apinstein

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by apinstein 12y ago
I wrote a PHP repl back in the 5.2 days as I wanted one that could auto-complete, use readline, and survive fatal errors. My solution (really an experiment) was to write all the commands in a temp file and run that file out-of-band. This wo
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by apinstein 12y ago
Thanks! Actually all that info is available in my HN bio.
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by apinstein 12y ago
Reading "A Pattern Language" immediately changed the build-out plans for our new office. We're truly putting these ideas in practice. We have a large-ish, well-lit open space, surrounded by several conference rooms. The open
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by apinstein 12y ago
I have Network Link Conditioner installed on my Yosemite Mac OS X box and it works fine (though it was installed prior to the Yose upgrade). I learned about it here: http://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/
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by apinstein 12y ago
I finally found a use for mixed string/int keys. I have a routine that plucks key/value pairs out of one associative array and builds another, and allows you to rename the resulting key names at the same time. Using mixed keys all
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by apinstein 12y ago
While it never hurts to have a good lawyer, if you are ever in a contemplating a deal where you say something like this to yourself: "they can't do that to us, we have a contract", you're already screwed. I have gotten s
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by apinstein 12y ago
I'd counter that these messes aren't caused by git; rather they are messes that without git you wouldn't even bother cleaning up. However, git lets you fix the mess in such a way that you'll have a clean commit history.
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by apinstein 12y ago
Competition isn't bad. Markets are huge, don't let that part scare you. However, two-sided market startups are very, very hard. Unless your business model works before having a liquid market form, you're probably doomed. Espe
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by apinstein 12y ago
Atlanta, GA (REMOTE) Join Tourbuzz (and sister-company Showcase IDX) as we improve the real estate industry from the inside-out. Tourbuzz helps local photographers succeed while making homes look beautiful online ( http://www.tour
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by apinstein 12y ago
Atlanta, GA (REMOTE) TourBuzz is improving the residential real estate search experience through better virtual tours ( http://www.tourbuzz.net ) and property search ( http://www.showcaseidx.com ). We're 10 years ol
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by apinstein 12y ago
The ltree module is really awesome. If you have to do any hierarchical stuff I feel it's much better than nested set implementations. Great performance with gist indexes and high level operators for querying.
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by apinstein 12y ago
Atlanta, GA (REMOTE INTERN) TourBuzz is improving the residential real estate search experience through better virtual tours ( http://www.tourbuzz.net ) and property search ( http://www.showcaseidx.com ). We're 10 y
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by apinstein 12y ago
I have a Canon T3i and 2 young kids. AI servo is the right idea in theory, but on even a lower-end DSLR it just doesn't help much. If a kid is running towards the camera, it will keep refocusing as the subject moves, but it's alwa
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by apinstein 12y ago
Our bonus plan is based on revenue growth, not profits. Most of your counter-arguments are based on critiques of redirecting profits, which in our case is not what's going on. That said, you are right that generally companies shouldn&#
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by apinstein 12y ago
I do agree it can be hard to make it fair once a company is big enough or growth slows dramatically, but that's a problem to deal with 3-5 years from now :)
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by apinstein 12y ago
We came to this conclusion as well; we decided to do bonuses based on Y/Y revenue growth rather than equity. The bonuses are not capped. This allows us to: 1) Justly reward our employees to the upside (with cash, delivered semi-anually
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by apinstein 12y ago
My 2c as a founder who's done both 50/50 and non-50/50 startups. 1. The gift need not be equity; cold, hard cash to solve this problem. I had a side project that I decided to turn into a business when a co-founder became avai
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by apinstein 13y ago
Nice job! -- we actually needed this so badly a few years back that I wrote a simple app in a day to do this myself, though it's not very robust. I am actually surprised it's taken so long for someone to offer a SaaS version. Your
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by apinstein 13y ago
TourBuzz ( http://www.tourbuzz.net ) - Atlanta, GA - Full-Time - Local We've looking for a Full-Stack Developer to focus on metrics/data -- we have a lot of great data that we aren't acting on. You will focus on col
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by apinstein 13y ago
Just submitted -- fyi you have a bug in the form, if there's an error, it isn't displayed (Safari 7 anyway). I had to look at the XHR's in the console to see what error was being returned from the server :)
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by apinstein 13y ago
Back in the very early days of Palm OS, Palm had a "Quality Certification" you could apply for, and if your app passed, you'd get a bunch of marketing benefits. So we went for the highest-level certification on our products,
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by apinstein 13y ago
Great ideas! Sounds like we generally agree. I read the whole post but didn't watch the video or read all of the 2.0 stuff... though I am aware how their DI hack works. That said, the title of your post makes it sound like you think th
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by apinstein 13y ago
It's interesting that he has a visceral reaction to the "hackiness" of Angular's clever way to do runtime DI but no visceral reaction to the fact that the problem was created by a third-party program which was instructed
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by apinstein 13y ago
My company spends about 100x more money with Google on ads than we do on Facebook ads. Why? Because every time I test advertising on Facebook (outside of retargeting), 90%+ of the engagement looks like garbage. I buy likes, I get likes from
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by apinstein 13y ago
This is cool, but, as a paying Github customer that's trying to use GH to manage a team of developers, I would sure rather see them working on tools to help me manage lots of branches and improve the code review tools. The current &quo
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by apinstein 13y ago
You can also leverage this "problem" to your advantage in some cases... when someone wants to meet with me but I'd rather not do it soon (or ever), I will purposefully respond with "Sure just let me know when is a good t
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by apinstein 13y ago
The current implementation doesn't require extra params as arrays... you can pass as many (or as few) parameters to any PHP function regardless of defined function signature; the declared parameters will be auto-populated. Additionally
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by apinstein 13y ago
And if you use vim in the terminal, you can even use the mouse to select text... https://github.com/apinstein/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L150...
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by apinstein 13y ago
TourBuzz ( http://www.tourbuzz.net ) - Atlanta, GA - Full-Time - Local. - Lead Software Developer/Architect Our 8-person team has carved out a profitable niche in the real estate photography industry over the past 7 years. We
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by apinstein 13y ago
More particularly, they are stopping automated testing of IE8 in their CI system. However, they specifically note that they are happy for the community to continue IE8 support, and expect those with significant dollars that still need IE8 s

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