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by Bahamut 10y ago
I'm not sure if this is still the case, but I remember hearing a year and a half ago or so that the Instagram team was still pretty small then. FB is pretty lean in terms of number of frontend devs - at that time I remember being told
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Winamp still remains my favorite media player of choice - the UI is minimal enough but isn't too minimal (Foobar), but isn't terrible (iTunes). It supports all the formats I care about and then some, and it is fast. It's unfo
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I found some of the books on the Marine Corps lists somewhat propaganda, so one has to be careful to not follow their lists blindly. Source: I was a reserve Marine grunt and have read some of the books
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by Bahamut 10y ago
As a lead developer/eng manager, I tend to discuss in my 1-1s with my team things that are of concern to people, changes people liked, changes people didn't like, and why to everything. I will ask for feedback on how can I better
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I highly recommend against using that library - it encourages a lot of callback hell we've found at my company, and it is much harder to create nice reusable functions with it vs. promises. bluebird is a wholly superior library for han
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Flexible work (I can work from anywhere where I can access the internet reliably...sometimes even when not reliable, i.e. while flying), and the ability to take PTO whenever I request it without issues, even 2 1/2 weeks at a time! Ther
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Funnily enough, most companies I have worked at has much better frontend code than backend...but maybe that's a problem that tends to come with smaller companies if they're not hiring the right engineers, and not so much a fronten
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I was going to say pretty much this answer - good ideas stand out on their own, not because [insert person] says it is good. There are many fantastic developers out there that you probably have not heard of their name until they come up wit
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I think the person's point was that you sacrifice performance - having the ability to mutate is only a good thing there, as immutability without being able to exit out of that is too inflexible and potentially could cause other hacks t
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Me challenging them is what got me not supporting IE9 :) . Global usage is not the number that matters for businesses though - it's userbase percentage, and unfortunately that number for IE is quite higher than I'd like (over 10%)
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by Bahamut 10y ago
In this case, flexbox actually is a bit awkward - one is often forced to pair flexbox with calc in this sort of situation. If the content, including text, is too long, it pushes the right container down a level unless the width is fixed to
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by Bahamut 10y ago
A lot of people still have to support IE10/11, including myself - until browser support is mostly on evergreen browsers & browsers keep up to date on implementing the new standards, ability to use the standards hinges upon a couple
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I have a VP who told me the same thing about autonomy, mastery, and purpose - do you have any material where the three words are used and in more detail?
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Some of the replies have good answers, but one other thing you can do is build a prototype, and do some user testing to garner feedback.
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by Bahamut 10y ago
It's not too hard to get a job in the Valley if you're competent - I find it very easy to get an offer at most companies. There are a fraction of companies that try to get too clever and find ways to reject people (one rejection f
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by Bahamut 10y ago
For me, my open source work has been a great way to establish credibility for finding jobs, full time or freelancing. In addition, it is a way of giving back to the software I use, and improve my skills by dipping outside my sphere.
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by Bahamut 10y ago
For me, it's distilled down to what do I want my legacy to be - do I want to say I did something, or that I got most of the way there, but then I quit? I would rather do and fail than do, give up & be assured of failure. At least w
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by Bahamut 10y ago
That's pretty much what my company does, and we're a SaaS company. Simple is better oftentimes.
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by Bahamut 10y ago
For leadership principles & qualities, I am biased towards the list that the Marine Corps has put out: http://www.tcsnc.org/cms/lib010/NC01910389/Centricity/Domain... . The Marine Corps may not be a
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I found it funny he slagged on using JIRA, as oftentimes I found startups using Rally, which is a lot more painful :( .
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I don't disagree that the root cause in that situation is not engineering in most situations and that it usually is an indication of a symptom, but attempting to change the meaning of the term itself is not a great approach for communi
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Isn't this precisely technical debt? Unless you want to split hairs and call this a technical massacre...
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Who would buy that? Screen is too small to be of great utility for gaming, cellphones have awful battery life for gaming, controllers wouldn't be as nice to bind to such a device while sticking it in a pocket, and it directly brings it
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I remember that guy - met him 10 years ago while playing Versus mode in Tetris Attack at a convention. We both sent each other so much garbage blocks that we froze the game and he took some pictures & video talking about the feat since
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by Bahamut 10y ago
When I clicked the link, I was expecting a breakdown on aspects that engineers tend to excel at and what those types tend to be weak at. This article sorely disappoints at an opinionated breakdown with no way to extract it into a more objec
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by Bahamut 10y ago
FWIW, not every company in the Bay Area is like that. I work for a small company in Palo Alto (< 50 people) where most people get in around 9 (some come earlier, some come later), and people will leave around 5 (some also leave earlier -
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by Bahamut 10y ago
This is awesome - this reminds me of Google's clang-format which they use to format Angular automatically, but sounds like it's less sucky. The idea behind it is that developers tend to be opinionated about code style, so having a
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by Bahamut 10y ago
I have not seen this in general - there is for sure an effect on some not wanting to come to the US, but from what I see in developer circles and what I have seen in academia, the US is by far the most popular location to move to. The oppor
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by Bahamut 10y ago
For the curious, much of this is covered in depth in a graduate analytic number theory first course. As fascinating as the Riemann Zeta Hypothesis is, I think something almost as fascinating is the works of Ramanujan - to this day, the geni
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by Bahamut 10y ago
Still Chrome - all the browsers have warts. As someone who uses a lot of Google services, the login ability in Chrome is valuable, and it stores my bookmarks too. The devtools are also king of the crop by far. Firefox's devtools irrita

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