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It's crazy he could put his son through training for years, yet cannot bother to read the book over a weekend?!

I agree, but people would of started coming out of the woodwork and giving me even more exceptions to the rule and how it's unrealistic, so I did the startup lower bound.

Very true on the having kids part. But you typically have 7 years of your life before you reach 30. Probably contributes to the logan's run effect you see in SV tech companies ;) W…

Also apple. They pay less initially but start matching after a few years.

80k* %50 = 40k vs. 160k * %35 = 56k Bay area in a nutshell. You can have higher savings rates too, I do around %40 and I could save even more. Working at a startup does make it har…

So what is up and coming compared to ML?

China's is also hurting people with their behavior towards foreign companies in China in similar ways. Not to mention all the abuse china afflicts on it's own people with their pow…

You have to take a week off or spend 4-5 weekend days in training, making driving on Uber a lot less attractive as a part time extra while your already employed.

I've found that google maps performs worse in firefox and I get random %100 cpu spikes from websites in firefox that I didn't get in chrome. I'm on a mac using firefox 55.

Canada has training requirements for other low income jobs, and the kids take them even if your just going to work part time. For example, you usually need to take a 1 day foodsafe…

It's part of an overall trend. For example the gatekeeper security settings ux has slowly been removing options to run unsigned binaries bit by bit. In 10.12 there is no obvious wa…

Unique tit-for-tat regulations of Chinese companies of what is shown in practice? "Our companies don't have freedoms X,Y,Z vs Chinese corps in china, so Chinese corps and investors…

It's also useful for cheaper & faster cross border remittances for the common person. For the common person paypal's %3+ currency exchange fees is more expensive than the equivalen…

Most ad blocking is about intercepting specific urls, which can work at a layer below javascript. They can also do server side ads and make the url indistinguishable from another i…

I could coach you if you want, I'm also in SF. I do a lot of those interviews from the other side. You can get my contact info in my user info page.

I meant it in the more casual sense, of low supply and constant / high demand.

Wages don't grow because there isn't a shortage condition for labor. If there was a shortage, the price of labor (wages) would increase. From what I've read, it became fed policy t…

Don't do it, the compile & indexing times alone as your code scales up get pretty bad. The debugger also just crashes when your codebase gets big and becomes uselessly slow when it…

I feel like dating is a good social experience to get started on in high school although. You learn a lot of social skills and things that you wouldn't learn anywhere else. Also dr…

When you want to replace all the nails in your house with screws, so you can throw away the hammer ;)

TBH I don't think conscious micro-payments would work well. Something like spotify where you pay a flat fee for 'all you can eat' and proceeds are distributed via what you consume …

I think your 10s transaction is about equivalent to an unconfirmed bitcoin transaction or credit card authorization. How often is the actual bank-to-bank transfer? The fact that th…

Tencent is a pretty bad place to work at, how they constantly discarded their work projects, have typical chinese work hours where people sleep under their desk despite being huge …

Humans accumulate an ever growing collection of personal photos and videos as they get older. Eventually it will become like gmail, where you never delete them.