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by balloot 14y ago
This post is ridiculous. Amazon has spent billions upon billions of dollars building and maintaining a ridiculously efficient delivery system for electronic content. THAT is what the markup is paying for. And from a common sense standpoin
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by balloot 14y ago
The fundamental problem in your example has nothing to do with hiring. It's that Mary is working on something that she dislikes to the point that having to continue on her project in the medium term will cause her to quit. It's both the c
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by balloot 14y ago
Again, you are repeating this idea that all these other non-coding skills can be mastered on a whim. If you truly need an MBA type doing MBA things for your company, then you should go get one. Lord knows there's a zillion of them out the
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by balloot 14y ago
OK, but here are your outcomes if you are good at X and need X and Y: You do X, hire Y - You have one skilled person, one question mark. You do Y, hire X - You have one unskilled person, one question mark. Seems pretty simple to me that the
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by balloot 14y ago
None of this addresses the fact that the author has set up his company such that the person doing the marketing/blogging/sales/etc has zero experience doing any of those things. By attempting to do them himself the author is completely dis
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by balloot 14y ago
This is exactly why the outsourcing craze fizzled out for the most part. I remember when I was in school for CS in 2002/2003 there were people who would tell me that I was earning a useless degree, as all programming jobs would end up over
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by balloot 14y ago
I think you're underselling the challenge in the parts of the business that aren't coding. Which is exactly why this guy's decision is such a bad one. He's basically said "I have skill set X, which I'm trained in and have been honing for y
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by balloot 14y ago
Attention readers: For some reason I cannot comprehend people use the internet in 2012 with javascript and cookies disabled and then whine when some things don't work.
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by balloot 14y ago
Yes, information does make people happy. And my point is that a message that says "this site is hosted at Heroku" gives absolutely zero information to the vast majority of internet users. Most people simply don't know what that phrase mea
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by balloot 14y ago
How do you not blame Heroku? You are paying them a good chunk of money to handle not only hosting, but failover strategies, multiple locations, etc. If you have to worry about any of those things they aren't doing their job. That's like i
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by balloot 14y ago
It is absolutely your fault if the site does down due to natural disaster. This is why companies who are large enough to do so host the site at multiple locations with the ability to failover.
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by balloot 14y ago
This is misguided. Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku". And a good chunk of that other 1% isn't even going to bother reading the error
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by balloot 14y ago
The thing here that is eye opening to me, and relevant to any web programmer, is that accessing something from memory from another box in the same datacenter is about 25x times as fast as accessing something from disk locally. I would not
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by balloot 14y ago
You talk about a "test" like there isn't an article linked directly above wherein one of the largest web properties in the world explicitly states that server side page generation is much faster based off of real world results.
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by balloot 14y ago
I would say there's two clear reasons functional languages are relatively rare in the professional world: 1) Functional languages are difficult to grasp. Maybe it's the way CS is taught, but I've never heard someone say "Haskell just comes
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by balloot 14y ago
All I know is I have lived in and visited many other places in the US, and the SF Bay Area (and especially San Francisco proper) is hands down the most distinctive and beautiful. Whatever is being done here needs to be done more and not
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by balloot 14y ago
That's just not how it works. Pretty much every startup uses the 1 year cliff. And rightly so, because for a very early employee 1/48 of the employee's options is not a trivial amount of equity. You could hire a guy that comes in and works
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by balloot 14y ago
The question here is why are you so concerned with keeping on good terms with the founders? This is a humongous dick move, and either they're very shady or they are extremely angry at you. Either way I am not clear why you would work with t
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by balloot 14y ago
I don't get it. Why would someone have a website that was just some penguins on an iceberg?
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by balloot 14y ago
Wow. They asked you the monty hall problem, AND argued that you shouldn't switch the door you picked? That's awful.
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by balloot 14y ago
That is just plain stupid. I wouldn't want to work anywhere that would hire me, or anyone else on my team, without a proper interview.
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by balloot 14y ago
None of those companies have a website as their main property as I do. The one I think of when it comes to using node is Klout, and Klout's performance is absolutely atrocious.
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by balloot 14y ago
This article explains why I am using MySQL as the DB backend for a site I am currently building. It also explains why I am not using Node.js. New technologies are fun to play with, but they get decidedly less fun when your site starts get
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by balloot 14y ago
Both are awful. I have a particular disdain for regex abuse. I like to say that there are 3 stages in the use of regular expressions. 1) You don't get them and think they're magical 2) You learn regular expressions, and find all kinds of
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by balloot 14y ago
My description would be "bad developers".
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by balloot 14y ago
Best and most correct headline I've read on HN in a long time. Well done.
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by balloot 14y ago
Well, I am pretty confident that the vast majority of programmers do not know both a functional and a purely procedural language. In my book, "knowing" a language entails having used it in some significant piece of software at the very lea
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by balloot 14y ago
Hey look, it's yet another HN list of things "Every Programmer should know", followed by a list of everything the author knows! Funny how that works.
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by balloot 14y ago
You seriously aren't willing to admit that your question has zero relevance to someone working in PHP? The entire point of coding in a language like PHP is that you don't think about the low level stuff. And even if you did take the time t
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by balloot 14y ago
Again, it's a very specialized gig. Each of those companies probably has a small handful of people who work on optimization and could answer the question we're talking about here. But the vast majority of employees in these companies work

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