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JAFTEM | 7 years ago | on: AT&T Cleared by Judge to Buy Time Warner

Also have bad internet in LA. I grew up in North Dakota though, and back there my family is getting 1 gigabit internet for $100/mo from Midcontinent.

Absolutely bizarre and ridiculous that North Dakota, a state that has far less developed infrastructure than either coast, has better internet than Los Angeles.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: The Glory That Was Yahoo

GeoCities in the early 2000's is where I first created and built something with a computer and the Internet and the experience started the journey towards becoming a software developer. I still remember using a hit counter to track how many people visited my cartoon fan-site (I was 10, 11 years old) and getting excited over 20 visitors.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Big Sugar Versus Your Body

I've completely cut out sugar too and it's intriguing how the body responds. I once accidentally sipped my partner's coffee (filled with sugar) thinking it was mine and I actually gagged.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Who Killed the Junior Developer?

Poach said junior devs from the Bay Area to LA or in general? Sort of confused with your second statement. The crazy thing is that every one of my CS major friends I graduated with at USC moved up the coast to the Bay Area or Seattle, or to the east coast in NYC.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Who Killed the Junior Developer?

I understand the appeal of Seattle and the Bay Area, but it sometimes boggles my mind that larger tech companies don't build in cities where there are a large number of new grads looking for jobs. [0] LA county produces the most CS grads in the country, [1] and most of them are moving out of the area and up the coast for lack of junior SWE openings in SoCal. Any of the Big N could have a monopoly on talent coming out of USC, UCLA, Cal Tech, UCI, UCSB, UCSD, Harvey Mudd, Cal Poly, etc.

[0] https://datausa.io/profile/cip/110701/#counties_most_degrees

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2017/07/24/is-southern-california...

JAFTEM | 8 years ago

My Nexus 6p is the same. At exactly 15% battery if I open specific apps I immediately get notified that my battery is 0% and my phone turns off. This only started within the last 6 or so months.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

My gut tells me the job market is worst for junior devs in SoCal. Junior level openings aren't growing nearly as fast as the number of students trying to break into the workforce. A total of 0 of my friends at USC who were CS grads stayed in LA.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

I mentioned the Valley, and having a West LA airport I don't find silly at all if it cuts LAX traffic in half, contingent on OP's idea of public transportation into and out of West LA relieving the 405 and the 10. OP's idea isn't to increase air traffic, it's to disperse it.

>Metro lines cute

Yes, that is also what OP was addressing. Faster lines between these theoretical airports, because metro is slow. These would double as public transportation for commuters. I'd love a straight shot with no stops from LAX to West LA to DTLA.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B

I like that idea. The links between each could double as public transportation for all, just include connections with existing metro stations. It would encourage the city to build around each of those nodes: put one in West LA, one DTLA, and one in the Valley, improve the one in Inglewood. The 405 from LAX to West LA and the 10 from West LA to DTLA are among two of the worst stretches in the country.

Though, people in for eg. West LA would have fits over the idea of airplanes flying over their sacred lands.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Confidential metrics for Snapchat features

> Why would you advertise on that

A small percentage of companies are actively advertising on that. The featured stories (ads) on Snapchat almost always use sexual imagery to bait you into opening them. I agree, I don't think that's a sustainable model and it honestly shows how desperate Snap is to make revenue to allow these sort of ads.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Confidential metrics for Snapchat features

I use Snapchat and my friends use it. It feels much more personal than Instagram or Facebook, which are social media platforms that extend beyond my close friends and include acquaintances. People can't comment on your story - they have to message you if they want to say something, and group chats in particular keep me using Snap.

I will say that their Android app is more or less garbage and should be an embarrassment to the company. It doesn't function right, it's slow and clunky, and it's infuriating to use and I've moved to IG more and more as its gotten worse. I know Snap is addressing that issue by rebuilding the app, but they have only started caring recently.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Apple iPhone X Demand Limited, Wall Street Analysts Say

>It is a phone beset by compromises, the only thing it does reliably is broadcast that you are rich enough to buy a $1000 phone.

I think most of us with engineering backgrounds have a very hard time accepting that social capital is a valid reason to buy a device. It may just not be valid for me personally.

JAFTEM | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you decide when to start your own business

I'm not one to take advice from and I would never assume to give any on this matter. Just a short anecdote.

Max Levchin [Affirm] visited my university my senior year and someone in the audience asked something similar. He told us (paraphrasing) "if you keep holding off building a startup, it will never happen, and if you hold off until you have a stable job and income, it's definitely not going to happen."

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