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by pbiggar 8y ago
This is something I have extremely mixed feelings about. On the one hand, HN has enabled so many of us to learn about startups, and has leveled us up in our careers in so many ways. On the other hand, HN is a bastion of toxicity, is extreme
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I definitely think there's value in hosted datomic. But I was under the impression the license forbade it - did they change that?
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I read the book and this was one position I found indefensible. Employees must have the ability to move companies, and any attempt to block it is bad and immoral. If an employee of any of my friends applied we would absolutely consider them
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Thanks for the insight, good to have views of both. My main point was to focus on goals. There's no point arguing any of these points without a focus on what OP wants from their career.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a founder of an early stage startup, so I'm biased. You need to figure out what your goals are. We can't answer for you because we don't know what you want. If your goal is just money (which is fine, don&
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Yes, there are cycles, but you want to draw them as DAGs because the "backlink" (the thing that loops back up to the entry point of a loop) isn't on the same footing as the rest of edges.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I've always found it incredibly challenging to layout control-flow graphs (used a lot by compilers), so nice that this exists!
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I like that you can suggest new ones. This was missing both my companies so nice to be able to fix it.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I hope the irony is not lost on you.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
"The company says it passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in recent months"
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I remember meeting a guy at a compiler conference who ran his compiler business. He said 90% of compiler companies had one customer paying all the bills.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I've a PhD in static analysis. I only glanced at the table of contents but it's really great. This is exactly the important stuff to cover if you're learning about static analysis, want to build a static analyzer, etc. The on
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark | Infra + FE Engineer | Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding orders of magnitude easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks/months. We do th
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by pbiggar 8y ago
The business model is fairly easy though: sell infra. It's a lot to build, so we need a good team. We're currently 5, hiring 3 more engineers atm.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark is written in OCaml (and Elm, which is a similar functional language) and we're hiring: https://darklang.com/careers/
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark | Infra + FE Engineer | Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding 100x easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks/months. We do this by removing
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Smart. I'm amazed that there isn't one for iMessage as well. Most of the world has replaced SMS with either iMessage or Whatsapp, would be great to have both.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark | Infrastructure Engineer| Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding 100x easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks/months. We do this by removi
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Everything is highly situational. I couldn't tell you whether it's better to have your most valuable ICs managed by the best managers, or whether the most valuable ICs need only limited management and you should have your best man
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I was interviewed by the manager of that guy who wrote Swift. In my limited interaction with him, he seemed like an incredibly competent manager. He managed a high-functioning team for around a decade, and somehow also wrote the original Cl
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by pbiggar 8y ago
In good companies there are two career paths: - a management track - an IC (individual contributor) track There are different levels on the different tracks, and each is paid for that level. A super experienced IC will be paid more than a j
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by pbiggar 8y ago
We're planning on using a similar strategy to ROP in Dark ( https://darklang.com ). My suspicion is that editor support for "happy path programming" can make a huge difference in how easy it is to write safe code.
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark | Frontend engineer, Infrastructure engineer, Designer | Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding 100x easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks&#x2
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by pbiggar 8y ago
I recently heard about Russian cosmonauts eating a lot of dill to counteract farting. It's apparently called a carminative, and seaweed is a carminative too.
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It's the Future (for databases)(citusdata.com)
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by pbiggar 8y ago
Dark | Frontend engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Designer | Early Stage | Full-time | San Francisco | Onsite We're making coding 100x easier, allowing you to build scalable backend services in minutes/hours rather than weeks&#x2
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Alpha is probably out this year. We send periodic announcements to our mailing list, there's a link at the bottom of Darklang.com. Also, we're hiring: http://darklang.com/careers
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I have no experience with Erlang sadly. I did my PhD on static analysis though, and my general opinion is that the difference between a language designed for analysis (eg via a type system), and one that isn't, is night and day.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Sure. I presume you're asking about why FP is easier, though if you're wondering about my language there's more info at https::/darklang.com. I think the quote about the gorilla and the banana and the jungle is a really
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Yes! This is basically why my new language is functional, and not OO. I bought in the OO dogma in college, but programming in functional languages is just so much easier.

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