Cymen

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by Cymen 10y ago
I think it comes down to trust. In a lot of teams where the trust is poor, one can't ask a question without your competency coming into question in a subtle way: many developers will latch onto it and try to exhibit their business-spec
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by Cymen 10y ago
I worked on a robust client-side web application built in React. There was a product decision to make public one of the main pages with less information than a paying logged-in user would see. It was fairly straight forward, if somewhat of
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by Cymen 10y ago
Oddly, that doesn't help much as the same author wrote multiple books with very similar titles.
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by Cymen 10y ago
Or, you know, you could pick positions that require growth in skills you need to grow for your own side projects you're bootstrapping or plan on to bootstrap. I've used that strategy since college and it's worked well for me.
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by Cymen 10y ago
I worked for an ISP (Berbee or BINC) that was merged with CDW. It was exactly as outlined above -- the private equity company had a big stake in both and merged them together for a later IPO. In my experience, it was painful because a small
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by Cymen 10y ago
Isn't there a big button to just show the article? There was for me but I opted in to ads and it's just a tiny banner ad at the top. I figure if it is a smaller site and they ask to opt-in for ads, they are going to be good citize
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by Cymen 10y ago
Is only the Principle Cloud Architect remote or are all of the positions potentially remote?
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by Cymen 10y ago
P2W is pay to win. I had to google it too. But basically, requiring IAP in order to win -- not possible (or maybe extremely difficult) to win without making some in-app purchase(s).
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by Cymen 11y ago
Working on vehicles has always been dangerous when they weigh 2,000+ pounds and are often supported by flimsy equipment. I don't disagree that batteries are lethal but it's just one more thing in a long list of things that can kil
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by Cymen 11y ago
History keeps repeating itself. That is what they said about those new fuel injected motors and control systems. It's just lag as the knowledge of how to fix new things spreads to the aftermarket. The stories about the Prius/Toyot
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by Cymen 11y ago
They kind of have that with Amazon Locker but I found in practice, it was kind of annoying as not everything fits in the locker. If it's a smaller item (or items), it works great.
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by Cymen 11y ago
If you still want to bring your old MBP back to life, I just replaced the battery on my sister's 2011 MBP with an aftermarket one from Amazon. There were a lot of pro/con reviews and it's only a couple weeks in but so far it&
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by Cymen 11y ago
So next up ntp clients that support blacklists?
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by Cymen 11y ago
Sometimes the heatsink compound dries out and temperatures raise. So in a data center, the glue, if it works as well or better than compound, is a good thing. For a home machine, I agree with you -- I'd prefer the flexibility of being
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by Cymen 11y ago
Exactly. It's not fetishism of the military, it's advertisement.
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by Cymen 11y ago
My theory is we, as subscribers, have hit rock bottom or close to rock bottom in terms of content on Netflix that is not produced by Netflix. This is okay with me. I like Netflix content. But I think Netflix original content is a stick that
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by Cymen 11y ago
The last couple rounds on this have talked about experience at startups but they neglected to go into the value of that experience. From the startup side, people will say the experience is valuable and what they mean is the experience of ge
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by Cymen 11y ago
I wouldn't use the word romantic but maybe we're talking about the same thing: the excitement and joy you get from building something from scratch as a small team. You truly have to understand the whole solution and the team is sm
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by Cymen 11y ago
That is the issue: $350k is not enough of a reward for the risk when most fail. It's like going to the bookies and finding the favorite horse is paying 1:1.0001. What's the point of betting?
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by Cymen 11y ago
As a non-single guy, I was initially surprised and then later not so surprised when this was one of the primary reasons many of my single friends from back home didn't want to relocate here. So a lot of people are indeed deciding that
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by Cymen 11y ago
There is nothing wrong with being motivated by both doing excellent work and being well compensated for it. If the motivation is purely money, sure, I see a problem. But you're painting both sets with the same brush.
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by Cymen 11y ago
Well said and I think that is the exact problem. It's also coupled with a 10-11 year to IPO duration. In the past, it was much shorter. The equity game doesn't make sense anymore. You can see it in how hard it is to hire in SF as
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by Cymen 11y ago
The problem here is that the dream is dying for those of us coming to SF to work in startups. The harsh reality is that more and more of us are going to look towards the better deal at the bigger companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Netf
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by Cymen 11y ago
Not always. I wasted a day interviewing at TrueCar (well, some faction of TrueCar) and paid for my own lunch. Never heard back from them or the recruiter. Talk about a real waste of time (with footnote I clearly learned I never want to work
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by Cymen 11y ago
When working on it a year ago at another employer, we had a list of edge cases. I don't recall them all but some were off by quite a bit. Enough so that the work around was to do everything in SVG except text and use plain DOM position
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by Cymen 11y ago
Have you tried them though? Now check it out with kerning and/or italics. Do you see overhanging when you draw the rectangular box found via the API? Good example is strings that end with a character like f. Works in theory. In practic
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by Cymen 11y ago
For SVG to truly rise, it needs better font/text support. It should be easy to programmatically determine the width of a string of text in a given font. Unfortunately, it is not. You can go look how libraries like D3.js do it. But ulti
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by Cymen 11y ago
I didn't name names because I didn't recall who did what. But when we were looking for people with SVG experience, I went down the contributor list to both projects and something like the top 10 were all now at Adobe. This is my r
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by Cymen 11y ago
But it is now end of life. The people behind it went on to Snap.svg[1]. Raphaël was great for VML fallback but now that is no longer needed. It is interesting to see just how many people Adobe has hired that worked on SVG (and projects arou
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by Cymen 11y ago
> There are indexers that help find content that does not suffer from this problem but they come and go.

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