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691.
by sbov 10y ago
Most startups offer lower salaries and compensate in other ways. This is a risk. If you work at such a startup employees and founders likely take on more risk than your average VC because the VC can hedge their bets. Employees and founde
692.
by sbov 10y ago
As a consumer, I would like for my devices to not be security nightmares for, at least, the useful life of what I'm buying. Unless you plaster a giant warning on the product, ~5 years from the time of sale seems reasonable to me for
693.
by sbov 10y ago
Plenty of users willingly find use cases and buy devices with "not excusable" amounts of space. If I were less charitable I would call your definition of the term not excusable.
694.
by sbov 10y ago
It is illegal. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. It's not much different than hiring someone to hack, rob or murder someone. We don't throw just the person doing the hiring in prison, we also pursue the person who performed th
695.
by sbov 10y ago
I am not involved in quantum computing at all, and only have read a few articles, but my understanding is: Calling it a speed up is kinda correct but seems slightly wrong to me. It is a completely different computing model which tends to u
696.
by sbov 10y ago
This is everyone's favorite excuse to trot out. But in reality the vast majority of projects I've seen never actually measure WHAT the performance cost would be and whether or not it's acceptable. So in the usual case the a
697.
by sbov 10y ago
The problem is they tend to own everything down to the venue. It makes disrupting them a cash intensive, long process.
698.
by sbov 10y ago
After the refresh of the Macbook Pro I decided to get a desktop replacement laptop. Whether or not that is acceptable for your use cases depends. For me, I already have a Surface Pro 3 for ultra portable needs. Because of that, I found my
699.
by sbov 10y ago
Juniors make plenty of mistakes, I would rather they make them then explain why they should change their code rather than them relying on "testable code = better code". I would admit that a junior working alone, or without code r
700.
by sbov 10y ago
I disagree. IMHO, modifying your app code for the sake of test code is an anti pattern. It should be viewed as an unfortunate yet necessary, rather than celebrated, action. It taints your design and makes your application harder to unders
701.
by sbov 10y ago
As an aside, our most successful projects were similar to this. Right place, right time, and people on HN would probably assume the MVP could be built in a week, which was true at least in our cases.
702.
by sbov 10y ago
I find this reply interesting, because as a developer I feel like #3 is pretty much the only hard thing I have to deal with: translating human intention, which is sometimes paradoxical, into code. It can be hard enough when it's your
703.
by sbov 10y ago
Usually shorthand is shorter than the alternative, but not so when comparing "5x less" to "1/5".
704.
by sbov 10y ago
How does incorporating somewhere else help? Tariffs are applied to imported goods, and presumably how said "high tax" would be applied. It doesn't matter where the company is incorporated.
705.
by sbov 10y ago
This is also why I don't like to engine brake on the freeway.
706.
by sbov 10y ago
Finally launching the software I/we were building for one of our businesses for the last 1.5 years... only to have said business shut down a few weeks later for unrelated reasons.
707.
by sbov 10y ago
43. This list matters for all applications that parse or create CSVs.
708.
by sbov 10y ago
How do you define problem? In terms of consequences or mere presence of a bug? If it's consequences, is it plausible that you have had no problems because not enough people are interested in attacking your code? If you say you have
709.
by sbov 10y ago
I can see games being an impetus, but are they really the blueprint, as opposed to just another application, but one that the public at large can appreciate?
710.
by sbov 10y ago
Is it? I mean, a lot of hard work was put into it. And, it's a step that needs to be taken. And people can work on what they want to work on. But how can a machine beating the best human at a game really be the biggest triumph of 2
711.
by sbov 10y ago
When I used to buy macbooks, they did carry a premium, but usually not the sort of premium you're implying here. The problem is you have to compare apples to apples - not "I don't need that fancy XXX anyways". Which is
712.
by sbov 10y ago
It probably isn't targeted at those users. If you're a small shop and just need feature flags, this is probably overkill. Recognize that there's a cost to pulling in 3rd party libraries, much less 3rd party services, into yo
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by sbov 10y ago
I'm not a maintainer. That said, I've never had a problem with non demanding, humble, zero pressure questions. Why do you need to mention that something is a showstopper? This may sound harsh, but: at the end of the day, you have
714.
by sbov 10y ago
Whenever I start to think like this, I remind myself that it's about as useless as thinking "if only I bet it all on 00" at the roulette table. Crystal balls that see the future are certainly in short supply. But if I had on
715.
by sbov 10y ago
Write more and reflect on what you've written. I've come to have a dev diary where I reflect on what I did the past day/week, and note things I ran across that did/didn't work out so well, and why. That said, if all
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by sbov 10y ago
So rot13 will render my aes useless?
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by sbov 10y ago
I haven't worked on a program that hijacked the core language functions in the Lisp I use (Clojure). So your concern seems odd to me, especially since you admit you can do the same thing in C. That said, I only use it in my spare tim
718.
by sbov 10y ago
There's a lot here, but this one jumped out at me: > You can indent a Lisp program in any way but the language doesn't require any at all. Off the top of my head, isn't this true of basically all languages? Except one, an
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by sbov 10y ago
Yeah, a lot of times people seem to talk past eachother because to them, SF = bay area. In reality it's a small portion of the population and even smaller portion of the land mass of the actual bay area.
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by sbov 10y ago
Same, but I bought a house. Just outside of LA there are cities with some of the best public schools in the state (and some the country), and you don't have to pay $1.5 million+ for a house in the district.

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