dirkdk

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Engineering manager, works best with Ruby on Rails teams. Located in San Francisco
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Comment · 8 years ago
yeah as a state we need to limit if not down right outlaw power lines above the ground. Which will be a huge investment and definitely something that PG&E is not going to suggest themselves. But home owners and insurance companies have an interest here. Apart from the 80 people that died, what is the damage in those buildings and loss of economic activity? Much more than putting power lines underground.
Comment · 8 years ago
I once needed an MRI, insurance company couldn't work out a deal before my appointment. MRI company offered to do the job if I paid up front and handled reimbursement myself. Costs up front were $500, compared to $1250 if the insurance company would pay after the procedure. Mind = blown.
Comment · 8 years ago
For early stage development, Rails is still the best. No ORM tool out there is as powerful as ActiveRecord. Front ends are nowadays built more with React/Redux, which is well supported via Webpacker. And for basic admin pages, regular controller calls with validations and ERB/Haml/Slim templates works great. And GraphQL is fully supported via gems.

When you look for performance for microservices, Go or Scala are better. But that's when you are beyond the first 2 years and 25 developers and have the cash to invest

Comment · 8 years ago
Silicon Valley is not a geographical area, it is the tech industry within a geographical area.

The tech industry wages have been going up, but the wages of the people around our industry have been stagnant. Sensationalist title.

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Comment · 8 years ago
What bounty did he receive for filing this?
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Comment · 8 years ago
Integrating payment is one of the most complex work to be done and operate, so yes this will fail every once in a while. In particular across different banks in the world. Coinbase must have grown 10-50x times last year so yes keeping your systems performant will be hard. Are you trying to go short on Coinbase?
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Comment · 8 years ago
can't we namespace it? like Otto: So Close ?
Comment · 8 years ago
yeah an obvious way to improve the program is to require the applicant to have much more added value than the average American worker. I would argue that salary is the best but still a very poor indicator. What about fields where the average salary is low like agriculture or areas like North Dakota where the cost of living is low and therefore salaries are low? I think the USCIS should start to calculate these numbers per industry and geographical area
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Comment · 9 years ago
Finally! I love Apple but taxes should be paid. There is a difference between legal and ethical and US companies should begin to understand that. So hopefully others will follow suit.

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