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by burlesona 9y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I hadn’t heard this specific perspective before.
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by burlesona 9y ago
At risk of stating the obvious, not all the medium/large tech companies work as described in this article. At Atlassian, for example, the direct managers are the ones who make promotion recommendations, it’s very much driven by your co
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by burlesona 9y ago
Indeed, thanks for posting this. I’m concerned that, while well-intentioned, the bill may not help.
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by burlesona 9y ago
I could just as easily see it going the other way. With self-driving we could free up tons of urban land from being parking, as all cars can essentially valet themselves to a more optimal, consolidated parking location that may not be adjac
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by burlesona 9y ago
Yes this is creative destruction, but Amazon is able to sell at a loss because Wall St. sees the infinite dollar signs at the end of this road when they’ve literally killed off all competition. Selling at a loss is anti-competitive and shou
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by burlesona 9y ago
This all rings very true to me.
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by burlesona 9y ago
I’ve helped several friends get into programming with no prior experience. A few of them did a boot camp. I told all of them that what they needed was to spend a year working hard on a personal project nights and weekends to get enough hour
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by burlesona 9y ago
I had a similar reaction. Boot camp hires haven’t worked out very well when I’ve hired them in the past — even allocating a lot of mentoring time. I don’t care about degrees of big time jobs, but in my experience it takes several years of b
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by burlesona 9y ago
I'm not sure if the examples given of the tradeoffs between "engineers," "mathematicians," and "writers" quite matches my experience, but in general this strikes me as a pretty useful way to think of the p
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Three Types of Programmers(mkdev.me)
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by burlesona 9y ago
Yeah, front-end dev is a mess right now, and it probably will be for a while. I think a simple description of what we're living through is the low level primitives (DOM and JS) are locked in and are gradually becoming more powerful. Me
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by burlesona 9y ago
Vue does hot module reload and all that jazz, and it works with Typescript too. I totally disagree with you about the code being spaghetti. To me the spaghetti is designing views in React and having a relatively simple DOM structure broken
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by burlesona 9y ago
One thing that is really great about Vue is it’s ability to just work with whatever setup you have. Sure if you’re building from scratch it’s great to have robust build tooling, but sometimes you need to write good front end code in the mid
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by burlesona 9y ago
Haha that’s brutal :)
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by burlesona 9y ago
One of the ways that I prefer to judge a JavaScript framework is (1) what is the minimum payload to use it, and (2) how nicely does it play with a hybrid app? In practice I’ve found VueJS does pretty well in this regard. Rather than build a
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by burlesona 9y ago
Yes, like Twitter, but the late night infomercials version of Twitter where some guy is trying to sell you miracle tanning cream.
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by burlesona 9y ago
That pretty much sums it up for me too.
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by burlesona 9y ago
Yep, this has been my experience as well. When micro services work well they have a simple and well-defined API that is easy to keep backwards compatible as it evolves, and it tends to be something that evolves quite slowly compared to the
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by burlesona 9y ago
This is really cool, thanks for posting this. I've always been vaguely curious how compilers work, but have never set aside time to research it. This was a great introduction, I have a better beginner's notion of how they work now
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by burlesona 9y ago
Hmm, “lacking documentation” and “great developer experience” seem mutually exclusive to me.
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by burlesona 9y ago
I don't think people are typically making a spreadsheet and plotting out whether or not this is really cheaper or more expensive. What's happening is either: a) They don't have a car (or a second car) currently, they spend $X
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by burlesona 9y ago
This is exactly what I thought. Of course one can purchase a beater car for a small amount of money, but the cheapest car I ever bought was $3000 and I recall spending $500-1000 a year on 1-2 breakdowns a year. The inconvenience of the brea
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by burlesona 9y ago
Uh... how? That seems improbably cheap.
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by burlesona 9y ago
Wow. This is a LOT of effort to play around with old hardware and OSes, but it’s interesting to see that it’s possible. “Science Project,” indeed!
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by burlesona 9y ago
Best thing to ever happen to Sinatra and the many block-oriented frameworks. Been looking forward to this one all year :D
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by burlesona 9y ago
There's no such thing as a perfect language, but Ruby is a very nice one, and the community is just such fun. The tradition of major version releases on Christmas Day each year is one of my favorite things! Cheers to Matz and all the R