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jcuga | 10 years ago | on: Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups

What good is a billion dollar startup if it pays little US tax, and only employs one or two hundred high paying jobs? A 100 Million dollar company typically employs just as many high paying jobs and may pay more US tax than a lot of these tech companies.

Also, a lot of these tech companies that are "shaking up" industries are profitable at the expense of other more traditional businesses (For example: AirBnB taking business from Hotels, Uber from taxi services, etc).

So bringing in more Billion dollar unicorn startups may not be the best thing for a country.

jcuga | 10 years ago | on: When I Was Your Age

Graduates are increasingly less prepared for the working world and burdened with large student loans. It should come as no surprise that higher levels of education have not improved Millennials' standing.

There are more distractions and diversions than ever that prevent youth from otherwise doing something constructive with their time. And universities have been dumbing down curriculum to bring in more (less qualified) students that are buoyed up by federal loans.

jcuga | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Go Report Card

Very nice. Added yet another shiny badge to my github project's README.

It seem's a little too easy to get an 'A' rating. On one of my less polished libraries it pointed out a few issues that I feel should bump me down to at least a 'B'.

jcuga | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Golongpoll – Go HTTP longpolling library

Yeah. I originally started out using SSE but I ended up settling on longpolling because of wider browser support and the fact that there are issues with SSE even on newer browsers and polyfills. The knee-jerk reaction nowadays is to use websockets for everything, but sometimes simple is better.

jcuga | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: What project are you most proud of?

I just wrote my first golang library: https://github.com/jcuga/golongpoll

I'm proud of it because its a general purpose library (http longpolling) versus random prototypes that I normally make. Also it has a lot of unit tests, code comments, and a decent README. I can appreciate the amount of work it takes to create a polished library for others to use after making one myself.

jcuga | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Golongpoll – Go HTTP longpolling library

When I needed some simple push notifications, I could't find any decent library or example for longpolling in go (or most other languages), so I decided to make one :)

A lot of the examples out there in blog posts are too simplistic. They don't handle buffering old events and most of them simply give an event to the first request and then discard it. That's not real pub-sub.

jcuga | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Proxyblock – an interactive content-blocking proxy written in golang

Oh, interesting. I didn't know that existed! Pretty similar idea. Mine's more focused on content blocking than specifically privacy. This should also work cross platform since its all written in go. (I've used it on windows, mac, and linux) If there's enough interest, I could polish this into a more complete product. I've been meaning to do a rewrite done right based on this prototype but need some motivation/reason to improve something that's "good enough" for me personally blocking ads and cruft while reading the news.
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