mifreewil

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by mifreewil 8y ago
This article seems to start with the premise that JS-heavy frontends improve the developer experience. This, I would heavily challenge. Compared to a Rails, Django, Express.js, or any similar more-traditional framework that does server-side
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by mifreewil 8y ago
> It must be about cost though, at least in some corporations. I agree, I just don't think it's as much about cost as you might think (or as I used to think). Profitable companies can afford office space. I feel like at some po
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by mifreewil 8y ago
I kind of wonder how much open office really is about cost. I mean, it definitely does matter for startups, but I don't think that's a factor at FAANG. I mean, look at this new FB office, https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by mifreewil 8y ago
So, I’m one of Theranos’ biggest critic, since I’ve had a weird fascination with the company since someone on HN pointed out the bizarreness of its BoD back in 2013. I think if Theranos hadn’t gone all-in on its fraud it still could have ha
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Also, the wasted money spent on any travel costs, the wasted time spent earning the money that was pointlessly spent on said travel costs, and the opportunity cost of not doing something more productive with your time and money.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Intolerant of allowing people to waste your time or wasting other people's time?
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Cool reference repo. Why do I feel like this will be outdated in less than 18 months?
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by mifreewil 8y ago
I wrote a basic bitcoin exchange using triggers and PL/pgSQL back in 2012. You would insert into an orders table and an after-insert trigger would run the order matching algo written in a PL/pgSQL function. It wouldn't have s
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by mifreewil 8y ago
“To open a checking or savings account, the bank or credit union will need to verify your name, date of birth, address, and ID number. An ID number can be a social security number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).“ Hav
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Yeah, I’m confused by this too. My experience and perception has always been the factory bottled stuff is way better than the fountain stuff you get in a restaurant.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
> she precisely knew how ad business works and brought huge network of big players in this space with her. In a way its backstabbing to your previous employer but well who cares. How is this backstabbing? Nobody is owned by their employe
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Fun fact: Car dealerships are actually considered financial institutions under FinCEN regulations. Depending on the cost of the car/cash amount, they may need your SSN for reporting purposes.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Most states allow driving by yourself without an adult at 16, but usually have some sort of restriction like curfew until 18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%27s_licenses_in_the_Uni...
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by mifreewil 8y ago
As someone else already pointed out, I don’t think they’ll be able to rely on the name as it’s been severely tarnished beyond repair. They’ll have to rely on something that is significantly better than what the GitHubs, Bitbuckets, and Gitl
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Completely agree. Sourceforge, the brand, is so tainted I can’t even read this on my phone, since a content blocker List I have installed has apparently blocked the entire domain. The brand has been shit in my own mind for a while. Not even
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by mifreewil 8y ago
This was great. If you enjoyed this, you should also watch this short parody of LinkedIn from SuperNews: https://youtu.be/_7DiOm-edMs
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by mifreewil 8y ago
> One of the ideas is to allow anyone to buy a property at its set value at any time (giving a reasonable notice period, I presume). The property owner is the one who sets the value of the property. I must be misunderstanding something,
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Yeah, would love to hear what the actual use cases are in-mind here. The closest thing I can think of is a high-growth startup that realizes they really need to get off MongoDB and get strong transactional support, so does this thing even s
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by mifreewil 8y ago
This article is nearly 30 years old.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Youtube John Carreyrou, he's done many 30min+ interviews in the last month that summarizes the story well.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Ideally, find a contracting role / freelance locally, but work remotely. Doing it "locally" will help build up your network and reputation and lead to more opportunities down the road. Maybe meet 1-2 times every 1/2 week
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by mifreewil 8y ago
There is a lot of talk in the comments about amount/value of startup equity vs FAANG companies, but having founded and worked with numerous startups, there seems to be an overall lack of transparency when it comes to equity. It's
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by mifreewil 8y ago
Steve Jobs was only 21 in 1976
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by mifreewil 8y ago
This study is from Redfin and AFAIK Redfin only deals with real estate purchases, excluding renters.
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by mifreewil 8y ago
> would surely have a hiring manager that could explain... This is a big assumption
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by mifreewil 9y ago
This is the most reasonable thing I’ve read in this thread. Totally makes sense.
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by mifreewil 9y ago
This may be dated info, but IEX (exchange) purposely ran longer than necessary fiber to slow down the speed of automated trading.
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by mifreewil 9y ago
Looking for a strong team. I have lots of startup/founder experience, most recently I have leading the infrastructure team at a small startup. Ideally, my next role would involve DevOps/automation/Terraform/Go. Location:
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by mifreewil 9y ago
I made a half-joking comment on that thread that "'Bout time NPM goes blockchain." Either someone deleted it, or GitHub lost it among all the traffic to that issue. Wonder if npm, Inc. would view a decentralized registry as a
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by mifreewil 9y ago
I thought this too, my guess is the authors felt going all the way would just seem too radical from the current status quo.

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