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by api 13y ago
In this case my part of the sprint probably would have run over by one day, since I had one more feature to implement around the new core I had written and I had to spend extra time refactoring code for existing features a little (not too b
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by api 13y ago
Yes and no. I attempted to communicate the fact that something would have to be done about this code base if it were to scale beyond "beta," and talked a bit about making this an official part of the next sprint. The decision to d
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by api 13y ago
Yes. They are actually a fairly hot company on the East Coast. In retrospect I do realize this: they are not a tech company. They are a marketing company. They have a couple cash cow products and their audience doesn't care much if the
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by api 13y ago
Luckily this engagement was so short, and followed after a period of independent consulting, that I was able to be only slightly dishonest and call it a short-term consulting gig. Thing that pissed me off the most was that I was proud of
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by api 13y ago
I disagree. An asshole doesn't have to grasp social nuance. Instead they can just run it over with a truck, problem solved.
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by api 13y ago
"you should value execution over planning". People who hold to this philosophy should practice it while driving. This would reduce the number of people who hold this philosophy.
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by api 13y ago
I experienced "fire fast" on the receiving end once. It's the one and only time I've been let go for any cause from a job. It occurred at a shall remain unnamed big startup on the East Coast. I was hired on the merit of
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by api 13y ago
Also known as "iteration" and "failing fast" and "being quick to pivot." These are not bad concepts when properly understood. Unfortunately they are rarely properly understood. Hint: they do not mean "it
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by api 13y ago
I said this a while back in another thread, but it's actually more on-topic here: One of the worst things about tech culture is that it's full of socially awkward people who have learned a neat low-effort hack for getting around t
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by api 13y ago
It's technically and physically possible once the energy problem is more behind us. But it would also require radical changes to the way financial assets are distributed and to the entire capitalist system itself. Otherwise 99% of that
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by api 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age
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by api 13y ago
I love minimal code. When you try to do minimal, often what you end up doing is stripping away everything you don't need -- extreme YAGNI -- and getting to the core of something. Even if the result ends up being too minimal, it's
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by api 13y ago
I am skeptical of the 60-80 hours thing. It seems like more of a macho thing than a real requirement. The problem is that when you workaholic yourself your productivity per unit time drops, so you're spending more hours but doing as mu
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The World in 2050: What is the Next Big Idea(youtube.com)
1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
In my experience it works on just about any modern browser. It's just that it's a smaller project and hasn't been rigorously tested on all of them. I always check my web work on as many browsers as possible anyway, since quir
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by api 13y ago
A great and unfairly ignored framework. I love it for its simplicity and speed. Do everything with HTML and CSS and use Knockout to bind that to your data, and then just use this for AJAX and other utilities: http://minifiedjs.co
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by api 13y ago
I was as a 15-year-old briefly involved with Phalcon/Skism, the group that produced 40Hex. I also wrote a couple of ASM DOS viruses. They weren't intended to destroy anything, just sort of adolescent graffiti in x86 machine code f
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The PC Revolution is Dead(medium.com)
1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
This is very old news, and I don't see which OSX restrictions in particular are involved.
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by api 13y ago
The Mac Pro is insanely expensive on the face of it for what it is.
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by api 13y ago
The other thing wrong with the tech industry is that it spews tons of money at meaningless little whiz-bang shit while major problems like antibiotic resistance, nuclear waste recycling or disposal, smart grids for renewable energy, sustain
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by api 13y ago
There are many technical problems with hydrogen: metal embrittlement, it leaks even through solid substances, etc. They're not insurmountable, but they make hydrogen not that competitive with electric. Elon is not a fan of H2 for rocke
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by api 13y ago
I'm talking about writing lower level app code, especially code that interacts with the network and the filesystem and uses things like threads. All the world is not a webapp.
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by api 13y ago
... and the judicious use of antibiotics requires some kind of regulatory agency or system to make sure the users follow through. This seems like another area where libertarianism is crashing against the rocks of reality-- as socialism, com
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by api 13y ago
Other than past things, like their attempts to thwart open standards in the 90s and their bankrolling of the SCO lawsuits against Linux, I can speak to one reason that's contemporary: As a software developer, everything is harder on Wi
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by api 13y ago
Mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3VNkSos_vo
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by api 13y ago
How did I not know about this?!?
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by api 13y ago
Microsoft's products have long had broken security models close to their core, mostly owing to the fact that they pre-date the net and were originally not multi-user. Instead of fixing this -- and to maintain backward compatibility --
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by api 13y ago
I wonder at what point the cost of cleanup for this one thing will eclipse the cost of replacing the entire former nuclear output of Japan with offshore wind and storage? Probably already does if you include the amortized cost of the real e
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Cloud at Cost: lifetime prepaid servers?(cloudatcost.com)
2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments

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