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by dirkdk 8y ago
yeah as a state we need to limit if not down right outlaw power lines above the ground. Which will be a huge investment and definitely something that PG&E is not going to suggest themselves. But home owners and insurance companies have
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by dirkdk 8y ago
I once needed an MRI, insurance company couldn't work out a deal before my appointment. MRI company offered to do the job if I paid up front and handled reimbursement myself. Costs up front were $500, compared to $1250 if the insurance
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by dirkdk 8y ago
For early stage development, Rails is still the best. No ORM tool out there is as powerful as ActiveRecord. Front ends are nowadays built more with React/Redux, which is well supported via Webpacker. And for basic admin pages, regular
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by dirkdk 8y ago
Silicon Valley is not a geographical area, it is the tech industry within a geographical area. The tech industry wages have been going up, but the wages of the people around our industry have been stagnant. Sensationalist title.
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Running a Rails App with Webpacker and Docker(medium.com)
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Adyen rises 78% at first day of IPO(cnbc.com)
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by dirkdk 8y ago
in Amsterdam they used a drill. Very soft soil, no elevation soever. But underneath a lot of buildings and not always following the streets so Cut and Cover would not have been an option. Most interesting thing: freezing the area (with ofte
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by dirkdk 9y ago
What bounty did he receive for filing this?
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by dirkdk 9y ago
They did a billion in revenue last year. Coinbase doesn't need VCs anymore https://www.recode.net/2018/1/22/16911692/cryptocurrency-bit...
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by dirkdk 9y ago
Integrating payment is one of the most complex work to be done and operate, so yes this will fail every once in a while. In particular across different banks in the world. Coinbase must have grown 10-50x times last year so yes keeping your
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by dirkdk 9y ago
Center core is gone, didn't land successfully. Well it was a test and most of the flight succeeded https://twitter.com/kimballclark/status/960986447770656768
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by dirkdk 9y ago
can't we namespace it? like Otto: So Close ?
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by dirkdk 9y ago
yeah an obvious way to improve the program is to require the applicant to have much more added value than the average American worker. I would argue that salary is the best but still a very poor indicator. What about fields where the averag
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by dirkdk 9y ago
Some background, this is regarding the intermediate status once you have maxed out your 2 H1b visas for 3 years, and have applied for a green card. There are queues per country, with the one for India being the longest at 12 year (1). Not a
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by dirkdk 9y ago
Finally! I love Apple but taxes should be paid. There is a difference between legal and ethical and US companies should begin to understand that. So hopefully others will follow suit.
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by dirkdk 9y ago
$100 million revenue per year will do that, I guess they do something better than the competition https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/03/messagebird/
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IBM will derive highlights for U.S. Open tennis matches using Watson AI(venturebeat.com)
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by dirkdk 9y ago
You could do with some support. I am available to help you. contact me at twitter.com/dirkdk if you are open to it
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by dirkdk 9y ago
Don't do the drugs. Tech companies are marathons not sprints. It is not about one week, it is about years of innovation. You need to be healthy, creative and on top of your game. In our industry it is about being smart, not lots of hou
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by dirkdk 9y ago
congrats! Awesome company
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by dirkdk 9y ago
O1s are easy for artists, I know about somebody that worked on music software that got one in 2 months. Business related O1s are much harder
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by dirkdk 9y ago
as a former founder, I can tell you that much that you cannot work for the company you founded on an H1B visa. You can found the company, but not be employed by it. You will need another visa like the O1 or E2 investor visa. For an H1B you
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by dirkdk 9y ago
ditto. Lyft, pronounced of course as lift is a bad name for a company/service. Astonishing as the company first launched as Zimride. ps. I take Lyft 99 % of the time, for years already. Every industry needs an underdog to keep the big
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by dirkdk 10y ago
I feel the pain of the underprivileged americans, in particular our African-American brothers and sisters. However, there is a difference however between the top leadership of our country making explicit decisions to pass legislation to exc
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by dirkdk 10y ago
having tougher restrictions for H1B visa's wouldn't be a bad thing. Last few years about 3x as many applications were filed than visas available, with a lottery deciding who would get the H1b visa. I would argue that foreigners th
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by dirkdk 10y ago
Sorry to say I'm not surprised. Having multiple companies that suppply hardware, os versions and applications doesn't help.
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by dirkdk 10y ago
Sometimes I like to use class diagrams for my models and sequence diagrams for API calls. State diagrams. But just for higher concept sketching and most definitely not for generating code. I tried that, 12 years ago with Rational Rose. Boy
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by dirkdk 10y ago
Trying not to wonder if those servers would contain any tax returns. Or a pink elephant.
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by dirkdk 10y ago
I don't wear a helmet in my home town Amsterdam. I do wear a helmet here in San Francisco. Why? Car drivers are just not used to bicyclists in SF. Yes open their door without looking, turn without using their signals. And in general, d
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by dirkdk 10y ago
yeah, I find myself more doing a local commit with message WIP. I switch branches to do something else, come back, look at the log and if WIP, roll back the last commit

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