cs-szazz

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by cs-szazz 5y ago
That's fair, though I will say Kotlin's type system having nullability built-in is something I doubt Java will ever fully add (instead of the annotations it currently uses). So in that respect, it's making it more type safe,
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
(not a frontend dev, so excuse any ignorance) I agree CoffeeScript usage has gone down dramatically, but has Typescript not usurped it? It doesn't seem like everyone just went back to using JS, so maybe Scala was CoffeeScript, and Kotl
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
As soon as I opened the page, I searched for "null" and saw it didn't show up in the original post. Leaving that out is almost a bad faith argument, because it is the number 1 Kotlin feature I doubt Java will ever get. Now, I
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
I'm not sure what it's taking about for the "with" feature: https://nipafx.dev/java-record-semantics/#with-blocks In Kotlin data classes, it's already implemented (just called copy) https:&#x2
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
We're already using the new IR compiler on 1.4, but I'll check out 1.5!
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
11,503 files, 1,431,195 lines of code. (spread out over <50 Gradle modules). I think the main problem is that Gradle doesn't have the same support as Java for ABI compatible changes, so invalidation of modules are more common.
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
I used Kotlin in a large codebase, and one of my only complaints is the compile times. We use Gradle for our build system, and relative to Java it is slooowwww. But we like the other benefits of Kotlin, so it's worth it in the end. But
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
Are there other companies where a CX Specialist makes the same as an engineer? Usually I see Engineering offset from CX, so an entry level CX employee might come in at Level 1, while an engineer might come in at Level 3. I don't think
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by cs-szazz 5y ago
I generally subscribe to PG's definition of a startup, which is a company designed to grow fast: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Unfortunately we heavily shard our tests, running on a single laptop would take a while.
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Unfortunately right when we were trying to deploy a hot-fix to production, our CI can't clone the PR to run tests. What do other folks use to avoid this situation? Have a Gitlab instance or similar that you can pull from instead for CI
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
If I understand correctly, the .so TLD is effectively a national resource of Somalia, and as such they have total control over it and could in fact shut it down if they wanted.
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
> It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes, non-payment, or when your domain is subject to deletion. Serious question, if this is an extended legal dispute or the domain is actually subject to deletion, that
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Ask HN: Can you secure a loan from a friend with startup options?
2 points by cs-szazz 6y ago|1 comments
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
+1, though sadly Ontario has cut their tax credit so it's just Federal for us now.
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
This question gets more complicated in places like Ontario, Canada, where the term "engineer" is actually protected. To call yourself an engineer in a professional setting, you have to be a member of the Ontario Society of Profess
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
I think the "overcompensating" can also happen when you hire, doesn't have to be an existing employee. Invariably other employees will find out what new hires make, and if you don't stick to loose compensation bands, you
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
That doesn't mean much unless the employees have liquidity right? Presumably after the acquisition the employees would've been able to convert their options to cold hard cash.
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"Your Turn, Toront-Waterloo" (2017)(medium.com)
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Yeah definitely, but Amazon can always say "Go host on GCP". Then Google Cloud can say "Go host on Azure". Then Microsoft says "Go host on Digital Ocean", and repeat until you run out of hosts. Is it like a gam
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Yeah it's certainly a slippery slope, 100% agree. In your example it's probably slightly different because religion is a protected class, while political leanings aren't. I think what's particularly interesting is you su
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Serious question, it seems AWS is by no means a monopoly on web hosting (Google, Azure, Digital Ocean, Linode, the list goes on). It seems to be they're well within their rights as a company to not host Parler, and Parler can try to go
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
"Worse, you'll quite possibly end up firing them when you eventually start reigning them in and they don't like being told how to build things." Had this exact thing happen at my company. It's tough when you have to
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Very similar experience, especially around people abusing extension functions and opting for clever one-liners. We had to really push back on that during code reviews, but even then we still have some weird code in certain spots.
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Interesting, are you able to share more? Or if you know where I might be able to read more about this?
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
How does something like this mesh with selling common stock but the company having right of first refusal? Say I want to sell common stock that I own, to someone who meets the SEC accredited investor definition. It seems that right of first
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
It depends on how far along the company is, as IPO approaches it'll be a 0% discount. For a Series C-D, 60-70% discount isn't uncommon.
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
It's talked about a little, but there's two classes of shares (common and preferred). Usually startups will value your options in an offer using preferred, so they might say you have 100k options at a $1 value each, with a 5 cent
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
Yeah love Zach's Github repo, I hope that a longer exercise window becomes the norm as more companies offer it to stay competitive.
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by cs-szazz 6y ago
A few thoughts: I've seen Tender Offers mentioned a few times in various articles, but I've always been curious about how such an event would affect the 409a valuation. Are Tender Offers usually closer to preferred or common prici

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