BrandonM

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Ask HN: Non-localized email addresses OK?
1 points by BrandonM 11y ago|3 comments
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by BrandonM 11y ago
This is only true in a world where being an electrician, plumber, heating and cooling technician, etc. -- all jobs that are in-demand and pay $100K+/year -- have a negative stigma attached to them. Mike Rowe gave a great Ted talk about
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by BrandonM 11y ago
I would be in full support, too, if inmates received more than $0.21-1.23 per hour: http://drc.ohio.gov/web/drc_policies/documents/25-OPI-11.pdf
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by BrandonM 11y ago
Failing to comply with a police order is a felony in many jurisdictions.
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by BrandonM 11y ago
I spent four hours in a county court room one morning. You can do it, too. I regularly heard the judge dole out terms like "5 years in state prison, with a month of credit for every 3 months of work." Convicts were literally being
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by BrandonM 11y ago
Sorry to go off-topic, but the way that font combined 'st' (with a loop back from the 't' to the top-center of the 's') was very visually distracting to me. Did that bother anyone else?
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by BrandonM 11y ago
Have you considered keeping all your code in one git repo? That allows you to know exactly how code dependencies fit together. This approach is almost certainly not a robust, long-term solution, but it has served us well for a couple years,
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by BrandonM 12y ago
For Java specifically, this is a concise summary of the issues: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...
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by BrandonM 12y ago
The first time I ever saw someone eat pizza with ketchup was in Poland. It seemed really strange to me. I grew up in the US.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
* Same for music. Do you want to be in the place where creation happens, or a pit stop on the tour? This one is bullshit. Plenty of bands came from Ohio, including OAR, the Foo Fighters, and the Black Keys. IMO, the live music scene in Colu
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I agree. I grew up in Ohio, and to me, Pittsburgh and the rest of western PA is part of the Midwest. It has the same farmland/steel-town culture that Ohio does. Obviously Philadelphia is not, so I would argue that the dividing line is
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by BrandonM 12y ago
You might be mistaken: > To give an obvious example of what I'm looking for- I would say, use margins to separate multiple instances of same components I was surprised, too, because I was expecting to see lots of MVC talk.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
If you actually read through it all, you'll see that she poured her drink on him after that ridiculous comment, then he reported her to HR for that. She got reprimanded, he got promoted. At least that is what is being alleged. Your
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by BrandonM 12y ago
> Looking at his code, it's kind of scary. No comments. Did you ckeck out addresses.5, for example? The source may not be commented, but if he clearly describes his assumptions (he does), source comments are less necessary. >
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by BrandonM 12y ago
When I'm at a retailer or a restaurant or wherever and there's an honest mistake, I point it out. I try to treat everyone in a way that I would hope to be treated in the same circumstance. IMO, anything else is selfish and exploit
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I was a server at Ruby Tuesday for years, where I made $2.85/hr plus tips. I averaged $8-20 per hour in tips (toward the higher end on weekends and holidays), but I was one of the better servers. The hourly wage only covered taxes.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
We use slashes at our company as a manner of course, and we've had no issues. We name all our features as `feature/i18n` and our bug fixes as `hotfix/ie-promises`. Of course, we might have issues if we named a branch `feature
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I wasn't responding to the entire article. I agree that he got a few things right. The specific part I quoted, though, stands out to me as a rather old-fashioned management philosophy, one that is unlikely to attract and retain top tal
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I'm surprised to see that HNers think that "strict discipline" and "hands-on management" are requirements for a company to succeed. The startup I work for is in a competitive area, and we aren't treated like ch
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by BrandonM 12y ago
> I would love to see one single company that isn’t dominating a market with no cash cow in-flow that can succeed without strict discipline, sharp focus, hard work, and hands-on management. I would not work for this person. It's i
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Programming languages are absolutely for communicating with humans. Source comments are just one trivial proof of that.
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Java Primitive: Sort arrays using primitive comparators(github.com)
3 points by BrandonM 12y ago|0 comments
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by BrandonM 12y ago
This was perhaps a 20-hour project, and we're already using it in our Java codebase. Are you instead recommending a Scala rewrite for a 100,000-line production system?
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Sorry, I just recoil against phrases like "x is not for you." You seem to view this individual commenter as a sea of uncaring people, but it's just one person. Change their mind, and their contribution to the "BS" d
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by BrandonM 12y ago
The linked talk actually does a pretty good job describing how Java 8's Lambda is both backwards compatible and forward thinking. 1. The idea of @FunctionalInterface leveraged practices that were already in use--interfaces with a singl
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by BrandonM 12y ago
For?
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by BrandonM 12y ago
Yes.
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by BrandonM 12y ago
I understand Either, and I would absolutely prefer to be using it. That was going to be one of my follow up projects, and it would depend on this one. I took a look functionaljava, and it doesn't provide the following: Either<
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by BrandonM 12y ago
It may be! It would be pretty cool to do something like: import net.mintern.functions.auto.ObjCharToBool; and have the generate-classes stage be able to see that import and automatically generate the requisite interface. Of course,
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by BrandonM 12y ago
It's exactly like that. For some use cases, that cost matters. Trove is a popular project that does just what you describe for Set, List, and Map. For this library, if you stick to binary-core, you basically get what Java 8 provides ou

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