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by jppope 7y ago
You can't really use the busses in Orange County because of the routes and the traffic. Cars are pretty much required unless you're <5 miles from work, then biking is a decent option.
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by jppope 7y ago
Orange County and the IE are some of the worst public transit in the country. LA's trains/ Metrolink are actually an improvement over sitting on the 10 by quite a bit. The accessibility to the metrolink and the trains have a lot t
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by jppope 7y ago
MOOCs, Build things, Network, Learn Sales/ Management skills, Save money (the best way to advance your career is to have options), Read books... a lot of books.
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by jppope 7y ago
This is totally an option for most Americans... they don't give themselves the option. Walking/ Biking is the best.
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by jppope 7y ago
that used to be more true than it is with current engineering standards... driving a car for 20 years with only oil changes, routine maintenance, and new tires can be common
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by jppope 7y ago
usually strong CEOs have at least some sales background, and typically technical chops too.
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by jppope 7y ago
love the blog!
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by jppope 7y ago
couple of things: - first, I would highly recommend to stop blindly submitting resumes... go talk to some people. Meetup is great for it, but there are all sorts of ways to network with other developers, they can refer you if they like you.
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by jppope 7y ago
Been following this for a while... it's going to be a big deal.
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by jppope 7y ago
I spec'd it at the top of the line Corolla ~25K. Change it to a Camry if we're getting nit-picky
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by jppope 7y ago
Competing in situations like that can be a lot of fun, and if the market opportunity is actually good then you could make quite a few dollars in the process. I agree with byoung2 though... you need to consider the sales process. I would rec
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by jppope 7y ago
Most of the major automakers work in 5 year cycles, where the cars are basically the same for 5 years but get cosmetic changes. Major design changes need to be part of the next cycle if its non-trivial.
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by jppope 7y ago
It's not optimism, it's arithmetic: Tesla is stealing units from the other car companies. The other car companies require those unit sales to keep the prices the where they are otherwise they have to raise prices (same goes for in
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by jppope 7y ago
Honda's Tesla killing fuel cell civic has a price tag of $300K+.
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by jppope 7y ago
Here's what you're missing... Most of the major automakers: Ford, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda, etc do not have viable business models in the near future. They are so far behind in sustainable transportation its only a matter of t
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by jppope 7y ago
British people are funny.
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by jppope 7y ago
here... I wrote an article about it https://jonpauluritis.com/a-better-way-to-hire-people
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Ask HN: API Patterns
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by jppope 7y ago
good answer
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by jppope 7y ago
Google hasn't had a major crypto announcement... look out for one coming up
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by jppope 7y ago
I'm pretty excited about that company. I'd like apply for a gig there myself.
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by jppope 7y ago
https://tryspider.com/ => Amazing for ad hoc scraping projects https://www.fullhelp.com/en => great issue tracker, which doubles for internal documentation
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by jppope 7y ago
Devils advocate => a business exists to make a profit- if business software uses OOP and OOP helps it make more of a profit than other options it is a better choice.
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by jppope 7y ago
1. The design of documentation is usually atrocious (PHPs language docs make me throw up in my mouth a little every time I see them) 2. Documentation is written by super smart people designed the software... they tend to have a tough time r
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by jppope 7y ago
Stratechery
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by jppope 7y ago
Everyone here covered 99% of the things I would say so I'm going to add a few important ones that people missed. - Estimation. Devs are notoriously bad at it... so don't think of it as an estimation of the amount of time something
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by jppope 7y ago
Here's my shortlist: - The Art of the Advantage (33 stratagems) - Winning By Jack Welch - Tribal Leadership - Creativity Inc - The Lean Startup (~leadership in the face of uncertainty)
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by jppope 7y ago
Also a really good book. +1
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This was an amazing read. Ed Catmull explains many nuanced aspects of leadership, management, creative organizations, and related. All of these lessons are wrapped into the personal history and narrative surrounding Pixar, which is fascina
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by jppope 7y ago
I'm curious how the new 3.0 functional api makes Vue faster while leaving backwards compatibility.

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