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I could see developers ditching GitHub with the acquisition for a perceived conflict of interest. It's really easy to change your remote.

I see a potentially big market opportunity for anyone who wants to compete in the space now.

I'm sure the article is a nice read, but I think you summarized it quite well. Gotta take the initiative on things.

As someone who has coded for 5+ years, and who occasionally speaks with people curious about coding, I enjoyed reading this because it gave me fresh perspective to approaching these conversations.

Some of the concepts in the article, like learning how to learn (e.g,, googling your way out of problems) are things I have tried to convey, but the article does a better job articulating than I could.

I agree with the premise that coding itself isn't difficult. Everything can be broken down very small, simple pieces of logic like: "myName = John + Doe".

The challenge is when things don't go according to plan. Sometimes you need to question your assumptions to solve a problem. Basically, develop your problem-solving abilities to be more productive while coding.

A whitelist sounds like it would be far easier to maintain, though each user would be on the hook for that.

No more cat-and-mouse that you'd have with the blacklisting approach, at least.

How does this work if you get something like a W2, which is issued for the calendar year? Let's say your "personal" tax year starts and ends July 1 of each year. Are you supposed to split your W2 in half and count each for each year?

Sounds quite complex. I'm surprised they permit it.

Why does a legacy matter when you're dead? You won't be around to know if you truly are a legacy. Sure, Zuckerberg has a hospital but who knows what civilization will remember of him in 500 years.

To rationalize it my own mind, he must simply continue being CEO since that's what he enjoys doing.

Facebook isn't solving a real-world problem. Before Messenger, I could have easily just kept in touch with those I care about via text message. Without the ad targeting, echo chambers, and anxiety that social platforms create with "keeping up with the joneses".

There's a bunch of negative externalities. I don't want to be a user anymore. I will share things I care enough to share with my friends directly, not through an abstraction of a "wall" where an opaque algorithm decides who sees what. It's incredibly impersonal. It is by no means "connecting" us. Facebook sows far more division than connection.

Males in the USA have an 81% chance of living to age 65 [1]. I think it makes sense to take care of yourself. Of course, allow yourself the occasional indulgence.

Your habits of your 20s and 30s could significantly impact your 40s and 50s. Taking care of yourself means enjoying more great moments later on too. Also, taking care of yourself can be in itself enjoyable. Pick up a sport, or if you're not competitive, make going to the gym a social thing. And eating healthy can certainly be tasty.

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.MA.ZS?locat...

Yikes, that management fee is terrible. Not for me, no siree. (Google how annual fees can drag a portfolio if you are unsure).

Yeah, but whoever is first to market on driverless (e.g., Tesla) has already said they will have a separate network for letting others use your Tesla to subsidize your ownership cost. Aka, your Tesla won't be a part of Uber's driverless fleet.

So, at best, they become a 40-billion dollar driver/rider match-making algorithm and a pretty CRUD app. Unless Uber itself is working on autonomous driving technology. It's so easy for drivers and riders to switch between ridesharing apps (e.g., ever see an Uber driver that also has a Lyft sticker on their car? I have, many times), I don't see how any of them can solidify a competitive advantage of sorts long-term.

In my opinion, 3200 sq ft is more than plenty for a single family (2-4 people).

Aren't there many more general software developers than there are VP's, founders, and low digit employee exiters?

Like, I'm curious what drives the demand for homes in the ~$2M range in the bay area, if it's not the general software developer who's able to afford it.

About 73% of the principal has been recovered as of December 2017. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/madoff-vi...

Yeah, but it's hard to say whether the transaction to the new address was done by a fraudster or the exchange.

They can claim their private key was stolen, and it wasn't the exchange's owner, but we have no way of knowing for certain.

The point I was trying to make was, if advertiser's increased profits were less than the expense of advertising (e.g., a company spends $20 on advertising, but profits grow $10), then they the company would not advertise again, since that would be as effective as burning money in a pit.

They must be working for others. If businesses couldn't profit off of advertising, then they wouldn't do it.

