michaelochurch

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by michaelochurch 11y ago
The Gig Economy happened before. In the 1930s, itinerant workers called "hobos" traveled the country looking for work and food. Despite the negative reputation of the word today, hobos were actually considered to be some of the ha
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
The industry that still argues about which text editor from the 1970s is the best tool to code in has a problem with rapid paradigm shifts? I use emacs and avoid IDEs. That said, I have no interest in the emacs vs. vi debate. I don't
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I think that what's driving "the tuition explosion" is the declining demand for labor due to technological unemployment as it meets the social demand that people participate in paid work. It's not going to go away. Basic
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Thank you for attacking that misconception. Haskell is, at this point, a very practical language, and becoming increasingly that way over time as it proves to have the best enforcement model for the functional style among the options out
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Thanks for the links! I'm really curious about what Haskell can come up with for a front-end story. Do you think that Purescript's row typing (as seen in records and the Eff monad/effect system) is a viable replacement for mo
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I put a couple of things in but they weren't related to the show so much as the Valley itself. Where's the downvote button, btw? Someone wrote that "Silicon Valley billionaires" are less douchey than regular billionair
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
If hospitals were run like SV startups, "solving things" would be pretty much impossible because our society would be on fire.
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I'd be curious to know what happened afterward in his career. The main benefit to joining a startup isn't even the equity (it's crappy everywhere, these days) but the opportunity for advancement. If you can get a high-level p
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
It's hell getting into Ivy League universities for middle class people. Rich kids from well-connected families take it for granted. Why do you think parents in New York pay $40,000 per year from pre-school to high school? Because you&#
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
The founder/engineer social class division is one of the reasons why I expect the Silicon Valley ecosystem to implode and will be disappointed if it doesn't. First, there are two types of founders: Made Founders and Hustling (it&#
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
If hospitals were run like Silicon Valley startups... I would quit my job and become a plaintiff's attorney, and I would get rich as fuck suing these motherfuckers. Thread over.
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I think that it's self-reinforcing. Let's have an honest conversation. Haskell is a great programming language. It might be the best. It is not going to get more than a 20% market share in the programming community. It could get
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I would "bet the whole farm" on Haskell before Scala. That's not to make a dig at Scala. It's way better than Java. It's also really complicated, and the need for JVM compatibility is a big part of that. Then you ha
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Jane Street started using OCaml in the mid-2000s, when Haskell wasn't (or, at least, wasn't perceived as being) up to snuff in terms of performance. Haskell has come a long way in the past 10 years. In 2015, Haskell is almost as f
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I think his claim is that this particular event should not be called "anthropogenic", in the same way that we can't say that the 2003 European heat wave or Hurricane Katrina or the 2015 snow hell winter (in fact, global war
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
It really would. The existing series is great but it's too good-natured to represent what Silicon Valley actually is. It represents investors as straightforwardly intelligent (one is even female!) and socially awkward rather than as ca
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Nicholas Winton (1909 – 2015)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
VCs don't arrange soft landings out of affection or "butt sniffing". It's about control and power. VCs like to say, "failure is OK, get up and try again" but the truth of the matter, in the Valley, is that you&
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I've considered it. I haven't had offers pertaining to that specific show, but I did have an offer recently pertaining to a different cultural institution. (I didn't take it because it would have required full-time commitment
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Is it 1997? No? Huh, my computer says it's 2015, a year in which the VC elite is the new fucking corporate elite . I have about 6 feet of clearance this morning, so this post can get through, but the fucking high horse has got to go.
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, I sympathize with Ms. Morrill's position. I could see myself running a 50-person tech company. By the time it was public, I'd be looking for a replacement and planning to cash out. I
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I'm pretty negative on tech-industry arrogance, but I sympathize with Danielle's position. It may just be that I've known about her from before and that she's one of the few tech leaders whom I actually like. What she&#x
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
After you negotiate the raise, make sure you live up to it. I disagree, not with the advice (obviously, living up to the new expectations is better than falling short of them) but with the attitude (often espoused by management) that a bu
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
While this is satire, it brings to mind some bit of industry history. My first reaction was, "you want to define a type class called Associative because you're talking about an interface , and that got me thinking about OOP vs. H
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I think of the manic side of the spectrum like drinking: at mild doses, pleasant; at high doses, difficult and usually undesirable; at extreme doses, you don't know who you are. Actual mania (not hypomania) is usually more unpleasant,
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Vesting resets wouldn't apply to an IPO, but they'd apply to an acquisition where the bought company is paid-for in stock and vesting applies to the new stock. Let's say that the employee has 0.4% (after dilution) of BuzzFlop
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
I prefer Wall Street's model of annual profit sharing. VC-istan: you can get dicked out of your bonus for reasons you don't understand (liquidation preferences, vesting resets and cliffing) or that are purely political and lose 6
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Yeah, but no one ever got rich off salary. These people called "executives" can. Programmers generally don't, unless they're very good and very mercenary, and even then "rich" means "7-figure net worth a
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by michaelochurch 11y ago
Are we still in junior high? I gotta laugh. Why do people put up with this bull? Because software engineers are terrible at managing their own social status, both individually and collectively. Social status determines how your work is ev

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