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(Another post about React Native)

Facebook engineers keep telling everyone that React Native is not used in the main Facebook app. I always wondered what is stopping them from start using it. Perhaps app size is a massive concern? Maybe all this tooling around their app is not really compatible with React Native?

Its interesting that they have a ton of legacy Obj-c code (considering that companies started to build apps not very long time ago, and they already re-wrote their app several times) I wonder if any other company is a situation like this well other than Apple.

This is an option right now, almost all big tech companies have offices in Seattle Austin or Boulder. People just want to stay in San Francisco.. Its a great city to live in both when you are a fresh collage hire and if you are trying to raise a child.

yep, exactly

Happened to me last week in San Francisco; an Uber driver accepted a Lyft pickup, as I was still in the car for my Uber ride..

I still think there is potential in Lyft's original idea "Ride sharing" rather than a taxi competitor that both of these companies have become.

Really curious why such an option still doesnt exist:

"I am driving from Soma to Palo Alto so just notify me about the customers trying to do the same thing"

Lyft shouldn't be anyone's full time or part time job. In my opinion that's the only way they can co-exist with Uber.

All of them "failed" for legal reasons, not because there weren't making enough money, with enough funding legal reasons also vanish..

Not if he is not living in New York, LA, SF or maybe couple other cities.. Rest of america has really cheap housing and pretty good social services

Its kind of too late for that.. I expect record number companies to IPO in the next two years; uber, dropbox, airbnb, pinterest, stripe, lyft... A lot of people are going to be really liquid and will be looking to buy property.

Van Ness corridor itself is going through a massive makeover with multiple housing projects and a rapid bus transit system. I expect a similar makeover on Lombard between Lyon and Van ness.. As presidio becomes a real tourist attraction, current state of the lombard corridor is just pathetic

Its fine, software development is not easy. I am sure they are going to fix the rough edges sooner than you think.

(also beats1 is great)

H1B System is definetely unfair to international undergrads.

Like Synroc I came here for my undergraduate studies and work for a company in SF. I have no intention of leaving unless i am forced to do so.

I spent 5 (4 years of school + 1 year OPT) amazing years in this country and made many american friends, dated american girls lived in two of the most vibrant american cities (SF and NYC) and really adjusted to the American life style. It really hurts to be forced out after experiencing all these great memories. I deserve to stay here..

And now I am sitting in front of my computer refreshing by browser every 30 seconds waiting for an email from my companies legal department.

ps. Synroc take your girlfriend with you and let's move to London or something..

- play sports

- have as many friends as you can, girlfriends/boyfriends, don't be shy, drink beer before its legal

most importantly have self discipline. If you manage to have self discipline everything else is easy in life

Well you can only apply in April.. So what happens if you get the job in August :) ?

Getting an H1B is is getting harder every year its expected to be less than 50/50 chance, so this website is more like; jobs that come with a chance to enter the lottery so that you can start working in 7-8 months

its really sad that he is reading the presentation..

Abundance; great book that's insanely optimistic about the future. Sure it cherrypicks the "what went well" part of our history, but a lot more has went well compared to a couple of failing industries.. http://www.amazon.com/Abundance-Future-Better-Than-Think/dp/...

Facebook made him really rich http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/20/technology/facebook-peter-th...

I wonder if YUI was solving any Yahoo specific problems, their goal (should be) is to make FrontEnd Dev easy for Yahoo employees not to build a framework that's a good fit for the rest of the world. So who cares if its losing traction in the open source community?

at least there is no lottery?

he was joking

Varsity tennis player here. I have been using my fitbit bracelet for a couple months now, I have to admit that the device is inaccurate. I am pretty sure it undercounts running distance and number of steps. We are talking about big wide steps that happens in a consistent manner. A players movement on court is much more complicated. Such a bracket for tennis players needs to be much more accurate than my fitbit flexband to be useful. A good tennis player never takes a wide big step, almost all the movements on court are quick small steps. Unlike running, a player changes direction all the time. It would be really cool if the bracelet can give the player data about his footwork but I think the emphasis on this particular product is on the actual technique. Man its not easy. Sure there might some easy wins in the beginning, like counting how many forehands or backhand a player hits or things like how hard have you been hitting the ball. But I think its extremely hard to dig more into it. “How much spin are you giving”, “Are you hitting the ball late or early", “How fast can you recover when you hit the ball(combine it with footwork)”, “How high is the ball when you hit it” “Are you bending your wrist too much, or is you elbow really close to your body”. “Are you hitting the ball just with your arm or your shoulder and your waist follows through with the movement" These would be the questions that an intermediate tennis player would be interested in. However I am afraid these all happen in a fraction of a second and I really doubt a bracelet is accurate enough to give the player insightful data. Sure its a really cool device (still not useful) for people starting to learn or maybe little kids competing against each other, but there is a long way until a serious tennis player can benefit from this. I am a software engineer myself and it was always my dream to do build something about tennis. So go for it man..