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by kaspm 9y ago
Agreed, especially the statement from the company that they wish him best in future endeavors generally means he is not leaving of his own accord or at best the decision was mutual. There are definitely differences in being an inwardly faci
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by kaspm 9y ago
I know for a long time the engineering team was not very big, certainly not the "usual" size of a team with that much traffic (Instagram not withstanding). My guess is the team was simply keeping up with the normal expansion of co
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by kaspm 10y ago
Hi, I have just joined The Baby Box Co. to use technology to help drive down infant mortality. If working on these kinds of problems interest you, we're hiring in Los Angeles. Please email me at jason (at) thebabyboxco.com.
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by kaspm 10y ago
The key here is that he had the financial backing to complete the project. Unclear whether the original poster has enough of a cash runway to keep even a team of 1 at a fulltime salary.
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by kaspm 10y ago
But this is the fundamental point of the article. It's very difficult to do marketing, communities, competitive analysis market research payroll and accounting when you have no money and no product. So what can non-technical co-founder
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by kaspm 10y ago
All of these answers are too simplistic. There's no single answer in what to learn to become a software engineer. If you have no development background, learning javascript, node, react is a way to start down the path then build your s
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by kaspm 10y ago
See here's the thing... as a "seasoned" engineer who now has work-life balance, I was once a 20-something engineer working for pizza on crud apps in the office on Sunday, that time _is_ fun. It was super satisfying and fulfil
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by kaspm 10y ago
This quote makes me picture the Black Mirror episode: Nosedive. I hope this is not the future of employee feedback.
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by kaspm 10y ago
I think s/he was saying that the article implied that, not the commenter. Commenter was complimenting the good turn of phrase.
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by kaspm 10y ago
I suspect the hits will keep coming [1] [1] https://medium.com/@amyvertino/my-name-is-not-amy-i-am-an-ub...
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by kaspm 10y ago
It's great that Kalanick moved quickly but between this and the other incidents, I don't think it's going to be enough. Kalanick himself may have to resign. Given a good competitor in Lyft and the relatively low barrier to en
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by kaspm 10y ago
I think we're already seeing this in regards to YouTube monetization, there are a few YouTubers at the top of the pyramid making money and their content is increasingly "professional" - albeit with an air of amateur needed to
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by kaspm 10y ago
This brings up a point I've thought about quite a bit with autonomous vehicles. I studied transportation planning in college and one of the tenants is that human drivers are on a spectrum between aggressive and conservative about findi
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by kaspm 10y ago
It depends on the company but I would say the thing about Washington and this article makes this point well is that there are a significant number of people actively trying to prevent you from doing anything big because they disagree with y
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by kaspm 10y ago
Agreed, without some context as to who is behind this survey I am reluctant to fill it out.
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by kaspm 10y ago
The replies to your comment took a turn to whether we will need programmers or we won't need programmers in the future, let me take it in a different direction. I think what he's explaining is that for most (maybe all? no empirica
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by kaspm 10y ago
I still have my first BASIC program for the TI-99 stored on a cassette in storage. My grandpa, who was an engineer at Parsons in Pasadena, bought it for me when I was 5 years old. My then 9-year old cousin then taught me how to program (Hi
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by kaspm 10y ago
I would add that the disruptive innovation also cannibalizes your existing market business in addition to being something that customers do not want now but will want in the future. If you build something that customers do not want now bu
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by kaspm 10y ago
I would like to know this too! Say my team has 40 people on it. Every month at least, someone asks what do "40 people do?" and I take them through it 2-4 people at a time across several lines of business maintaining and improving
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by kaspm 10y ago
Yeah okay. I think there is a very large group of developers who work in just such an environment: developing web applications that have a "production" version whether they are public internet or internal to companies where the pr
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by kaspm 10y ago
That's a fair counterpoint to the article but your example above only demonstrates the library case. You should provide an example that demonstrates the value of semver in a CD, always-on top-level application to give information about
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by kaspm 10y ago
to defend the author here, I think they were very clear that semver may not make sense for a very specific type of CD, always-on application. The article supports the thesis as stated in text, but the title is too broad.
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by kaspm 10y ago
This is likely an organizational, rather than a technical problem. Having worked for large media organizations, often different parts of the site are different deployable applications that share only a hardware device or small nginx or hapr
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by kaspm 10y ago
Based on some of the other commenters, depending on the industry there may NOT be people with industry experience because of the layoffs and hiring ramps of the 80s and 90s at certain types of companies, people in the middle never gained th
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by kaspm 10y ago
An interesting grass is always greener perspective. I have an impression that if you studied C and embedded programming, switching into a Google environment and working on the web is much easier than if you started with Web/HTML and tr
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by kaspm 10y ago
There are those of us, of a certain age, for whom the "web" was at best a novelty while we were in school. Even through the original .com bubble, becoming a web programmer wasn't the same as "CS". EE and CS were dis
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by kaspm 10y ago
Perhaps "media" is too broad a term. I think there's a concentration of certain types of industries - entertainment video, gaming, ecommerce, adtech, automotive, some fintech, some social media. What there isn't a lot of
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by kaspm 10y ago
Worked in Tech in Los Angeles since 2000. Although lesser known as "tech" companies, there are several companies that have large investments in serious technology in LA: Disney NBCU (specifically Fandango, parts of former M-Go) Ti
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by kaspm 10y ago
It's possible that > As for me personally, it’s been quite a journey over the past few years, taking a broad-based set of projects and initiatives and growing a focused business that is on a strong trajectory. And I’ve decided this
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by kaspm 10y ago
Does anyone who has worked in software for any period of time not realize this? Computers are dumb they (generally) repeat the same tasks reliably _compared to humans_. Occasionally there are system failures but most failure are caused by c

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