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Spring is as micro as Java gets. Probably not a great example but its the best one I could think of at the time of the comment. Flask is a singular framework that has an ecosystem around it with plugins/extensions.

I know Angular is an easy framework to crap on for frontend developers, but I love Angular. Im a Python/Java developer and much prefer all inclusive frameworks like Django/Flask/Dropwizard over the micro frameworks like Flask/Spring that have great ecosystems but need to be pieced together. I realize I never use "Best in Breed" libraries and am usually forced to use whatever is built in but I don't mind because I get shit done. I really love the fact that I install Angular and BOOM I have everything I need to build an amazing application. Even better, with Angular CLI I can quickly bootstrap a frontend. If I use NGPrime, which is an open source component library, I can even quicker build an MVP. That combined with Django feels like super powers for building applications.

While I think Trump is a bad choice, I think comparing him to Hitler is overzealous and irresponsible. There are no doubt similarities between the two but Hitler wrote an entire book about the "Jewish Peril" and how it was destroying society and needed to be dealt with. It was clear that Hitler had an agenda that was anti-semetic, and the charisma/ability to execute on it. Trump is a racist and a bigot, but he is far from someone that would be able to implement a "Final Solution". By drawing the comparisons to Hitler, we oversell Trump and what he is and at the same time bring Hitler and his actions to a lower level which they never be at. We should sell Trump for what he is: someone who uses the racism and ignorance of the American people to cover up the fact that he has no idea what he is doing.

This seems like the same advice YC has been giving for years minus the fact that the market seems to restricting based on the unicorn mess happening which is ultimately probably a good thing in the long term to avoid a bubble and a later collapse. Maybe I've missed the difference between this and the message they had been saying for years now. Though this does seem very solid and something not just YC companies should aim to do. Picking good investors is much more valuable than having a lot of money. Bad investors will give you a lot of money to spend on whatever they tell you spend it on, sometimes good sometimes bad, whereas good investors will give you a little less money and give you the freedom as the founder who may know best to spend it on what you think is best in the long run with some guidance.

I think maybe its subconscious but they view getting rich as a singular event like winning the lottery, gambling or a lawsuit (I wish I was kidding on the second one) and not an long term compounding effect using money as your leverage. That article is really good and I think sums that mindset up really well: if getting rich was a singular event then I will spend everything I have until the event happens to me.

Thats brilliant, seems well founded in research and well implemented. I really hope that it can continue to scale to more and more places. 445 communities is a smashing success already!

I lived this first hand. I grew up in extreme poverty (by the US standards anyways) where my electricity/water were cut off occasionally and occasionally would have to wonder if I was going to eat that night. Though this is still better than most of the world, it sucked. a lot. No christmas, no birthdays. The most interesting part is now im software engineer making really good money, I can still see the rest of my family with the same mindset that enabled that kind of poverty. While I live below my means, they regularly live above it. They lack the self control to regulate their spending, if they get money they spend it like it might go away if they don't. Its institutional in ways because their parents were poor. Although I broke the cycle, my brother didnt and shows a lot of the same patterns. This article hits the point head on. I wonder if there is a way to hack the cycle and reduce the institutional aspect of poverty.

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I usually don't comment on immigration policies because I'm a US citizen and have never been an immigrant worker, however I dont believe this affects the long term success or failure of the H1B visa program and nor should it. We do exist in a global economy and you must therefore compete globally. If a company feels that they can get equal talent to mine in another country for cheaper costs then so be it; I didn't do a good enough job selling my talent or showing why Im worth my rate. Its also the company's loss if they chose to lay me off; I know what Im worth and Ill go find what Im worth. Even without the H1B visa program, companies will still do this; whether or not the company can employ the employee on US soil or not. This is in no way threatening to my way of life or makes me fear for my future career prospects. It sucks that Disney did this to their employees, but companies are no longer loyal to their people and haven't been for a long time; you should act accordingly and not show any loyalty to a company that shows you none.

