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by moxious 9y ago
I'm cringing so hard at the idea of a tech guy somewhere explaining to his boss that "we can't go serverless because we don't have enough servers for that". You know that conversation is happening in an office so
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by moxious 9y ago
Well sure. Consistency is great and for years most DBs people really used gave you all of the ACID guarantees. Then, huge scar came along. At extreme scale, sometimes you have to trade things for speed. But that extreme scale is a problem
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by moxious 9y ago
While the mainstream argues about whether bitcoin is or isn't this or that, while bitcoin attracts all the attention because of its spectacularly high price, people are working on blockchain things all over the place, relatively quietl
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by moxious 9y ago
I don't really know what should be done about salaries. I don't really believe that "fairness" can be defined, or even if it could be, that you could get a global workforce to agree on a definition. On the other hand, I
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by moxious 9y ago
> The market is a tool, not the objective. This perspective I agree on. Specifically, markets are a tool for finding prices, because we've observed all throughout humanity that alternative methods of pricing (and hence resource all
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by moxious 9y ago
I don't follow this at all. Yes companies are made by people not places, but people are in places. Those places matter a lot. Where will you find better people, in downtown London or rural Iowa? Given a group of 7 people (posit some
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by moxious 9y ago
It doesn't have to be a huge city. I'm in a midsize city not in the Bay area, and I agree with everything you're saying about places like Boulder. I wrote this to contrast any size city with places like the endless suburbs
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by moxious 9y ago
This is excessively cynical, for two reasons; in the Buffer model, the CEO's pay is subject to the formula too, and in a startup where people are getting equity, your financial outcome is tied to the success of the company, and your ma
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by moxious 9y ago
Remember, labor is just another thing we buy and sell. In other markets, like those for cars, there are specialists that focus on naming fixed, non-negotiable prices. What buffer is doing seems pretty similar. Like I said, the market has l
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by moxious 9y ago
You tell them that at startups, titles are total fiction not used to describe job responsibilities but to participate in a branding effect for the company. And then you describe your actual duties and experience. I don't think titles m
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by moxious 9y ago
Not all developers care about salary first. I see this overall approach as more like flying a flag and publicly indicating culture because there's a particular crowd they want. This is how they advertise what's important to them
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by moxious 9y ago
There are a zillion reasons to live in high cost areas aside from job liquidity. The magic of concentrations of people is that the advantages scale faster than population growth because of the network effect. Which, separately, is why citie
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by moxious 9y ago
If people were truly paid for what they did and not where they were, this would probably exclude most Bay Area people since they're at the top of the market. Perhaps your company has adjusted to the normalcy of SF rates? OTOH, locatio
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by moxious 9y ago
That comes across to me really strange. Labor is a market just like bananas or mobile phone data. How does it make sense to pay the ceiling price of all markets, everywhere? I'm all for personally earning more money, but this also di
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by moxious 9y ago
I applaud transparency in general and the intent here is noble. One of my companies considered adopting the old model for a time. However: > The new formula now includes an elastic part that adjusts to the cost of living and market infl
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by moxious 9y ago
You can tell they did some pragmatic compromising. Because, well, they're still in business.
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Russian trolls went on attack during key election moments(nbcnews.com)
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by moxious 9y ago
Well it's probably not fair to call it an Easter egg if it had a commercial tie-in and presumably resulted in money for Firefox. Those are called ads. No matter how whimsically they're packaged But yes, people do like to get up
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by moxious 9y ago
So what's the plan to sustain the existence of the fork? Browsers are very complex and expensive to keep cutting edge.
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by moxious 9y ago
Oh come on. A publication like the Economist lives for stuff like this, as a story of this magnitude would have lots of knock on effects. Daily press does tend to go after blow-by-blow stuff but you're selling the media short. The en
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by moxious 9y ago
If that much money were spent, someone would have to be receiving it. That's enough money to make thousands of unicorn companies....per year. WTF
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by moxious 9y ago
Thought the same thing. So if the conclusion is true why is this also not being picked up by major news outlets? It would be major news
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by moxious 9y ago
With that amount of money the federal government could make a few interest payments on its debt and not even really make a dent in the total
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by moxious 9y ago
It could be both. Just because they're paying Amazon an arm and a leg doesn't mean they have the ability or the time to do a better job for cheaper.
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by moxious 9y ago
Please avoid getting too wrapped up in the metaphor. You don't mine it, there's no TNT involved, that's just a word. And it may behave "like" gold in some respects but in many other crucial ones it does not. BTC is
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by moxious 9y ago
They do understand it but this disagreement masks a deeper issue -- they think economics functions just as it did some years ago and others disagree. With differing underlying assumptions, both sides' arguments are rational.
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by moxious 9y ago
"Past performance is no indicator of future returns" New things come along, and they don't have to make sense in the old worldview in order to be good. So the analysis of 60 year olds, even the really smart ones, is less val
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by moxious 9y ago
Put a lawyer in charge when your strategy is to defend lawsuits against issues and mitigate the fallout of issues, rather than to, you know, prevent the security issues
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by moxious 9y ago
I think it has a reputation as a pseudo science because it's derived from religious practice. While religious practice isn't always bunk (as is the case here) assuming that religious practices are bunk is a pretty damn effective
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by moxious 9y ago
Plenty of people do use maven, but there's a lot of power in being the assumed popular option, which sbt is.

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