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by axk 12y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco (H1-B and interns welcome) Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your daughter how
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My Golang UI package: lessons learned about threading and plans for the future(andlabs.lostsig.com)
81 points by axk 12y ago|15 comments
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by axk 12y ago
It's not always logic bugs. For example, here's how you would limit your slice to max N elements: arr = arr[:N] ...compared how it has to be done to avoid a panic: if len(arr) > N { arr = arr[:N] }
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by axk 12y ago
It does make perfect sense, just goes against muscle memory from years of Python coding :)
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by axk 12y ago
The funny thing is that I knew it, but wrote `for v := range array` anyway at least a few times! My point is, it's not very intuitive. Thankfully, the compiler catches that, unless it's `[]int`.
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by axk 12y ago
It wouldn't be very helpful, the algorithm and the problem are very specific to Thumbtack. That being said, we plan to extract and free common code as we use Go for more projects. We love free / open source software!
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by axk 12y ago
It's intentional. The update doesn't have to happen at the same time every week, we just wanted the model to be no more than 1 week old. `time.Ticker` looks handy, I will definitely use it for another project.
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Go Hercule(thumbtack.com)
47 points by axk 12y ago|11 comments
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by axk 12y ago
It's used on http://www.thumbtack.com/
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by axk 12y ago
That's in theory. In practice Amazon either subsidizes or doesn't have much of a mark up on the price of the Kindles; and hopes to make it up by selling DRM products.
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by axk 12y ago
Get a Kindle but never register/activate it. EPUBs can be converted to MOBI with calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
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Parallelism and Concurrency, Revisited(existentialtype.wordpress.com)
2 points by axk 13y ago|0 comments
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F1 2014: Finger Noses(scarbsf1.com)
3 points by axk 13y ago|0 comments
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by axk 13y ago
19/20, didn't get an American band. Glad to see this here \m/ :)
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by axk 13y ago
How up to date is wxc these days? Last time I checked it was very raw. Regardless, this is an exciting development. Once it's reasonably stable I will migrate my hobby project ( http://spek.cc ) to use it!
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Economics 101 For Newcomers To Discussion On Sharing(falkvinge.net)
2 points by axk 13y ago|0 comments
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by axk 13y ago
At Thumbtack, we brew our own beer. Currently making a Witbier and a Tripel ;)
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by axk 14y ago
Only if you don't intend to leave the country at all. Once you cross the border, even if it's a short weekend trip, you would have to apply for a new E-3 visa again.
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by axk 14y ago
Subscribe to http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ and http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/
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by axk 14y ago
I've asked a similar question a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3308036
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by axk 14y ago
Looks great! A web feed (and/or email notifications) of selected shows would be helpful. By the way, a similar service for album releases: https://muspy.com/
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The Copyright Monopoly Stands In Direct Opposition To Property Rights(falkvinge.net)
42 points by axk 14y ago|29 comments
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by axk 14y ago
Don't be discouraged by the age of this article, it's still the best answer to the GP's question.
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by axk 14y ago
http://www.thumbtack.com/labs/abba/
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ESR: Cisco provides a lesson(esr.ibiblio.org)
117 points by axk 14y ago|51 comments
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by axk 15y ago
Both FreeBSD ports have been already updated.
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by axk 15y ago
It's only the registration which opens in a few hours, the qualification round is in a month: https://code.google.com/codejam/schedule.html
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by axk 15y ago
Same goes for the intellectual "property" rights. Mixing together three completely different areas of law (copyright, patents and trademarks) is bad enough; implying they are related to physical property rights is unforgivable: http://www.
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by axk 15y ago
If you like this series of posts, get yourself a copy of The Haskell School of Expression [0]. It covers various multi-media applications of Haskell, including reactive animations. [0]: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hudak/SOE/
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by axk 15y ago
I'm a happy rootbsd customer, their prices are on par with linode.

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