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It blows my mind that there are still projects managed without git. I've seen entire production projects in a shared network drive with appname_april_3_2014 appname_april_4_2014 ap…

Amazing! :D

I completely agree, Hackernews has really helped me personally. Tons of interesting articles over the years on LLVM or the inner machinations of garbage collections. Picking the br…

I really appreciate this as a self taught dev with a full time full stack job. I worked my ass off for 3 years, taking online courses, building product after product for people to …

No! Think of their families! The stem guys have it good anyways, lets just cut that!

Lets say it takes 2 engineers 3 months to build an another payment processor + failover, at $120k salary + 40k in benefits and taxes a year a piece. stipes SLA was 99.980% uptime f…

Don't give them any ideas

This has been tried before in a number of different flavors. Most leave people worse off. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-18/yup-re...

Backend seems down for me. Also the second filter date picker is positioned so its off my screen (23" standard monitor). Cool concept though and it seemed to work for others judgin…

I would argue that a font is a part of an organization's brand. I think publishers like Airbnb and google have built around Cereal and roboto respectively.

"Theres a lot of people that spend years telling themselves that they're going to work on rockets. These same people build ad tech platforms and never leave. If you want to build r…

Understood. Would like to hear your thoughts on why VC does not have a healthy investment philosophy.

Why though? I would like my government to be open to at least listening to lots of different ideas and applying an investment mindset to them. You're right, there is little operati…

You mentioned the Durbin act which limit debit card fees. Since you're exempt from it, I assume you'll be jacking up fees for merchants in order to pay for your rewards program whi…

Completely agree, most technical concepts require you to play with it. I've never heard of anyone learning spark from a podcast

I use them as white noise with the potential of an interesting tidbit here and there. I like having something playing in my headphones while working and podcasts have become someth…

I like the painting analogy and have used it frequently. Let's say you were commissioned to create a landscape painting. It'll be a big payday if you get it right and its due in 30…

A car consumes exponentially more fuel than a horse

The R&D that went into your phone can be derived from wall street types buying cell phones in the 90s. As technology gets better, the probability that it will become affordable to …

How a company begins to how it gets to sell products for $100m is fascinating. Boeing built their first plane soley because they had bought another plane, subsequently crashed it a…

As someone behind a corporate firewall on a Friday, thank you

If the blue apron team doesn't read threads like these and actually build things people want, they're finished. They spent so much on advertising and promotions without improving t…

There is a strong difference between Yield to Maturity and effective yield. Yes, If they hold bonds until they mature, specifically government bonds, there will be no loss in princ…

It's amazing how many times I've seen people post losses in excess of $20,000 on r/wallstreetbets.