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What good is a billion dollar startup if it pays little US tax, and only employs one or two hundred high paying jobs? A 100 Million dollar company typically employs just as many high paying jobs and may pay more US tax than a lot of these tech companies.

Also, a lot of these tech companies that are "shaking up" industries are profitable at the expense of other more traditional businesses (For example: AirBnB taking business from Hotels, Uber from taxi services, etc).

So bringing in more Billion dollar unicorn startups may not be the best thing for a country.

Graduates are increasingly less prepared for the working world and burdened with large student loans. It should come as no surprise that higher levels of education have not improved Millennials' standing.

There are more distractions and diversions than ever that prevent youth from otherwise doing something constructive with their time. And universities have been dumbing down curriculum to bring in more (less qualified) students that are buoyed up by federal loans.

Very nice. Added yet another shiny badge to my github project's README.

It seem's a little too easy to get an 'A' rating. On one of my less polished libraries it pointed out a few issues that I feel should bump me down to at least a 'B'.

1:45 on 10x10. i could see this as being addictive

Yeah. I originally started out using SSE but I ended up settling on longpolling because of wider browser support and the fact that there are issues with SSE even on newer browsers and polyfills. The knee-jerk reaction nowadays is to use websockets for everything, but sometimes simple is better.

I originally used SSE events but ran into issues. see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30462850/ie11-sse-via-pol...

I just wrote my first golang library: https://github.com/jcuga/golongpoll

I'm proud of it because its a general purpose library (http longpolling) versus random prototypes that I normally make. Also it has a lot of unit tests, code comments, and a decent README. I can appreciate the amount of work it takes to create a polished library for others to use after making one myself.

When I needed some simple push notifications, I could't find any decent library or example for longpolling in go (or most other languages), so I decided to make one :)

A lot of the examples out there in blog posts are too simplistic. They don't handle buffering old events and most of them simply give an event to the first request and then discard it. That's not real pub-sub.

Thanks! I don't know how I missed this. Will definitely give it a try.

oh i see the blog link...

I was thinking earlier today that I'd probably use twitter if it was text based like it used to be.

You should definitely put some example/feature threads on your website.

Pre-built binaries are now available for mac/win/linux 32/64 bit:

https://github.com/jcuga/proxyblock/releases/tag/v0.1-alpha

MIT. Just added the license.

Not yet, but that feature has occurred to me. Since it looks like there's some interest, I may do another round of feature development.

You need go to build it (see: https://golang.org/doc/install)

I can add pre-built binaries in the future, especially since go let's you cross compile easily.

I need to add one (tonight perhaps), but its basically: do what you want, but if it breaks it's not my fault. I'm just flattered if anyone finds it useful.

Oh, interesting. I didn't know that existed! Pretty similar idea. Mine's more focused on content blocking than specifically privacy. This should also work cross platform since its all written in go. (I've used it on windows, mac, and linux) If there's enough interest, I could polish this into a more complete product. I've been meaning to do a rewrite done right based on this prototype but need some motivation/reason to improve something that's "good enough" for me personally blocking ads and cruft while reading the news.

It's an alternative approach to a browser plugin to block ads and other stuff.