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by d4mi3n 9y ago
100% agree with this. At any given company I've worked at, the recruiting/evaluation strategy has been different--largely because they _are_ looking for different things in candidates. Some places value communication skills over t
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by d4mi3n 9y ago
This seems really neat! What sorts of background and skills do you look for in candidates? I've enjoyed working on simple/toy lexers and parser in the past, but I'm not sure that'd be enough to get started with the kind
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by d4mi3n 9y ago
From what I've been told by Canadian co-workers, software salaries in the country are _significantly_ less for equivalent work compared to the US. Something 1/2 to 2/3 as much.
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by d4mi3n 9y ago
That's science—even a failed experiment can have significance. So long as it was methodically done and well recorded, work like this is still valuable in that it improves our understanding of the world.
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by d4mi3n 9y ago
I worked for Change circa 2010 ~ 2011. Interesting to see how their revenue model has changed. IIRC they were previously making money by building email lists for non-profits and other orgs that would essentially contract Change to get them
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by d4mi3n 9y ago
I read it as OP stating that money spent on prisons would have less of an impact on crime than money spent on housing. That said, crime isn't a silver-bullet-solution kind of problem. It's a systemic problem with a lot of causes,
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
A post-mortem should never be about placing blame on individuals, it should be about identifying flaws in a system or a process. There are places where post-mortems can turn into blame games, but in my experience such things are counter-pro
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
Can't say enough good things about Myles. I had a similarly good experience with him via Bradfield. Myles did a Clojure course for my colleagues and it went remarkably well, especially given that none of us had really done much work in
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
I have to wonder how common this is of it didn't raise any red flags.
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The Rise and Fall of a K Street Renegade(wsj.com)
2 points by d4mi3n 10y ago|3 comments
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
In my experience, a good process and environment will make people of _any_ skill or experience level shine. Nobody likes to stagnate. Give most people a safe place to learn as they work and you're likely to see them improve over time.
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
TFA aside, centralized logging is super useful for debugging a variety of issues. There are a number of hosted options, and setting them up isn't too hard. It usually involves configuring you're application's log device to ta
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
I think it really depends a lot on the companies you interact with. If you're unlucky and hit a lot of companies with slow or unresponsive interview processes I can easily see 6 to 8 weeks of back and fourth. The last time I went job h
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
These are good points, but I'd like to add that unless someone is dealing with extreme latency (ie: > 150~200ms), jitter is typically a bigger problem. If you have a consistent latency of, say, 100ms, you can account for that. Peopl
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
While this is true, there are a lot of people who commute to LA from as far as San Bernadino by car. As another commenter mentions, there's a ton of work to be had in LA with very little in the way of nearby housing in the price rang
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
That is quite a nice area to work/commute from. I hear they're extending the gold line down to El Monte--that would have made my life a lot easier at the time. I certainly hope LA has strong, long term plans to improve the commuti
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
This was very different from my own experiences living and working in LA in the late 90s and early 2000s. The buses were a joke, the Metro had terrible coverage, and the traffic was consistently terrible. FWIW I was living near Arcadia&#x
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
Interesting that Valve isn't looking for royalties here. Any speculation as to what the strategy behind this release is?
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
100% agree with this, though I've seen it worded differently. Rather than worrying about optimizing spending I find it much easier to maximize my earning potential. Negotiating a better salary will often net one more money over time th
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
AFAIK Lambda is the only way to react to events on S3 buckets. A lot of what I've seen it used for is as a mechanism for kicking off a workflow off of a new item in S3.
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
I'd call that enlightened self-interest. I think one could argue the motivation for cooperation is also enlightened self-interest. As you say, the big difference between selfishness and self-interest seems to be a matter of foresight.
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by d4mi3n 10y ago
This is neat. It's nice to see learning tools like this in a language like Ruby, as many implementations of relational algebra codebases in ruby are pretty complicated (see ActiveRecord/ARel and Sequel).
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by d4mi3n 11y ago
I believe Perl and CPAN originally coined this approach. I'm glad to see from the parent and other comments that this approach seems to have caught on in other ecosystems as well.
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by d4mi3n 11y ago
Blaming people contributes to this discussion how?
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by d4mi3n 12y ago
For those of you concerned about if a JWT library you're using is vulnerable, you can see the current list of verified/validate clients for each language here: http://jwt.io/ (page down to see the list) My team ha
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by d4mi3n 12y ago
If you're in the US, lack of a license generally means standard copyright: http://choosealicense.com/no-license/
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by d4mi3n 12y ago
This happened to me, but in my own experience I find myself spending >40% of my time doing things that are not programming. This may be a symptom of the org I work in, but I suspect it's not uncommon for people in these positions to
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by d4mi3n 12y ago
God, hearing stuff like this is sickening. I understand that tensions can run high and people disagree, but nobody working on any project should have to put up with that sort of nonsense. On a related tangent, I have to wonder how much of t
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by d4mi3n 12y ago
While this may be true, I have to wonder how much of this is to the benefit or detriment of US citizens. We still have some very real economic problems; consider a shrinking middle class and the high rate of unemployment for recent college
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by d4mi3n 12y ago
Would love to see some examples of how you put these concepts into practice. I'm familiar with the concept of duck typing and generic interfaces, but I'm not sure that's quite what you're getting at and I'm curious

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