adamesque

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by adamesque 6y ago
individual contributor (aka someone judged on their own work output, not the output of a team like a manager or director)
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by adamesque 6y ago
not to mention this is an insanely anti-progressive prosecution once you dig into the details. just dumb.
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by adamesque 6y ago
the parent literally typed that they used to do just this, didn't have to anymore thanks to Simple, and didn't want to go back. I'm also a bummed Simple customer and they made it so easy to set up buckets for literally anythi
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GraphQL-crunch: Reduces the over-the-wire size of GraphQL responses(github.com)
4 points by adamesque 6y ago|0 comments
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by adamesque 6y ago
Same as a regular fission plant if I'm not mistaken!
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by adamesque 7y ago
It’s also easy to overlook, but at the time PUBG was nearing peak impact, the only console version was a buggy Xbox port. I remember being completely taken in with PUBG streams but with only a PS4 had no way to play. I downloaded Fortnite c
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by adamesque 8y ago
Reminds me a lot of Bandcamp, which serves a similar market and has a similar and very refreshing ethos: in it for the long haul, dedicated to serve their audience because (likely) nobody else will, because there's not and never will b
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Under the Hood of HTTP Requests in Node(medium.com)
2 points by adamesque 8y ago|0 comments
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Instrumenting HTTP requests in Node(medium.com)
39 points by adamesque 8y ago|3 comments
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by adamesque 8y ago
It has a ton of rough edges (for instance, doesn't use the same media playback APIs as the rest of the system so playback dies if you turn off the screen) (also for instance, it routinely gets "stuck" looping through a tiny t
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by adamesque 8y ago
I am on Safari, so yeah, maybe that's it. Thanks for the responses!
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by adamesque 8y ago
I'm also thrilled to see more songwriting tools on the web! As an active songwriter, the area I need the most assistance with is lyrics. To that point: - It'd be great if the rhymes panel was larger (or resizable). I use RhymersBl
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by adamesque 10y ago
An individual contributor is just someone who doesn't directly manage other people. I think you're supposed to use it to refer to people who are evaluated by their own work output as opposed to measuring the output of a team (even
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by adamesque 11y ago
Well, the iPod came out in 2001, and was already a huge phenomenon when the iTunes Music Store launched in (I believe) 2005. So you can't give all the credit for why the iPod succeeded to something that didn't exist for those cruc
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by adamesque 11y ago
It sounds like the core team is contemplating doing LTS releases, which should ease the fears of anyone who worries they'll be left behind if they can't keep up. source: https://github.com/emberjs/rfcs/pu
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by adamesque 11y ago
Not really — if you were paying $35/month JUST to have always-on dynos, you should be able to downgrade to the $7/month hobby tier. If you really needed that 2nd dyno for performance reasons, then yeah, it's a price hike.
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Finding a minimum polygon of a set of points(tobyschachman.com)
34 points by adamesque 12y ago|14 comments
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by adamesque 12y ago
Reaction, Inc - http://www.reactionhousing.com - Austin, TX - Sr Software Engineer (Ruby/Backend) Reaction needs a senior software engineer to help house people displaced by disaster At Reaction, we're building a sma
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by adamesque 12y ago
We're actually pursuing a similar model at Reaction ( http://www.reactionhousing.com ), convincing commercial customers who buy units to also buy units to donate. We'll see how it works in the long run, but initial resul
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by adamesque 12y ago
Yep, we've built a number of pre-production units. Hoping to go into production later this year. There are a few non-rendered photos on our media page: http://www.reactionhousing.com/media/ And another few in an a
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by adamesque 12y ago
please do!
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by adamesque 12y ago
Heh, it was actually designed by our CEO, a designer from Mississippi — he's been working on the concept since Katrina, finally got it funded a year ago.
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by adamesque 12y ago
There's a startup in Austin, TX aiming to compete in a similar space: http://www.reactionhousing.com Full disclosure: I work there. ;) And if you find this sort of mission compelling: we're hiring software engineers! (
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My Weird Ruby(awardwinningfjords.com)
128 points by adamesque 12y ago|93 comments
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JavaScript Modules: Welcome to My Emo Hellscape(medium.com)
4 points by adamesque 12y ago|0 comments
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by adamesque 12y ago
Whoa! Love the idea of a hybrid lua/markdown file; I didn't realize that the readme for the Github project WAS the source code till I noticed it was just a symlink to the .lua file. Very cool.
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by adamesque 12y ago
Wow, the colors are just gutted in the mp4 version.
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by adamesque 12y ago
I'm not sure I've ever met an opinion on a logo, name, or anything creative less than a month old that was worth a damn. When faced with something new, the tendency is to focus on the superficial, the easy joke, and it's too
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Why it makes sense to bike without a helmet(howiechong.com)
12 points by adamesque 12y ago|3 comments
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by adamesque 13y ago
I spent my first few undergrad years as a CS major at UT before this change happened, and had no prior experience with programming (I started in '97). The INTRO-intro CS class at the time actually used Pascal, and was endlessly confusi

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