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by dcosson 12y ago
I see where you're coming from, but in context I don't think the author was advocating for treating junior devs badly on purpose. More like everyone ends up banging their head against the wall sometimes as a developer, and you sho
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by dcosson 12y ago
Thanks for the link to the book. I had a similar experience where my college linear algebra class was not good, taught by a grad student who seemed to have no enthusiasm for the material or for teaching, plus his accent was hard to understa
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by dcosson 12y ago
I find it a little odd that the canonical use case for Magic in these examples seems to be ordering your favorite dish to your home. I would agree with you, the complexity/cognitive load of this is low and with e.g. Seamless you get mo
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by dcosson 12y ago
> didn't fully understand it and what it was good for This is why I'm not a fan, its "sweet spot" , in my experience, is not very big and not very interesting. It requires a small data set where at least the indexes
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by dcosson 12y ago
I'd really love to see a thin e-ink screen that you could place in front of a regular laptop screen. That way you wouldn't even have to switch devices you could just grab your regular laptop and go work outside in the sun for a fe
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by dcosson 12y ago
Makes sense, I get that getting the product right for the first customers is the top priority. Just wanted to share my initial reaction. Good luck with the service.
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by dcosson 12y ago
No offense but I feel like I'm being dishonestly marketed to from your landing page The biggest thing is the tagline is "Simple, free version control" but after checking your pricing (which is buried in the footer) you have t
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by dcosson 12y ago
I think one reason to choose Go is simplicity. You can run, say, a JSON REST service and build it with TDD out of the box with only the standard libaries. It's also such a small language that you can pick it up quickly. I haven't
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by dcosson 12y ago
Awesome project, thanks for sharing. Looks like it takes a similar approach as the hiera eyaml project (it also encrypts on a per-key basis using gpg) which I've found to be really nice to work with in the past (as opposed to other too
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by dcosson 12y ago
Not to mention that counting the number of companies says little about their cumulative impact.
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by dcosson 12y ago
Yeah that sounds reasonable. Thanks for the orchestration link, I hadn't seen that post.
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by dcosson 12y ago
My take is that this "newer generation" of tools seems to focus on combining configuration management with orchestration. Chef and Puppet let you define the static state of the world but leave it up to you to figure out how to tra
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by dcosson 13y ago
> I overrode the DNS and pointed it to 127.0.0.1 and tried again. Is there an easy way to spoof that on your local home network?
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by dcosson 13y ago
It's normally a matter of seconds until other clients can see a bitcoin transaction that you've posted for the network. The only way that will end up not being legit is if you've double-spent the funds - that won't happ
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by dcosson 13y ago
> Honestly, even a way to conclusively enumerate the installed packages, versions, and sources of each package would be an improvement I feel like there are usually ways to do it, you just have to really go out of your way and it's
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by dcosson 13y ago
Ah ok, thanks for clarifying. I had assumed the freeze starting a few days ago applied to trades as well but clearly not.
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by dcosson 13y ago
They also mentioned buying back at low prices in one of those leaked documents. What I don't understand is why people would continue selling at any reasonable volumes at firesale prices when other exchanges are doing "fine" (
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by dcosson 13y ago
I think this upper end is a lot more interesting than the mean. I'd love to see data on what the distribution in the upper percentiles of software engineers and engineering managers looks like, especially compared to traditionally hig
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by dcosson 13y ago
I'm sure there was some money wasted along the way, but this makes me think of the often-quoted (around here at least) anecdote that VCs succeed not by getting decent returns across the board but by having one or two "home runs". If Tesla i
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How I Lost 20lbs Working at Venmo(blog.venmo.com)
2 points by dcosson 13y ago|0 comments
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by dcosson 14y ago
One thing not mentioned here is speed. Musk has said this could go from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes, which is an average speed of ~700 mph - slightly faster than a commercial airliner but in the same ballpark. I'm definitely not an
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by dcosson 14y ago
I've done primarily python for a while and just started a project in Go. Still very new to Go, so take this all with a grain of salt, but my initial reactions are that: - it is expressive. I find myself cursing and pull my hair out far les
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by dcosson 14y ago
> A lot of the cool features that are being touted in the NodeJS frameworks have been already done elsewhere for much longer. Are you including Derby.js and Meteor.js in this? The main example the article uses is the way these framework
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Braintree Buys Venmo for $26.2 Million(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
93 points by dcosson 14y ago|22 comments
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by dcosson 14y ago
Love the app, great job If you do decide to offer a web version, a chrome/firefox extension might be a good choice - it could be a very similar user experience to how it works now in the mac menu bar, and you wouldn't have to keep a tab ope
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by dcosson 14y ago
Actually, I was talking to a few facebook guys a couple weeks ago and they rewrote the chat app in c++ a few years ago. The primary motivator was that nobody knows Erlang, while most of their engineers already know c++. I found that reall
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by dcosson 14y ago
I find his complaint about git's lack of abstraction strange. Yes, git's syntax could definitely be more consistent, but I can't think of how you could abstract away very much of git without quickly losing power. On the other hand, one of
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by dcosson 14y ago
Was going to say the same thing - presumably your goal is that I will like the blog post and by extension you, and if so I'll be curious what you do, what your area of expertise is, etc. I can only hope the irony isn't lost on him - maybe O
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by dcosson 14y ago
Thanks for posting, I'll have to come back later and check out the site. From the video I can't really tell if it's opensource or a hosted service. I'm also curious if there's an easy code import/export feature for individual widgets and/o
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by dcosson 14y ago
That is incorrect. He bought 98% of the island - the town of Lanai City is on the remaining 2% of the island. Aside from those who live at one of the resorts on island, the majority of Lanai's residents live in Lanai City and own their own

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