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I'm not sure why, but that comment gave me a few chills.. I think that comment was made about 9 months before he got caught[1]. I imagined he was already running the site if not developing Silk Road 2.0 at that time.

I'm unsure if ironic is the right word but it's bizarre to see yourself "progressing humanity" while working on something completely opposite..

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/11/feds-seize-silk-road-2/

They might not be a huge contender in the smart phone market, but are tablets not considered "mobile"? I agree, it might've been more appropriate to not generalize with saying they solved mobile and instead point out a particular mobile offering that is excelling or something.

You'll have to excuse my ignorance as I just like to lightly follow the JS web dev community and am no way a JS expert, but what is the reasoning behind the React spin-offs? There's Inferno, Preact, ivi, and possibly more, but are all of these so different that they require their own repository? Is it out of the question to simply contribute to the other existing open source projects? I imagine there are some backwards compatible breaking changes but it feels a bit weird to have so many React-like spinoffs. Could anyone shed a light on this? I'm genuinely curious.

Interesting to note: The Andreessen-Zuckerberg friendship goes a bit deeper. Andreessen's wife, Laura Arrillaga, advised Zuckerberg and his wife on making the $100MM gift to education in New Jersey. Now that Zuckerberg would like to sell his shares for philanthropy, there's probably a good chance they'll continue to go through the Andreessen's for advising. In which case, the Andreessen family will still be making money (not to say that they aren't making money now...) as I'm sure the advising is not free. Win-win.

Just out of curiosity, what is the difference between using Consul and SNMP?

I think what makes Giphy so popular is its integrations with Slack and Facebook. However, the Giphy Slack integration is really awful. Should be renamed to gif roulette or something. RightGIF Slack integration is a lot more accurate. I'm not sure what they are doing differently but the $600MM valuation for a below average search engine is understandably off-putting..

I'm in agreement that I wouldn't necessarily choose XMPP for Twitter but under different reasons. There is literally nothing holding back the XMPP protocol from saving and publishing messages to the public viewing. XMPP is the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol and suppose to be extremely modular so I really don't think what you're describing is impossible.

Partially. Part of the XMPP protocol is establishing presence which I don't think is a requirement for Twitter (I wouldn't know, I don't use Twitter). Establishing presence for XMPP usually means a constantly connected client via TCP. The protocol would probably have to be tweaked so that clients don't necessarily have to remain connected to use the service. Might be possible to do this in XMPP but would require some work.

I'm not sure I fully understand this comment. What does it mean to have an "XMPP backend" but not as the interface? And yes, they did use a full, open source XMPP solution for Facebook chat when it started out called "ejabberd". Ejabberd is a terrific solution if you quickly want to have a scalable, real-time messaging and event solution with low maintenance.

XMPP is simply a publisher/subscriber architecture. So you can just have a "global" publisher that any user subscribes to when they get on the service (registered user or not) for public viewing. The protocol isn't limited to just private chat.

Couldn't agree more. I went to school in South Dakota for next to nothing compared to other schools, got involved in my program, did internships every summer I could, and now working a job I love with next-to-no college debt. I've been out of school for a little over 4 years and plan on paying off the rest of my debt by end of year.

The most well-known way of determining fossil age is carbon dating[0].

[0] http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geology...

The article states that Dropbox is not profitable. However, they are "free cash flow positive", so, take that for what it's worth...

If you've been there for 10 years, then the taxes on those options will murder you if you choose to exercise now. I think ideally, that you incrementally exercise over the period of time of your stay. Bigger risk since you won't be sure of the future of the company as you do now but the difference in the strike price and the value that you exercise would be smaller which would hopefully mean less tax. I think the idea is to exercise your options when the current value of the stock is not too far from the strike price granted.*

* I am not a tax adviser.

Not guaranteed. If you exercise your options at company X, say $20 per share, left company X, and company Y buys company X for $10 per share, then you just lost money.

I imagine this is pretty rare but it's possible for a company to acquire another and strictly buy all preferred stock instead of common stock and then all employees get nothing [0].

[0] This happened to a friend of mine where all execs had preferred stock and were totally fine selling the company and screwing over the employees. Make sure your founders/execs have common stock so that everyone is on the same playing field...

Just apply. Chances are that a company is willing to talk with you solely on the fact that you're interested and self-taught. There's so few jobs in Haskell compared to the rest of the market and so few candidates with the experience that you probably already have a leg up. My team works primarily in Erlang and we normally willing to interview people with no Erlang experience but a desire to learn. I can't imagine a Haskell shop being any different.

This was a couple years ago when I was starting off with Haskell and was not intimately involved with what was happening. IIRC it was something to do with opening too many file descriptors on /dev/urandom. I think it was linked with one of the random libs. That's all I can remember.

No, I think you could say that Haskell allows you to be good at the first. Working with stakeholders to help define requirements is not a skill you pick up with functional programming. In fact, my comment you're quoting really isn't dependent on what language you are using. It's more or less just a correlation about the haskell devs that were hired. Was trying to point out that finding people who learned haskell on their own time aren't always a good fit.

I programmed Haskell professionally for about a year and a half. My last company has been trying to hire Haskell engineers for over 2 years and we've only managed to hire at least 2. "Hiring Haskell developers is not hard", is extremely subjective and naive to say the least. Obviously, YMMV, but the front-end devs that the last company was hiring was running laps around the Haskell team. Honestly, finding a Haskell engineer is not always a winner either. I've found that the ones we hired are very smart but not very decent engineers (i.e. defining requirements, shipping a product on time, understand tradeoffs, etc.).

There were quite a few things about Haskell that I truly love and miss, such as the type system, but the tradeoffs just weren't worth it to me and I honestly don't think it's mature enough to be considered "enterprise ready". Aside from the learning curve, there were several bugs in one of the Haskell libraries that caused frequent outages (until we were able to pinpoint what was wrong), lazy evaluation caused excessive memory bloat when used incorrectly, and my all-time favorite: needing to switch on profiling in order to get stack traces (this is suppose to change in future GHC versions) which defeated the whole purpose of "haskell is fast". I don't know, perhaps we were using Haskell wrong. From a business perspective, it just wasn't making that much sense given how difficult it was to hire, getting engineers excited to learn it, and having the features needed to monitor a production system.

Hi, I'm an engineer at IMVU. We use this for almost everything! Status updates is a pretty simple example but we constantly invalidate data for things such as user's list of friends, credit balance, and our real-time chat.

Windows Presentation Foundation does just this with the XAML markup language. It's almost like designing a web app. You can use this markup for designing windows phone apps. I'm sure Apple also has their own markup as well for developing desktop/mobile apps but I have no experience in this so I'm not completely sure.