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by 5cott0 5y ago
Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton Bad Blood - John Carreyrou How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story - Billy Gallagher Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork - Reeves Wiedeman Whistle
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The learning curve for d3 is so steep that people are starting to confuse it for observablehq.
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> Guess they spent all their money on software? lol, no https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/05/peloton-bug-account-data-l...
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I always have a project goal in mind and keep a backlog of personal project ideas and work on whatever I feel like leveling up on. Having a shippable goal helps because it gives some purpose to the occasional tedium slog which are unfortuna
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Adobe CC
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Spring/Lombok/Postgres/React - exactly the same as I would have used in 2015.
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The key to being a successful failure is persistence, don’t stop now.
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I know I was being sarcastic because hn discussions around the history of JS always devolve into this silly flamebait and no one should take them seriously.
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I don't think you're smart enough to make any inference about when I started. But if you insist on this crusty bonafides peen measuring contest I got started serving php via cgi on apache deployed with scp.
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IE7
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ViteJS is nothing short of a revelation. Recently migrated all my webapps from webpack5 to vite and it took considerably less time and effort than migrating from webpack 4 to webpack5 did, just removing babeljs reduced the dependency footpr
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No, no it is not. It's somewhat amusing to see people complain about the supposedly increasing complexity of web development. Sorry-not-sorry it's not that bad or even that complex. In fact things are far easier and less complex t
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i don't believe you
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by 5cott0 6y ago
Everybody's other favorite German word: "sitzfleisch".
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"A warlord once stopped at a monastery on his way home from a successful military campaign. He came to visit the abbot who was an old teacher of his. As the abbot and the warlord sat in the courtyard pleasantly chatting and drinking te
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by 5cott0 6y ago
A kooky theory I harbor is that corporate tech continues to employ algo whiteboard hazing ritual interviews because if they were to evaluate SWEs with tasks more closely resembling the expected day-to-day they would have to pay them an hour
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devs also pay $100 - $300 a year for the privilege
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Implemented a custom migration using this technique a few years ago, was one of those mind blowing "you can actually do that?" moments.
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https://montecarloxo.com Tic-tac-toe against a monte carlo strategist on iOS. Wrote the gameplay code years ago - nothing sophisticated just Apple GameplayKit, pretty dumb strategist but every once in a while it gets lucky. Dust
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by 5cott0 6y ago
No mention of the fact that Orwell plagiarized the plot of 1984?
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ZDNet? C'mon hackernews.
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I read the blog hoping to find out what the fall of Silicon Valley was but that was rendered incoherent by the excessive Name dropping.
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"Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring."
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What's an email?
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Everyone fell for the Hey! stunt too what do you expect?
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Makes perfect sense when you consider that the author is a former McKinsey consultant.
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I'm not procrastinating I'm practicing Intermittent Dopamine Fasting.
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If android phones would update once in a while we wouldn't be stuck with all this gradle dependency rot.
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What you describe is a strong signal of a culture with very low trust and very insecure leadership. https://hbrascend.org/topics/research-insecure-managers-dont...
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There Are No Margins, Just TODOs

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