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by aturek 11y ago
My wife ran a food cart for ~18 months in Seattle. There are a lot of regulations around where you can set up food carts/trucks; most people end up renting spots (for ~$100/day near Amazon) or buying a license for a specific stree
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by aturek 12y ago
You consider "not maintainable" to be an acceptable downside to _anything_ you're doing with your software? What?
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by aturek 12y ago
This is a great rule of thumb for employees and managers both: neither side should ever be too surprised. Whether it's performance evaluations or firing/quitting decisions, let the other side know if you're unhappy, and talk
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by aturek 12y ago
Here's an optimization that one of the maintainers of rails is doing (has already done?) on #find http://tenderlovemaking.com/2014/02/19/adequaterecord-pro-li...
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by aturek 12y ago
Does this increase the stack by 2 in every call?
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by aturek 12y ago
If you use a CDN (or use the public CDNs that many of these libraries have) it's not 130 kb, it's a network request + 304
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by aturek 12y ago
Topical and recent: https://www.nilas.com/blog/splitting-the-atom (some more talk about people using Flux)
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by aturek 12y ago
In the past, I've done practice interviews (phone or in-person) for my friends prior to them doing a standard Amazon/Google/Microsoft interview. Do you have any friends that would be able to do that for you?
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by aturek 12y ago
If anyone, like me, didn't know about 'track by' as a way to optimize ng-repeats, here's a couple of articles that explain what it is and why it's beneficial: http://www.codelord.net/2014/04&#x2
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by aturek 12y ago
Curious, do you have some anecdotes about that? I've generally heard from coworkers who were at Netflix that they have pretty high attrition at the lower levels, with the "fire the bottom 10% every X months" rules.
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by aturek 12y ago
London's mostly awful when the drivers are doing it, but I believe they've been automating more and more lines with stop announcements
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by aturek 12y ago
On Google Maps https://www.google.com/maps/@47.662205,-122.375384,3a,75y,6....
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by aturek 12y ago
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but what countries currently do some sort of basic income? A quick search on Google/Wikipedia turns up no actual implementations
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by aturek 12y ago
I don't understand Python exceptions that well. But it's great to have the pattern of maintaining the stack trace when re-raising an exception. Thanks OP! (In case anyone missed it) except foo.FooException as e: rais
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by aturek 12y ago
That bullet point surprised me. It comes right after "110K lines of code. A small number given what it does"; to me this reads like they didn't write tests because that would add complexity. Can any SO devs give us more detai
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by aturek 12y ago
I've been trying to learn the best practices on password "storage" and verification lately. I thought this was a really good step-by-step technical breakdown of the right way to hash passwords (I have no opinion/know
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by aturek 12y ago
There's a great quote from a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel: "The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month pl
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No Money, No Time(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
193 points by aturek 12y ago|89 comments
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by aturek 12y ago
This sounds really interesting, but can you elaborate on how Go scales better with maintenance? (disclosure: I haven't fiddled with Go at all yet, so I know nothing about the language itself)
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by aturek 13y ago
tl;dr: Superclasses make your code brittle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile_base_class How many people still try to fit their software design into the class hierarchy model? I've been on the composition-not-
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by aturek 13y ago
I see the job of a dev manager (i.e. his direct reports are mostly engineers) as the following: (1) Filter requests for work to his team to avoid them having to constantly task-switch, with the associated loss of productivity and job satisf
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by aturek 13y ago
Democracy mode is great! But a couple of players (and I) figured out that multiple key presses by a user are counted, so we have more of an oligarchy determined by whoever can spam keystrokes...
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by aturek 13y ago
Noticed a minor bug: clicking "sign up and write" and then the "X" on the popup still has the spinner going on the signup button
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by aturek 16y ago
Downvotes can be used to stifle dissent, but are generally valuable. I feel like 60-70% of the heavily downvoted comments I see are already trolling or flaming (or in some cases something dumb, like a 3-word reference to an internet meme)