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by dpeck 10y ago
stop doing that, one of the main draws of Uber is not having to deal with the ridiculous tipping system with cabs, once you introduce tipping there are incentives for the drivers to get paid less and a whole host of negatives are added and
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Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available(github.com)
106 points by dpeck 10y ago|23 comments
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by dpeck 10y ago
Spent the first part of my career doing infosec and I've noticed that there is less and less real information out there. The early/mid part of last decade seemed like a golden age of knowledge sharing, some really good books, grea
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by dpeck 10y ago
its always been confusing to me how the NCAA franchise got so little love and was eventually killed off. It should have been essentially the same engine but always lagged multiple years behind in functionality.
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by dpeck 10y ago
so the bucket of crabs approach to salary negotiation.
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JPEG for the horseshoe crabs [pdf](frdx.free.fr)
2 points by dpeck 11y ago|0 comments
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by dpeck 11y ago
No, but a basic understanding of algorithmic thinking (how to break a problem down into smaller components, steps to solving , etc) is and always has been.
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by dpeck 11y ago
Robot Turtles seems to be thought well of, I did the kickstarter for it (so far my only one) and I think my son is just about old enough to play it. For practicals, Shoots and Ladders may be the most like day to day coding :)
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by dpeck 11y ago
There are annoying bits, and its rough for developers but if you're established and well connected it can be an incredibly useful tool for finding leads in different industries for services/partnerships that you don't have ex
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XHamster Blocks North Carolina Over LGBT Law(huffingtonpost.com)
5 points by dpeck 11y ago|4 comments
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by dpeck 11y ago
I've found gen_fsm to be a bit of a beast to reason about, and I'm not alone the core team announced at Erlang Factory a few weeks ago that there will be a new FSM implementation in an upcoming release https://youtu.be&
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by dpeck 11y ago
I've seen the same story off and on for years, I'll be pleasantly surprised if it ever comes to market.
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by dpeck 11y ago
Canadians are anxiously awaiting the shipping of Kraft Klassic :)
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by dpeck 11y ago
I'd like to think the company is pretty desirable and building something legitimately special :) 10-20 hours invested to find and and sell yourself to the job you'll be spending the next year at (optimistically 1% of the working h
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by dpeck 11y ago
well with 3 attempts one went over and kept working until he got a solution (took a while), another stopped at around 2 hours to submit and asked for feedback, 3rd finished in time and is a badass. You've be surprised. Maybe I expect t
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by dpeck 11y ago
Agreed, but for people who have to justify hire/nohire/fire decisions to their bosses or other parts of an organization an objective metric is very useful.
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by dpeck 11y ago
This doesn't work for people already in stable jobs.
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by dpeck 11y ago
Because there are plenty of people who can regurgitate things but not be able to do much with it. I've seen it with CS grads from good schools, its disconcerting and confusing.
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by dpeck 11y ago
I just instituted a coding assignment with our hiring (exceptions made for those with extensive github/similar open source contributions), and so far only have had three candidates do it, but I'm a fan. Mine is crafted so a really
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by dpeck 11y ago
honestly I don't know why you'd ever do a move or expansion to SF. The rise in expenses would kill you. Starting things there certainly has a lot of benefits, but moving anything more that a handful of founders after you get going
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by dpeck 11y ago
Atlanta has a lot of good stuff going for it, midtown area and the tech village up in Buckhead have some promising startups. Few other south eastern cities to add to OPs list: Charlotte isn't bad either and has a similar if less develo
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by dpeck 11y ago
Dropcam had plans to go towards that, but seems they were squashed with the acquisition.
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NASA Space Tourism Posters(jpl.nasa.gov)
92 points by dpeck 11y ago|25 comments
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by dpeck 11y ago
looks like a good oppertunity to plug one of my favorite podcasts, The History of English Podcast http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ , if you're curious about history of the language and its indo-european cousins its f
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by dpeck 11y ago
oddly enough the GT degree is probably more respected outside of Atlanta/Georgia than in it.
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by dpeck 11y ago
2-5% seems high from what Ive seen, can you name any startups that were successful with early engineer(s) near the top of that range?
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by dpeck 11y ago
I didn't read it as him being racist. The wording may have been harsh, but I read it as saying that police brutality isn't something that only happens to black people. I would think any racist feelings he had would have come to li
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The Missing 11th Month(drhagen.com)
2 points by dpeck 11y ago|0 comments
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by dpeck 11y ago
Not to mention having a mountain of great Erlang bits to build on. Its been great for everyone.
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by dpeck 11y ago
| Boutique coffee is all about nuance- it's like Scotch, or bourbon, or tobacco. For the record, bourbon (and I assume Scotch, but Im much less familiar with it) is about as industrial as you get. The labels might have pictures of old

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