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by cpprototypes 10y ago
As ad blocking increases, browser makers should add a type of "in web-page" payment system directly built into the browser. Paywalls are annoying because of friction. But imagine this instead: 1) open page 2) short preview
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
I think another factor is the salary sites such as salary.com, payscale, glassdoor, etc. These sites often don't include RSU in comparisons among companies. If it was included, many could see just how underpaid they are and there wou
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
It's unfortunate that this practice of giving almost the entire base salary amount as additional stock (RSU) has not spread outside the bay area. In other regions (such as LA, NY, Seattle, etc.) engineers only get base salary and some
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by cpprototypes 10y ago
99% of the blame should go to the banks and credit agency. The book The Big Short explains this well. Yes, the public participated in bad loans. But there was a natural limit to this, there's only so many people and homes. If it st
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
Yeah, Jigsaw will provide the base primitives which will allow what I described to happen. But it's up to the Java ecosystem to create or update the dependency layer above it. I'm assuming Maven will, but if they don't this
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
My understanding of the practical benefits is this (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) Java currently doesn't have true packages. There's namespacing (com.companyname.abc.xyz), but it's all on a single classpath (j
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
There is a common assumption that humans = bad drivers. And that these self driving cars will be much better than people at driving. I think this belief greatly underestimates the difficulty of what Google and others are trying to do. Hum
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
The S3 feels like the "core 2 duo" of smartphones. Clearly not as fast as new phones, but still good enough.
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
For the bay area, I think compensation drop will be far worse. The base salary of bay area companies has never been that impressive. Even the big tech companies like Google and Facebook, base salary is not much more than other regions. The
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
Mozilla/Firefox has a serious issue marketshare issue and it's not clear if they're aware. I'm beginning to see pages that break on Firefox or have warnings that Safari, Chrome, IE must be used. If Firefox doesn't
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
This is what I dislike most about free wifi. It's completely lacking in security and most are not aware of the issue. the use of mobile apps makes it worse. At least with a browser, the browser will warn if something suspicious is h
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
Please consider making the black bar a link. When I first saw it, it wasn't clear why there's a black bar. Especially later if the post goes to the second page.
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
The common factor is lack of respect for software. They did very well when focused on just hardware with simple software. For example the hardware part of robotics and very advanced features phones. But the next stage requires advanced s
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
Gasoline - Audi is working on the technology http://www.audiusa.com/newsroom/news/press-releases/2015/05/... The first version requires biomass, which means it has all the disadvantages of current b
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
Hydrogen cars are probably a dead end. Not enough benefit for the infrastructure costs required. I think the future options will be EV and synthetic gas. As batteries improve further, EV will have a lot of advantages. But it will only b
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
He is probably referring to other pollutants such as NOx. It is unavoidable to produce some amount of these pollutants in an oil combustion process. But California has shown that it's possible to get this down to a low level. Smog u
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
If cars and all the oil infrastructure didn't exist, EV and batteries are superior. They have far better efficiency and are a much more elegant solution. But all the oil infrastructure does exist and is a huge advantage for oil produ
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
There's possibly a better alternative to batteries: http://www.audiusa.com/newsroom/news/press-releases/2015/05/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-diesel This type of tec
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
It's laughable to think about this now. But nature doesn't care about liberal/conservative or democrat/republication. The effects of climate change are already happening (California drought). As the effects become mor
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
The recent oil price changes made me wonder if the future of cars will be EV or continue to be ICE. It's not because of the current low price of oil. It's what caused it, which is fracking. Fracking has been known for a long ti
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
An interesting idea related to this: Would high income people pay extra to buy gas from a carbon-neutral gas station? It could be designed and marketed as an environmental/elite gas station (something much better than the usual mini-
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
The functional style eliminates types of bugs that can happen with for loops and makes the code easier to read. For example, consider the task of removing names that start with "B" from a list. This is the for loop way: Li
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
The whiteboard is actually not the main problem, it's the other things that often come with whiteboard coding. The main problem is that these type of interviews expect you to master the skill of talking, thinking, and coding simultane
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
LA is working on greatly expanding rail. Denser development will slowly occur near the new stations to make walking to the station an option for some. However, LA will never have the density of NYC and so walking to a station will never b
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
The rest of the nation's attitude to California's water problem is very short sighted. I don't think most people realize how much food is produced in California. If California agriculture goes down, the result will be high
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by cpprototypes 11y ago
Node has a lot of flaws today. But, even with those flaws, it's very useful for quick prototyping (discipline is required here since it must be a true prototype which means throwing away the code) and command line scripting (for me, i
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by cpprototypes 12y ago
I think this would be a fair and effective interview system: 1) College graduate: Keep the traditional algorithm programming tech interview. But allow the use of a laptop (no whiteboard) 2) 2 - 7 years engineer: Require a github side proje
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by cpprototypes 12y ago
The software industry is broken for older engineers. Look at the typical algo/CS heavy interview today. It favors and selects for these characteristics: 1) Young, fresh graduates who still remember well the CS material. Or those who
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by cpprototypes 12y ago
I hate what Silicon Valley companies (Google, Amazon, etc.) have done to the software engineer interviewing process. It heavily favors recent college graduates and destroys job mobility for older senior engineers who have a busy life. For
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by cpprototypes 12y ago
Most discussions of FC and BEV miss the most important factor that will determine which one succeeds in the marketplace. Comparing engine efficiency, pollution, none of that matters compared to this single factor. And that factor is infra

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