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by w3pm 13y ago
"I'm sure they deal with this with people wanting to stay beyond their trip date or trying to book directly, but Airbnb can easily track this stuff with the scheduling feature and seeing discrepancies when users try to go offline.
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by w3pm 13y ago
Irrelevant. How valuable is the work you do? You could go around 'pitching' your window washing services and land 5 out of 100 potential clients but you still aren't getting more than a few bucks per wash.
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by w3pm 13y ago
I guess I'm not following how they are unrelated. To really stress a system and find bugs, shouldn't you be putting it under realistic usage and load? In my mind using test data that closely matches real data is desirable for deve
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by w3pm 13y ago
Fair enough, but it's also advantageous to make it non-obviously fake. Consider the recent stories about services faking traffic/users in order to gain real traffic/users (ebay, reddit, dating sites, etc).
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by w3pm 13y ago
I think you misread the op's post -- the suggestion was, "would you work with them again." If they're lousy the answer is obviously no.
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by w3pm 13y ago
"Given the scale of the cash injection, the company might not have to raise another series round before going public, though a bridge round isn’t inconceivable." Why does a company need to raise so-much-money before going public?
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by w3pm 13y ago
Except that go is a garbage collected language and as such will never be a replacement for C++. I could however see C++ dying, leaving C and go behind.
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by w3pm 13y ago
What about the author's complaints about exponentially increasing code complexity when introducing new features or new exception types? I feel like the author made an attempt to write c++ the "correct" way and found it unsuit
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by w3pm 13y ago
The entire first half of the article is dedicated to why "C++ with exceptions" is not acceptable for software that strives to have zero undefined behavior. Your proposed "better title" doesn't make sense given the a
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by w3pm 13y ago
For a while I thought C + templates would be a great idea as well. In theory templates are a much more powerful and expressive way of generating code than macros/xmacros. However after playing around with the idea in a few C++ modules
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by w3pm 13y ago
Many of these "I'd never have imagined you could get rich doing... (groceries|steel|lumber|shoes|silverware|bandaids|etc) examples take generations to build the business large enough to actually "get rich." They're
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by w3pm 13y ago
The intern bit is disturbing to me. The trouble is, he can't actually believe this is the best decision for these kids to make. He himself started a business while still in school; he didn't slave away for someone else as "lo
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by w3pm 13y ago
I agree that simply "counting" is a useless metric. I believe what's useful is exposure to different ways of thinking about programming and problem solving. In my personal experience, exposure to imperative, functional, logic
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by w3pm 13y ago
Assuming they could maintain that for a full year, $6K a day is only 2.2MM. Also keep in mind that these hotshots don't do much of the grunt work, they offload it to any number of junior associates (which that hourly rate has to cover,
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by w3pm 13y ago
Good lawyers cost quite a bit more than $350 an hour. Many of the "top" law firms charge north of $1000 an hour these days, below that $500-600/hour for a good quality lawyer is about what I'd expect. Fairly insane but i
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by w3pm 13y ago
Is this surprising? I'd imagine 3D printing would be capable of replicating the form of nearly any solid object that fits within the bounded volume of a given 3D printer.
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by w3pm 13y ago
Here you go: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/cost-of-living/ Enter St. Louis, MO and San Francisco, CA. Housing is 276% more expensive. Columbia? 252%. Kansas City? 215%. You get the idea. Also, just for f
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by w3pm 13y ago
Plenty of companies I know pay $5-10k or more for a successful hire referral. Good engineers are in demand, foreign or not. It's way easier to get the interview and be hired if you're local, though -- can't beat skill + conve
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by w3pm 13y ago
One thing I've wondered -- rather than spending so much effort building an extensive network, why not build a very small network of solid connections... with people who have lots of connections? In any industry there are those individu
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by w3pm 13y ago
For what it's worth, I see identical behavior with stock market enthusiasts as well. Good job numbers? Market goes up. Bad job numbers? Market goes up -- clearly Ben Bernanke must keep printing until employment stabilizes. "A&quot
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by w3pm 13y ago
Exactly right. In our current zero-interest rate environment everyone with spare cash is scrambling to figure out what to do to generate a return. Stock market? Risky. Bonds? You've got to be insane. Real-estate? Very risky. Angel inve
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by w3pm 13y ago
Does it matter? What are the odds these guys are telling the truth when the President himself has lied about it? Maybe it's a concern of national security?
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by w3pm 13y ago
How about just displaying the result below as soon as the selection is changed? Having me click a button, and then click 'Back' to try a new combo, is annoying. Other than that, great idea :)
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by w3pm 13y ago
I believe it's about the money your money will earn that buys you the freedom. Consider having $5 million in the bank. You buy some conservative Pimco bonds earning 5% per year and bam, you've got $250k in yearly income (pre-tax) doing lite
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by w3pm 13y ago
Prices are on the right side of a menu in America. It means you never have to care how much you're spending on a meal.
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by w3pm 13y ago
C has the benefit that it's as close as you can get to a WYSIWYG language. There's no VM or garbage handler running behind your back doing god-knows-what at the most inopportune time. You can look at the code and know exactly what instructi
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by w3pm 13y ago
The clockspeeds on the processors they're using are probably relatively slow. Plus they don't have to worry about retina displays or WiFi or other major power-consumers in today's devices... I bet the overall consumption isn't that bad.
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by w3pm 13y ago
No dynamic memory allocation, no recursion, no longjmp, etc. Program execution must be entirely predictable, every time. SpaceX's programming rules are probably very similar to those used at NASA JPL: http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Codin
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by w3pm 13y ago
Sorry but I don't think this analogy works. How many people would it take to lift a plane 38,000 feet into the air at 600 mph? You can't measure the usefulness of jet travel by such labor utility metrics, it's nonsense. Perhaps you can quan
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by w3pm 14y ago
Look at heavily unionized industries like hollywood and the writers guild for guidance. They effectively have a "minimum wage" where if you're part of the guild, you must be paid a MINIMUM of $64k for an original screenplay. http://www.wga

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