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"The number of hours spent writing code is irrelevant without looking at the quality of the time. Lack of focus can be generated by internal and external factors. Internal factors are procrastination, lack of interest in the project at hand (you can’t be good doing things you do not love), lack of exercise / well-being, poor or little sleeping."

Get your ass up from the chair and go outside to exercise if you wanna reach Antirez levels of mastery

This is the end for mac

I have been suffering with AMP. try to share a link to an article and you current url is an AMP url. if the site didn't make a hard link in the post title, you are gonna have a bad time.

your presencial influence as leader matters.

I can't imagine facebook or amazon being built using remote workers. grinding is hard, painful and demoralizing. but a close team of uber-focused engineers led by example, frequently beat the asses of the 'work-from-home-is-so-comfy' guys.

about why I hire these people: they are gems, who need a coach to make them achieve greatness as a team. this is moneyball.

what about a gigolo's funded winery? think about the possibilities

ETFPOS programmer here. yeah, it's easy to become obsolete in this area, considering most of the time we work with legacy code

the decision tree for sql analysis sounds great

just looked: toto. nice two bad meanings, still it means vagina in Dominican Republic.

totto is different in written form, but phonetically it's the same

this sounds about right. I advice to open a trust fund so changing hands is just question of setting up a new president

duplicated posts

Lumberjack, I agree with you. this is technology just for the sake of technology. As a user I don't see any kind of valid use case.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I need to see a more compelling use case than the "small guy producing content", considering YouTube DOES exist

Look, these guys said Blockchain and Streaming, then the clouds open up in the sky, angel investors came and spend USD500k just in case

I love this blog. whenever I want to learn something cool I open Chrome in my Android and type: saravananthirumuruganathan.wordpress.com

I'm usingn the android version. they aren't even a connected application. so no risk in Android.

For a company with a yearly gross profit of USD92 millions and net losses of USD35 millinos, I cannot imagine who is buying shares at a USD1.8 billion market cap.

Are we in the 2000 again?

yeah, also it would be fair to compare a running actor system with Akka (jvm, java, scala), CAF (c++), XUDD (Python), Celulloid (Ruby) vs Erlang

I believe Erlang would do some interesting things there

do you have a link to the previous discussion, please?

sure, man. glad it helped you.

it works like this: Imagine you have a huge amount of money, enough to buy whole companies like Apple, Coca Cola and Walmart. you want to keep your money and even make it grow, so you're looking for good businesses to buy.

I have one company for sale at USD329 billions, it grows 50%-100% a year for now and currently generates USD3.29 billions

I have another company for sale at USD219 billions, it is shrinking at 1.4% a year and currently generates USD14.69 billions

And finally I have another company for sale at USD200 billions, it is growing/shrinking between -8% and 60% a year and generates USD7.35B

Most people prefer the second one, who makes you a good 7% return a year. the first one looks good, but will take at least 6 years to be as good as the second and the last one is so so. the companies where 1) Facebook 2) Walmart and 3) Coca cola. (we're ignoring how much assets and liabilities they have for simplicity)

And as you see, even when facebook has a promising future, we don't know if it will reach a good value/margin level as walmart. so we may agree it's overvalued at is current price.

Hope this shed some light, I'm not a trader or something, so this info is very simplistic

P.D.: this analysis is called Fundamental Analysis, you can go deeper and honestly it has worked very well in my portafolio. I bought stock in Gerdau (GGB), a brazilian steel company, because I studied as a whole business and discover it was priced very low. that was starting in November, I bought those stocks at 1.22 and recently they reached 2.44. I basically duplicated my money in 6 months. Remember stocks aren't just tickets, they are little parts of a big business.

man, I do believe the market in general is over valued. but not from the PE ratio. that metric is almost in shape:

https://www.quandl.com/data/MULTPL/SP500_PE_RATIO_MONTH-S-P-...

check how high it was in the 2000 and 2008, we're aren't even close

Hope @sama answer this question. IMHO hurry up to get a prototype in the client's hands. there you will know how good your team is and if you stand a chance in the industry (afaik your team looks very good)

All the info in the article, plus Elon is deeply in love with domain names. just remember x.com was bought for USD 1 million and Elon didn't want to lose the money (even when the brand was failing) https://books.google.com.do/books?id=Jtr3ThHeTEMC&pg=PA130&l...

I don't deny you can get cheaper hotels rooms than airbnb rooms. nonetheless, I have visited Japan, US, Caribbean and in many cases the airbnb proposal is way better for the same money.

I enjoy having conversations with Siri in the loneliness of the tundra

Do you remember that time Steve Jobs and Obama had dinner and discussed engineering immigration?

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-steves-jobs-and-barack-o...

"Jobs continued to press the engineering angle at the dinner, saying that at the time Apple employed 700,000 factory workers in China, plus 30,000 engineers to support those workers."

We need the best talent of the world to be a technological leader nation. nonetheless, there is a big amount of jobs that need a good engineer but not a bright mind as Wozniak.

This is how globalization works and we need to keep up or be defeated by a better player at accepting STEM immigration. Let the fear aside, confront the global arena and struggle to keep being leaders of the world.

in memoriam: Aaron Swartz

can you efficiently store logs in InfluxDB? would love to read if somebody have tried that before... (just wondering)

Man, the guidelines say "Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

Good hackers like Egyptology in general? WTF

Why is the North Korea opposition in the gulags? Why is there so much homeless people in SF streets? Why is this shitty piece of code here?

According to mwfunk, we would be happier in figuring out what's interesting about that or ignore it.

"When presented with something unexpected, you will be much happier and much more successful if you focus on figuring out what's interesting about it, than if you focus on complaining about why it shouldn't be there. Alternately, just ignore it."

why is this relevant to hacker news?