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New comment by woolvalley in "From video game to day job: How ‘SimCity’ inspired a generation of city planners"

woolvalley — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:18:28 +0000

Couldn't we solve this with a percentage type for zoning, or adding a "mixed commerical/residential" zone? UI wise that shouldn't be any more complicated.

Or you can change the zoning into japanese zoning, where the UI can stay simple as you escalate the permission level of a zone. https://code.uberinternal.com/T2597239

New comment by woolvalley in "Digitally preview incoming USPS mail and packages"

woolvalley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:33:13 +0000

At my apartment building, I only get the email for my unit's mail, not everyone's. Sounds like a bug like other people said.

New comment by woolvalley in "Samsung’s Foldable Phone Is the $1,980 Galaxy Fold"

woolvalley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:08:48 +0000

The macbook and it's 3+ year butterfly keyboard debacle or windows 10 laptops with all of their spyware even when high end being his only 2 practical choices is what he is probably referring to.

New comment by woolvalley in "24 Hours of Rust Game Development"

woolvalley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:04:47 +0000

Sometimes when you prototype something, half the reason is to try out these new fancy architectural styles :p

Usually it's for this kind of project: http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/11/25/west-side-project-s...

New comment by woolvalley in "TLDR Stock Options"

woolvalley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:59:44 +0000

I think this is a relatively recent development. 8-10 years ago, working at a startup or working at FANG paid about the same, but the startup came with this lottery ticket, you learned more at a startup and it wasn't a big co with big co politics and process. Back then it definitely made a lot more sense to maybe give up %10-%20 less income in exchange.

Startups & VCs started getting a lot of money in the global search for yield as interest rates dropped to 0 and QE started printing money and giving it to banks who would invest it. The google/apple/etc wage collusion lawsuit increased the amount of competition for engineers. FANG was losing engineers who would rather do their own thing for a little bit less. The H1B lottery system limited the supply. Housing started getting even more expensive in the SFBA. And as you said, FANG prints money so they can afford to keep on going up in the bidding wars.

Compensation started going up in this competitive system as a result until we are at the point we are today, where startups are definitely not competitive comp wise to being at FANG.

New comment by woolvalley in "The New 30-Something"

woolvalley — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:54:26 +0000

In a way, it's easier to support parents in a poor country because everything is cheaper there. Give them $1000/month and they will probably live better than you.

New comment by woolvalley in "TLDR Stock Options"

woolvalley — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:39:38 +0000

Which is why as a startup you have to offer something that FANG can't offer, like full remote working or similar.

That or taking the people who fail to get FANG offers / naive jrs.

New comment by woolvalley in "USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB"

woolvalley — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:32:13 +0000

Not quite, because the equivalent pure pcie connection is faster than thunderbolt due to the overhead in thunderbolt.

We need another doubling in thunderbolt's speed for it to not have a penalty when using eGPUs

New comment by woolvalley in "USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB"

woolvalley — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:26:02 +0000

Well you can already get cheap usb-c cables that only have usb 2 speeds and power delivery capacity, if that is what your hinting at.

New comment by woolvalley in "High-tax states like California and New York make it hard for rich to leave"

woolvalley — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:16:49 +0000

Maybe off of your state taxes I think makes more sense.

New comment by woolvalley in "High-tax states like California and New York make it hard for rich to leave"

woolvalley — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:15:49 +0000

https://www.moneytips.com/is-your-state-a-net-payer-or-a-net...

New comment by woolvalley in "Lyft Files S-1"

woolvalley — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:36:50 +0000

I've worked at 2 companies that decided to do their 'own cloud' vs just use stuff like AWS, and they were not devops tool companies.

It slowed down both them.

Remember that staff cost money too!

New comment by woolvalley in "Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust"

woolvalley — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 06:57:27 +0000

Graphs are OK in reference counting languages like swift / objective-c, it doesn't have to be done with a GC.

I think you could use Rc in rust too if you want to solve it using rust, but then you have "swift with more boilerplate" as one friend said.

New comment by woolvalley in "$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now"

woolvalley — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 01:08:59 +0000

Unfortunately, tesla does not provide the paperwork to import the car, so you can't import a us tesla into canada.

Probably to protect that margin your seeing.

If I'm wrong, a friend of mine would be interested :D

New comment by woolvalley in "$35,000 Tesla Model 3 Available Now"

woolvalley — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 01:01:29 +0000

I'd rather use my own cellphone plan & wifi than pay for that kind of stuff indirectly.

New comment by woolvalley in "Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust"

woolvalley — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:26:48 +0000

From my friends that have tried rust, creating a graph or doubly linked list without using some special structures is fairly painful or impossible. You can create a graph by using some sort of adjacency matrix or some other kind of structure that keeps ownership in some sort of tree without much pain, but that has it's own downsides.

New comment by woolvalley in "Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free up congested roads"

woolvalley — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 06:16:47 +0000

What is more expensive, train or road maintenance? What gets better total utilization rates?

New comment by woolvalley in "Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017)"

woolvalley — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:24:11 +0000

That's called something being stringly typed, and it's a code smell. You make URL classes, UUID classes, timestamp classes, enums, etc to replace the strings.

New comment by woolvalley in "Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees"

woolvalley — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:45:44 +0000

Security is an economic choice of the producing firm for the most part, and there are plenty of certifications and degrees that employers can discriminate on but do not. They even might have the security training and still fuck up.

Reality is, most customers do not want to pay the price for extra security, other than the CYA (Cover Your Ass) kind and it shows.

New comment by woolvalley in "Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees"

woolvalley — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:30:30 +0000

Tell your manager you wont check any work stuff on your personal devices anymore, because your worried about security, etc. The problem will either be resolved fairly quickly, or you will have better work life balance.