Zelphyr

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by Zelphyr 8y ago
He misspelled “frameworks”.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
> people lose sight of the Why's for doing something and instead gravitate to that cool new shiny thing This, to me, is a critical problem with our industry. I see so many times the same wheels being reinvented simply because the d
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
The bedroom servers have disappeared in favor of cloud computing like AWS. I'm not sure I'd consider AWS being a major single point of failure a good thing. Not to mention, isn't one of the big selling points of blockchain
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I remember the story of a former co-worker who was bidding on a property somewhere around Palo Alto if I recall. $6 million and it came with a house that the city had condemned and any buyer was required to pay to have it torn down before
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Which was an argument of my kids when they were five. To which I replied then and I reply now, "That doesn't make it right."
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I think a vast majority of people in general, and developers especially, equate complexity with quality. And even when they realize that the inverse is true they don’t take the time to reduce that complexity.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
When I was checking out Serverless Framework I was floored that a single Lambda function (that barely did anything) resulted in 15+Mb of data being uploaded to AWS. I had only installed two NPM modules yet when I looked at the "node_m
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
> grooming for possible upcoming appearances in front of legislators Facebook knows what pretty much everyone in the Valley knows; 90%+ of the politicians in this country (and likely most other countries) don't have the technical ed
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I'm sorry but I just don't buy that as anything more than an excuse because Facebook is so good inducing an addictive response. People have been staying in touch without the likes of Facebook for far longer than Facebook has exis
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
As Scott McNealy has said; once you have investors, your company is for sale. So not only would you have to deprive that engineer but you would also have to explain to Sequoia why you weren’t going to give them a gargantuan return on their
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Maybe you're in a different situation than me but I can easily round up all of my friends with a few phone calls. "Hey Tony. I'm planning a party on the first at 6:00pm. Would you mind letting Sue and Mark know they'r
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I agree with you in principal but AWS and Lambda feels significantly more complex than that. At least when I was FTP'ing my code up to some shared host I still had a lot of control over my environment (ini overrides, htaccess, etc...)
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
"By signing, you accept Change.org’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and agree to receive occasional emails about campaigns on Change.org . You can unsubscribe at any time." I support the campaign but that one sentence preve
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Literally just ran into this. One AWS doc example says to use "update" whereas another doc says to use "updateItem". Which one works? No way to tell without trying. Their documentation is literally costing me product
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
On the one hand, I agree with you. On the other; GOD I hope it works because their documentation is loathsome sometimes.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Regardless of whether Magic Leap is a Theranos level scam (and I personally think it is), this is additional evidence that there are massive amounts of investment money available out there.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
The Libertarian in me agrees but then I think of the psychology of how people approach casino gambling vs business investing. For the former, I feel like people know going in that the odds are in favor of the house and they come to terms w
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Privacy. At least that has always been my expectation from Virtual Private Networks.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Rebol and Red are very Lisp like and use square brackets instead of paren's.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Targeted ads to me also means that company knows way more about me than I would prefer. Why is that a problem? It might not be. I'm not doing anything wrong. But I have curtains on my bathroom window for a reason. I'm not doi
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
This is getting voted down but this is exactly what one of my kids told me the other day. With the younger generations not getting on to Facebook coupled with more and more “old people” realizing how bad Facebook is and leaving it, one has
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I think it’s less a matter of people romanticizing the days before Facebook and more that people are waking up to the unethical and questionable practices Facebook engages in to keep people coming back to the site. [Edit: fixed mobile type-
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Apologies for going off topic but what the hell did the developers of that do to the keys? If you scroll down and then use the down arrow you're taken to the top of the page and, paradoxically, one of the nav items opens. Can't
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Are you burned out? Perhaps a weeks vacation or even longer if you can afford it might be in order.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
This does seem to be growing into a problem. I have a friend who is a recovering alcoholic and recently he went to a tech meetup where not only was it centered around alcohol but there really wasn't anything else provided. He rightly
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
This is a great tutorial but it will give you zero hints if you get stuck.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
Not to mention, because of the placement of their hover in the bottom-right its next to impossible to resize a textarea with their plugin installed.
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
The one I miss is one that may still be around, but not for long since it was a Flash page. It was, if I recall, a demo page to highlight the designers skills. I don't even remember the name. It was an anime style video that ended w
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
As a Gen-X'er I was told in my twenties that Social Security was going to run out by the time I was forty. Here I am, in my forties, and it hasn't run out yet. That's not to say that it can't or won't. But in tho
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by Zelphyr 9y ago
I agree but the allure of that kind of power is intoxicating for people like him. Not to mention the deals he could set up for himself and Facebook when he goes back to the private sector.

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