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by asaph 8y ago
> ... and found myself going down this same rathole of research. Surely you meant rabbit hole, not rathole.
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by asaph 8y ago
3/4==4/3? Please explain.
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by asaph 8y ago
Poorly named? I happen to think microservices succinctly describes what they are: small services each focused on a single task or area, and assembled together to form a whole system.
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by asaph 8y ago
> I recall a demo app from my teen years (late 1908s to early 90s) You were a teen for at least 82 years. Talk about a protracted adolescence!
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by asaph 8y ago
Is it Robert X. Cringely's voice on the tape?
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by asaph 8y ago
> I was recently recommended to read the book Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely, first published in 1992 (or was it 1991?) and apparently no longer in print... You can buy a new copy on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com&#x
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by asaph 8y ago
git commit -m WIP I hope you're rebasing that terrible commit message away before pushing this remotely.
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by asaph 8y ago
A pre-commit hook in your revision control system can block checking in code that doesn't pass a lint check. That would reduce your CI build failures.
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by asaph 8y ago
Continuous learning is also critical for success.
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by asaph 8y ago
> So many things have to go right just to get a software program to compile. That’s why attention to detail is so important... Even the sloppiest coders who work with no attention to detail still compile their code with ease. I get the
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by asaph 8y ago
> I think the better example ... would be Apple, where almost all priority is in the Phone first, Tablet second, everything else after. To be fair, the iPhone has been an earth shattering success that created multiple brand new markets (
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by asaph 8y ago
> Strawberry preserves were a treat I didn't realize until I was an adult. Huh? This doesn't seem to fit with the rest of your story. Despite plentiful strawberries and a canning operation in your house, you didn't have an
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by asaph 8y ago
Assuming your body dimensions haven't changed since you were fitted for said suits three or four years ago.
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by asaph 8y ago
> There was never a point where "well I wanted to put my video on X but Youtubue will actually let me do it without censoring" was ever true. I can't parse this. Can you please state your point more clearly.
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by asaph 8y ago
I would bet that most buyers of the Tesla Model 3 have never driven one before taking delivery.
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by asaph 8y ago
Perhaps you meant less than negligible? Or simply negligible? But not more.
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by asaph 8y ago
It probably should be minified if the whole point is to improve page load times.
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by asaph 8y ago
> Digg ... was the original Reddit. And Slashdot was the original Digg.
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by asaph 8y ago
AFAIK, this is true at Google but I have not heard of this practice occurring at other companies.
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by asaph 8y ago
> ... when I read the crazy whiteboard interviewing, the pains people go through to get money here on HN, I would say it is pretty important. Networking won't help you get hired at a top tech company if you cannot perform well on &q
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by asaph 8y ago
What other vanity email providers besides Gmail implement "dot addresses" or similar systems for their email addresses? Update: The table on this wikipedia page provides a list under the "Address Modifiers" column. Curio
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by asaph 8y ago
Original source: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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by asaph 8y ago
> .. dyndns turned evil. Care to elaborate?
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by asaph 8y ago
And... I'm backing up my data right now...
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by asaph 8y ago
Asking clarifying questions is a good interviewee practice. Well done.
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by asaph 8y ago
Microsoft was never regarded as a force in graphic design. That was more of Apple's wheelhouse.
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by asaph 8y ago
That's not what "dated" means in this context. It means the artifact is stuck in its time period and not well suited for the modern era. So if the Matrix is still awesome, then it's not dated.
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by asaph 8y ago
Great design stands the test of time. e.g. TrueType fonts from that era are still used today. (Actually the designs of many of those fonts are substantially older than their TrueType implementations.) These icons haven't aged well IMO.
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by asaph 8y ago
Meh. They look very dated to me.
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by asaph 8y ago
Let's agree to disagree on this one. IMO The Beatles' music is a high water mark in popular music unmatched before or since.

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