swoongoonz

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by swoongoonz 7y ago
remember when everyone was bailing on github because of evil microsoft?
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
it's not uncommon with hypey vc funded startups. I've gone to two different startup camps, it's very much so kool-aid drinking exercises
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
what would you suggest if you currently work for a softbank startup?
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
this. I wanted to go to community college but that was not an option in my house. I was 17 when I took out massive loans. I feel stupid but I really don't know what else I should have done.
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
fuck when are you opening up tours in nyc? this is just fascinating for a west coaster that has no ties here
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
it's improve your life because you're probably a highly paid software developer or engineer (guessing because here you are on hacker news). I would like to hear more from the people who work for amazon (not the devs reaping all of
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
but capitalism is efficient
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
It annoys me that front-end is sold as "easier". Getting started is "easy", building front-end applications at scale is a completely different ballgame.
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
That's totally possible but if you're the CTO of Airbnb would you want the high schooler for cheap (who may be unreliable when it comes to managing schedules, following protocols, having the maturity to deal with failing systems)
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
+1 to n for the homebrew installation. nvm team is notoriously hardheaded about not wanting to maintain availability through different tools.
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
I had so many similar experiences. People writing me off right after the recession and then work picked back up around 2013. Got tons of offers and job opportunities only to have the same previous recruiters pinging me. "yeah, no thank
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
I don't think it's that cynical. It's a known fact that Google and Apple created an agreement not to poach each other's talent to keep salaries low.
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
These kids would be competing with incredibly prolific web developers who not only output an insane amount of code themselves but manage OSS at massive scales. One example is Jordan Harband, responsible for: 1. Enzyme, the current top used
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by swoongoonz 7y ago
this guy is going to have a workers revolt on his hands
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
100% agree. The thing nobody also remembers is that Silicon Valley was called SV because of it's hardware/manufacturing not really it's software development. The software side of things flourished because of the existing hard
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
"I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now." Can't tell if Russian troll farm agent or just someone with poor English skills...
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
straight up, you don't know how to read. >But what Mr. Yasharahla might view as great, others call something else: hate. >But Ms. Beirich said that groups like Hebrew Israelites were also anti-gay, anti-white and anti-Semitic.
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
>put a cap on tuition so that it can't be more than X hours of work at a state's minimum wage This is the best idea I've heard when it comes to the debate on education costs.
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I would argue it's not just rural America, it's also smaller markets and cities. Cities like Salt Lake City, Sacramento, Nashville, Omaha, and Portland (OR), can't compete with the larger markets. If you have enough skills, y
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I somewhat disagree with his assessment of influencers. Can they be annoying? Yes. Are they providing real value for companies to be able to connect with tribes of people? Yes. The influencer has single handedly upended the advertisement in
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
This user has 0 comments, 0 submissions except related to this issue. I call bullshit. You're not a real person, you're a corporate insider.
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
what the hell, how is it legal for anybody to tell you what to do with your land?
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I think the problem is that funds like SoftBank have a very "winner take all" attitude about startups. They threatened my startup by basically saying that if you don't take the XXX millions of dollars, we'll be happy to
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
It's crazy to now see open source projects on Gitlab after the whole Microsoft purchase of Github.
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I'm torn. I don't think the aim should be "become a ${framework} developer" but just become a solid programmer with specialization in front-end technologies. If I needed to bounce out of front-end and into another tech r
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
110% agree
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I talk a lot about this with my wife. She's half mexican-american, I'm a quarter so we compare notes. Not everyone has what it takes to code. I played the hell out of video games for hours and hours on end as a kid. I'm kind
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I think more than "latest and greatest", devs should be looking for simplicity. I really like Dan Abramov's approach to Javascript in React/Redux and he does a great job of proving simplicity in some of his Redux tutoria
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
Placer County in California pays for one bin recycling. Don't make people think, just allocate resources to cover recycling as a part of the waste stream.
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by swoongoonz 8y ago
I distinctly remember a professor in college saying that he felt like the caliber of students enrolling every year declines. I was kind of offended, but hey maybe we was right.

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