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This was oddly satisfying and I voted on a bunch of colors. Definitely a bias towards my personal preferences and also what I think would be useable for websites but fun idea! Will be great to see the resulting data.

I agree, current management is pretty bad. I can easily envision a world where it is well-run and with less grift where your California ID essentially unlocks a slew of services like healthcare and university access.

Like i said before, this is wishful thinking, but it’s not for lack of resources.

Sometimes I feel like this is the endgame where the US overall kind of declines but California starts managing itself better and operates almost like an independent country.

Probably wishful thinking but would be great.

At risk of dating myself, I am still rocking with sublime text and vim.

I tried this with my site and I am pretty impressed with the results. We will likely use this to update our visualizations and hopefully make them more accessible for folks with disabilities! Thanks for this, great writeup!

The part that resonated with me is the ageism and general suspicion (by your potentially younger boss) of those with families and responsibilities. Startups tend to expect you to put everything you have into work, but for some folks that's just not possible.

Did it get taken down already? I think open-sourcing the algo would materially change the value of the deal.

Startup idea: wipe yourself from the internet completely as a service.

Computer history museum in San Jose is pretty cool.

QSBS ftw

A more egalitarian Uber/DoorDash/Lyft/etc. where all players in the market benefit and the company solely exists to provide value lives rent free in my head. In the practical reality however, the idea seems somewhat intractable.

Great idea for a product. Glad this exists! If anything, you guys should be charging more for this service!

CLRS algorithms book changed the game for me. Dense and at times difficult to read but incredibly thorough and no hand waving whatsoever. Brought rigor to my approach and helped me clean up the way I think about some things.

I feel like people always forget this is an option.

As a solo developer, running a small instance yourself and just SSH’ing in or writing a few simple scripts to deploy is probably more worthwhile. You have to deal with the “headache” of setup but at least you know what’s going on underneath the hood.

Fetch is great. I never understood the need for installing axios when fetch works fine. I remember the good old days of XMLHttpRequest.

Been at it again with the amazing content. Love everything this guy does. He has taught me so much about network programming and C in a very accessible way.

I think the operative difference here is, it requires a trained and licensed physician to perform an abortion. Anyone can take an 80% lower receiver and make one into an AR-15 in their garage with just a couple of YouTube videos to guide them.

Bug in the Black Friday promo code logic that made the deal unavailable. No bueno.

Was up at 1:30am fixing that blocker in production last night. Never a dull moment!

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I wonder how route profitability comes into play with those airlines running older planes (old 737's, etc) that may break more frequently.

AOG (airplane on ground) is essentially a broken plane stuck at a gate getting fined massively by the airport because it is blocking a gate. In this situation, usually price elasticity of demand goes out the window with respect to airplane parts because what you'll pay in markup pales in comparison to what you'll pay in fines.

Is it more profitable to get new planes or run older ones into the ground? The answer to this question is beyond my depth.

Source: my first job out of school was SQL jockey for an airplane parts distributor running reports for the guys trying to predict which parts would be needed. The company had 4 guys and two vans on standby 24/7 to run parts to the airport. This was a very profitable business segment.

schysst!

Having seen these putting around the Inner Richmond at night and now visiting NYC and witnessing the chaos that is driving here, i'm not sure they're quite ready to handle this level of a problem.

NYC would require a true level 5 autonomous vehicle and i'm not sure it's even possible to drive 100% legally at all times given variables like construction, pedestrians going the wrong way on one-ways on scooters, et al.

I hope they can figure it out and wish them good luck!

My own experience with this as a bootstrapper has been:

in the beginning, code up the product, even if it's not the best, get something that works.

once the product is in a usable state enough to gain revenue, use the cash to get more engineering manpower.

now that there are a few folks, code in tandem with engineers while managing team, tapering down coding as team grows.

now my day to day is probably 20% coding, 60% product/project management + QA, 20% recruiting/hiring

This quote really made my day and embodies my approach to software engineering. Thanks for this.

these should be expert mode only features that have to be unlocked as opposed to default. So easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Kinda fun if you've been doing it for a while though.

I’m not sure if waging a siege on ourselves is a free market solution here.

The outliers are pretty tough to get significant data for. Also my sense is startups tend to pay towards the 50-75th percentile of radford (read: not great) cash comp and balance with equity lotto tickets that the author values at zero. While startup equity is obviously not worth nothing, he is correct in noting it’s quite tricky to negotiate since there’s an inherent information asymmetry there as well.

Just skimmed through but very helpful. Reminds me of Beej’s guide for C!