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by bguthrie 13y ago
The submitted title appears more or less verbatim in the lede of the article, and is the more significant news. I don't know if I'd call it wrong.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Who cares if he acts professionally or not? But he's certainly not kind, and that counts. Whenever someone talented acts like a dick, take a moment to think of all the talented people in history who managed to remain civil despite thei
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I agree, though other petitions can be effective. If you care about a cause, place your signature on a petition hosted with an organization that will tirelessly advocate for that cause. Organizations in turn live and die by their ability to
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by bguthrie 13y ago
The emails are fantastic and I recommend them heartily. Please do consider subscribing if you haven't yet.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I'd like to differ slightly: the job of a good tech lead is to be an effective first among equals. If you're working on a talented team, there should be no presupposition that the tech lead is necessarily the best developer on it.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
"Do you welcome the leak, sir? Do you welcome the leak if you welcome the debate?"
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by bguthrie 13y ago
Unless your performance optimizations specifically avoid method invocation, you can always extract the nasty bits to a well-named method. This is what is meant by comment avoidance: it is better to isolate the dirty stuff and pick good, spe
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I worked for one of the places Zed is describing. Like many of Zed's rants, it has a pleasant, self-righteous ring to it, but the problem is misdiagnosed and its solution is no help at all. I'll say no more.
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by bguthrie 13y ago
I had much the same high school experience as the OP, but unlike him, I didn't get into a decent college or university and took two years off to work at a small startup. I couldn't have been luckier. I was a much stronger student later as a
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by bguthrie 13y ago
For a long time, Agilists recommended that teams colocate as an antidote to the kinds of tepid collaborations that happen at large software teams in large companies. But collaboration tech has gotten better, and modern, nimble teams should
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by bguthrie 14y ago
From the OP: But technologists used to work on big problems. Many still do. And some technologists used to work on small problems, and some still do. There never was a perfect time in which every technologist ran around working on
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by bguthrie 14y ago
The difference is the audience. I usually think of a status meeting as a one-way infodump from worker to manager. In a well-run standup, your audience is the whole team, because you're accountable to the team rather than any one person, and
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by bguthrie 14y ago
I love that anecdote and it's a great illustration of the difference between demanding and empowering. Thanks for sharing.
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by bguthrie 14y ago
Measuring value in software development is difficult. If you can tie your activities directly to either higher revenue or lower cost, that's great. As an international tax lawyer, I'd think you have a relatively straightforward way to demon
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by bguthrie 14y ago
The problem isn't who has the keys , it's how they're used . I don't care as much if a junior developer has the prod password; I care more about building an engineering and ops team that understands that dicking around with the prod data
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by bguthrie 14y ago
More than anything else, this describes an appalling failure at every level of the company's technical infrastructure to ensure even a basic degree of engineering rigor and fault tolerance. It's noble of the author to quit, but it's not his
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by bguthrie 14y ago
Congratulations on the release! Although I'm a great fan of Coffeescript, I am and remain a skeptic of the what I've seen of the literate-programming style. Well-written tests or specifications, with integrated documentation-generation tool
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by bguthrie 14y ago
The distinction between felony and misdemeanor is key, and therein rests Lessig's argument about proportionality. I don't doubt that Aaron would have been willing to do time if it meant making a point. But he didn't want to set a precedent
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by bguthrie 14y ago
This was a hugely helpful big-picture overview of the recent vulnerabilities. Everyone, please go read it. I had been meaning to get some context for the recent spate of security problems and this provided that in spades. Thanks for taking
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by bguthrie 14y ago
Agreed. Please, please use and return these in preference to callbacks.
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by bguthrie 14y ago
I'd been wondering about the recent slow pace of updates, but I shouldn't have doubted. I've been consistently delighted by the quality of Sublime and the frequency with which it improves. For the amount of work I do with it and its quality
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by bguthrie 14y ago
Not necessarily. Yes, the comparative advantage of roles playing to their strengths can net you a lot of short-term gains, but you run a tremendous risk of getting stuck if one person quits or get hit by a bus, for example. Knowledge sharin
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by bguthrie 14y ago
I believe SBP (aaronsw's digital executor) is planning to make sure his domain is maintained and all the content remains available. But I do think it's nice to have this stuff in non-HTML form--ePub especially is great. Be sure to ping reme
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by bguthrie 14y ago
His eulogy at Aaron's funeral was utterly heartbreaking. His post underscored it for me.
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by bguthrie 14y ago
To be clear, Aaron didn't work in Silicon Valley, or at a startup. Aaron was running his own well-funded team in an office in New York City at a 20 year-old company with good healthcare run by adults. It was not a high-stress work environme
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by bguthrie 14y ago
All changes are picked up by CI and pushed to the S3 bucket for rememberaaronsw.com automatically. Pull-request away.
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Please fork repo and contribute to Aaron's memorial website(github.com)
30 points by bguthrie 14y ago|3 comments
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by bguthrie 14y ago
Hi everyone. You can find the link to the code here: https://github.com/rememberaaronsw/rememberaaronsw . You can read more about our reasoning here: http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/about/ . We wanted something that would be open-source, e
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Show HN: Official Aaron Swartz remembrance site is now CC-licensed, open source(rememberaaronsw.com)
11 points by bguthrie 14y ago|1 comments
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by bguthrie 14y ago
We're actively working to replace the Tumblr site with something a bit more fitting.

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