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by clintonb 9y ago
I agree that this knowledge is not necessary, but it could be useful for certain scenarios. TCP/IP: networking between cluster nodes Server setup: deploy a map-reduce cluster SOAP/REST: read/write data from services Software
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by clintonb 9y ago
MIT and edX have already started doing this with the Supply Chain Management MicroMasters [1]. Other universities are coming aboard soon with other MicroMasters [2]. [1] https://www.edx.org/micromasters/mitx-supply-chai
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by clintonb 9y ago
I am not quite familiar with the UK's parliamentary system but, I would assume you can lobby your representatives to eliminate the tax. So, yes, you can vote the tax away. I would be greatly surprised if folks can vote on Brexit but no
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by clintonb 9y ago
I would not be surprised if Gates provided financial support to various causes and campaigns. That said, I can understand why he is not as prominently involved in politics. Politics is full of people making seemingly irrational decisions, a
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by clintonb 9y ago
Ford or GM couldn't possibly do what? Pre-sales? The new Ford GT cost $450K and will only be available to select buyers during the first production year. I imagine GM does something similar with the higher-end Corvettes. Dodge did the
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by clintonb 9y ago
Why?
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Using Your Burndown Charts for Better Sprint Retrospectives(engineering.edx.org)
2 points by clintonb 9y ago|0 comments
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by clintonb 9y ago
The librarian is not for a single project, but the entire company. The librarian's job is to make sure that as much information as possible is stored in a manner that is searchable and accessible to all employees who need the informati
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by clintonb 9y ago
At Vistaprint, we used MediaWiki, hired a dedicated librarian, and, most importantly, had a culture of documenting everything on the wiki. The last point is most important. Everyone in the organization _must_ adopt the mindset of checking t
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by clintonb 9y ago
Why not relax the PR process for the docs directory? If your process is in the way of progress, change the process!
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by clintonb 9y ago
Bingo! I've seen things go wrong with Backbone. The lack of opinion is great if you have an experienced developer starting the project and defining the filesystem layout and overall architecture. We, unfortunately, did not have that fo
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by clintonb 9y ago
Why? TLS/SSL termination is normally (at least on every project I've worked with) handled by the web server.
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by clintonb 9y ago
Nope. I want well-defined best practices that make it easy for me to focus on the real engineering challenges rather than boilerplate. The issue I have is that there are numerous, sometimes conflicting, methods of solving the same problems
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by clintonb 9y ago
Why not? Figuring out DB access, session storage, i18n, etc. is not core to my business. Why not abstract that into a framework, and let engineers focus on solving their business needs?
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by clintonb 9y ago
No, he and others used to more complete (for lack of a better term) frameworks are looking for the Django/Rails equivalent in Node.js. I got my first taste of Node.js development a few months ago ( https://engineering.edx.org
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by clintonb 9y ago
The only iOS app I can recall that integrates with 1Password is HipChat. Integration requires using AgileBits' extension ( https://github.com/AgileBits/onepassword-app-extension ). The password manager doesn't
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by clintonb 9y ago
He wasn’t fired because the video ended up online. He was fired because he let her film the video. That was a direct action. As an outsider, I agree that this level of secrecy seems over the top. However, that is what the employees accept w
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Can a Middle-Man Actually Reduce Costs?(michellelessly.com)
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I haven't used Google's previous implementations, and I'm bummed I still can't use this one. I have high hopes for this implementation because it is written to comply with the W3C Payment Request API ( https://
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by clintonb 9y ago
It all depends on how you integrate. I added Apple Pay to my site. Relative to PayPal, my conversion rate and AOV are higher. Relative to credit cards, only AOV is higher. In my case Apple Pay is a payment option on the checkout page. Apple
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by clintonb 9y ago
Ultimately, acceptance depends on who is processing your payments (e.g. Stripe, Adyen, CyberSource). All Apple/Google Pay do is take advantage of tokenization, which allows buyers to send merchants a token/pointer to an account ra
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by clintonb 9y ago
Android Pay, Google Pay, and Google Wallet (I think) are all pretty much synonymous.
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by clintonb 9y ago
I've been waiting on this since July, when we implemented Apple Pay at edX. They missed the advertised September deadline. Despite signing up for the mailing list, I have yet to be notified about the functionality. Now that I'm se
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by clintonb 9y ago
Ha! I actually try not to brag. Sure. My email address is clintonb@alum.mit.edu.
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by clintonb 9y ago
Why should anyone use this over Jekyll or any of the numerous other static site generators?
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by clintonb 9y ago
I’m a workaholic, and really like solving problems. This leads to burnout after a few months. I get a bit of a high from solving problems. Also, despite holding a degree from MIT and having worked in software for 10 years, I still have a bi
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by clintonb 9y ago
> Many will welcome the opportunity to focus class time on quality interaction. No they won't. Some may value that opportunity, but I wouldn't say "many". I've seen the word "scale" tossed around in t
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by clintonb 9y ago
How old are your friends? Now that there is a central issuer, rather than regional, the probability of generating duplicate numbers is quite low.
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by clintonb 9y ago
What problems are you facing? Practically every language I have worked in has a third-party library for dealing with OAuth 2.0.
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by clintonb 9y ago
PSA is a collection of authentication clients for authenticating with third-party auth providers (e.g. Google, Facebook, Microsoft). If you want to run your own auth provider server, you will need another library. We use Django OAuth Toolki

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