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by nickv 6y ago
You're speaking past me. Again, you listed a ton of compiled languages compared to an interpreted language. Want to throw X86 Assembler in there too? Should we write all software in Intel syntax x86 Assembler? It's faster than
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by nickv 6y ago
You realize you are stereotyping a large group of people. You also know absolutely zero about modern day PHP, it seems. Let's argue about Perl 4.19 while we're at it. I assure you the actual writers of Laravel know why Laravel (o
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by nickv 6y ago
Again, is it as performant as compiled/byte code languages like C, Java, GoLang? No. I'm not making that statement. This is why most real reverse proxy caches are not written in Ruby or Python. Does it compare favorably or equal
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by nickv 6y ago
Facebook? (I know, it's technically HHVM but the language is basically PHP) Wikipedia? Wordpress? Tumblr? Large chunks of Slack? That's a lot of traffic. Fun fact: Companies typically leave PHP not for performance reasons (it&#x
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by nickv 6y ago
Can you name a company that failed because of a bad codebase as the number one reason? I feel like people walk through hypotheticals like that, but I've not heard people say "Company X failed because of that scenario."
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No way. Berlin passed a FIVE YEAR RENT FREEZE in January. Our protections aren't on the same planets as Germany's. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/world/europe/berlin-gentr...
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by nickv 6y ago
That's a good question, it's why, for example, Bloomberg Media is still private. The only two reasons I can think of are: It gives your employees a cash out plan if you used RSUs/Options/Ownership in the company as an in
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by nickv 6y ago
Honestly, this is EXACTLY the problem with the current tech scene in SF. SF used to be a place people moved to because they wanted to live in San Francisco, they wanted the culture, the access to nature and its beauty, the arts scene that
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by nickv 6y ago
But companies report your salary and withhold income for local taxes. How would that work? For example, my paycheck literally has withholdings for California every two weeks.
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by nickv 6y ago
Or, at that point, you use industry standard solutions and hire the best subject matter experts on that solution. Like, for example, using Cockroach DB and hire one of the core committers cause you're big enough. It's what MSFT
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by nickv 6y ago
14 new residential high rises were built in SoMA in the past 5 years. 3 more are going up as we speak and opening in the next few months. That's a LOT of residential construction in a very short amount of time. (Mind you that's
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by nickv 6y ago
This reminds me of a quote going around a few weeks ago: "If we have done a good job, everyone will say we over-reacted." As a counter point, NYC did _not_ do a good job and at it's peak COVID-19 killed more people than hear
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by nickv 6y ago
Housing is considerably more than 2x. Average cost of a house in America is around $380k, average cost of a house in San Francisco is $1.7M according to Zillow. San Jose is $1.2M. Fremont is $1.1M. The cheapest (and not a great place to
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by nickv 6y ago
That site is completely wrong about property taxes in California. The property tax is 1% plus a county and city level supplemental. For example, my property tax in Oakland is 1.3688%. I have no idea how that SmartAsset got that rate. Lit
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by nickv 6y ago
Top 1% in San Jose is $964,238 (with the average person in the top 1% making $2,732,379), so right on target. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/14/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to...
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by nickv 7y ago
This reeks of smug engineering superiority. I promise you the marketing team does serious competitive intel and probably knows more about the competitive landscape than the engineers themselves. That's true at my place of employment (
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by nickv 7y ago
Call me naive, but I genuinely believe Sergey and Larry believed in it ( especially Sergey)
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Google, in my mind, is the quintessential "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain" story. (To be fair, since this all is subjective, I do believe Google 2009 would consider this behavior
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by nickv 7y ago
Sorry, I know. It's a very spoiled statement. I mean they're just unexpected in SF (especially the western side of the City). It tends to be cold, wet, damp, foggy and bone chilling early morning. Not like Winters/Summers i
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by nickv 7y ago
Except its going to be 84 and sunny today. Summers are brutal but the rest of the year is pretty nice.
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by nickv 7y ago
As a reminder, Microsoft is the largest company in the world and has a 25% larger marketcap than Google. I find it funny that so many people think Microsoft was "stopped" by Google. They adapted and they are stronger now than in
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by nickv 7y ago
Huh? Hawaii is a part of the United States? To the point that the last US president is from there.
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by nickv 7y ago
Which china? If the world was truly fair and honored the original signatories, it'd have gone back to the ROC and not the PRC. But it didn't because of might is right. I saw you made a comment earlier that both countries say &qu
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by nickv 7y ago
Because Music isn't TV or film. The vast majority of revenue for most artists come from live performances. It's not like the cast of Stranger Things can go and tour the world and perform a live Stranger Things inside stadiums. It
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by nickv 7y ago
Quite the opposite, they're basically saying "we use Google for ads and know what it does but if google changes what it does we don't have much control - watch our policy for changes" Does any company in the world that s
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by nickv 7y ago
As I said in another comment, you are seriously underestimating the size of the NYT. By many metrics, it's the largest global news organization based in the US and one of the largest in the world. Certainly larger than CBC, CNN, FNC,
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by nickv 7y ago
I'm curious to see if there will be changes. You can't rewrite a privacy policy in 7 days. I actually appreciate that the journalists in the Times can call out other parts of the Times (this was a part of their Public Editor) but
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by nickv 7y ago
Just a nit - calling the NYT a "regional publication" is like calling Google a "california search engine." It's one of the largest global news organizations in the world with active newsrooms in NYC, London, Hong K
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by nickv 7y ago
I think one of the frustrating things about this comment and the thread is this article is about Google's privacy policy specifically and how it reflects the change in Internet businesses. It's not a generic privacy policy articl
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by nickv 7y ago
To be fair, the New York Times' privacy policy actually is represented as one of those dots in the image (and it's not in a particularly good spot ... it's pretty close to the top): https://imgur.com/a/wT

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