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by kenhwang 9y ago
Funny you mention adblocker. You'd think it's the biggest concern for publishers, but they're not scared of what they don't know. News publishers don't exactly have nimble cutting edge engineering departments dedica
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by kenhwang 9y ago
As somebody who has some insight into the inner thoughts of the revenue departments of newspapers, the suits running newspapers would rather die than accept Spotify for newspaper. We were offering something like $0.20 per article. We ran a
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by kenhwang 9y ago
If we get to throw in name suggestions, I'd suggest `pony-ranch`. Stays with the equine theme and one less letter too!
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Does that means the stable version of pony-stable is called pony-stable-stable (suffix)? stable-pony-stable (prefix)? What happens when it's mixed with the stable release of pony? pony-stable+pony-stable-stable/stable-pony+stable-
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by kenhwang 9y ago
There's a not-public system? The one I'm aware of is very much public: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Community_Colleges_...
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Answer should be fairly obvious: old media. The parent companies to CNBC (Comcast) and WSJ (Fox) don't really get along with Google and Facebook and won't give up their advertising revenue without a fight. After all, they had seve
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Maybe that's true for tech in the Bay. But everywhere else, for any other field, the very first filter applied to a stack of resumes is degree/school. Your technical/interpersonal skills are definitely more important, but odd
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by kenhwang 9y ago
UCSB is #2 in California, Chico #3, UCSC isn't even on the first page (#30). https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/top-party-schools/s/ca...
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Didn't realize how close the UCs were to being essentially private universities these days. No wonder they're targeting higher percentages of out of state enrollments.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
There's a reason why California has the CC/CSU/UC system split up. Each system and tackle different missions within public education. The CC system works for adults with many weekend/night offerings and a huge emphasis o
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by kenhwang 9y ago
This always gets posted every few months, and the PHP people always come around and say, wait, PHP7 is different now. I wonder how it differs on the predictable, consistent, concise, reliable, debuggable rating scale now. Similarly, I wonde
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Not familiar with the space, but definitely curious how Bandaid compares with Envoy.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Either? Former citizens presumably get an increase in quality of life in a lower cost of living area, and California has a richer (newly imported) middle class. The ones that have it hard are the ones who can't afford to stay and can&#
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I'm not convinced this is a bad thing. What's wrong with having a higher educated, higher income populace?
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by kenhwang 9y ago
But does that house need to be near the beach? Why not Kansas?
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by kenhwang 9y ago
So, the thing that always bothers me about how Los Angeles is reported on is the lack of normalization for population. LA is really big with a lot of people. It will naturally have higher population of homelessness. 57k/10.2m is ~0.56%
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Where did you go where it's only one class? My university (quarter system) required 4 minimum.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I think this is the point that's often overlooked. Everything in safe rust is supposed to be both memory safe and thread safe. The textbook implementation of linked lists and trees are not thread safe, and easily not memory safe.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Or maybe the other way around: what if a browser was modular down to the feature level? Don't use CSS/JS/HTML feature X/Y/Z? It's removed from the engine at compile time. That way you're only shipping what
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Curious about what languages you think solved it poorly, and why.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Can confirm that Los Angeles has wonderful supply of engineers and low demand for them. I would rather fight it out here and try my luck than move to Austin/Denver/Detroit though.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Bay Area to LA but in general too; many grads leave the LA area, so it's not a hard sell to get them to come back after they pick up some experience. Bay Area just happens to be the biggest consumer of fresh graduates.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Hiring juniors in LA has been delightful; so many strong candidates, no real competing offers. That being said, it's also pretty easy to poach burnt out, fed up experienced juniors from the Bay Area.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Isn't willingness to fail a way of learning faster? Willingness to wait was also justified in terms of learning. All the arguments seem to boil down to learn faster, adapt faster. Evolution's a story as old as time.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
> In the course of your job you probably have to explain concepts to your co-workers and to non-technical people, right? I love how this is becoming the norm for engineers. I still run into engineers that seem to just code by themselves
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by kenhwang 9y ago
When I say cost neutral, I mean from a productivity standpoint. The 2x junior+senior accomplish the same amount of work as the senior would by themself. It takes about a year for a junior+senior combo to be more productive than a senior alo
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Definitely agree with this. It's not that the junior developer position doesn't exist anymore, it's that there's an overwhelming supply of strong candidates with the CS pedigree, multiple internships, side projects, and
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I think the bucketing of schools by overall rank is about as good as arbitrary. Why not rank by strength of CS program? If we use PayScale's "Computer Science Majors by Salary Potential"[1] as an indicator for interview succe
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Or maybe Github shouldn't be used as a package repository if security is a concern.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. How different is a MechEng writing FORTRAN for mechanical engineering from a MechEng writing RoR for trendy widget bean button SV startup? I'd argue they're both programming, which is

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