angelbob

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by angelbob 14y ago
It makes it clear what it's for. Intent is good. You can improve signal-to-noise by listing in categories ("best", "okay", "seen it before", "academic-only") and then humans can get something out of it too. Or you can call it a loss and t
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by angelbob 14y ago
The principle applies elsewhere, too. He's right - tailor your resume. Also, make sure what you rock at is big and clear and up-front and featured. Because you hope your resume is being read by somebody who doesn't just read resumes all
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by angelbob 14y ago
It'd be nice if smaller investors (I could probably invest up to $10k or $15k without too much pain) could reasonably be paired up with small percentages of lifestyle businesses. But nobody is going to get rid of the friction in that market
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by angelbob 15y ago
4) Facebook.
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by angelbob 15y ago
You're up in SF, alas. I need to start building a good list of awesome companies who are in the South Bay and Peninsula, just because I can't be the only one looking. Not that the City isn't nice. It's just a long commute from Fremont.
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by angelbob 15y ago
All of our internal bickering is blogged. We're the Ruby community -- everything is blogged. That means that our internal bickering can be submitted to HN more easily. Stop upvoting it.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Oh hey -- here's Google's current draft, linked from the FireFox bugs about it: https://docs.google.com/a/ooyala.com/document/d/1U1RGAehQwRy...
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by angelbob 15y ago
Link to documentation? If I wanted to build my own little JavaScript preprocessor and make it use SourceMaps in Chrome, how would I know the file format(s)?
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by angelbob 15y ago
Heavy drinking? Dubious attitudes toward women? Lionizing lack of sleep and getting shot at?
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by angelbob 15y ago
You'd think. But you can get much greater differences in pricing if you find out who you're talking to before you give them a price. That's really hard to do with online self-signup.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Many people are trying hard to do this now. It's a tough problem.
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by angelbob 15y ago
In small startups it's white, Indian and Asian. There are occasional women but less frequently as programmers. Women are more common as designers and sometimes sysadmins, though. Bigger companies don't look like this. They look more like
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by angelbob 15y ago
No. Shell scripts have the same problem where you're not separating options from filenames and you're often not preventing a single user-supplied argument from expanding into multiple final arguments. The list-form shell commands reference
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by angelbob 15y ago
This is a long-known problem.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Zed, you're awesome. With that said -- it's who you're teaching that lets you say this. Right now there are people who know they want to learn programming coming hell or high water, and you do a damn fine job teaching them. There are also
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by angelbob 15y ago
Would they actually (out loud, audibly) object to those comments, or would they just "never make or defend" them? I ask because letting these things slide, or worse letting the comments seem approved-of by mass silence, is doing active ha
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by angelbob 15y ago
Two weeks isn't bad for an undo feature.
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by angelbob 15y ago
If he considers it a failed launch and then stops, it is a failed launch. Though the failure then is that he didn't keep trying :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
Here at Ooyala we do a variation where you can propose your own 2-week project once per quarter, and as long as you get it approved by your team you can go do it. You also do a demo. So it's sort of like what they do, but people individual
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by angelbob 15y ago
Probably not, alas. Obviously we need user-supplied achievements in plugin packs :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
You'd think. But that would reduce the number of Windows developers, so doing that would be eating the seed corn.
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by angelbob 15y ago
They actually have various ways to compile Python. So that's an especially apt comparison :-)
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by angelbob 15y ago
It's worth noting that Windows Server lives in a different category, and so it actually counts against Windows being a cash cow in this case. Its category, which includes SQL Server, is the one that beat out "Windows and Windows Live". T
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by angelbob 15y ago
So... Adobe is arguing that nobody will ever figure out how to put a better compiler in front of JavaScript under any circumstances, so we have to pack it in now? I realize current JIT sucks in many ways, but seriously... claiming that "w
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by angelbob 15y ago
What RAII and Ruby's block statement lack here are automatically doing the reversing of functionality. Few languages have any procedural way to do that. If Ruby had some way to state "the opposite of opening a file is closing a file" and
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by angelbob 15y ago
Doing a fast 3D engine is hard, even if most of the 3D is done for you. It's slow because it's simple, and because JavaScript is actually a fairly hard language to do some of this quickly in. Also because web workers don't work great yet.
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by angelbob 15y ago
Yeah, yeah, his graphs suck. His point is that good companies tend to go through one or more iterations that are just wrong on the way to something good. That is basically true.
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by angelbob 15y ago
That is, people who understand class-based inheritence have a very small leap to get prototypal inheritence. I used to think that, and then I watched a lot of people try. It's harder than you think. I used a networked server used primari
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by angelbob 15y ago
Here's the next step in this arms race: cold-call people who know the candidate and then lie about why you're asking. Then you don't necessarily get "caught", and you don't say where you're calling from. Lies that will potentially work he
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by angelbob 15y ago
The concern is that it is much much easier for those who would cause harm to use this information than for those who would use it to create defenses. With such an asymmetry it makes sense to restrict access. Only if the numbers are fairly

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