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by spyspy 8y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but the bonds could be convertible, which would allow the bondholders to exchange them for stock in the future. Bondholders are almost guaranteed to be more secure than shareholders by law (getting th
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by spyspy 8y ago
I notice this a lot in RFCs within my company. Teams will put out architectures for new systems that contain massive amounts of acronyms and jargon for the system they're building and/or replacing it's insanely frustrating. I
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by spyspy 9y ago
15% is for long-term capital gains. Dividend income is taxed at a much higher rate.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Always relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/931/ really helped visualize for me what going through cancer treatment is like. God speed.
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by spyspy 9y ago
> Python especially, with its "one way to do it" Despite being a core tenet of the language, Python is _really, really_ bad at following that rule. I agree with everything else you're saying, though. Those are still Python
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by spyspy 9y ago
Sorry, not trying to be a put down. Just a lot of code smells that I see reviewing other people's go at work. Things like the abundance of interfaces, defining your own IO and error handling, use of reflection, and using third party li
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by spyspy 9y ago
Browsing through the source, this strikes me as very over-engineered to just hit a few APIs, parse the responses and print text to the command line.
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Scrum, Swarm, Sprint – How to Take the Agile Process and Make It Your Own(open.nytimes.com)
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by spyspy 9y ago
Disclosure: I bought more FB today You covered the fundamental reason why Facebook _could_ suffer from this but I believe it won’t. Uber is very easy to ditch because it has well-known competitors that are just or almost as good and readily
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by spyspy 9y ago
You weren’t alive for the founding of any of those companies.
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by spyspy 9y ago
It may not be seen as ethical here, but I also plan on buying some more FB. This is a huge overreaction, and we all know it'll blow over inside of a week.
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by spyspy 9y ago
I'd be very interested to see an example, as someone working in NYC making much less than $150K.
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Facebook Amazon Netflix Google
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by spyspy 9y ago
Yes? Most companies don't start new grads at $120K+ and don't heap thousands of dollars of stock on their employees every year. Developers rotating between the FANG companies can also negotiate larger pay bumps than the rest of us
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by spyspy 9y ago
Yes? It could've been their environmental regulator for all we know.
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by spyspy 9y ago
I've come to appreciate job listings that include the actual team/project that I'd be working on. If a company of more than 10 people can't tell me what they actually need me for it strikes me as a company that's wi
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by spyspy 9y ago
That's a very recent development. And who do you think owns most of the company and controls the board seats?
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by spyspy 9y ago
And they'll probably end up losing 20-30% within a year. Engineers aren't stupid, and know they have tons of other options. This smells like VCs pressuring them to grow, grow, grow and management thinking they can just throw devs
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by spyspy 9y ago
Still doesn't justify anywhere close to 1000 engineers.
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by spyspy 9y ago
This probably just means that more people are using family plans instead of paying individually. I'm part of a family plan, as are pretty my everyone else I know. It only makes sense. The upside is that canceling a family plan is much
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by spyspy 9y ago
> using Haskell > too cool to waste a single second Why are you so quick to extrapolate an entirely new character based on this person not wanting to use HackerRank?
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by spyspy 9y ago
Here's the 2018 report: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2018
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by spyspy 9y ago
I have a lot of problems with this paragraph, the same problems I see again and again on both sides of interviews. > "Difficult to work with" is perhaps too harsh a statement That's exactly what the OP meant to say, and ve
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by spyspy 9y ago
If that was the case, FB has been lying on every single earnings release since they went public, which seems unlikely.
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by spyspy 9y ago
CDNs will reduce bandwidth costs per user to essentially nothing. Content creation is the lion's share of their costs.
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by spyspy 9y ago
> Netflix however produces no material return for investors Speak for yourself. My brokerage account looks much greener since I bought it.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Despite their claimed improvements I believe they're still only supporting every other Go version. Fingers crossed for go1.10
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by spyspy 9y ago
No mention of their Gaea supercomputer at Oak Ridge. I wonder if it's still operational.
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by spyspy 9y ago
If you're going to be handling http requests it's almost a given you'll be using AppEngine rather than Cloud Functions. Still "serverless" but more tools and languages to choose from.
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by spyspy 9y ago
Wow that was hard to read. I thoroughly believe none of that is true.

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