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by kenhwang 9y ago
I'm partial to the O-ring explanation. Software engineering is uniquely multiplicative because it's possible for a software engineer to create software that does software engineering. Chemical/electrical/mechanical engin
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Dominant meaning the smallest of the big 4 (Disney, Comcast, Fox, CBS) along with being the only one with a dropping stock price YoY in a bull market? (+3.2%, +16.6%, +25.1%, -8.25%) Discovery is my favorite show at the moment, but one show
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by kenhwang 9y ago
HBO is owned by WB, DC is leveraging WB to build their streaming service. Disney and WB both have a stake in Hulu. So the realistic remaining players after the dust settles would be Disney+Hulu, CBS, Netflix, and Amazon. And of those 4, CBS
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by kenhwang 9y ago
HBO is owned by Time Warner who is also a partial owner of Hulu. Makes sense for them to not care which platform you stream from since either is preferable to Netflix.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Funny, I thought the whale just tasted like citrus-y beef. Maybe there's a huge variation in how its prepared (and maybe which whale species). I had whale as sashimi, roasted, and steak and they all tasted very similar to the cow equiv
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I want to believe it's a local cultural thing. We, the locals and the companies, definitely encourage our friends and employees to be happy and healthy. The 70-80F always sunny weather and relative affluence definitely helps too.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I'm thinking more mid-city/mid-Wilshire area. Still close to Hollywood/WestLA/DTLA but much much cheaper and less dense.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I can't imagine Los Angeles being a serious contender. - Land is expensive and not particularly abundant. Mid-Wilshire is relatively cheap has great proximity to everything (airport, downtown, west LA, Hollywood) if Amazon is willing t
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Google Play already has the option for manual updates. It will prompt that an update is available and you can press the button to install.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Mine is set to update on WiFi only. And everyday, without fail, the moment I plug my phone into a power source in the evening (could even be to my computer for debugging), it'll start going through and applying all available updates. T
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by kenhwang 9y ago
For small scale, managed services just makes too much sense. I can have a database with automatic backups, security patching, and failover to another region, within seconds in a click of a button. For less than $1/hr. If you know a sys
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Hell, I wish the Google Play Store/Apple App Store did things half as well as Steam does, like: - Backing up application data in the cloud (game saves) - Update priorities (ASAP, before next launch, before everything else) - Throttling
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Mazda has a plan for electric, they have a tech sharing agreement with Toyota. Mazda gets access to the most widely deployed electric powertrain (Priuses), and Toyota gets access to bleeding edge Mazda gasoline engines to replace their own
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I think the "best sports car ever made" title belongs to Porsche, but on the Cayman instead of the 911. The Z3/Z4 is a different kind of sports car than the Miata/S2000 kind. It's heavier which required a stronger&#
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Preferring a manager with hard skills is like preferring an engineer with soft skills. It makes everything so much smoother. Similarly, I'd argue that a manager with only soft skills is as frustrating to work with as an engineer with o
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by kenhwang 9y ago
engineer w/only soft skills = management. Managers have their value too, but you can't only have managers.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
It's not uncommon to hear these stories in LA because the math generally works out very favorably. That 280k house in Riverside easily goes for 2-3x where he works in Norwalk. If you could effectively triple your pay by "working&q
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by kenhwang 9y ago
How did 18% never hear about "No Framework"? Isn't that the default option?
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I think companies need _both_. Specialists can miss the forest for the trees, and at some point you need to go into the last 20 of the 80/20 rule, which requires supplementing or specializing your generalists. And I believe it's e
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by kenhwang 9y ago
He mentioned GC pauses being an issue. Python's GC is significantly less sophisticated than Java/Go, which were also not satisfactory enough.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
As someone who has to screen way too many "Scala Developer"s, just being able write idiomatic Scala to solve FizzBuzz level problems already puts you head and shoulders above the competition. It's frustrating how often candid
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I wonder if something like http://nerves-project.org/ would've been suitable for his use case; not sure how seriously he was targeting a RasPi.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
It's also an alpha language, but it seems like they're planning on using M:N threading (like Go/Erlang).
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I find Rust to be about as productive as Scala (which I find to be generally more productive than Java). Both are generally functional, with a powerful type system, with a lot of flexibility in the level of abstraction, with an expansive pr
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by kenhwang 9y ago
By avoiding rewriting all of an existing ruby project too. This way you can just speed up the slow parts and convert piecemeal when necessary.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Interviews go both ways. If everyone was unpleasant, then it might be representative of the culture there and you may have dodged a bullet. If it's just one round or one person souring the experience, let the recruiter know. Companies
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Getting a 502 response. Also Tesla should probably update nginx since v1.10.2 is at EOL with an outstanding CVE.
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by kenhwang 9y ago
Agreed on all points here: * Doesn't work on Firefox (for a better part of a year now for me, which appears to be an intentional won't fix) * Frequently causes Chrome to hang or crash * Pretty noticeable resource hog when it does
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by kenhwang 9y ago
I see it as a Pepsi vs Coke or BMW vs Audi relationship. The head-to-head competition style gives the illusion that they're the only choices (thus removing Safari/IE from the conversation), and at the same time, both choices are u
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by kenhwang 9y ago
In 2014, Yahoo looked to be in much better shape than it it is today. Sweeten the deal with a scenario that you don't think will happen and at the same time drop off a poison pill to defend against takeovers. Only problem was that Yaho

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