I hate to sound all conspiracy theorist crazy but this makes me scared of the fact that people may start to just up and disappear 1984 style. Covering up murders of people is not good on even a personal level as nobody gets closure, but on a wider societal scale its just frightening. It starts with takedowns on Facebook and moves into the larger media: whats next? CNN?

This won't end well for Zenefits. Its not quite a deathknell for them, but there is zero case where Zenefits doesn't settle outside of court or loses the case. They will need to spend time/resources to raise another round and fight the chance that ADP doesn't build a competitor them in the mean time. This is the kind of momentum shifter that kills startups.

I don't know: 55b is a huge number, not unfathomable of course but huge. Salesforce is a great company and a no doubt innovative and disruptive one, but they hold no talent that Microsoft doesn't have and they will hold very few businesses that are not already Microsoft customers in some regard. You might be able to argue that they have a lot of cloud expertise, but Microsoft has already built some incredible cloud offerings in Office365, Outlook and Onedrive that share a lot of the overlap with Salesforce. I have a hard time believing that Microsoft would even want any part of that, it just seems like a huge waste of cash for a very little upside. If they had mentioned Oracle, it might be a little more feasible.

Thanks for organizing it! Ill get with my wife, but this seems very affordable and fun event in particular for a family of four its the same cost as a normal "large" conference ticket and those don't include all you can eat food and daycare.

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while when it comes to conference. As someone with a young family, I cringe when I have to think about going to another city for a conference, which is all the time because I live in Cleveland. Its not the travel, I rather like traveling: its leaving the wife with the kids and just up and going. This allows me to take the kids and wife, and not feel too bad about abandoning them to fend for themselves for a week.

This is solid advice. I had one of my mentors put it a really elegent way : "Your board should consist of people who fix your weaknesses". Don't have a lot of business contacts? Get a board member who has a huge network. Lack marketing knowledge? Get a board member for that. In a lot of ways its like getting venture capital; wherein you should gather venture capital from experts in the domain you are trying to enter/execute in. Although Im not currently building a board my current venture, this is always one thing that I struggled to find information on: building a board. Maybe I should get a board member who knows how to make a great board...

Alright, I made an honest attempt to read through all of it but I still have a fuzzy understanding of what you are trying to achieve with this project. I understand our current development tools might not be the best, but if I understand this right you are essentially making a framework into a language with an editor with said language? I don't see that moving away from the model we have now, simply moving things lower in the stack. Maybe Im just not understanding.

Paywalled. Anyone have a non-paywalled article?

This is insane. I can't think of an industry that google is not trying to compete in. Auto industry, space industry, internet of things industry (Nest), internet/media industry, cable/internet provider industry, automobile industry, robotics industry, software industry, smartphone industry, pc industry now the telecom industry. I'm starting to expect Google to launch an airline here pretty soon. How can they possibly compete in so many spaces and compete well? Isn't this how Microsoft started doing business and failed at? I just am at a lost of words at Google's diversification strategy. I don't want to be a hater, but do we really want a singular company being the market leader at everything if they do end up succeeding at everything?

In before bubble talk. This is absolutely insane, but I think it shows that investors have faith in the founding team to execute on their vision. This is a healthy reminder that companies are all evaluated on how people feel about them not, not the actual numbers: even publicly traded companies on the stock market. While I personally wouldn't invest in Slack at a 2.8B valuation, that doesn't mean other people don't think that they are worth that. Ultimately, Slack has the ability to execute and become a multi-billion dollar B2B company: I feel that they aren't that now. Other people disagree.

For startups, I agree: certificates mean nothing. In fact, they can be a detriment as the certificates cause an increase in pay that may not be affordable in a startups budget. Plus since startups tend to live on the bleeding edge, there tend to not be certificates for newer technologies like golang. For large enterprises, I believe it gives them the peace of mind that the new hire has at least basic skills in a technology.

I think in some realms MCSE does pull some weight, such as large financial institutions and non-tech companies. There are newer certificates such as those from Coursera and Udacity that are starting to pull more and more weight from the industry, mainly tech though.

