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by supster 11y ago
The real point here isn't really Hollywood vs SV but rather that VC portfolios can outperform on just one stellar investment despite the rest being losers bc the ROIs can get so high. So paying a premium to get into a contested round o
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by supster 11y ago
I'm guessing so you could use swift to write web front end code. And this goes from Swift -> JS, so you would still need to learn Swift
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by supster 11y ago
One reason why the 1% pay less taxes is b/c they make their money on investments rather than income. The yearly capital gains tax (tax on investment gains) is ~15% while income tax in that bracket is 30-40%. Those in the 99% pay somewh
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by supster 11y ago
Fun fact: Lyft is the only top 100 app I've heard of using Swift [1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3050266/tech-forecast/lyft-goes-s... [2] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/17
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by supster 11y ago
Not sure if index approach will work in startups given the power law dynamics. If you are investing as part of a syndicate, I doubt you get pro rata rights to ride a rocket ship up to the top, and you likely wouldn't have the dry powde
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by supster 11y ago
You would run into an adverse selection issue where only low quality startups would want an index fund investor while high-growth ones would seek investments from top-tier investors. The index fund approach works best in public markets.
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by supster 11y ago
This seems like a violation of anti-trust laws
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by supster 11y ago
For objects passed by reference, a Swift "let" signifies immutability of reference (not value); thus you can append to the NSMutableArray but not reassign to a different NSMutableArray. On the other hand a native Swift Array assig
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by supster 11y ago
You wouldn't take another deal to them ever again.
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by supster 11y ago
Yeah ES7 has async and await which are pretty similar to that source: http://www.sitepoint.com/simplifying-asynchronous-coding-es7...
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by supster 11y ago
This looks really awesome - can't wait to try it out!
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by supster 11y ago
Try these: learnyouahaskell.com haskellbook.com
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by supster 11y ago
Like @kspaans says it's more about buying a representation of the market i.e. passive investing. Though, in the case of the S&P500, 500 large cap US stocks is hardly buying the market, so a keen investor would try to create a truly
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by supster 11y ago
The App Store may not be a money maker, but it definitely is a competitive advantage when selling iPhones over the competition esp. Android phones.
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by supster 11y ago
Google Chrome app on iPhones still use mobile safari's rendering engine lol
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by supster 11y ago
This is awesome, very nice of you. Many thanks to you!
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by supster 11y ago
100% agree, I felt like the author was a bit misleading in point #1
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by supster 11y ago
Not sure, but I think it's unique to JS b/c it's built into web browsers. Therefore, all major browsers vendors need to ok major changes to the language so that there isn't a severe fragmentation in version support. I th
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by supster 11y ago
Did you guys consider Erlang or Elixir? Elixir might have especially been a good fit given the history with Ruby.
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by supster 11y ago
Well the call back hell which is a consequence of the event loop paradigm which is in turn due to being single threaded. But callbacks aren't a big deal with the intro of native Promises in ES6. And a lot of people (me included) find t
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by supster 11y ago
Yep using flock right now, though it was kind of hard to find good information on it besides the example you linked above. I'm also using it for a python job so this repo might work out well.
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by supster 11y ago
Lol, OP here, I guess in an indirect way that's how it came off. I don't really think everyone should write in Lisp, but rather that we all should be able to write interoperable code, and one suggested solution is a tree like stru
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Too Many Programming Languages(sapan.svbtle.com)
5 points by supster 11y ago|6 comments
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Implications of Open Source Swift(sapan.svbtle.com)
1 points by supster 11y ago|0 comments
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by supster 11y ago
Haha, yeah though Sails is also a Rails like framework for JavaScript http://sailsjs.org/#!/
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The Blub Paradox Rankings(sapan.svbtle.com)
1 points by supster 11y ago|0 comments
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Programming Language Wishlist(sapan.svbtle.com)
1 points by supster 11y ago|0 comments
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by supster 11y ago
wish I had this in high school haha, great work guys!
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by supster 11y ago
People are using the canvas now to achieve fast speeds on mobile web. See Flipboard's post on this [1]. The big issue ppl brought up was that using canvas instead of DOM meant losing accessibility. Btw Flipboard released an interesting
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by supster 11y ago
> what are some of the things that make a language more suited to systems programming rather than web the answer was to what qualities make a lang suited for systems programming not just specific to Rust

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