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by sybhn 13y ago
My all time militaristic fiction novel too!
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by sybhn 13y ago
Precarious position to be in when you have to clean up after others, and these 'others' are not pro-actively helping you out, or have no incentive to do so. Every software company - or so it looks from my anecdotal experience - ha
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by sybhn 13y ago
I don't see that approach working in any competitive product marketplace. This is the kind of candy you don't want to throw to you competitor. Anecdotal, there's a company that built their core product on Symfony 0.9x, and ne
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by sybhn 13y ago
Being good at tech interview is an art, that few masters, and many are good at while being poor developers. I have countless tales of wow-thumbs-up-interview guys that turn out to be just good at that: interviews. Also, very anecdotal, but
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by sybhn 13y ago
Glad you bring that up. I'm a manager. I do mostly the things you mentioned to give my team some breathing room, and have to WFH when i want anything serious done. As you can imagine if the ambience is bad for me, it is horrible for m
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by sybhn 13y ago
The more I see arguments of this sort, the more I can see where we're heading. Not that there's anything wrong with your argument, this is the world live - we expect our state to have access to data on citizen when the said citize
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by sybhn 13y ago
it's funny. The place i'm at now, in the valley and a successful post IPO SaaS company, management believes that open space and engineers running around, yelling and waving hands is sign or productivity. I have to escape to the k
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by sybhn 13y ago
God forbids you ever get raided in the middle of the night by a swat team because of an administrative error, or minor offense. With a knee on your back, your face pressed against the ground, barely able to breath and watching your wife goi
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by sybhn 13y ago
As an engineering manager I have struggled many times trying to convey the real cost of these 'cant you just do this...' type of things. This article makes a clear case in a structured way. I haven't run into many product man
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by sybhn 13y ago
Don't jump to conclusion, both side of the establishment have been contributing to bloated bureaucracies, Obamacare is just one of the latest (and the one I last read of). My undemocatric comment was around bureaucracies in general, not oba
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by sybhn 13y ago
this is completely of topic, i know. But could not not think about Obamacare when reading about "This is what bureaucracies do, they grow, more complex, more political, more expensive, and exponentially harder to dismantle. " ... I would al
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by sybhn 14y ago
i always thought that rockstars are smart, driven people who were able to achieve substantial results because of favorable circumstances. The term itself is laughable at best, especially when self proclaimed!
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by sybhn 14y ago
I was actually thinking of a parallel airport system. A monopoly outsourcing screening activities to a private company doesn't provide more alternative to the consumer.
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by sybhn 14y ago
Would be interesting to see if a parallel private system could work. The state could maintain standard to which the private network should adhere, i.e. min basic security, etc. In other words break down the monopoly of travel from the stat
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by sybhn 14y ago
if you can't do, sue. Seriously how has she been representing developers? i'm a developer and i'd rather be represented by someone else Edit: Saddam Hussein is Not better
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by sybhn 14y ago
wow. She is the political beast! plays the color, minority and gender card, prepares a lawsuit and plants the seed for a next career move. I don't know anything about sendgrid, but the fact that they put up with someone like this is much m
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by sybhn 14y ago
"This despite the fact that I already paid my 2012 taxes back in September." fiscal year does not necessarily equals calendar year, how do you know for a fact that's not what happened?
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by sybhn 14y ago
well i didn't! hypothetically, we'd be talking about my 2011 earnings, already taxed, being retroactivity taxed (again) in fiscal year 2012.
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by sybhn 14y ago
Scary! Which part of my net money belongs to me? Do we have to tt money to the caiman AFTER paying taxes now?
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by sybhn 14y ago
Stupid question, but once your income has been taxed and you turn the net into an asset, and then the state comes back in and tell you that the money you used to buy this asset really belonged to the state, isn't that asset seizing? Edit 1:
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by sybhn 14y ago
right, i would expect 50% to go to the tax man, unless waiting long enough to get into long term capital gain. His 63% threw me off there, sounds like France!
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by sybhn 14y ago
A side question on his net calculation, how did he end up with 63% tax rate? anyone care to elaborate
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by sybhn 14y ago
yeah and that's why some programming activities were outsourced to lower wage countries (low end of the 'range' you refer to) a while ago - and still is.
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by sybhn 14y ago
actually if you take that argument to its natural conclusion the only people in the US with jobs would be people who innovate and create new value. Don't think that waiters and baristas fit in that category. If i was either, i'd be really
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by sybhn 14y ago
There are degres of commodity, it does not only apply to raw material, i.e. IT infrastructure is turning into commodity, but you will still find differentials. The range of differentials is what defines if it's commodity or not. I would agr
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More enterprise datacenter management tools consolidation?(techcrunch.com)
1 points by sybhn 14y ago|0 comments
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AWS VPC and the future of enterprise datacenter tools(techcrunch.com)
3 points by sybhn 14y ago|0 comments
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by sybhn 14y ago
Is it really? I always though the main financial difference between going for (1) a good school district or a (2) private school is the residual value of the investment. At the end of the 15 or so period, you have built equity in a property
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by sybhn 14y ago
I did not mean to. I didn't see much if any consideration about schools in the article and maybe jumped the gun assuming the schools selection is better in SF. Although not as flashy, the peninsula is a great compromise.
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by sybhn 14y ago
Aren't Oakland schools horrible? You guys care about your kids education right?

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