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by robbrit 9y ago
A fourth category: people who have lived here for a long time, and were able to buy property back before it became unaffordable. These are typically the managers or senior employees. It makes me wonder that as the young rockstars and H1B re
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by robbrit 9y ago
Sure, the people going bust will slow and you'll end up with higher skilled folks remaining at the end, but the argument still holds. So long as your risk of ruin is non-zero you will eventually go bust.
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by robbrit 9y ago
So that they can cash in on generation n-1's dislike of generation n. Stating it as the obvious fact that it is doesn't sell newspapers or generate clicks.
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by robbrit 10y ago
> It's full of escape hatches. For people who are accustomed to Python or Javascript this is a feature, not a bug.
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by robbrit 10y ago
Depends on the guard you get. I'm a Canadian citizen living in the US and I even get "welcome home" sometimes!
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by robbrit 10y ago
Perhaps it's a benevolent overlord, and it decided that cancelling all our meetings is the best way to make the world a better place.
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by robbrit 11y ago
From the article: > YouTube Red will split subscription revenue with the rights holders of content people consume through the service.
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by robbrit 11y ago
A number of cities around the US have pretty good tech scenes: Seattle, Boston, even some smaller towns like Austin or Boulder seem pretty good too. Some of these may or may not match the "sun" condition for part of the year thoug
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by robbrit 11y ago
I'm now hoping to see the golf cart in a video like this one: https://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww?t=1m26s
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by robbrit 11y ago
Not so much an "upstart like Slack", more like "a giant pool of upstarts, the best of which happens to be Slack." When looking at it like this, it's easy to see why Microsoft and Google (or any big company for that
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by robbrit 11y ago
Interesting, poor performance (and also chewing through battery) was why I moved from Skype.
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by robbrit 11y ago
Complying with laws is hardly "evil", it's part of living/doing business in places that have them. How you (or Google) feel about these laws is irrelevant. The article describes exactly why Google chose not to apply a Fr
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by robbrit 11y ago
It'd be interesting to incorporate this "safety score" into a more detailed analysis of the properties of projects that use the languages such as the size/turnover of the team, age of code-base, etc. Safety is just one o
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by robbrit 11y ago
Searching around in the news, it seems like the only time Google uses patents offensively is when fighting against patent trolls: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-21458094 http://www.siliconbeat.com/2
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by robbrit 11y ago
It's not the IoT that I'm arguing against, it's the reputation system. I think that it's fairly dystopian and unfair, and even if it comes into play as you've predicted eventually a significant percentage of people
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by robbrit 11y ago
While I love the idea of connectedness and convenience, I believe the reputation system described here would be a disaster and seriously hope the world is not heading in this direction. Technical challenges aside, here are a few major probl
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by robbrit 11y ago
If they didn't want to get hired, they wouldn't have applied for the job. Assuming that "I don't have code samples" is equivalent to "I don't care" is a silly assumption, and one that I've found
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by robbrit 11y ago
A portfolio of code samples is not always available. Juniors often don't have code samples; neither do people who have only really worked on proprietary projects. I don't like to discount potential good developers just because the
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by robbrit 11y ago
I've tried this in the past when hiring for a startup in two different ways: one with having the entire interview based around simply discussing past projects and gauging the level of interest; the other combining this type of discussi
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by robbrit 11y ago
I'd like to present HN with a challenge. Come up with an interview process that matches _all_ of these requirements: Objective - the process avoids human bias (this guy was in my frat, therefore is awesome). Inclusive - someone doesn&#
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by robbrit 11y ago
I've been pushing this all afternoon. Feels great.
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by robbrit 12y ago
The writer of this article has a pretty faulty premise: it's all about the money. After close to a decade of working as an employee in startups, some that failed and some that succeeded, my view is that the last thing you want to do is
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by robbrit 12y ago
"Googler" means "someone who works at Google". He's saying the language is designed for people who are in large, transient teams building large-scale production systems, not people who want to explore advanced progr
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by robbrit 12y ago
Except in this case they didn't absorb the market and then pivot away. The market moved away from them and consequently they shut down a service that nobody really uses anymore.
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by robbrit 12y ago
The mentality does, however due to lack of funding they tend to fizzle out fairly quickly. I would argue this is actually a bad thing and it's why the Bay Area tends to produce lots of successful tech companies and other areas have tro
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by robbrit 12y ago
One of the first steps in teaching is motivation.
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by robbrit 12y ago
I've had similar experiences, not just with myself but with a number of the other front-end developers I've worked with. I'd say the major problem is inertia: why switch when Javascript is working "well enough?" Dar
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by robbrit 13y ago
This is a different issue, I was referring more to concurrency using threads/locks vs. channels/goroutines and not to asynchronous I/O. However there is another point to be made here that helps to present the evolution of lan
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by robbrit 13y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "managed languages"? I was under the impression that a "managed language" was one with garbage collection: Go and Rust fit into that category fairly well. Concerning preferences, I would
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by robbrit 13y ago
Another +1 for Montreal. While it is not necessary to find tech work, speaking some French can be very helpful. Also be prepared for cold ;) Here are a number of vibrant communities in the city: - Montreal Tech Watch: http://mont

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