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Comment · 8 years ago
I'm against the death penalty, but I'm willing to re-evaluate the position.
Comment · 9 years ago
* Healthcare isn't a right. It's the product of someone's hardwork and as such, you have no "right" to it.

* Making college education free for US citizens is a terrible idea.

* We've taken the idea of "sanctuary cities" way too far.

* Gun control is a bad idea

These are a few conservative ideas that I think plenty of people would be afraid to express in a workplace that is disproportionately filled with ardent "liberals".

Comment · 9 years ago
I would think Netflix's strong ties to AWS would be a non-starter for Apple.
Comment · 9 years ago
Sorry, I can't really comment on our roadmap and our priorities within it.
Comment · 9 years ago
Have you tried Amazon Chime? We are ridiculously aware of the latency issue in high quality voip. We do not at the moment support user generated keys the way Telegram does but we do use TLS/DTLS encryption end to end for our VOIP streams.
Comment · 12 years ago
Boyle's law - 1/2 the pressure, twice the volume.
Comment · 12 years ago
Rails & Server developer at biba.com - San Francisco

We're building a unified communications platform that provides audio, video, screen sharing, text messaging and group messaging on Android, iOS, OSX and Windows. Competing against established companies like webex and new disruptors like UberConference.

The rails team provides the backend api that drives and enables the clients and media teams to deliver a smooth collaborative experience.

Great office in downtown San Francisco (2nd & Mission). Rails team is 5 people, supporting the demands of the 20 or so engineers on the other teams. Fast paced weekly release cycles with room to grow as an engineer.

We work in rails, but languages used elsewhere are C, Go, Java, C#, C++ and we love developers that can switch hit between teams when it's needed. We have a lot of our infrastructure built in AWS so experience there is a plus.

Meetings don't need to suck, and we're making that happen. Come join us. Contact [email protected] and put [Hacker News] in your subject to make sure I get it.

Room on the team for novices and experts.

No recruiters please.

Comment · 12 years ago
Skydiver with 3 GoPros in the family. I started with the 1, got my wife a 2, and then I upgraded to a 3. The V1 is still alive and kicking, but the image quality was so much better on the 3 that I felt like I had to upgrade.

Also, we see new jumpers every year, and the first thing they want to do is start jumping with a GoPro (even if we don't want them to for safety reasons).

I think they're doing a good enough job with new features that people like me will keep upgrading for a while.

Comment · 12 years ago
I think it's safe to say suicide is rarely anything but mental health related. There are triggers for sure, but people in good mental health don't generally face those triggers and put suicide on the table as a potential solution.
Comment · 13 years ago
s/Cyber //
Comment · 14 years ago
First off, I would say that is some pretty awesome work by this guy to chase this down. Including his work with the manufacturer to help them reliably recreate the issue.

Second, I would say that over the course of my 10 year career in managing developers, I've heard many, many times that the bug was in the kernel, or in the hardware, or in the complier, or in the other lower level thing the developer had no control over. This has been the correct diagnosis exactly once. If I had to guess, I would say about 5%.

Comment · 14 years ago
no, you short on good news, buy on bad.
Comment · 14 years ago
Languages are tools. Good carpenters use the right tool for the right job. Can you use sand paper to sand a door down to fit the space? Sure...but there is a reason the plane was invented.
Comment · 15 years ago
Care to elaborate?

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