So are you saying -- all else equal -- that if your webpage can respond just as quickly as an AMP one, that your search rank won't be docked?

E.g., your site is just as performant as AMP, but you're not using AMP.

Are there that many people in rent-controlled apartments for this to be a serious enough issue or cause of traffic?

These risks make it obvious why an "at home" solution is highly unlikely to come to fruition.

You want to be putting enterprise-grade things into your eye. The only way you'd be able to guarantee that is to source the treatment through traditional channels.

Thank you for calling out a potential replacement service. Building iOS apps is certainly tricky (can't get Mac OS into the cloud easily), so these free-tier CICD services really are great for those creating new, smaller apps and are getting on their feet.

It's another reason to not do business with smaller companies. Especially if their idea is good, you can only wonder, when will they be bought out and my workflow will be (temporarily) disrupted?

I think Buddybuild was the only service with a free tier. For folks that aggressive bootstrappers (like myself), it's just another nuisance. And even for people who were paying -- they are still as equally as disrupted.

2 months is not enough time for people to find alternative solutions.

Yeah, but you don't own that other property. Other people do, and they should be able to do as they please with it, so long as it meets zoning regulations.

I don't think a concept of a fractional ownership exists because, well, it's not yours.

If you really want some guarantee that your immediate radius will meet some sort of standards, it sounds like you'd want to be part of an HOA. I personally would never want to be part of one (who likes being told what to do?) but they could help protect property values from that one neighbor who could be a problem.

You should double down on your 401(k) contributions today to better your odds for a comfortable retirement.

I wouldn't let expected market returns impact the amount you feel is appropriate to save/invest today.

The max FICA (Social Security) tax in 2017 was $7,886.40, which equates to an income of $127,200 (it's a 6.2% tax). There are many people making below that threshold, and not even paying that much.

You can't live very comfortably on less than $8,000 / year. It takes nearly two workers (maybe three if you consider the average annual income, and that the fair majority workers aren't making maximum FICA payments) to cover every retiree -- which seems to logically require successively larger working age adults than prior generations.

> Mostly a case of perfectly intelligent people throwing wads of money into the market on autopilot because that's all the 401k lets you do. Lambs to the slaughter!

That's called "buy and hold" investing (putting additional dollars you have into the market, as your paychecks come in).

Historically, it's been a great way to grow wealth. You invest in index funds, and you get basically the market return less some fees.

> expense ratio over 1.5%

This is worse-case scenario. Employers are coming around to see these fees as astronomical. Plus, well-funded 401(k)'s can get institutional rates, due to their portfolio size. We're talking expense ratio's of 0.03, 0.02, almost non-existent.

So they can pay to show the ads to job seekers 40+ but not hire them. Facebook makes more money, and they get to say they did some social good.

Seems like they should be advocating (at least in this use case) to stop the discrimination to increase profits.

It wasn't a part of the numbered list of things. The author didn't even treat it as a first-class thing to be talking about when considering "trouble hiring developers".

Compensation seems to be surprisingly missing from this list. If I work at a FANG company, and you're just getting started, chances are you won't be able to compete nearly as well as compensation. That's not to say that compensation is the only thing people work for -- though it is a large part -- but you must offer something especially unique to set yourself apart.

I'll provide my two cents, in the case of group activities. It seems awfully convenient to have a single site (e.g., meetup) for, say, if I'm traveling to a new city and looking for something to do.

It'd seem like an unnecessary barrier to entry to have to find the locally hosted instance of every particular problem, every location I go.

Knowing I can use Yelp or Groupon etc to find local restaurants or deals anywhere is actually pretty helpful.

To get to the core of your premise:

> I thought there was no reason that signals needed to go through server farms in California just to organize a local dinner, have a local marketplace, classes, dating, or a host of other things.

You might think there is no reason for this; but users of these services aren't concerned with this problem. If your selling point is "Hey, don't you hate how this one big corporation has a monopoly on <marketplace> <group activities> etc?", you're going to hear crickets. This isn't a customer problem.