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by akurilin 13y ago
Fair enough, thanks for explaining that. Seems like the EC2-like route makes the most sense if you're most budget and manpower constrained, even though the performance will be comparatively pretty abysmal.
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by akurilin 13y ago
Thoroughly enjoying your book, thanks for writing it! It was also great to get a DRM-free copy through O'Reilly. Please write more :)
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by akurilin 13y ago
Argh, that's too bad, thanks for letting me know. Perhaps something along the lines of Heroku's Postgres hosting would be good?
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by akurilin 13y ago
Is there a SKU for more disk-heavy workloads like a box running Postgres? I'd love to be able to get more disk space (especially since you guys have SSDs, this will make PG very happy) without the extra CPU and memory. Is that currentl
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by akurilin 13y ago
Font Awesome is a real godsend when looking for simple and effective icons. It's neat to have most of what you need icon-wise all in one place.
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Bitbucket is awesome, we're big fans.
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by akurilin 13y ago
Would do anything for an affordable ultra high resolution 24" or 30" monitor for development. Think of all the tmux and vim panes you can cram into one of these puppies :)
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by akurilin 13y ago
A MS in CS doesn't give you much useful hands-on knowledge that'd be immediately applicable at your day to day job in the corporate world. I'd look into a MS in Software Engineering, like the one CMU offers, if you're more interested in pra
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by akurilin 13y ago
1) Nitpick about 11 months vs 12 months. Are you adding any value to the conversation? 2) The author being on Twitter doesn't affect the 31 outstanding pull requests and the 52 issues filed against the GitHub repository. Again, I'm not clea
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Aren't these guys positioning themselves as being more lightweight? Bootstrap can be pretty rough on mobile devices in certain situations.
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One thing to keep in mind is that Skeleton has not seen a single commit in the past year, so it's not clear if the framework is going to be supported long-term. It's probably better as a blueprint for one's own homebrew minimalistic CSS fra
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I wonder if shared office spaces with hundreds of teams in them, a very popular startup location these days, is perhaps the worst of the breed. Half a dozen teams talking to each other, multiple people on the phone, people having lunch behi
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As an interesting example, the people in charge at Facebook seem to be well aware of the downsides of open plan offices. They however consciously choose to lower engineer productivity in exchange for higher openness and visibility. It's ac
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Thanks for sharing this. Let us know if you have any questions!
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Vim fireplace is fantastic, kudos to tpope for putting that together. I haven't tried debugging with it yet, but it sounds like it should be pretty doable.
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Luckily, these days you can get the best of both worlds @ sv.cmu.edu
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http://buddy.com/ Options are truly abundant in this space.
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What exactly are you hoping to find? As always there are limitless awful positions with either poor pay and/or poor hours and/or no opportunity for learning, and very few positions that have all of above. Even if you stumble upon one, you'l
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by akurilin 14y ago
Any chance you could at least outline what you think the biggest changes in the past year and a half have been, for those of us who read the book? What are the things you would have written about differently?
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Really enjoyed the material, thanks for writing it. Hopefully the community can keep it fresh and relevant as the tech evolves, since it's on Github. It seems to have worked really well for Addy Osmani's Backbone Fundamentals, I'm sure we c
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by akurilin 14y ago
Don't know if I'm the only one in this boat, but I often feel pretty conflicted about upgrading to a newer version of a tool where I have had a lot of configuration and shortcuts defined for ages. If any of them break, you'll have to go bac
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by akurilin 14y ago
I've had to learn JS pretty fast just a couple of months ago and from what I can read I managed to do almost exactly what Derek did, same exact books and all. Professional JS is indeed fantastic and is highly recommended. Same thing as far
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Is it possible that the market is now so saturated with games of all kinds that it's simply hard to find enough customers to care about each separate product? Between smartphone app stores, Facebook games, a half dozen different consoles, a
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Same here, I love re-visiting old titles. Even dead-ish MMOs these days, such as Everquest, have 3rd party servers that still let you play something similar to the original game.
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Amazon AutoRip is another nice touch. Every music CD I've ever purchased with them over the years is not available to me in the cloud as if I had purchased the MP3s as well. Now if only we could do the same with Kindle.
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by akurilin 14y ago
I'd say that the more you approach "coolness" in the software industry, the more you can expect to be ridden for extra hours. Game developers are probably as close as possible to other creative popular types and have to pay for that status
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Good idea, trying that out now!
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I think a first big step is going to be conquering usability of Glass with respect to NLP. It's truly going to embody the vision that Dustin is talking about once I can get things don with my voice with no error and minimal overhead. Ideall
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by akurilin 14y ago
I loved Pivotal Tracker's user story "weight" feature where you couldn't assign more than x points worth of work to your team in a certain iteration, based on past velocity, as it simply wouldn't fit and spill over to the backlog. Is anythi
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by akurilin 14y ago
Well, as someone who has read some of the intermittent fasting, paleo and low-carb literature (including all of Taubes' monster tome GCBC) over the years, I continuously run into people pointing to articles (and perhaps studies?) of how all

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