When you talk about PPP, keep in mind to factor in housing and other modern lifestyle conveniences. These are very very expensive if you price it as a percentage of your salary. Even in the Bay Area, a Home is still 5-6X annual income of a typical software engineer. In India, it is more like 10-15X.
To give some idea of the market - people are starting to count stock options as future income in order to qualify for home purchases. The median home price that sold recently in San Jose is close to a million dollars.
5-6X will not get you a nice house in a nice area. It will just get you a small house. In San Jose, the cheapest ones I'm seeing are in the 500-600K range - smaller than 1000 sq ft.
as a counter to that, in third world countries, rent is often a way better deal all round, so if you're not hung up on home ownership, you can get by pretty well for less.
This is most certainly not true. I don't deny there will be shitty houses for a drop-dead rents, but you can also get a fairly luxurious rentals in Mumbai and Bangalore, at least (I don't have personal experience with other cities).
Until Sequoia's Don Valentine gets the VPs to rebel and have Sandy fired. Who ended up selling all his founder stocks for pennies, while the rest became billionaires...
I feel one of the real issues is incentivizing publicly traded companies to beat pressure from Wall street to keep cutting costs and workers be damned attitude. It might be worthwhile to experiment $30 per hour wages for all publicly listed and big companies, including temp workers.
Overall it is better for someone to work 4h at $30 instead of 8h at $15.
This looks like an iPad / tablet charging stand with speakers and better mic -- which there are plenty of in the market. You can get one of these for $20 (or $99 if Apple makes it!). Amazon is just hoping that the success of Echo will push this forward. This will be another Fire incident for Amazon.
Disagree. This is entering a far less saturated somewhat new market. A very focused communication/consumption device where the tablet is trying to be a laptop.
If one were to use a similar analogy as the author -- a startup is like a huge hill but a mirage. Once you're off of whatever you are smoking, you realize it's just a mole hill.
Our team runs _the_ largest Go middleware. Checking in external dependencies into your repo scales - you don't want 200+ users hitting Github every 10 minutes, when you can hit the local Git repo on a 10Gbps n/w. Also, using GOPATH with a simple Makefile is pretty much all you need -- unless you don't grok Makefiles.
But whatever floats your boat and as usual the latest hotness sells.
Thanks for working in Firefox. It is so much better than where it was whe Chrome first shipped and I switched to Firefox (and also to DDG thanks to AMP). There are two issue that bug me a lot and I use FF on Mac. The back swipe behavior is not so great and enabling browser.snapshots.limit is buggy. I feel it is also slower rendering and scrolling.
