an awesome pre Sales Force tower night shot.
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by joeblau 9y ago
Ah thanks. I was looking for the Solidity API, but I guess there isn't one yet. I guess I'll have to write my own interface.
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by joeblau 9y ago
I can't wait for this to be fleshed out and implemented on Mainnet. I'm working on a smart contract that I want to integrate with Casper's API. The site is having a hard time loading, but does anyone know where the official
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The largest collection of useful .gitignore templates(github.com)
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by joeblau 9y ago
I've been out of SF almost 2 years to the day. I went back for Christmas and was driving around and BOY has the downtown SOMA area east of 4th street changed. So many new apartments and condos popping up. The new train station is go
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by joeblau 9y ago
I have a family friend who lost about $100k to this scam. She made a good amount of money writing books but lost a good chuck of it trying to "help out." I'm sure there are more people like him out there, but at least they
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by joeblau 9y ago
I moved to SF back in 2011 and I got burned by a few startups. I remember reading HN back then and someone said the average time to become a millionaire if you were chasing startup exits was 5 years. I probably in the best position now to
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by joeblau 9y ago
You're right, Bitcoin is not a company, it's a technology. This is the analogy I'd make. Then (Internet) / Now (Crypto currencies ) NCP[1] == Blockchain based decentralized consensus ARPANET == Bitcoin BBN Techn
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by joeblau 9y ago
I worked at BBN Technologies in the early 2000's. I was always amazed at how a company that essentially co-founded the internet and had the second domain name ever registered[1] could basically go out of business. You just made me thi
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Presentation: Ten Year Futures [video](youtube.com)
1 points by joeblau 9y ago|0 comments
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by joeblau 9y ago
Welcome to open source software. The site I run has 70,000+ monthly unique visitors; It's used by all of the top tech companies, and brings in about $45 a month in ad revenue. I'm not complaining because the only financial costs
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by joeblau 9y ago
For me, refactors were the largest "aha" moment. On large scale projects you can move a lot faster if you don't have to maintain backwards compatible API's. We use Facebooks version of a mono-repo (BUCK [1]) for iOS de
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by joeblau 9y ago
You're right, but Apple doesn't work like that. They just spent 5 billion dollars on Apple Park attempting to put everyone under one roof. I don't think it's in Apples corporate DNA to outsource core components of their
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by joeblau 9y ago
I think that's for Sr. Engineers++. What I heard is that they do an all in compensation plan so your equity, bonus, and salary are all rolled into your salary and then you decide what you want to do with it. On Glassdoor that doesn&#
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by joeblau 9y ago
If someone is good and can't get a Visa to move to the U.S. more money won't help that either.
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by joeblau 9y ago
Yeah, but if you can make $300k a year, you're likely not dedicating your software engineering career to fixing bugs. Also, you can go a few miles south to Los Gatos and work at Netflix and make $400k/year.
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by joeblau 9y ago
I'm guessing that it's going to be pretty difficult to hire an engineer who is: - Very good - Wants to live near Palo Alto - Is able to live in the US - Wants to be subjected to Apple's privacy rules - Wants to work on fixing
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by joeblau 9y ago
One thing I've noticed about my personal habits is that I use WiFi less and less. WiFi is so horribly unreliable that I turn it off and use LTE. I'm sure there is a segment of people who this would work great for, but after almo
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by joeblau 9y ago
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Show HN: Covide – UX design utility for experiencing color blindness(joeblau.com)
2 points by joeblau 9y ago|2 comments
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by joeblau 9y ago
"I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible" This assumes that everyone is cooperating together. I had a discussion with my friend about this and
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by joeblau 9y ago
Someone once told me that the porn industry played a part in the VHS/Betamax and Blu-Ray/HD DVD battles. While Betamax and HD DVD were technologically superior, utility drove adoption.
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by joeblau 9y ago
You actually do get additional security. A password (in my view) is disposable. I already assume that every site that I have an account for has been compromised so the passwords 1Password is managing are burner passwords. In order to get
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by joeblau 9y ago
I use 1Password for 2FA, but this is pretty awesome!

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