MichaelGlass

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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
With some punctuation: Britain-Based Card Aggregation Service, Curve, Opens First U.S. Center in Brooklyn
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
> companies are pretty good at taking advantage of a good thing. I ... don't think that's true? There are lots of "superior" technologies that just haven't won. e.g. the handful of people who use it _swear_ by Da
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
I have recently forked the elm language to produce a much better language. please come to our discourse https://discourse.pine-lang.org
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
https://mbylstra.github.io/html-to-elm/ <3
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
and also wrapping widgets in custom elements when that's appropriate. https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/custom_elements.html
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
Agreed. But ... minification is totally relatable and "better error messages" is less-so. The problem with benchmarks is they over-emphasize things that are measurable. Honestly, I don't care as much about binary size as I do
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
> an unknown percentage Do like one or two google searches and you'll see a monthly transparency report. ( https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planti... ) Spend another five minutes doing research an
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
Especially in Europe, it's very clear that in tech, there's a huge unfair bias for women. I mean look at the speaker lineups of conferences and management / tech teams of large tech organizations. It's hard to spot a sin
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
I am so tickled by the last names of the speakers. Einstein introduces Jung.
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by MichaelGlass 7y ago
Easy to say from the sidelines. Working at google means - getting better benefits & pay - being at one of the darling companies in the industry Walking out is daring. Leaving is even scarier. I remember leaving my last job thinking, &qu
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by MichaelGlass 8y ago
I don't think it's so terrible. E.g. if you buy real estate and live in it, then you can deduct 250K gains for a single person or 500K gains for a couple. To that end, you'll only be paying capital gains if you did very well.
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by MichaelGlass 8y ago
Yes and no, but in the simple case: that's right, in a higher-than-us-tax country, you will likely only pay a tax advisor, the host country's tax, but not any US tax.
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by MichaelGlass 8y ago
From your other comments it seems like you're well versed in this stuff, but here there's some missing nuance. Most countries have double taxation treaties. 1. If the tax rate is lower in your host country, you pay tax on income
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by MichaelGlass 8y ago
Yesterday there was problem resolving cloudflare hosts when you used google DNS. Related? see: https://twitter.com/vavrusam/status/1013120757809860609
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A type for views(blog.noredink.com)
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by MichaelGlass 8y ago
When I was a beginner, I found this extremely slow & burdensome. So much boilerplate! Working in a huge codebase, I don't feel this pain at all. I wonder if the beginner experience is off. When you add functionality to a huge appli
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by MichaelGlass 8y ago
At NoRedInk, We've been using gh-ost for a few years now, and it's been a pleasure. - The ability to control a running migration is crucial. We have pretty predictable load, and we generally run long-running migrations during off-
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by MichaelGlass 9y ago
... why don't these sites live on Lyft or Delta's domains? Feels icky typing personal information into random domain names that have other brands embedded in them.
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by MichaelGlass 9y ago
My assumption has always been that companies large enough to have a security team also have better security practices than my small company. E.g. I'd guess Atlassian infrastructure folks don't share ssh keys over chat. Maybe they
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by MichaelGlass 10y ago
Yeah, Aurora is great for scaling already-fast reads but if you wanna scale writes or get large indices in memory, it's not going to help you.
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by MichaelGlass 10y ago
Darn it! I worked so hard on my app, and it was in the market for a few months, but it just got taken down for god knows why. I don't see why these organizations have to have such arduous approval processes.
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by MichaelGlass 11y ago
Regardless of revenue, they were purchased for "over $10,000 per". I call horse shit. I agree with this statement, though, "It is undeniably destructive to our economy and future when many of our most innovative and exciting
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by MichaelGlass 11y ago
The piece is so obviously satire and not based in reality
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by MichaelGlass 11y ago
"Here’s somebody who’ll wear their mediocrity with such energy, with such boundless enthusiasm and unbridled passion, that nobody else even tries to compete. You’re not Steve Jobs. You’re mediocre, like me. You’re reading shabby online
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by MichaelGlass 11y ago
iz et uh joek ? :p The job post is jokey, but quite serious! Come work with us. After 2.5 years I still love working at NoRedInk.
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by MichaelGlass 11y ago
what about http://streak.club ?
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by MichaelGlass 12y ago
He proposes event based and scroll based interfaces. The Mac Pro example is hideous, but Apple's retina iMac page is quite beautiful (and lives somewhere between the two, not using gestures but giving the user the impression that no sc
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by MichaelGlass 12y ago
NoRedInk in San Francisco (or remote). Full stack rails engineers wanted to make sure that grammer is taught good. Every one's revolutioneyesing educaton but while some student's cant even right the write words. Then there was NoR
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by MichaelGlass 12y ago
I was, in fact, intentionally using broken english to make a point!
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by MichaelGlass 12y ago
NoRedInk in San Francisco (or remote). Full stack rails engineers wanted to make sure that grammer is taught good. Every one's revolutioneyesing educaton but while some student's cant even right the write words. Then there was NoR

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