The main fields that benefit from this are business and technology. Human resources and recruiters tend not to be technical: they have no idea if you actually know Java or not. They simply know you have it on your resume. This gives them at least some peace of mind that you know at least some Java. Conversely, Business people can be evaluated on whether they know how to do basic things like rate of return or efficiency metrics.

This does help in that realm, but it helps in giving some people confidence as well. Some people have imposters syndrome so a certificate saying they know it alleviates that feeling.

This is a pretty interesting acquisition. Linkedin is trying to position themselves as a full service job market. If you want a particular job, go to Linkedin and even if you are missing a few skills you can pick it up on their site and get "Linkedin Certified". This provides Linkedin with a series of "Linkedin Certified Professionals" that recruiters need to pay to get access to. It's an interesting position to be in: desired from both sides of the equation (Job Seekers and Recruiters/Talent Sourcers).

Interesting point. I've never had an issue with Jetty, though I've never ran it at huge scale before. I've used it for internal business systems which at peak require 1000 req/s which isn't a whole lot. Do you run an wrapped tomcat to create fat jars or Tomcat as a standalone application server?

Tomcat/Jboss are resource hogs and tend to not do well in sandboxed environments as it takes away a lot of the configurability/tuning that they provide/need for scaling. In addition, people tend to deploy multiple applications per application server to keep resources requirements down: containizeration tends not to lend itself to multi-application stategies (in particular resource heavy applications like those that run on the JVM). This is far from something that makes java an impossibility but it changes the techniques enterprises are accustomed to. Technologies like Jetty provide a good solution to the problem, and will probably see wider adoption as containers become more prevalent.

For the tech enthusiast and the visionaries, you are correct; It is a very viable technology. However the majority of people that deploy software are rather conservative and unless they see a market leader such as Microsoft with a solution they don't deem the technology safe to use. This is well documented in a lot of literature like Crossing the Chasm but can be observed frequently if you work at a larger non-tech oriented company. Whether or not this notion is actually correct is debatable but it doesn't change the validity of it.

This will be what takes containers into the mainstream businesses. Companies may adopt docker or other instead of this, but Microsoft creating their own version of it means its a viable technology. Im more interested in the new frameworks and technologies that get adopted because of this than the fact that its in use. Traditional Java web projects that are hosted on Tomcat/JBoss don't run well inside containers but there are technologies like Node.js that lend themselves to containerization. Open source .NET is now a viable option for linux deployments, and Microsoft's new containers. It will be an interesting couple of years as this shakes out.

If they did actually do this, its a death sentence for Zynga. With their already declining prospects and net loss every quarter, this will drain their account and remove any route of public funding. This leaves private funding, and there might be an investor out there willing to go with a private round on Zynga, but I'd hate to see the terms on the round.

The issue is we work in a field that has had a bubble in the past so until it inevitably happens again, the doubters will look for every sign that a bubble exists, contrary to the truth of the matter. In a similar manner to the housing market, technology will always be seen as "bubbly" and every high valuation just feeds the rhetoric. Ebbs and flows in economies is natural and known to anyone that studies macroeconomics even at the basic level, but truth doesn't sell: fear and doubt does unfortunately. It's annoying, but not quite as destructive as the other fear mongering happening with other news around the world.

This is awesome! Im not sure what you can do with it, but skin temperature and heart rate both seem like something that can be used to measure things like focus and emotion (real mood bracelet). Im curious about the kinds of things people will do with this! Im also super curious on the app store that will be available for it. Will probably be a itunes kind of thing where you have to plug the thing into a computer to get the app. Its an exciting time to be a developer!

Maybe Ive read too many blogs. Maybe its because I watched the class but Im starting to feel like this is the "generic" advice for startups. It doesn't make it any less true or valuable, but everytime I read it I feel somewhat empty; as if there is something critical missing that everyone but me knows but doesn't write down because it feels like common sense. I'm not sure other people feel this way or how to not feel this way. It seems really obvious, almost too obvious that you should work really hard on ideas that other people want. Maybe thats all there is too it; It just feels hollow.