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by yashap 5y ago
:crossed_fingers:
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A major cause is just the nature of a big VC round, too. In my experience (and I think generally?), the funding comes with aggressive growth targets - you're expected to grow far faster after getting all the money injected than before.
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by yashap 5y ago
I'd think more in the range of ~10 MBA hires. Middle management definitely grew a lot, but most were not MBAs. Lots of new positions were created that didn't really need to exist. In more "lean startup mode", if you have
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by yashap 5y ago
I’ve never been a founder or a VC, so I don’t really know, but happy to speculate :) I’d imagine it depends on the company, and “how are you going to spend the money” is something you’d discuss with VCs before the investment goes through. I
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Hootsuite, though I’m sure many startups have similar stories.
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> The huge investments themselves are something founders would dislike, if they realized how damaging they can be. VCs don't invest $x million because that's the amount you need, but because that's the amount the structure
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by yashap 5y ago
Yeah, the results are absolute SEO garbage far too frequently. However, I'm not sure if this is Google "losing" to SEO ppl, or short-sighted greedy behaviour by Google ads ppl. It certainly could be the greedy case - SEO garb
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by yashap 5y ago
Could maybe slant it parallel to the house? Towards the photographer in these photos - not directly at either the house or the property line.
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JS maps already have a well defined way that they do key equality: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... It's basically just strict equality (===), except NaN === NaN is fa
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by yashap 5y ago
Yeah, but the Java 8 date/time API has been around for ~7-8 years, and is basically universally loved, while the original java.util.Date was hated for ages. Plus Java 8 date/time is based extremely strongly on joda-time, which hit
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by yashap 5y ago
Nice, it looks to be quite similar to the Java 8 date/time APIs (java.time.*), which are excellent. Looking forward to this!
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Ah fair enough!
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Personally I’d have this return a map instead of an object, so that the keys aren’t forced to be strings. Otherwise seems like a reasonable API, very similar to groupBy in any other moderately functional language, except with the “keys must
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by yashap 5y ago
Yeah, that might be a better description. Atheist and agnostic are both somewhat loose terms with a lot of overlap.
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Atheist-ish - no spiritual practice of any kind. In terms of beliefs, I think there’s a tonne of massive, unanswered questions about the universe, and it’s certainly possible that there are forces out there that resemble spiritual concepts.
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by yashap 5y ago
Hah fair, I have too :) But generally have found it not hard to convert them to embracing automated testing, as long as there's a strong automated testing culture at the company.
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FWIW, I always write tests for my changes, as long as they have any impact on behaviour (i.e. not writing tests for adding a little logging or metrics, but am for any new or modified business logic). Every single dev having a strong commitm
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by yashap 5y ago
Oh yeah, I definitely use 4 frequently too - for basically any bug ticket, or for any more complex change/new feature, I want to run the full app. Having this be fast/easy/reliable is huge. If it’s a service oriented app, and
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by yashap 5y ago
If I had to order the things that make me productive, starting with the most important: 1. It’s easy to have a fair amount of confidence in changes without even needing to run them. Strong static typing, good/clean abstractions, local
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Beyond that, arbitrary string from users tend to be things you shouldn’t log for privacy reasons, either.
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I’m with you, but if you’re maintaining a massively popular open source library, where backwards compatibility is expected, you’re not going to remove features without careful consideration. For an important bug fix, it probably does make m
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Wow, HUGE feature, congrats to the team working on it! GH code search is a feature with such massive potential utility, but the old implementation was so weak it was basically useless. Looking forward to this, will use it constantly if it’s
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by yashap 5y ago
There are tonnes of reasonably priced PHEVs from other manufacturers, that are IMO great choices for people who simply want reliable, flexible cars that use very little gas. For example the PHEV versions of the Toyota RAV4, Kia Niro, Hyunda
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by yashap 5y ago
I used to think the same before I got a car with trinkets. Heated/cooled seats (and heated starting wheel) are very nice on cold/hot days. Safety features like auto-braking and blind spot warnings actually do make you safer. Apple
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Yeah, I’m sure they’ll figure it out - it’s a tricky situation, but not an impossible one. Many, many people are in far worse situations with this flooding, e.g. having their homes or businesses flooded. Just wanted to share a personal exam
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I’m a Vancouverite, and this is a pretty narrow, short sighted view. Sure, some people aren’t very impacted, but a tonne of people are. Lots of people who need to travel around the province but can’t, who were travelling and can’t return ho
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Much more difficult at the moment, due to COVID.
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> Join a seed/series a startup as a developer and grow with them. Pros of this are this is what I know how to do best and love working in small teams Sounds like you already know what you want to do :) Trust your gut, if this is wha
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Seriously. Like, every junior dev has to learn DB indexing basics sometime, and apparently the other of this blog post just did. But really can’t understand why this article is getting voted to the top of HN.
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IMO “FUD” about Tether will never end, because it’s a fairly clear scam. The fear/uncertainty/doubt around it is not due to an easily remedied lack of transparency, the lack of transparency is just an attempt to disguise the scam.

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