swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
remember when everyone was bailing on github because of evil microsoft?
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swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: WeWork Bonds Drop Below Par for First Time Since IPO Filing
it's not uncommon with hypey vc funded startups. I've gone to two different startup camps, it's very much so kool-aid drinking exercises
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: SoftBank could bring down the house?
what would you suggest if you currently work for a softbank startup?
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful
this. I wanted to go to community college but that was not an option in my house. I was 17 when I took out massive loans. I feel stupid but I really don't know what else I should have done.
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: There Is Too Much Stuff
fuck when are you opening up tours in nyc? this is just fascinating for a west coaster that has no ties here
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage
it's improve your life because you're probably a highly paid software developer or engineer (guessing because here you are on hacker news). I would like to hear more from the people who work for amazon (not the devs reaping all of the rewards of stock shares) and the retailers selling their goods on amazon to see if the company has "improved" their lives.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: AT&T promised 7k new jobs to get tax break, cut 23k jobs instead
but capitalism is efficient
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
It annoys me that front-end is sold as "easier". Getting started is "easy", building front-end applications at scale is a completely different ballgame.
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
That's totally possible but if you're the CTO of Airbnb would you want the high schooler for cheap (who may be unreliable when it comes to managing schedules, following protocols, having the maturity to deal with failing systems) or do you want the guy who's been managing all of these OS products for years? It's a person issue, not really a competency issue.
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
+1 to n for the homebrew installation. nvm team is notoriously hardheaded about not wanting to maintain availability through different tools.
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
I had so many similar experiences. People writing me off right after the recession and then work picked back up around 2013. Got tons of offers and job opportunities only to have the same previous recruiters pinging me. "yeah, no thanks, got a job already".
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
I don't think it's that cynical. It's a known fact that Google and Apple created an agreement not to poach each other's talent to keep salaries low.
swoongoonz | 6 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage
These kids would be competing with incredibly prolific web developers who not only output an insane amount of code themselves but manage OSS at massive scales. One example is Jordan Harband, responsible for:
1. Enzyme, the current top used React testing library 2. NVM, kind of the only game in town for managing node versions 3. qs, a tool for converting search to json objects and back 4. tc39 proposals, the committee that determines new JS features
This is all in addition to his developer work at Airbnb. I would like to see a high schooler have that kind of maturity, drive, and focus.
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Jack Ma defends the 'blessing' of a 12-hour working day
this guy is going to have a workers revolt on his hands
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town
100% agree. The thing nobody also remembers is that Silicon Valley was called SV because of it's hardware/manufacturing not really it's software development. The software side of things flourished because of the existing hardware work that had already existed (semiconductors, parc lab arpanet, apple, oracle, atari).
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Why media layoffs keep happening
"I have failed to find one important reason: all news are fake news now."
Can't tell if Russian troll farm agent or just someone with poor English skills...
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Why media layoffs keep happening
straight up, you don't know how to read.
>But what Mr. Yasharahla might view as great, others call something else: hate. >But Ms. Beirich said that groups like Hebrew Israelites were also anti-gay, anti-white and anti-Semitic.
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns
>put a cap on tuition so that it can't be more than X hours of work at a state's minimum wage
This is the best idea I've heard when it comes to the debate on education costs.
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Rural America's “brain drain”: How student debt is emptying small towns
I would argue it's not just rural America, it's also smaller markets and cities. Cities like Salt Lake City, Sacramento, Nashville, Omaha, and Portland (OR), can't compete with the larger markets. If you have enough skills, you aren't going to stay in those markets long before a recruiter from the major cities reach out.
swoongoonz | 7 years ago | on: Facebook is the worst thing that's ever happened to the internet
I somewhat disagree with his assessment of influencers. Can they be annoying? Yes. Are they providing real value for companies to be able to connect with tribes of people? Yes. The influencer has single handedly upended the advertisement industry and taken money away from traditional media is a big way. I think it's given more jobs to people who don't work on Madison Avenue and maybe don't have technical skills, but can connect with a large audience of people.
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