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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I think your apartment vs 20 minutes 'shorter commute' is actually vastly simplifying it. I live roughly in hayes valley (I moved here only 5 years ago, before the latest bunch, so I qualify as an 'old timer'), and my c
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I saw your deleted comment, and while I do believe you worked a lot, you should probably also realize that what you did was also a product of it's time. Now a days one cannot just write a compiler in isolation and then make a million
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I find it incredibly amusing that people apparently think this is a real article.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I am finding the narrative around homeless in SF very odd. Often people compare the situation to places like NYC and then ask why San Francisco can't do that. Well... If by "that" you mean persecute and push homeless people o
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
The reality is private companies is where the value creation happens. The public market is too unwieldy. So we need an entirely new series of metrics for companies. This is one of them.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Ah yes the tests pass. Now it is time to relax and veg out. Oh wait, the test suite doesnt actually guarantee bug free software? Worse, test suites dont protect you from bugs in the specs? Well I can tell we are going to have a rough nigh
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Are you sure about that? I wonder how much the shuttle system costs Google. It's hard to say for certain, but its probably in the millions of dollars a year. Now, let's contrast that to the BART extension to SFO, which was comple
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I use fountain pens and paper to take notes in meetings all the time. I am trying to do more "thinking on paper", and I wouldn't give up the fountain pen for anything. Keep at it!
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I am always a little frustrated at the Salon articles, I dont even know why I read them anymore. There is a few choice sentences I'd like to rebut: "And while there is much to dislike about how Silicon Valley is rewriting the rule
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I find the C backlash to the excesses of C++ fascinating. On the flip side, I wonder how people deal with 'programming in the large' with C - other than 'just be really really careful'
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
ZODB is kind of neat, but how does it fare with non-python client libraries? I note the phrase "you can store anything that is pickleable" so I am thinking not?
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I find you need two things: - the "troubleshooter" mentality/thinking pattern - extensive system knowledge I haven't figured out how to teach #1, except maybe for "don't have anyone to ask for help" and #2
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
In theory this stuff is archived 'somewhere' but the realities of archived video is such that often it is just not accessible. The library of congress is supposed to have a copy of 'every' movie, and everything that is
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
They say never jump in an argument late... but here goes... There is a lot of people arguing in the positive for polyglot persistence. The arguments sound pretty appealing - hammer, nail, etc - on the face of it. But as you dig deeper into
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
People appear to be missing the point that _the website_ is literally the smallest part of the project. While it's easy for people to crap on things like js-minifying, cache control, etc - the hard reality is the stuff that is the hard
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
In theory I agree with you, but the reality is that even though SQL databases are all on the same "standard" there is enough non-standard things that it in practice becomes impossible for high performance apps.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I talked to a Sr dev in a game tools company in Burnaby and he was making $85k. The reality is that in Canada tech staff are costs. In silicon valley tech staff are assets.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
That looks like an awesome product! Kudos to the team, they truly did a great technical job here! From a market perspective, it kind of makes no sense. I challenge CTO/CIOs to justify building their company on a closed source critica
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Scala shows a lot of promise for certain. The big challenge to Scala will be Java 8. The basic problem is that Scala is too complex. Having written production code in Scala before, I am unlikely to do so again due to code complexity reaso
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Get a job first, then done. US based employers tend to like Canadian educated students. Especially if you got good grades. Also even though Vancouver starts at $60k, it also ENDS at $80k. There is no upper limit to pay in silicon valley.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
one should definitely do what they are told to at all times! Stepping outside the boundaries even a little bit is very very bad and will result in the destruction of civilization! For what are we, but rule following machines?
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
And here in the Bay Area there is the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment for video game things http://www.themade.org/
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I gotta say I don't really get these articles. What's the point? Triumph in someone else's mistakes? All this negativity is bad for your limbic system. Having your primary emotion driven via rage/anger or even fear is
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I'm not sure I'd call Gil Tene a "monkey who has obviously never used C". But hey.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
yes, incremental innovation is still innovation. The fetishization of "big bang innovation" is really bizzare. Especially considering most of HN's startups are not really big bang innovation.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I was interviewed at the launch of the 5S, the interviewer noted that Samsung runs commercials making fun of people waiting in line for the latest Apple whatever. I noted that Samsung WISHED they had people waiting in line for their produc
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Given that sociopathy/psychopathy is an actual pathology and has some organic basis, I'm not really sure the title is accurate. I don't think anyone has indicated that sociopathy is developed during your adulthood. Getting r
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
I mostly take notes during meetings, which tend to happen in a chronological order. When I was in school, subject-wise yes I used looseleaf paper. Man it's sad when you lose a sheet...
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
So that's another thing, a larger, heavier pen actually reduces hand pain.
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by ryanobjc 13y ago
Yes exactly this. Social signals matter. To go a bit more meta, the question is, who are you? Who do you want to be? Who do you want people to perceive you as? Using a fountain pen hits all the highlights to these questions. Besides, it&

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