angelbob

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by angelbob 11y ago
It's an interesting idea. It has many standard pitfalls, as a 1970s paper, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" points out: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Basically, informal systems are, by t
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by angelbob 12y ago
Sure. But the original article is a condemnation of an industry that supports and encourages people like the rude coworker. And it's not wrong. (I've been in the industry for 17 years, not counting part-time jobs, college and vari
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by angelbob 12y ago
Founding a company with this in mind seems foolish. If you only have one likely acquirer, that's worse for you. If you're building a feature that depends on that acquirer, they will kill you off if you get big (see Twitter and oth
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by angelbob 12y ago
Certainly you hear a fair bit about Apple as a high-pressure work environment. Long hours, lots of paranoia -- though by "paranoia" I'm specifically thinking of developers, and not revealing anything Apple might be working on
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by angelbob 12y ago
It's a standard figure. Suspiciously round, basically unsupportable. It's really hard to measure what percentage of companies fail because so little of the data is public.
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by angelbob 12y ago
If these guys are worried about the price of MailChimp, ConvertKit is likely to give them conniptions. It's designed for "full featured" more than "cheap."
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by angelbob 12y ago
Current ethics boards say "no". It's a debatable point -- a lot of things that ethics boards forbid might be, in some way, reasonable to study in some specific cases. But you have to draw the line somewhere, and ethics boards
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Why Do They Say Rails Doesn't Scale?(codefol.io)
3 points by angelbob 12y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 12y ago
I read the title and expected more tweaking of the US for how many years it's been since any writers' work has entered the public domain here.
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by angelbob 12y ago
It's less "handwringing that Docker should do less" and more "get one thing right first."
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by angelbob 12y ago
The trick is to learn some things that don't require a lot of company support. "Gold standard" skills, if you like. I sell books and classes, for instance. Those still get harder in a downturn, but you need less company agree
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by angelbob 12y ago
Heya. I'm the author of Rebuilding Rails. While I don't (currently) use paid advertising, I do work entirely to appeal to geeks. My second product, a Ruby deployment class, also appeals almost entirely to geeks. Geeks pay money
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Is H.265 an Enabling Technology for Cloud Gaming?(engineering.onlive.com)
2 points by angelbob 12y ago|2 comments
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by angelbob 13y ago
Things have changed a fair bit since I was in college (1994-1998). A lot more of computer programming is higher-status, more marketing-driven and more about money. You're seeing proportionally more frat guys interested now.
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by angelbob 13y ago
Geminabox is simple until you want to run with a lot (500+) of gems. And then index-building is horrible - it basically never finishes. The complexity comes in mirroring the right set of other people's gems, which match the exact comb
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by angelbob 14y ago
There's a difference between "strange" and "creepy". Something can be really common and still really creepy.
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by angelbob 14y ago
Ditto. But I'm using an iPhone, so maybe the Verizon-provided stuff is just not there?
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by angelbob 14y ago
I'm not used to actually seeing "serious reputational damage" materialize. It doesn't help that the company running the auction has a strong vested interest in these stories not coming to light.
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by angelbob 14y ago
So... Fully non-binding on both parties, is what I'm reading. So we can expect, if we interview through there, that we'll see an artificially inflated offer to get us to interview there, followed by a much lower salary on the actual offer
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Five Kinds of Marketing for Tiny Web Businesses(codefol.io)
1 points by angelbob 14y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 14y ago
That's true. I could easily write a full-length book on this topic. This article is actually meant for the people not using Rails and mostly reminding them that the invisible security stuff is important ;-)
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Why Use Rails instead of Sinatra or Node.js?(codefol.io)
5 points by angelbob 14y ago|3 comments
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by angelbob 14y ago
When they answer this question, my experience is that the answer is "it's a trade secret." Even when you start with, "look, the only way to get this number is by scraping it from my online resume --" "I'm sorry, that's a trade secret and I
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The Gang of Four is Wrong and You Don't Understand Delegation(saturnflyer.com)
47 points by angelbob 14y ago|41 comments
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by angelbob 14y ago
Victim-blaming, like all blaming, is a matter of opinion. There is no objective truth in who's to blame -- not because the facts can't be established, but because blame is by its nature about meaning, not about whether events happened. You
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BigCo New Employee Training (Inside Voice)(codefol.io)
1 points by angelbob 14y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 14y ago
Guess you could start be setting up on top of, say, Stripe, and see how long until the regulators come knock on your door.
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Rubyists: Mock Time.now for Faster Tests(codefol.io)
2 points by angelbob 14y ago|0 comments
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by angelbob 14y ago
LinkedIn has many tools for them that you can't see. GitHub and StackOverflow lack these tools. LinkedIn is irritating to you because you're not the customer, you're the product. If you paid for a LinkedIn premium account you'd get a lot
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by angelbob 14y ago
The final price will be higher ($50.00). Right now there's a significant discount for the beta version. This isn't intended to be my only product -- ebooks have a pretty vicious falloff in sales after launch. It's a chance to get all my m

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