cccc4alll's comments

Your speech is hate speech. You should be banned and censored and deplatformed.

Amazon's initial business advantage was avoiding state/local sales taxes.

Most of tech valuation advances are about avoiding/bypassing regulations and taxation. They simply call it innovation and efficiency.

Uber and Lyft reworked the medallion system into mobile apps.

Instead of a physical medallion bolted on the car, it's a verified driver ID and rating in Uber/Lyft app.

Uber/Lyft are now collecting what the medallion owners were collecting previously from the drivers.

The apps are more convenient for riders and there are more efficiencies in the routes. But, it's still the same system. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

The argument is the same as before. Apple and Google are using monopoly control of mobile app stores to stifle competition. Existing anti-trust rules are enough to sue and get ruling to break up Apple and Google control of app stores.

More innovation and competition are good things. When mobile app stores are freed, new baby Apple and baby Google type companies can be free to build new services and features.

I recommend looking into history.

Apple was failing as computer company. Apple only survived because Microsoft threw them a lifeline, licensing Office suite in Macs and investing in Apple. Microsoft wanted to show anti-trust regulators that there was software competition in PC market. If there was no anti-trust suit against Microsoft, Apple would have likely went bankrupt.

Microsoft was on the way to owning Desktop and web space, by tightly integrating IE into Windows. Left on own, Microsoft would have routed all default browser traffic to Microsoft search engine on MSN. Google would have remained some student research prototype into an algorithm about backlinks.

I've also noticed the trend that "Full Stack" now really means back end in job descriptions.

Front End has to be explicitly called out for developers that will be responsible for developing rich UX features.

Front End is gaining more prominence, as more companies are moving to Cloud services and want to leverage Front End for custom business logic, which in a way is moving the stack to Front End. In near future, there will be a job description for Front End Full Stack engineer. I'm all about it.

The US government investigated and sued Microsoft for anti-trust violations many year ago. The anti-trust legal issues hampered Microsoft enough, so that smaller competitors, like Apple and Google, were able to gain traction in online and mobile space.

If that didn't happen, you would most likely be a Microsoft serf speaking into a Microsoft Windows Pocket PC Phone consumer edition.

Apple and Google has much tighter control over the platforms now than Microsoft ever dreamed of in wildest monopoly fantasies.

Government can use the same anti-trust regulations to break up Apple and Google and monopoly control over mobile app stores.

It's governments duty to keep fair competition in the marketplace, so innovation and free trade can happen for benefit of consumers.

Nuclear is the cheapest, cleanest, safest form of electricity generation.

Do some research into who pushed FUD propaganda about Nuclear industry, (Big oil) and who paid off the shrill environmental FUD lobby, (Bug oil).

Nuclear power is used safely in aircraft carriers and submarines for decades. It's time to build more nuclear power and build the cleaner, safer, cheaper electrical energy future.

There are other hobbies that may be more interesting and fun.

I've never considered computers to be fun. As you mentioned, they are tools to solve some problems. Some are interesting and challenging, most are tedious and grinding.

Computers and software engineering is a craft, way to make money.

This is the right move. All FAANG companies will have to fall in line quick.

All the nonsense about location based COL salary adjustments are based on pure HR fantasy.

High performance engineers are valuable and rare.

All this talk about more talent being available remote to companies and companies can demand salaries lower miss out on the other aspect.

More companies are now available to high performance engineers. High performers can now negotiate higher salary with multiple companies for remote positions.

It will be upward feedback loop, pushing higher salary offers for higher performers.

My guess is MS had plans for web dominance. Use Windows to push IE and VBScript and become gatekeeper to the web. Tightly couple Windows and web and have Windows become the web platform.

Until, US anti-trust investigation and law suit against MS. Which hampered MS enough to open the web business to smaller competitors, like Google, Apple, etc.

The fact that Apple now completely owns iOS and is gatekeeper to mobile app store is ironic. And, Google owns online ad services and is gatekeeper to online ad space is also ironic.

The top 5 biggest companies rely on javascript for huge portion of online business.

Microsoft - introduced AJAX to support their web enabled servers and online services. Have since morphed into Cloud based company.

Apple - lots of iOS apps are simple webviews that use javascript.

Amazon - online sales and cloud services using javascript.

Google - online ad services using javascript.

Facebook - online user behavior analytics using javascript.

Pretty much the entire online economy has huge dependency on javascript.

The opening of the talent pool flows both ways. The company options are also more open to high performance engineers. High performers are not limited by geography anymore. Many more companies are open to remote option.

This means increased competition for high performers and increase in salary.

All high performing tech engineer should interview with multiple companies and negotiate for increase in salary from all of them.

Forget this silly notion of location based COL salary adjustments. That's industry propaganda to suppress salary levels.

What would handle the click on the client browser? How would you handle all the user events in the client browser? clicks, mouse overs, selections, etc.

The Javascript platform is used to capture user behavior in the most efficient manner. This is the fundamental basis for all the online business processes and resulting business value.

Who controls the bad system now and who controlled the bad system in the past?

Why is it not getting better?

Who keeps getting richer every second, while everyone else stagnates?

I just want to say thank you for all your contributions to advancing web technologies.

Javascript is still the only meaningful "Full Stack" platform and responsible for Billions of dollars in online business and Trillions of dollars in business value.

Be careful, you'll be called wrong thinker and censored and deplatformed.

There's an old movie called They Live, starring wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper.

It's supposed to be satire on consumer culture, but looking at it now can be thought as time shifted documentary.

Javascript runtime is based on efficiently processing callback functions. Not a big surprise on recursive algorithm, which is function call algorithm.

The lower classes fight amongst themselves, while the establishment gets richer every second.

Ask yourself why you even think about these trivial issues like who is racist?

Ask yourself why the establishment media doesn’t talk about who owns and controls the vast wealth in this country? Which has more impact and can benefit people of all races.

It’s a private company, they can do whatever they want.

Most people want to work for Tesla, Spacex for many reasons. 401k match is not in top 10 list.

People can vote with their feet and move to another company, if 401k match is deal breaker.