amorphid

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by amorphid 10y ago
Maybe you can help fix their new search UI. As a power user, I find it basically unusable. For me, that was the final nail in the proverbial coffin of usability. It is so bad AND slow.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Good to know. Thanks!
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by amorphid 10y ago
I live and work in San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Ask HN: How to avoid legal issues when writing company-owned generic code?
4 points by amorphid 10y ago|4 comments
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by amorphid 10y ago
It belongs to a friend, so I haven't trained it. But I will probably buy one soon, and then figure out how to use it well. I could always use a unique phrase... "27ffe8a1-4cd0-4739-bc46-9ad51a9c14ba, turn on the living room ligh
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by amorphid 10y ago
I can't talk about Elixir in front of Alexa. It is always chiming in "I'm sorry, I didn't get that."
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by amorphid 10y ago
I was just poking around the Internet for the cheapest land I could find. I didn't look for a super long time. I think land below a certain price doesn't stand out because there's little incentive to promote it, so you have
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by amorphid 10y ago
I was a recruiter during the 2008 bust. That was not a good time to be the person hired to hire people :) I have a few random bits of advice, that mostly boil down to have a sense of urgency, and take what you can get: * if you need a job
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by amorphid 10y ago
For fun, I was looking at cheap (compared to San Francisco) land with no infrastructure in Wyoming. 1 acre of land, $10K USD. Drilling a water well that might work, $5K to $30K.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I spent Xmas break learning exactly how much I could do with Bash! There's no escaping an OS-solution to OS-problem when app-in-language-of-choice doesn't have a standard library call for an OS-need. I may be learning AWK or C i
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by amorphid 10y ago
When I did a bit of programming in Java, I was using Intellij. I found that starting with the IDE made learning the fundamentals harder. I later switched to Sublime and a command prompt, and found the process of pushing through command li
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by amorphid 10y ago
I've had a couple submitted pull requests merged into Elixir. The review process was very quick and painless.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Gotcha. Thanks!
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by amorphid 10y ago
What is the primary purpose of using liquid helium in a Falcon 9? A quick google search for `liquid helium rocket` introduced me to pressure-fed engines [1]. A pressure-fed engine uses liquid helium, and is a replacement for a turbopumps.
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by amorphid 10y ago
I know Ruby, and was recently a business "can't write my own plug-ins" person. If you have a plug-in need that would be handy for you, feel free to ping me. For fun, I'll craft you a demo that incorporates what you&#x2
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by amorphid 10y ago
One of my old employers has a monolithic Rails app for their backed, and that includes the company's corporate website. Kind of crazy to think that the marketing people and the application developers are both making commits to the sam
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by amorphid 10y ago
(It sounds like you have Dropbox installed on the actual server. If that is the case, disregard...) Dropbox is doing away with allowing you to publicly share docs, so now/soon one can't use Dropbox for hosting static websites any
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by amorphid 10y ago
One random thought... Google goes to SomeWebsite.com. The site has only enough HTML to load a big ol' JavaScript app, which Google slowly crawls. Well, that JS app makes a bunch of AJAX calls. There's no reason I can think of
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by amorphid 10y ago
Do you really use Big-O at work? I don't know if I've ever heard it brought up outside of an interview. In my experience, when something is slow, people notice and start complaining about it. "Why does it take 30 seconds to
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by amorphid 10y ago
If I understand it correctly, the pancreas releases insulin to lower blood sugar, but it can also release insulin when you don't have a need. Like you might experience an insulin spike when thinking about eating a tasty dessert, but
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by amorphid 10y ago
I went to the past show put on by Eureka Comedy in SF [1][2]. The speaker said that a type of artificial pancreas now in testing is more efficient than a healthy pancreas. If that is correct, it might become the norm at some point to just
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by amorphid 10y ago
In grad school I took a class on creativity from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi[1]. He described a creative idea as something that stands apart from other ideas in the same basket. Think of a large pile of plain ol' red bricks. Now show tha
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by amorphid 10y ago
No, we were pretty different. But I did introduce her to my former boss. Don't know if they hit it off or not.
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by amorphid 10y ago
When I was a recruiter learning to code, I posted a personal's ad written in SQL on Craigslist. Ended up going out on a date with a DBA :) She was a falconer, and we took her hawk out to hunt crows.
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by amorphid 10y ago
As you probably know, estimating how long software takes to develop is at best challenging, and at worse impossible. Part of estimating how long something will take comes from some domain expertise. I encourage you to continue dabbling in
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by amorphid 10y ago
I use Atom when disconnected on my Macbook Air. Works great. Not as fastvas Sublime, but it is fast enough for me.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Sure you can, for a narrow range of things. There's value in getting someone to the point where they can grind away on different bits on a website, prototyping mobile features, diving into bugs, etc. But in general I agree with you th
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by amorphid 10y ago
I would say more like Top 10.
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by amorphid 10y ago
Not Phoenix specifically, but here's a growing list of companies that use Elixir. https://github.com/doomspork/elixir-companies/
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by amorphid 10y ago
If I remeber correctly, tit-for-tat in the game theory is referring to a proportional response to an uncooperative action. For example, you take an action is 10% unfavorable to me. In response, I take an action that is 10% unfavorable to y

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