soldergenie

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by soldergenie 11y ago
RSUs in a highly liquid publicly traded company are pretty close to cash
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by soldergenie 11y ago
Yeah, I did try that, but performance was lacking. Java, if you stick with primitives and use a C-like programming style (miniminal objects) was pretty close to C performance when I tried it, except for this one gap.
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by soldergenie 11y ago
I ran into the need for this recently, except for a program written in Java... I really wish the JVM had a 128 bit data type (or at least a muldiv function, in which muldiv(a, b, c) = a b/c, but the intermediate a b result can exceed
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by soldergenie 11y ago
Startup employees which took a pay cut in exchange for equity are going to be the biggest losers. At least VCs and private equity have some level of protection against a decline in valuation from their preferred shares/liquidation pre
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by soldergenie 11y ago
While there are trends, work culture varies from company to company, and I'm sure you'll find a company in either city with a work culture you will be happy with. The more pressing question is which of these two cities do you wan
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by soldergenie 11y ago
Did you have to take a salary cut when you moved to VA? (e.g.: so your salary would be more in line with VA norms than silicon valley norms?) That is the big problem with telecommuting for me - it seems hard to find companies which are will
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by soldergenie 11y ago
How is that different from the Visian ICL which has been available since 1996?
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by soldergenie 11y ago
That is good to know. Do you have any recommendations for a more mature version of grpc (cross-platform communication with a high speed encoding)? Thrift?
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by soldergenie 11y ago
That's what I did. And dating here is definately easier than (random medium sized American city). Of course, that might just come from being in a large metropolitan city. Silicon Valley might be the same - I've never lived ther
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by soldergenie 11y ago
People ask me why I, a software developer, don't move to Silicon Valley where salaries are high and venture capital is easy to get. The skewed male/female ratio of Silicon Valley is the reason. As an Asian-American male, I have
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by soldergenie 11y ago
In addition to being CEO, one of his many other accomplishments was that he was the main programmer for Earthbound, a game close to my heart. A death like this always tragic, but the death of a fellow programmer makes it feel closer to hom
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by soldergenie 11y ago
You stand on the left in escalators in Australia, which was confusing at first, as you stand on the right in escalators in the UK, even though both countries are left-hand-drive.
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by soldergenie 11y ago
The protocol is documented - https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common/blob/master/PROTOCOL-HTT... However, you still need the FAQ to figure out that browser transport isn't supported
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by soldergenie 11y ago
Grpc doesn't work over the browser. This is stated explicitly in the FAQ. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grpc-io/5Ic8MKgltwY
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by soldergenie 11y ago
From what I can see, the only way they differentiate themselves from their well established competitors is by not charging commissions. Yet I don't see how their costs of running a brokerage would be lower than their competitors, and
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by soldergenie 11y ago
Sure, you can prove it is complex by measuring cyclomatic complexity. But, the harder part is to prove that complexity matters. (I don't think it does myself). Have you considered that maybe it doesn't matter? Is his code well
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by soldergenie 11y ago
It is actually quite common in Canada for small companies to IPO with total market caps of just tens of millions of dollars. Canada doesn't have nearly as many private company investors as the USA, so companies (especially resource ba
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by soldergenie 12y ago
What happens in a market downturn and people suddenly holding private shares worth a lot less than what they paid for? Then, you have lawsuits from these holders claiming they didn't understand the risks of what they were investing in