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by seiji 11y ago
Not all developers can work for companies poised to take over an $800B industry. That's the point of managing your own career and your own life, isn't it? Nothing gets handed to you. You have to position yourself for success.
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by seiji 11y ago
Take your yearly salary and turn it into an hourly rate. The standard number is 2087 hours per year for a salaried employee. So, let's say $100k per year. That's (roughly, rounded up) $50 per hour. What's minimum wage? A f
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by seiji 11y ago
The concept of "early start" or "sweat equity" resulting in extraordinary reward is a convenient financing meme, but it's not great for reality. It just persists because people like the idea of becoming rewarded mo
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by seiji 11y ago
Brains are good at habits and patterns. If you start to nap every day at 2pm, you will begin to crave that nap every day until you de-condition yourself from it. Not necessarily damaging or wrong or broken, just different patterns.
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by seiji 11y ago
Pay is not an absolute number. If you make $100,000 per year at an 8 person company, but the company's profit is $12 billion per year — do you have low pay? The tech industry has discovered you can make employees happy by paying them m
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by seiji 11y ago
What? Really? Who in the world would do that?
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by seiji 11y ago
This was making the rounds a while ago as half DIY half managed: http://convox.com
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by seiji 11y ago
But, that's arguing two points, right? That's like saying ASCII has 8 built in non-visual field separators, so people should use those instead of CSV/TSV for text tables. Sure, it's technically the right distinction, bu
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by seiji 11y ago
Hard tabs make "pretty/readable indent" formatting difficult too. If you want to line up certain arguments across lines, you just can't because you're forced to an unknown width of alignment chosen by the reader. S
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by seiji 11y ago
people properly configuring their editor A lot of coding is reading examples online these days. Trying to read Go code on GitHub is awful since three forced tab indents feels like you're 50% across the screen already (and forget try
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by seiji 11y ago
my own experience is a better predictor of what works for me blub paradox. We only know what we know. Outside opinions are very valuable to show us better things exist. But why try and pick fights with those of us who do use it? Becau
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by seiji 11y ago
It's difficult to write a program without writing lines of code. There are dumb measure, smart measures, and dumb ways of applying smart measures. We could consider a little intellectual generosity, that intentions were well-met, and
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by seiji 11y ago
With all due respect, it's highly unlikely that a review from someone using it for four days But, the review goes into a rant about how the Go community just thinks it's the greatest and refuses to listen to outside opinions due
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by seiji 11y ago
Go is very contrarian, and I applaud this. It takes more than reversing the order of parameters and using known-braindead ideas like codified tabs-are-good syntax to make contrarian ideas valuable. Just because you change green lights to
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by seiji 11y ago
The static typing and strict compiler (enforcement of imports and lvalues, etc.) works well for my writing style. It seems you more enjoy just "Not Python" than Go itself. Go is still pretty awful and designed without really con
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by seiji 11y ago
Most talented people can write 200 "productive" lines of code per day (not copy/paste java boilerplate). So, 100x would mean you are now writing 20,000 lines of code per day.
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by seiji 11y ago
So, SOAP and CORBA just with a 2015 flavor?
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by seiji 11y ago
Joke answer: the blockchain! Real answer: It comes down to trust (duh). But, how do we manage trust online? How do we manage trust in real life? Real life trust is through association of groups. But, groups online are meaningless. A &q
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by seiji 11y ago
Oh, well, pagerank is based off ranking published papers anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_analysis
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by seiji 11y ago
The goal of startups is to enrich the founders, not be a net benefit for society. If you have to destroy the world and crush employees to increase your net worth, that's just how the game is played.
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by seiji 11y ago
Pretty sure "being a chauffeur" has never really been a growth market.
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by seiji 11y ago
This sounds like a homework question, but I'll bite. App store rankings based on downloads or ratings? http://dd508hmafkqws.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/B8z3... Yelp ratings? http://www
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by seiji 11y ago
Plus, you never know how many people get their entire address book stolen by Facebook without consent (or a drive-by "can facebook app access your contacts?" button that immediately uploads your entire address book back to the mot
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by seiji 11y ago
nearly 100 of them have no degree at all. Because many of them dropped/stopped out of Stanford after being accepted. You can ask the same of NYC. How many supreme court justices are from NYC versus Idaho? Location matters. Locatio
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by seiji 11y ago
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Nothing wrong with having no ambition, but step to the right so better people can pass you by.
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by seiji 11y ago
We're talking hopes and dreams and aspirations and delusions here. How many billionaires has Stanford generated versus the entire state of Ohio in the past 20 years?
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by seiji 11y ago
The only real way to learn Erlang is to spend 3 months reading the documentation from start to finish multiple times (not each API doc, just the guides), failing to figure out why your program won't compile, fixing that missing comma
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by seiji 11y ago
Yeah, there was a time when parents didn't even necessarily default to liking their children. Children were just additional labor for the family business, not the parent's hopes and dreams and failed aspirations and regrets walki
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by seiji 11y ago
Margin of error: go to Stanford, make the right connections, become a billionaire in 8 years versus go to a state school and work for the billionaires while making 1/5000th to 1/150000th as much as they do, yet you're doing a
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by seiji 11y ago
People believe what they are told. People are tribal and abdicate their beliefs to external sources of "higher powers" of their approved tribes, including what they perceive to be powerful people. Happens in politics, happens on

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