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by brilliantcode 9y ago
I believe the nuclear power industry largely started out as a way to justify world's largest nuclear warhead stockpile. I believe it was on a show from Netflix that discussed the history of nuclear power. It worked remarkably well.
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There's no way six digit salaries are going to be sustainable in the near future. This kind of money is possible because of low interest capital going around but when the rates inevitably rise and capital dries up, it's going to b
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I always find the virality aspects of software/website very interesting. Looking at your website, there's nothing that suggest anything out of he ordinary. Yet, you've reached a lot of audience through sheer luck. What year d
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not having product/market fit because you don't have a product but acted like you did needs to be audited. Note that this is different from not having product/market because of lack of demand. which sums up SV startups. It&#x
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Not sure how they plan on competing against Steam. Unless there was a way to pull off OnLive somehow on Twitch. I fail to see the significance of this announcement.
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Theranos did not have a product/market fit not because they didn't try but they didn't actually have a working product at all it seems from the article. It's interesting to see they've been kept afloat by big name i
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Not sure what pain problems this solves. You can already programmatically access and manipulate Google Sheets. And no, you are not going to run in to their upper bound limitations on rows and columns often.
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So who bombed Hiroshima? which oil rich part of the world do you think they were raining bombs from aircraft carriers? Who spies on US allies and their corporations to benefit American ones? Who spends more than the US on the military?
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Not sure why you are being downvoted. Seems like any criticism of America on HN lately is automatically receiving drive by downvotes. All colonialism is inherently evil. I guess you are saying the US is the "lesser evil" which I t
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The value I got from reading your comment was nil. If you have nothing to add to the discussion, why do you contradict yourself by replying?
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Read the article and it made me think about just how long the US hegemony will last, it's array of tools deployed against the rest of humanity is vast: - It blackmails the rest of the globe with the biggest nuclear deterrence across la
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> Javascript is only becoming hackier and hackier ES6 is NOT a hack. It's world class and expressive. It definitely doesn't resemble the old Javascript. > prototypical-inheritance single-threaded language that was DESIGNED
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Atom is a full IDE rendered on the desktop. Vim is a terminal based IDE. The sky is blue.
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It's very easy, people have been buying from Walmart longer than Amazon. edit: Walmart has enough cash to copy Amazon in everyway at a discount-Walmart has been watching Amazon very carefully and is able to learn without failing or exp
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Amazon, the world's biggest net unprofitable website, kept afloat by investors expectation of turning on net profits in some distant unknown future. It's like, the laws of gravity doesn't apply to American tech firms but ruth
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I don't think such salaries are sustainable but you are absolutely right in that Vancouverites are taking not a pay cut but a reduction in quality of life overall.
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Why was this downvoted? I expect a rebuttal instead just silent downvotes. This just solidifies my opinion, there are lot of dinosaurs on HN and they are going to find themselves unemployable without Javascript in the future. Javascript is
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I find it amusing to find so many luddites on HN. Take what you will but you are going to find to hard software engineering jobs in 10 years when everything moves to Javascript and Frontend Application development becomes the new norm. With
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The big objection to Javascript is likely arising from what you've seen 10~20 years ago. The fact is, the older you are, the more likely you will reject it. I'd say look hard at your own skepticism and actually test it out. While
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any examples?
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Do you think hindsight contributes to that high success rate?
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It's around $126,000 USD /year in Seattle. [1] They didn't bother listing Vancouver because the salary here is so painfully low with entry level software engineering positions regularly listing $40,000 CAD /year or $30,0
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In the minds of people who've spent long time on traditional client-server tier architectures view Javascript as a toy and view all the Javascript frameworks as "over engineering". Yet, what they fail to realize is they are c
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Why use JavaFX when you can change the CSS in a web app which is indistinguishable? Here's a easy way to get a job done but people refuse to do it because of philosophical/ideological indoctrination. ex. the world is made of obje
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Intention is in the hands of the builder not in it's inherent design. > webapps are essentially a pile of ugly hacks on top of a document rendering engine That's your own opinion. You claimed Java Swing & FX was the correc
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well if you've ever built a cross platform native desktop application, you will appreciate Electron. Java Swing. Never again. edit: Do people downvoting even know what it's like building cross platform desktop applications using J
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The article title is spot on. Vancouver is not a megacity, therefore our rent will go up forever. It's unbelievable how relatively expensive rent is to income. I'm beginning to wonder why I'm putting up with Vancouver. I&#x27
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Local Man Discovers Hindsight Bias, Shocked By It's Accuracy.
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Congratulations. But there's one critical skill that lot of us here will not have. Luck. There's probably a dozen automation tools out there. There are dozen chat and dating apps as well. Yet all the effort and attention is focuse
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I feel like at the rate we are going we will eventually reach the Visual Basic days where a monolithic IDE will lower the barrier for front-end development so much that anyone could tinker with it and produce stellar applications with littl

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