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snappy173on Mark Cuban: If Your Company Is Moving For Tax Reasons, I'm Selling Your Stock

wat?

this isn't what cuban is doing. at all. it's more like:

"because you behave logically, i can and will encourage you to behave in my best interest."

hate has nothing to do with it.

snappy173on [dead]

i got "measure my cock" for "preteens" ...

snappy173on How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages

SV != SF. East Bay -> SF, especially near BART is easy enough. East Bay -> SV is ... may as well be Portland ... Maine.

snappy173on I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass

my reaction when people look at me while wearing google glass is, "please get that camera out of my face." i find it unnerving and sorta creepy to have a camera pointed at my face, and to me, while the glass is not just that, it is still a camera.

snappy173on JSFuck – Write any JavaScript with 6 Characters: []()!+

meh. i prefer Acme::EyeDrops

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-EyeDrops/lib/Acme/EyeDrops....

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-perl-737.html

snappy173on Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

B(eef)-Trees?

snappy173on Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining colony

am i the only one that read this as employee of rogue ales (http://rogue.com/)? i need a beer ...

snappy173on If Kerouac wrote JavaScript

somebody needs to take a crack at a David Foster Wallace version ...

snappy173on Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They've Blown Up

reminds me of when i accidentally started a fire in study hall ...

snappy173on #FF4A00

should have gone with #bada55

http://ni9e.com/bada55/bada55_can.jpg

snappy173on 10x developer talk is fundamentally misguided

It's not necessarily "10". It's somewhere between 1.5 and 1000 depending on the project. It's 2-3x for typical business work; 10+ for infrastructural work that multiplies across the company (i.e. makes everyone more productive). I'm writing about developer economics (Part 22 of a series that was supposed to be 22 parts, but will be 23).

in other words, it's all about leverage. 10x in the abstract probably doesn't make sense, but a good developer that is able to leverage that ability can produce real value.

and of course, the opposite is true. if a cowboy style developer produces a ton of work while taking on technical debt, and this isn't probably accounted for, the technical debt can spiral out of control. this of course slows everybody else down, and the cowboy's reputation as the 10x is reinforced ... yeah, i've been there ... no i'm not bitter.

snappy173on Introducing "Functional JavaScript"

or rather than creating an iterator yourself, use setTimeout(..., 0) to put the next call on the event loop.