btrombley

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Names Matter(eng.datafox.com)
1 points by btrombley 9y ago|0 comments
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The Empathy Hackathon(eng.datafox.com)
1 points by btrombley 9y ago|0 comments
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Engineering Interviewing Advice I Wish I Had Heard(eng.datafox.com)
2 points by btrombley 9y ago|0 comments
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by btrombley 11y ago
Can someone please explain the fix in practice? Is it as simple as upgrading glibc (and eglibc?) on all servers? Or is there a network change I should immediately change?
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How to Build an Engineering Dream Team at Your Startup(forbes.com)
2 points by btrombley 11y ago|0 comments
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by btrombley 11y ago
All of the benefits sound the same as MongoDB, which also does sharding and JavaScript queries, including arbitrary code in "callbacks" in map-reduce or $where clauses (though it's slow). Can someone explain the benefit of Re
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Ask HN: Angel “investing” in non-profits?
1 points by btrombley 12y ago|0 comments
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by btrombley 12y ago
It's best practices, not new practices, and a very clear concise write up at that. I wish if read this 6 months ago, rather than learning it the hard way.
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by btrombley 12y ago
Amazingly ambitious move by Amazon, which I have to respect. Yes, it will be extremely hard to take market share from Samsung and Apple, but there also hasn't been much innovation in the smart phone market recently, so the opportunity
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by btrombley 12y ago
Agreed. Complaining that you are spammed with potential job offers is like complaining about how expensive it is to replace the high-performance tires on your Porsche. Please don't forget that there is still high unemployment across
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by btrombley 12y ago
Funny, my friends built this company two years ago (and called it lifeswap). It was well received, but the challenge was high turnover amongst mentors due to the work involved--it's much harder to mentor someone than just rent your sp
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by btrombley 12y ago
I think this is backwards: it was the book publishers (and Apple) that were sued for colluding to raise e-Book prices and had to settle -- which is what anti-trust laws are meant to protect consumers against. Amazon using its size and some
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by btrombley 12y ago
The article is short on details, but I'm not clear why Amazon is obligated to sell a publisher's books, much less at the publisher's desired prices. Wal-mart is famous for using its size to lean on suppliers ensuring "e
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by btrombley 12y ago
Agreed, the author is using "disruption" to mean "compete with". Microsoft did not really disrupt IBM, it just changed the competitive landscape. The Innovator's Dilemma has a much more nuanced view of disruption:
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by btrombley 12y ago
As articles like this attest, there is a deep resentment on HN with the idea that success requires long hours and slavish commitment to work. But then every article about a successful company bolsters the sense that success requires exactl
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by btrombley 12y ago
You're reading the poem too literally if you think it endorses the idea of sacrificing parenting for your startup. The power of the piece is how viscerally it captures the price of that sacrifice without being preachy or whiny like so
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by btrombley 12y ago
The author is right to question the hype around culture as though it were invented in Silicon Valley, but I think he also falls into the trap of equating culture with superficial qualities that change over time. To paraphrase Built to Last
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by btrombley 12y ago
What I really like about the author's approach is that it really answers the first question: "How can we validate that our API is working as intended?" Writing your tests from the client's perspective actually gives you
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by btrombley 12y ago
I 100% agree that Andrew is one of the smartest people I've ever met, but I for one wouldn't mind if Baidu started to challenge Google in the deep learning space. International competition will be better for American companies t
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by btrombley 12y ago
It's unfortunate that PSD files don't work with git because so much of the development and release process ends up being built around git (e.g. merging code into trunk triggers the continuous integration tests). If designers don&
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My GoogleFinance + Docs Mashup Stock Tracker (Tricks & Starter Template)(blog.datafox.co)
1 points by btrombley 13y ago|0 comments