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by socratic 15y ago
I may have a biased sample, but six out of my seven engineer friends 25--35 have salary + bonus + equity in that range or higher. The only one not making that is at a very early stage startup. Even my friends making iPhone apps independen
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by socratic 15y ago
Ignoring passion, does it make sense economically to join a startup in the Bay Area? It doesn't seem uncommon for very young (25+) top engineers in the Bay Area to be making anywhere from $175k/year -- 250k/year in base salary + bonus + equ
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by socratic 15y ago
Who is the target market for this, exactly? I guess it seems like "make a business version of X" is always sensible, so maybe this is like the business version of http://about.me/ ? Personally, the resume process whenever I have applied a
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by socratic 15y ago
Obviously, this is marketing rather than a serious treatment of the topic. It seems to basically say: "in order to design a system, you should have a regular undergraduate Computer Science education" which seems maybe like a prerequisite (
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by socratic 15y ago
The success of a startup is commonly viewed to be a combination of the concept and the execution. Of course, the "concept" is rarely a singular thing---a company often needs an initial niche product to score desperate early adopters, and t
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by socratic 15y ago
Do those startups have technical or other infrastructure problems that compare to a big Silicon Valley web startup? (Groupon obviously had to scale sales, but that's not what I mean here.) Here's tumblr.com vs blogspot.com on Google Trends:
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by socratic 15y ago
I get that it is expensive and challenging to keep the best engineers in Silicon Valley for years at a time. However, it seems really odd to conclude from that that the solution would be to start a consumer web startup in Boston. I can nam
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by socratic 15y ago
I grew up at a time when people felt very strongly about Windows versus Linux. People would fight amongst themselves on Slashdot and elsewhere about whether it was OK to use Windows, or whether it was possible to do [whatever] on Linux. I
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by socratic 15y ago
Most of these "hacks" involve working around how slow it is to store persistent data on GAE. However, other than the protobuf one, they all seem to rely on undocumented or uncertain semantics. For example, one very common performance optim
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by socratic 15y ago
You seem like a very interesting character, ycalumn throwaway account. Having read Matt's account of his actions, I agree with your reading. It feels like he came to believe academia was bullshit, but didn't want to hurt his close friend
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by socratic 15y ago
Has anyone compared Roboto to other Helvetica-like fonts? In other words, it would be interesting to see the differences between Akzidenz-Grotesk, Arial, Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Roboto, Univers, and Vera. Something like: http://en.wiki
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by socratic 15y ago
No worries. I've actually probably only looked at the pictures. SecureId has some good ones. http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/SecureId/
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by socratic 15y ago
Is there some difference between this and what Danah Boyd et al. were saying 8 years ago regarding "Faceted Identity"? http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/danah/thesis/
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by socratic 15y ago
If the question is, should we use Haskell to solve this problem, or should we use JavaScript, I can't imagine that the answer is often Haskell. (Maybe if the question is, should we use OCaml or should we use Haskell...) That said, what rea
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by socratic 15y ago
This article appears to make the following argument: 1. Ruby/Rails developers use Ruby/Rails even though it is slow because storage access is slower (and thus the bottleneck). 2. Storage access is about to get much faster as people switch
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by socratic 15y ago
I'm not sure if this article has gotten flagged out of existence, given that I don't see it on the front page anymore. But it seems a little fishy that the OP got a -50 penalty from Google due to SEO, and now the OP is trying to get a blog
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by socratic 15y ago
I realize that in the SEO world, the standards of evidence are necessarily a little less rigorous. But, what? I mean, I'm totally inclined to believe that Google is somehow promoting G+, but this does not strike me as convincing evidence.
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by socratic 15y ago
Is this effectively GWT 3.0? The project page is very unclear, so I ended up on Wikipedia instead. Wikipedia actually has a leaked memo that seems to do a really good job describing the purpose of the language. Specifically, the language i
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by socratic 15y ago
Can you go into a bit more detail about setting up nodes without something like Chef/Puppet? What tools do you end up using? Some sort of custom apt repository plus some shell scripts? What does it look like?
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by socratic 15y ago
Am I totally missing some obvious Chef documentation? The entirety of the documentation when I last looked seemed to be the wiki + the one 50-page O'Reilly book. I ended up literally printing out the wiki. (And the wiki seemed to be in a
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by socratic 15y ago
This is the main thing Jinni claims to do. Have you tried it? http://www.jinni.com/
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by socratic 15y ago
I really want a good movie recommender system. (Which I suppose makes this a good idea to work on.) However, focusing on these sorts of issues seems like exactly the wrong way to go about it. I understand that people overwhelmingly tend t
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by socratic 15y ago
Further, what is the message of the allegory supposed to be? The analogy between music and tech suggests that the two hits-based industries selling digital goods are not so different after all. But why would our morality in one case be so
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by socratic 15y ago
NoSQL seems to me to be a scene as much driven by hype as logic. (For better or worse, practitioners using and programming NoSQL systems tend to have little understanding of the 30+ years of relevant RDBMS academic literature, and 20+ year
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by socratic 15y ago
I am increasingly interested in Riak, in part because a very vocal minority on HN seems to think it is the One True NoSQL solution. However, I still don't quite get it. What is Riak? It seems to be some sort of Dynamo implementation (like
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by socratic 15y ago
I think what you are describing is pretty much the only promising direction for solving the problem. However, I have significant doubts about the approach. Perhaps you can address them? The strategy as I understand it is: 1. Convince a h
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by socratic 15y ago
Unfortunately, Jacques needs to answer a pretty basic question in order to get his wish: why? Why should CS paper writers show Jacques (or anyone else) their code? We have discussed this topic on HN a number of times, for example: http://
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by socratic 15y ago
You're certainly not alone in hoping that MySQL loses market share to PostgreSQL under Oracle's stewardship. I've always assumed that MySQL has been more prevalent due to some combination of historically earlier user friendliness, an incom
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by socratic 15y ago
What's the summary of what happened here? It's a little bit hard to tell because none of the blog posts seem to have dates (though maybe I could check RSS). From the discussion here, it sounds like: 1. futuremint was developing a bunch of
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by socratic 15y ago
The last discussion of Twitter Bootstrap seemed to end pretty ambiguously. Is Twitter Bootstrap what everyone should be using to make their MVP when they don't have a designer? Or is it sufficiently non-cross-platform compatible and specif

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