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by mason55 11y ago
> In the real world (outside FaceGoogAmaWallstreet), the story for developers is quite different. This package would be underpaid for pretty much any pure tech company on a coast.
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by mason55 11y ago
> Type tracing in particular is the big win, and with a dynamic languages you simply can't prove enough to do it ahead of time. The post I originally replied to brought this up in the context of TypeScript with the aside that Type
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by mason55 11y ago
> Why on earth would you want to compile javascript (which is what typescript essentially is) to wasm? Similar to asking why would you want to run JavaScript on the server? There's something to be said for having your code in a si
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by mason55 11y ago
> I doubt that erlang spawns millions of OS processes because that would be extremely inefficient due to CPU context switching. You are correct, Erlang uses something akin to "green processes" where it manages its own threads
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by mason55 11y ago
It's not a matter of being "hipstery", the drawback is that each time you refresh the view you have to resend all the markup. You're increasing the total amount of data that's going back and forth between the brows
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by mason55 11y ago
Reflected XSS is still a big security problem. http://www.acunetix.com/blog/articles/non-persistent-xss/
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by mason55 11y ago
Yeah I thought this would be a dramatic example of compound interest. Instead my total matches about 3 months worth of principle for me nowadays.
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by mason55 11y ago
> If on every trade you flip a coin, but intelligently limit your losses and ride your wins What does this mean? Sounds like gambler's fallacy combined with a Martingale system
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by mason55 11y ago
Even still you have to be intelligent about the interfaces because you'll have to support them for approximately the rest of time immemorial.
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by mason55 11y ago
How many employees did it take to run IG? Architecturally they are very similar. Now, I do think there's more to it, once you start adding in monetization and business features, but it doesn't take that many people to run a highl
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by mason55 11y ago
> A P/E of 8 would be ridiculously low for the technology industry—heck, for any industry. In this scenario they have fired everyone and given up trying to grow. A P/E of 8 would be way overvalued.
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by mason55 11y ago
There's only so much fat you can trim. Even if you managed to automate everything, fired everyone and just let Jack run it on his own, you're looking at a max of $1.5b profit/year. With no prospect for growth that $12B mark
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by mason55 11y ago
Quick off the cuff math, if you figure $200k all-in per employee, that's $100mm/year they'd save by going from 1000 to 500. They lost >$500mm in 2014[1] so that would not make a large dent if their goal is to achieve prof
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by mason55 11y ago
> It is emphasized mutiple times, even in the HN title. We don't want the audience to forget that and think he is just a regular janitor or plumber here! I believe that says a lot about the beliefs that go around -- that cops are s
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by mason55 11y ago
> Another concern: what if they get hacked? Does everyone then have to change their locks? Presumably they don't store your address with the key. It would be like losing a hotel keycard.
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by mason55 11y ago
Probably Minca. Ivan is great too but hasn't been open 4 years.
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by mason55 11y ago
I'm not really sure what you mean. If you naked short without covering with options then the price can pretty much go up forever and you cover the difference. I don't understand where zero comes into play.
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by mason55 11y ago
Projects timelines are like naked shorts in the stock market. You have a capped upside but unlimited downside - things can never be done faster than instantly but they can take literally forever (i.e. just never get finished).
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by mason55 11y ago
I haven't been following super closely but it looks like parallel sequential scan didn't make it in?
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by mason55 11y ago
> The younger generation today seems to have very low levels of nostalgia and longing for the past. I would imagine that they just don't have a past to long for because they are young.
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by mason55 11y ago
Yup, I got it now from the API docs link in the level. Seems like a typo in the level 2 instructions.
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by mason55 11y ago
I'm on the instructions for level 2 and it points to the API docs ( http://starfighters.readme.io/ ) but that URL is giving me a 404.
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by mason55 11y ago
A better way to test it would be to deterministically generate the days that you want to test with. That might be one date for each day of the week, or one date for each day of the year, or some set of dates that include some normal dates
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by mason55 11y ago
That's hardly a moat. It sounds like a great example of FNAC - feature not a company. I'm sure Amazon could implement that in about 15 minutes if they wanted to.
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by mason55 11y ago
Plenty of reputable programs call for up to 8 minutes of rest if you need it. Powerlifting is not cardio; the idea is to lift as much as possible even if that means letting your heart rate drop to RHR between sets.
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by mason55 11y ago
I don't think his question is unexpected at all for any kind of candidate that is going to have a leadership component. There are a hundred different answers that you can give to his initial question (how did you increase velocity of
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by mason55 11y ago
Get liquid and dilute 10x. I can't imagine that you could cut up paper hits into ten tiny little pieces.
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by mason55 11y ago
"AirBnB raises $100m which gives them an unknown valuation due to the complex financial terms of the deal" just doesn't draw as many clicks on your story
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by mason55 11y ago
> Yeah ok but how many end-users are conscious enough of the situation to OPT-OUT of such an intrusive policy? Well, I meant opt-out as in "not use". Plenty of people don't use Facebook because of the privacy implicatio
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by mason55 11y ago
Generally people are ok with Facebook doing it because they can opt out. If you notice, the times people really get upset about companies tracking their personal information is if it's either not disclosed or it's done in a shady

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