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by asolove 16y ago
A lot of large scale web apps use something like Node or message queueing along with Rails in an event-oriented architecture. An API request comes in, routes through a queue somewhere to get committed to a data store and also put in a cache
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by asolove 16y ago
+1 "managing isn't something everyone is good at." How many bad developers get moved to management to keep them from causing trouble, and then cause even more?
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by asolove 16y ago
I think there is an interesting discrepancy between Node's sweet spot and the people who use it shallowly. If you read Ryan's short history of where it came from, Node came from writing systems code in C where he had to deal with network or
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by asolove 16y ago
This is a really good writeup. I have never used Instruments before, and while I'm not an expert in OpenSSL, there was enough detail to point me in the right direction when dealing with this in the future. Thanks.
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by asolove 16y ago
Fantastic story, thank you. And you are absolutely right, "menial" work is really fun if you work hard and know you don't have to do it forever. I spent a week doing hospitality and loved it. Getting to talk with different people, help them
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by asolove 16y ago
I wonder about these statements. While many of them are nice to think of as true, are they? - Flipping burgers is "opportunity." Yes, maybe in the past a strong recommendation from a manager at a high school job could help you get a post-gr
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by asolove 16y ago
A better way to say this would be: knotted cords are definitely attested in classical Chinese texts, they just tend to be the kind of texts that aren't trustworthy as actual history. The standard mythical history of Chinese says that knot
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by asolove 16y ago
Clone High!
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by asolove 16y ago
Remember that this feeling is not necessarily correct. Starting at 13 everyone feels they can be independent and take care of things better than everyone else, and (at least at 13) they are wrong. They are really asking to be challenged or
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by asolove 16y ago
If I understand the article correctly, this was a difficult but perhaps correct decision. But I don't know the details, so here is what I understood: 1. The school board had to close a budget deficit by getting rid of staff, but they did no
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by asolove 16y ago
tl;dr; Woody Allen something something
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by asolove 16y ago
"Marie Curie - Actress" would have been more interesting.
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by asolove 16y ago
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, nothing makes me quite as excited as "Planned availability this summer." What terrible marketing.
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by asolove 16y ago
Do your employees owe you to care about the good of your business?
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by asolove 16y ago
I was just really sad the see the replies died off here since I wanted to see how the formatting would look as we moved further over.
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by asolove 16y ago
Thanks for your thoughts, I am very interested in both of the things you mention. While it's dangerous to memorize precise answers, as your comment shows there are many good habits of thought worth remembering. They don't provide an answer,
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by asolove 16y ago
We see a lot of posts on HN about the various technologies and startups in the digital book and web longform reading space. I wrote this because I think there hasn't been enough discussion of why digital books can make a difference, and w
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New relationships with digital books(adamsolove.com)
1 points by asolove 16y ago|3 comments
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by asolove 16y ago
Sigh. I feel for web designers who don't get paid, but this is not the appropriate response. It puts you potentially in legal danger and loses you both this customer and anyone they ever talk to. If you failed to pay a contractor building y
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by asolove 16y ago
I like the ones that follow the pattern: #{famous person} doesn't like #{programming language} These are all brilliant and funny. I got Assange doesn't like VB. Obama doesn't like Perl. I would love if someone would write any article in thi
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by asolove 16y ago
Thanks for your help! You're right, there seems to be a need. I should post something.
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by asolove 16y ago
This is very useful to me, but I feel like it might be too harsh to direct business clients there initially. Perhaps there is need for a ijustneedaprogrammer.com with a friendly explanation of why that won't work.
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by asolove 16y ago
Partial answer to my question. Paul Grahahm's "How to Start" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html ) addresses how to do it, but not why the traditional model won't work.
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Ask HN: How do you explain the hacker's role to business types?
5 points by asolove 16y ago|8 comments
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by asolove 16y ago
I think in this context, "startup" means a business with investors that is not expecting to break even yet, whereas "small business" means a business that could potentially fold any month because of a cashflow shortage.
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by asolove 16y ago
This would explain the "Became a Gmail Ninja" marketing: www.google.com/mail/help/tips.html
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by asolove 16y ago
I disagree with the characterization "amazingly sincere." Oracle dangled the technical merits of the proposals as a carrot, but paired them with the stick of non-open licensing requirements.
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by asolove 16y ago
If this article is targeted at people with no experience (ie it mentions learning how to use IRC), is recommending that they fix bugs in C++ code really the right answer? Why not start with a Python project or something more realistic?
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by asolove 16y ago
Do you perhaps have this backwards? In the West, the common association green-good, red-bad is pretty common. In Asia it is usually reversed: green-bad, red-good.
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by asolove 16y ago
Put script tags at the end of the body, not in the header. If you still have a problem, dynamically add the script tags after the page has already loaded and displayed.

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