arockwell

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by arockwell 2y ago
100% agree. It is shitty and rude. Not to mention it does not even make sense.
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by arockwell 4y ago
SVB has billions of dollars in client funds. Once you start having cash in the millions it isn’t practical to have all of it FDIC insured.
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by arockwell 4y ago
Microsoft changed to an OS agnostic strategy with the switch from Ballmer -> Nadella.
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by arockwell 4y ago
Those kinds of analysis are total bs. Real cost is most likely a lot lower.
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by arockwell 4y ago
The $42/mo thing was a hoax. Several news outlets picked it up since it looked pretty legit. In hindsight, the price point should have tipped us off.
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by arockwell 4y ago
They actually have done massive stock buybacks. The company is just an incredible money printer.
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by arockwell 4y ago
It really isn’t quite that simple. There are Intersex people who have ambiguous genitalia and there are several viable chromosome combos besides XX and XY.
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by arockwell 6y ago
There is an AWS Aurora serverless now: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/building-ser...
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by arockwell 9y ago
If most of your candidates cannot answer the question, but you would still hire them I would drop the question. Knowledge of when to use an index is more valuable than the specific mechanics of how the index is implemented. When I want to t
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by arockwell 11y ago
Childcare is substantially more expensive and the public schools are not very good. You almost have to put your child in private school, and you are looking at $20k-$30k/year/child. The city is not very kid friendly in general.
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by arockwell 11y ago
Lyft Line recently added this option. You can wait 10 extra minutes to save a few dollars.
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by arockwell 11y ago
There is no $5mm payout in this scenario. This is the paper value of the shares, which you must pay taxes on since the IRS considers them income. In other words, the IRS thinks you have received something worth $5mm in value, so you must pa
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by arockwell 14y ago
This looks really well done. I've used a bunch of different transit apps in SF, and all of them are extremely awkward and hard to use. I'm very hopeful I can use this app to replace nextmuni.com, which has always been slow and buggy for me.
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by arockwell 14y ago
It's a fair question. I'm honestly confused about why this blew up in the first place.
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by arockwell 14y ago
If that were true why aren't their uproars over any of these projects: https://github.com/grosser/pru https://github.com/colinta/ned https://github.com/aljungberg/pyle https://github.com/zzak/gsub https://github.com/bjfletcher/node
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by arockwell 14y ago
I have my doubts the folks criticizing it actually read the code. Even if they have, what's the point of shitting on someone's pet project? Note that none of them actually give a reason for why the think it's bad. I think the folks criticiz
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by arockwell 14y ago
Yes, that was my exact experience with Hibernate. I spent two years working on apps that used Hibernate and I never felt like I really understood how it worked. ActiveRecord for the most part "Just Works" for me in comparison.
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by arockwell 14y ago
Your comment is making me feel like a loser :P Can you explain what you mean?
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by arockwell 14y ago
Author went to college. Look at his questions from another angle. Would you hire a CS grad who couldn't answer the question "What's your favorite programming language?" I think his example might be overly specific, but the answers the candi
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by arockwell 14y ago
Ignoring that he has built a successful company (while needing to hire a ton of people to accomplish it) seems very selective to me. Also saying that "Maybe he'll be a winner in the future, and I wish him well" makes me think he completely
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by arockwell 14y ago
I have to admit, I'm surprised at how polarizing the words "winners" and "losers" are to people in this thread. Replace the word winner with successful, and does it seem so bad?
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by arockwell 14y ago
Author is definitely a winner. He founded Bleacher Report. Disclaimer: I work there. It's fine to disagree, but it's a pretty lame attack him based on a selected portion of his bio.
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by arockwell 14y ago
There's a fine line between correction and pedantry.
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by arockwell 14y ago
Look at the ruby libraries for syslog. Iirc, there is a ruby standard library for syslog.
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by arockwell 14y ago
If you are currently at roughly 0 active users, I would not worry about how much 500k active users cost. That said, I think something about your cost estimate is way off. It should not cost $75k/mo to host 500k active users. My guess is tha
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by arockwell 14y ago
What's wrong with the metaphor? How would you have described the problem differently? I thought it was a really good description of the situation Facebook is in. People have speculated for years about all of the different ways they could pr
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by arockwell 14y ago
In practice it is very difficult to sell shares of a private company.
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by arockwell 14y ago
I think you should look at 1-5 or 1-10 scales logarithmically. It doesn't take a whole lot of work to become basically competent in a git or Rails (2/5), but to become an expert (4/5) takes exponentially more work.
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by arockwell 14y ago
What is the advantage of YC going public? I doubt they will have any trouble raising more money if they need it.
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by arockwell 14y ago
Yes, this is absolutely true. I should have worded my post more clearly to indicate that this is the policy not the reality.

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