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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   Thanks for sharing! What is it like competing for such RFPs? Sounds like it's not for the faint of heart. Have you managed to make a pleasant/sustainable career out of this sort of work?
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   This is all awesome feedback, thanks! Follow up question: what is it like building products for acquisition by such organizations? Is this anything like building B2B or B2C enterprise software? What common requirements do orgs put on softwa
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   Ask HN: How do you build software for government agencies?

   5 points by d4mi3n 12y ago|9 comments
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   Considering there are some events filling up sporting arenas in the US already, I don't think it's too farfetched. I was at IEM last weekend in San Jose at that SAP Center; the LoL season 9 championships had it filled up to about
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   ITU is looking for rails developers of all skill levels to join our engineering team to help build educational software that doesn't suck. International Technological University (itu.edu) Location: San Jose / Remote We're a f
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   This is a very common problem for people getting into software development. You are not alone! A lot of other people in this thread provided some good advice to finding problems to solve, but I'd just like to comment a bit on how to so
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   I really cant agree with this enough. A very common example of model bloat I see is authorization logic, and libraries like Pundit do an excellent job providing a simple framework for extracting such logic into their own ruby classes.
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   I like that Trailblazer is promoting some concepts I'd like to see more rails devs use (service objects, form objects), I think this project will be a non-starter for most teams. But after giving the readme a once over and looking at t
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   by d4mi3n 12y ago

   On of the announcements the Servo team makes here is that they want to take a component written in Rust within Servo (ie: image decoder) and bring that into the Gecko project. Ambitious indeed! If that does happen, it would speak pretty wel
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    I have a friend who works in the records department of the San Mateo shariff's office. She's on the graveyard shift, which is slow , and they're constantly getting crazy calls about all manner of things. It wouldn't sur
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    I'm not familiar with the situation here, but it's nice to see the Monit guys retracting what ended up to be a misguided takedown. Anybody know if there was any sort of formal apology made from Monit to the people behind inspeqtor
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Not much point in killing a computer you've just unlocked for yourself. Much more profitable to use it as a spam node or launching platform for TCP/UDP/DNS DDOS attacks.
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Shouldn't be too hard, all the rendering in minecraft is done in the client. All that needs to be done is tell client A to render state A and client B to render state B.
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Tooling. While I agree psql tends to be more performant, when you're dealing with groups of people having good tools (and good documentation for those tools) trumps many considerations. As an example, the organization I work at is cons
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Working Effectively With Legacy Code: http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Mart...
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    ITU - San Jose, CA International Technological University is looking for software engineers and DBAs to help us build educational software that handles all the day to day processes that run a university. ITU is an accredited, non-profit ed
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    I've read about Dart, but I haven't used it much in practice. What does it do better than similar languages that compile to JS (CoffeeScript, Typescript, etc)? Specifically, why would one consider moving to Dart from any of the ab
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    What are the odds of something like this becoming core to how the IETF writes it's recommendations? Is this an actual attempt to address the surveillance issues that have become so prevalent, or should I not get my hopes up?
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Haven't heard of authority before, thanks for the link. I've been using Pundit [1] for similar problems; assuming you're aware of both projects, were there any specific issues that caused you to go with authority over Pundit?
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Cinch, 1Password, Rdio, AWS, Hipchat, Zendesk
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    This is something I hadn't considered. Being able to do firmware updates to a device with an embedded instance of SQLite seems huge. Seeing as ALTER support is currently lacking, what kinds of approaches are commonly taken to work arou
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Very interesting! Thanks for the references. Having read some of these, though, it's pretty clear that ALTER support is a major pain point. Would you have any insight as to why the SQLite maintainers would not choose to prioritize that
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a major use-case for SQLite a database for embedded systems? In that light, I can't picture too many situations off the top of my head where one would want to change the schema. That
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    I've recently started reading up on Erlang. While I can't comment too much on the syntax or semantics, I'm very much impressed with Erlang's error handling and the fact that it comes with some pretty good tooling out of
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    by d4mi3n 12y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hippocampus_Question
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    by d4mi3n 13y ago

    Relevant: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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    by d4mi3n 13y ago

    This is exciting! It's been a couple years since the original Tokaido announcement. A big challenge in getting the project completed was getting a static version of ruby put together. Glad to see they sorted it out! You can see a bette
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    by d4mi3n 13y ago

    The Idea Channel is pretty good. It's funded by PBS and is generally geared towards presenting interesting topics for people to think about and discuss: https://www.youtube.com/user/pbsideachannel
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    by d4mi3n 13y ago

    Best guess? Pin tumbler locks are probably cheaper to produce.
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    by d4mi3n 13y ago

    One could make a similar argument for just about any large financial, real-estate, or holdings company. Bank of America, General Mills, and General Electric to name a few.