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by kelseydh 11y ago
Generally the more exotic the locale, the harder it is to find reliable programmers.
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U.S. startups: it's dirt cheap to hire skilled Canadian programmers right now
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It's called Not Invented Here syndrome.
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I think you're underestimating how large of a market they have access to worldwide. When the dust settles I think they can become as big as Microsoft around the ~$200 billion dollar range.
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I'm increasingly coming to believe that Uber won't win the driverless car taxi battle. They don't have the expertise in vehicle technology and Google is increasingly beginning to signal that they don't want to hand over
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Elixir (and the Phoenix web framework) is getting a lot of attention these days from Rubyists who are looking for something that speaks their language that is also fast in realtime distributed environments.
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Uber's biggest risk will come from competitors or co-ops eating into their 20%-25% profit margins. There are a lot of regions that like the concept of ride sharing, but don't like how an American silicon valley company is capturin
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Using `try` is definitely a code smell, but unfortunately it's often a necessary one in production environments that have seen some wear and tear in the integrity of their database structures.
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There's no denying the fact that many engineers quit programming by the age of 35.
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It's because they need the wider bezel in order to make the dramatic space savings on thickness that people appreciate more.
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Its kind of depressing to read this working on current projects knowing they will be meaningless in 15 years. So much for my life's work!
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My main hesitation is wasting my precious years of my youth on something that won't advance my skills. E.g. as somebody who picked up programming at 25, I already fear that my brain is now struggling to pick up concepts that my younger
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Even if they were good engineers, the perception will be that they weren't as a result of product progress being delayed.
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Was Google cargo culting by turning down efforts by its early investors to have them show banner ads like Yahoo? Their willingness to hold off for many many years without revenue was now brilliant in hindsight, given they found a much bette
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by kelseydh 11y ago
If you think profits are still the driving force of what matters, then you will never build an Instagram or WhatsApp at the exit values they achieved. This sounds like 90's bubble talk, but "eyeballs" do matter. Investors an
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No, the half billion plus user base, consisting almost entirely of non-Facebook users, is what justified that purchase to Facebook.
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They kicked chess players out of Market and Powell? As a chess fan this interests me. Please link me to more info.
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The most innovative technology to have come out of chat programs is Slack's feature that let's you EDIT chats in real time, and leave reactions. This is such a crazy innovation to the structure of chat programs, that it blows my m
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by kelseydh 11y ago
You're seeing this from the wrong angle. Twitter's problem is NOT the lack of "real revenue" or "real profit." This is the sort of thinking that stagnates the platform. Google's original investors were F
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That shows the company is stagnating. Google's stock price would not be at where it is now if the company "just" stopped at search. It's everything else they kept pursuing that's allowed the company to reach strato
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Facebook's API gave birth to the billion dollar juggernaut that is Tinder. Tinder piggybacked off of Facebook OAuth logins in a useful way, and now Facebook has further cemented their permanence as it will now be very difficult for tha
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Facebook's token user API system has now created the billion dollar juggernaut that is Tinder. That app is now irrevocably linked to Facebook. You are completely right, there is a huge strategic reason for promoting OAuth API's a
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Not to mention Twitter got a lot of its early success from making connections to media companies in television. That may have worked for them, but I suspect it's filled the company with many media-only types in a toxic way similar to h
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by kelseydh 11y ago
Very few innovative startups have ever succeeded by declaring that "technology has its limits, we better work within them!" To be successful, you usually have to do something outside the comfort limits of existing technology.
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Not at all. Have you ever thought about caching Twitter? It's an archetypical example of a site that's extremely difficult to cache well, which is the source of so many of its scaling problems. Every person's new feed is un
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Usually you can find the reason for why a site is down by reading Hacker News comments, not the article. That's why downtime posts on Hacker News are useful. I come to Hacker News to read comments about the issue when major inte
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I go to Hacker News during major downtimes because it's the most likely place I can visit to find a real technical explanation for why a site is encountering problems. This site is so closely connected to Silicon Valley, it's not
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I don't agree with flagging such posts. As developers we can be on the losing end of these problems within our own products, and this site can be a useful hub for receiving information on how to technically handle these incidents. E.g
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Facebook Down for third time this Month, refuses to explain why(venturebeat.com)
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He is a great example of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals#cite_ref-RU... Institutions are hard to attack, but people are not. By giving his interviews, Shkreli gave

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