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by amorphid 9y ago
That's a theme in Elysium. http://imdb.com/title/tt1535108/
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by amorphid 9y ago
> They need another catchy phrase to reply to this, along the lines of "if you never try, there's nothing to survive". I like "you gotta be in it to win it".
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by amorphid 9y ago
I wanted to pin down some terms we throw around at work that were intuitive, concise, and good enough for use in high level conversations about software. Pull requests welcome.
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Show HN: Intuitive Software Lingo (New effort, pull requests welcome)(github.com)
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by amorphid 9y ago
I had a company that was profitable, growing, and paying the bills. I had plans to grow it to super huge. I also remember wondering why people wouldn't invest, or lend money to, my business, even though it was doing quite well. One
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by amorphid 9y ago
I haven't coded much JS since ES5. With the improvements to vanilla JS, are there still a lot of things that jQuery provides that vanilla JS does not?
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by amorphid 9y ago
This happened to me, too.
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by amorphid 9y ago
My defense, however imperfect, against having to deal w/ having to update subscriptions is to have a card I only use for subscriptions, so there's a low chance it gets skimmed. I use Mr. Swipey swipe all day long without need to
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by amorphid 9y ago
My first hard drive (8.9MB, 5.25", double height) was loud, but it was too slow to be obnoxious :)
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by amorphid 9y ago
They have premium content which can be streamed. Perhaps not Netflix-like in there business model. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/movies-and-tv
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by amorphid 9y ago
What's the largest cloud provider that does NOT offer a Netflix-like streaming video service? Amazon/AWS, Microsoft/Azure, and Google Cloud all have offer premium streaming content of some type. IBM Cloud?
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by amorphid 9y ago
Encourage them to set up a Patreon page? Do people use Patreon for software projects?
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by amorphid 9y ago
Rubymine has it, so it can be done. Although you'd have a hard time supporting elements defined at runtime. I'd guess Ruby just has a smaller user base, and IDE support was added for tech that is the most popular among IDE users
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by amorphid 9y ago
I'm with you. Free, open source, and useful is awesome. I'll use it, and contribute when able. I wouldn't be a developer today if I didn't have access to these kind of tools when I got started with coding (I was broke
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by amorphid 9y ago
I'm willing to do take home projects when I know how they'll be evaluated. If you are willing to ask me to commit my time to something, and let me know what I'm getting for my investment of time, that goes a long way. As an
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by amorphid 9y ago
One of the best interviews I ever went on was a pair coding exercise. The interviewer asked me to come in for a couple hours, and we worked through a problem together. The "my time is your time" vibe was really nice. An intervi
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by amorphid 9y ago
As a former tech recruiter, I can say there's a good chance interviewing team won't bother reviewing your coding exercise. It's easy to ask you to complete an exercise, but reviewing the exercise, let alone giving meaningful
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by amorphid 9y ago
I used to do that, but I got really sick of making long drives in traffic.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Speaking only for myself, "fairly close" is basically as far away as really far away. If I have to move, there's not much of a difference between moving 100 miles and 3,000 miles. If I were planning to operate in one city b
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by amorphid 9y ago
On my Mac, I tend to use Vagrant w/ Virtualbox when I want to run Linux locally for any reason.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Title should say 2013. Cool story. I didn't realize Roku was originally a Netflix project.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Based on the title, I thought this was going to be an interesting bug bounty type program.
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by amorphid 9y ago
This is pretty good advice. The person who sued me had also sued other people. If your local court(s) have a searchable online database, search for the person's name and/or the name of their company. I'd also recommend tryi
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by amorphid 9y ago
Asshole is a pretty subjective measurement. Warning signs are people who push you around, rush into getting a contract signed, ask too many questions for a really small contract, try to control details of how you'd do the work, etc.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I find a much better strategy is to try not doing business with assholes. No amount of money will make you feel good about spending time with an asshole, and an asshole is likely the one you'll get sued by. Source: did business with
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by amorphid 9y ago
In a hypothetical world where the USAF was a mercenary force, could anyone besides the US government afford to hire them as they are now? It's hard to imagine a client wanting to pay $70K/hour for a single F-22, plus some mercena
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by amorphid 9y ago
I used to love to idea of a global interpretator and/or a single thread (coding without concurrency). It was great until it wasn't. Learning Elixir helped me get over that.
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by amorphid 9y ago
One person's job hopper is another person's seasoned veteran of many battles. Who I want to hire depends on what job I need filled. The job hopper might be the perfect hire for someone who has learned from job hopping.
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by amorphid 9y ago
A big part of my interest in working remotely is how likely I am to find a replacement job. At this time, it is much easier to find a job if I am in person.
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by amorphid 9y ago
In my opinion, it's not really possible for dissimilar jobs. You can measure performance moneyball-style in baseball because everyone is playing the same game. For jobs, that'd only work if everyone did the same job, and if the

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