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Honestly I don't know if that's true. Picking up on vibes might be better than something like GitHub stats.

dukeyukeyon Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)

How did they get colleagues in the first place without cold-applying?

dukeyukeyon Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

Even in startups, lots of places are on Spring Boot (albeit more often using Kotlin over Java).

dukeyukeyon Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

Alternatively, I think of Java and Spring Boots as being incredibly valuable by letting companies that don't really have software as a core competency to make reasonably performant and structured applications.

Mediocrity will never not exist, and you unlock a lot of value by optimising for it.

dukeyukeyon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

The 1st Amendment is old, but the way it's applied today is quite radical compared to how it was applied for most of American history. The US being so free speech isn't much older than the median American is.

dukeyukeyon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

Worth pointing out the modern American conception of freedom of speech is super recent. It only really became a thing in the 1970s. Before then, restrictions on porn, film, even written materials on controversial subjects like abortion could and were regulated.

dukeyukeyon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

Worth pointing out the US has similar restrictions already. Why is the UK catching flak for discussing this?

dukeyukeyon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

Why? I run a few.

dukeyukeyon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

They didn't put it very well but they're right that being the 6th largest economy, and likely to become the 5th or 4th quite soon puts a hole in the "economically irrelevant" accusation.

dukeyukeyon Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland

Surely there's a massive overlap, in that a country that has been trustworthy in the past derives a certain level of power from that? Like, Trump randomly declaring tariffs means a deal is not worth making, which erodes American economic power as countries find other suppliers and customers.

dukeyukeyon We mourn our craft

I've been a professional programmer for 8+ years now. I've stomached that life. I've made things people used and paid for.

If I can do that typing one line at a time, I can do it _way_ faster with AI.

dukeyukeyon Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees

"Work" does not exclusively mean "work full time for a wage".

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

And also, IG Group is a British company, HQ'd in London, traded on the London Stock Exchange. "British stock trading company acquired by British stock trading company" is a pretty boring event.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

I don't think so. Like sure, if you're a Bangladeshi living in Tower Hamlets you could probably get away with a limited life speaking only Bengali, but you could say the same about Spanish in swathes of the US. Realistically, you need English.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

> But it isn't true. For the rest of the world SV is still the place to go to, one way or another.

We are using different meanings for the same phrase. SV is the best place to raise, IF YOU CAN AND ARE WILLING TO RAISE THERE. But not everyone can, nor does everyone want to. And of the locations that are not in the US, London dominates.

And hell, Americans raise in Boston, Seattle, NYC, and so on. Not even all Americans move to SV, let alone people who may not even get a visa to enter the US.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

Housing is super expensive, but even that is coming down. Transport is a bit expensive, bit it's fine. Everything else is pretty reasonable!

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

The article doesn't dispute that London is way behind SV. What it's saying is that for non-US funding, London dominates.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

This doesn't seem true, I work in a UK tech company and it's an incredibly international team. My team has three Brits (including me), a Norwegian, a Swede, a Pole, and an American. The CEO is Irish, the CTO is German/American.

Obviously that's just one data point, but every tech company is similar.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

I don't know Aakash Gupta so I can't say if he's lying or just didn't do his research, but I know the IPO figures he cited there are wrong, like very wrong, which puts everything else there in doubt.

Not to mention location of IPO not being all that important. But that's a whole separate thing.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

Eh, I know quite a few. LegalTech, hardware, obviously fintech, quite a bit of AI. But I work at a London startup so my social circle might be different to yours.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

According to levels.fyi London is basically the best paying non-US city, I think maybe beaten by some Swiss cities.

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

No it isn't, London's IPOs in 2025 were mostly towards the end of the year, after that article was written. London ended up about 8th worldwide for issuances in 2025 - https://www.pwc.co.uk/press-room/press-releases/research-com...

Plus, the FTSE 100 returned 25.8% last year. That is not a shrinking market!

EDIT: I'd prefer you not change the subject away from your capital markets claim, but to address the other links:

1. I didn't say London was a top 4 IPO location, just that it's market aren't shrinking.

2. Tech Nation still exists, and still administers that visa. I don't know why you posted a very out of date article about it.

3. It's not ideal that such a high profile company is having issues like that, but hey, stuff happens. OpenAI had a whole goddamn coup and counter-coup happen!

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

> enabled by London’s shrinking public markets

That doesn't seem to be true?

dukeyukeyon How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital

For you specifically that may be true, but the numbers say London dominates by far.

dukeyukeyon The world of Japanese snack bars

What's wrong with someone using an aspect of their culture to make a living?

dukeyukeyon De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)

That is an annualised figure, which means they took the Q3 figure by itself and multiplied it by 4. US annualised growth in Q1 would've been -2%.

Between Q1/2/3, US growth has been about 1.6%.

Wait until the whole year figures come out.

dukeyukeyon Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights

There have already been significant decreases in Canadian (and likely other countries) purchases of American goods, and travel to the US. The thing you say will never happen, already happened last year.

Jim Beam (the bourbon distillery) said before Trump 10% of their sales were to Canada, and that has gone to nearly zero.

dukeyukeyon Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights

We are talking about individuals here. People are absolutely capable of not drinking Coke because they want to avoid American products.

dukeyukeyon Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights

> So if you boycott Coca-Cola brands, maybe 20% of the impact goes to Coca-Cola US, while 80% is felt by the local company and its employees.

Assuming the person burns the money they would've spent on Cola in the first place. But they aren't, they'll probably just redirect that money to an alternative soft drink, probably a more local one.

dukeyukeyon Why Greenland's natural resources are nearly impossible to mine

Because those places are close enough in profitability that it doesn't make a massive difference.

Greenland is real hard to mine in, needs infrastructure from scratch, and nowhere near enough of a local population.