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by blakesmith 10y ago
Sprout Social | Chicago, IL| Full-time | Engineering Manager, iOS| http://sproutsocial.applytojob.com/apply/jkJxjm/Engineering-... You will help deliver a quality application to thousands of users, working on a sm
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by blakesmith 10y ago
Sprout Social | Chicago, IL| Full-time | Android Engineer | http://sproutsocial.theresumator.com/apply/ctiz5a You will help deliver a quality application to thousands of users, working on a small Android team allowing
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by blakesmith 11y ago
I like the "Hacker News Newsletter", lets me ignore what goes on here most days, and catch up when I have dedicated time. http://www.hackernewsletter.com/
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by blakesmith 11y ago
Carol Dweck (the first name mentioned in that article) is the author of the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCKPHG/ref=dp-kindle-re...
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by blakesmith 11y ago
Absolutely agree. I'm reading the book now, and it feels like hundreds of examples to reinforce the same idea over and over again. Granted, she varies the topics (business, parenting, sports, academics, etc..) - but the takeaways are e
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by blakesmith 11y ago
What distributed filesystem do you work on?
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by blakesmith 11y ago
I'm not the author of the article, but if I'd have to guess: Data encapsulation, and interface control. If all your clients are talking directly to S3 instead of your encapsulated service interface, you can't inject any busin
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by blakesmith 11y ago
I'm a huge fan of Finagle futures, which this project seems to draw a lot of inspiration from. My biggest challenge is actually the fact that Folly as a dependency is so heavyweight memory wise: I have trouble building anything on my l
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by blakesmith 12y ago
100% agreed. I've sat down with a few family members and friends who want to understand "investments" and it takes many conversations just to drill into their head that for most average people, boring is good. There are certa
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by blakesmith 12y ago
We use thrift for a lot of internal service calls - this seems like it would be a great little library to capture and debug production thrift calls. Would I just need to implement my own PDU class that implements the protocol? Thanks! This
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by blakesmith 12y ago
It's usually the stateful stuff that proves challenging in big datacenter moves, but I don't see any mention of data copying, replication, or moving. How did you guys tackle the problems of keeping data in sync and doing a clean c
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by blakesmith 12y ago
I'm less interested in Antifragility applied to software development and more towards software systems themselves. After all, if the software isn't antifragile, it doesn't matter what development process you're using. Th
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by blakesmith 12y ago
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg
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by blakesmith 13y ago
Thanks for following up and clarifying!
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by blakesmith 13y ago
Doesn't it iterate over IPv6 addresses a few lines down? [1]. Sure, it iterates through IPv4 first, but does it make sense to prefer IPv6 given that IPv4 is still the most popular? 1. https://github.com/joyent/node
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by blakesmith 13y ago
How do you handle entire datacenter outages with ephemeral only setup? You can replicate to another datacenter, but if power is lost to both do you just accept that you'll have to restore from a snapshotted backup?
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by blakesmith 13y ago
More of these "This language sucks" blog posts need to focus on the problem domains actually being solved and less on the aesthetics of the tools. My team uses Scala as one of our primary backend languages and have been extremely
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by blakesmith 13y ago
I got the biggest smile on my face when I saw pictures I had already taken get pulled into your app right after launching for the first time. It was so easy to add a note to pictures I had already taken. Immediate engagement win. By the way
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by blakesmith 13y ago
Good job shipping! "Most IT projects fail because of scope-creep, bad estimates and being afraid to ship. Single-developer side-projects are no different." This is dead on. It's too easy to keep adding more stuff once you sta
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by blakesmith 13y ago
As far as I know, you still have to read the entire response into memory for parsing. You could write your own streaming parser, but as far as I know the main compiled bindings don't support streaming response handling. I would love to
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by blakesmith 13y ago
Thrift has been my backend RPC tool of choice both at work and on personal projects. It's been terrific for building composable backend services with tightly integrated language support. Pros: - Explicit contracts through the IDL. I
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by blakesmith 14y ago
Isn't that why Starbucks has done so well with their frozen drinks? They're basically milkshakes, but people feel ok about drinking them early in the morning because they're "coffee based".
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by blakesmith 14y ago
Thanks for the honest answer. I have no desire to start a flame war. Having an open discussion about costs/tradeoffs between the two seems helpful. Either way it seems worth my time to learn more about C++, so I can make these assessments f
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by blakesmith 14y ago
Honest question: Is C++ really worth the complexity over something like C? I'd love to hear people's technology evaluation thought process when choosing C++. To me, C seems far less complicated, while still providing similar levels of perfo
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by blakesmith 14y ago
What happens if you input a puzzle that's unsolvable? Does the program run forever trying to seek a solution, or can it realize the puzzle is unsolvable?
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by blakesmith 14y ago
Hardware support/ease of setup mostly. I ran Ubuntu on my iBook PPC circa 2005 or so, and it wasn't a great experience. Has hardware support for the modern mac lines gotten better in recent years?
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by blakesmith 14y ago
Ugh, sorry to hear that. I can imagine the new interface designs being pretty annoying for Mac Pro users. I have also thought about making the jump back to Linux, but really enjoy the sturdy unibody build quality of macs. I'm also less incl
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by blakesmith 14y ago
Why do I get the feeling that Apple wants to turn my laptop into a big ipad with a keyboard? Facebook sharing, Twitter integration... These features make sense for users like my Mom, but I couldn't care less. Are there any compelling featur
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by blakesmith 14y ago
This kind of mental framework is very key for analytic decision making. At a decision crossroads, having this sort of thought process has often helped me make the right choices. That being said, if I'm not careful, this kind of non-stop ana
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by blakesmith 14y ago
If you're using OS X, you don't really have a choice of what window manager to use; you're at the mercy of Apple. If you're looking for ways to wrangle all your windows in OS X, I'd recommend something like SizeUp or Divvy. These aren't win

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