Todd

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by Todd 11y ago
I agree that it's impossible to predict the future. There may be some discontinuity that we haven't foreseen. That said, it hasn't happened yet. I think the run of the mill work will get more commoditized. Building web sites
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by Todd 11y ago
I know it's early days, but I'm excited about Salvatore's new project, Disque. He certainly knows how to find a technical niche with a big need. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818403
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by Todd 11y ago
I'm kind of disappointed by the cynical tone that has been increasing on HN over the past year or so. This is a straightforward blog post that is transparent about a wide range of technologies used in several areas (not just the user-f
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by Todd 11y ago
They do in my schemas :) One extra tip, which I have found useful, is to make the deleted column a time data type (just like created and updated), but nullable. That way, your Boolean check just needs to change to an IS NULL check, but you
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Zuckerberg: If you have control it's very difficult for investors to fire you(businessinsider.com)
1 points by Todd 11y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 11y ago
Another great resource is the Internals chapter of Pro Git. This opened my eyes. I've always been a Mercurial fan. Learning git from the bottom up really helped me understand what all the fuss was about. https://git-scm.com&
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by Todd 11y ago
The a16z deck posted a couple of days ago made a great point relating to this. In the past, an IPO would allow everyone to participate in the upside (e.g., 1000%+ growth of the Microsofts and Oracles). Now, the ones reaping the rewards are
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by Todd 11y ago
Agreed. I often have to use my laptop keyboard, as I'm sure everyone else does. That does make it a luxurious experience to get back to my mechanical keyboard (and external monitors). I look forward to getting back to my cave. Good per
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by Todd 11y ago
This is why I always loath buying a new laptop. The first thing I have to do is look at the keyboard layout. Where did these designers try to fit the cursor keys this time? Where did they try to innovate on space efficiency using those &#x2
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by Todd 11y ago
Earlier comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3953434
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by Todd 11y ago
As you know, 4-5 hours a week won't get you much. Even a POC will probably take a few months at that rate. The ratio is inverted. It should be two devs to one business person. As others have pointed out, you're going to be doing a
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by Todd 11y ago
That's enlightening and encouraging. A formula-based/matrix approach might make it more acceptable because it isn't personal. One thing I haven't seen is how to handle COLA. I'm sure that can also be added as an add
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by Todd 11y ago
I always appreciate your transparency and believe that you're helping drive our industry forward. I often search for ideas on how to help within my area of influence. The closest I've found is Stack Exchange's salary matrix,
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by Todd 11y ago
There are a number of good answers here on general programming. If you want your knowledge to be relevant to your startup, it might depend on what kind of startup you're doing. Will it be mobile focused or Web, for example? If web, you
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by Todd 12y ago
I got the same desk about a month ago. Software development is one of those jobs that require you to sit for long stretches of time. The recent studies that link sitting with decreased life expectancy are what pushed me to action. Going to
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by Todd 12y ago
Yes. IQueryable actually implements an expression tree, which means that it may never be executed, at least directly. LINQ to Entities (Entity Framework) actually evaluates the expression tree to build SQL statements, then runs those and re
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by Todd 12y ago
This is a cut and paste from Quora (as a Forbes contributor) http://www.quora.com/Why-do-many-software-engineers-not-like... It contains four pages from two contributors, the first from our own michaelochurch. So the functi
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by Todd 12y ago
Two categories: now and future. First, future. This is where most people give advice. Develop your passion and follow it, etc. This is important. You must dedicate time and effort to becoming good at something--hopefully something that pays
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Elon Musk Talks Seattle Satellites, Model X(techcrunch.com)
3 points by Todd 12y ago|0 comments
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by Todd 12y ago
YC was founded in the Boston area.
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by Todd 12y ago
I'm also using react-router. I've been pretty happy with it. I will take a look at willTransitionTo again. In the meantime, I'm doing what you suggest--rendering a basic initial view. In the end, you are only going to be able
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by Todd 12y ago
You make valid points and, in general, the top-down prop passing convention is the recommended approach with React. This works well if most of your state can be managed client-side with, e.g., Flux stores. There are some cases, though, such
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by Todd 12y ago
Overall, I think React is a great step forward in supporting isomorphic apps. The last hurdle, at least for me, is its limited support for asynchronous rendering server side. The biggest problem is that renderToString follows a different co
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by Todd 12y ago
You may be thinking of Greplin. I hadn't followed their story but it looks like they rebranded to Cue and were acquired by Apple.
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by Todd 12y ago
This approach is more common in lower level software where each allocation is carefully managed. The Linux kernel uses them, for example: http://www.makelinux.net/ldd3/chp-11-sect-5 as does the Windows kernel: http:&#
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by Todd 12y ago
He makes a point that he uses tiny fonts and that they work for his eyes. The photo of the screen just behind the keyboard is further evidence. I'm guessing it's at the same distance as his previous setup.
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by Todd 12y ago
I think the video looks great. It conveys the purpose very clearly for those who don't even know that they need something like that. Although it's not my cup of tea, I think the music is very current in this context. Nice work!
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by Todd 12y ago
I came here to suggest the same thing. I started with real analysis but realized that I was lacking the mathematical maturity to understand things back to first principles. My suggestion is to start with learning how the foundations of math
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by Todd 12y ago
I guess what I meant was that there can be significant data manipulation at the API level, and this calls for more language and runtime support. Agreed that client code can become very complex. It's one of the reasons I avoided doing t
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by Todd 12y ago
Yes, that was strange. I noticed it was removed shortly after I posted my comment. I can only assume they want to clean up the examples in the announcement and integrate them into the docs. Here's where I saw the original link: https:

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