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by drgath 12y ago
Along those same line, here's another good read about the recent npm, Inc. investment. Feel free to skip down to 'Open Source and $$$' section. http://words.steveklabnik.com/is-npm-worth-26mm In short, it&#x
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by drgath 12y ago
Considering Atwood's Law, I guess it was only a matter of time until we arrived at this point.
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by drgath 12y ago
Reminds me of when I worked at Yahoo, and in 2009 I had to track down someone who worked on Upcoming. I found someone who had Upcoming listed in their Backyard profile, but "Oh, I don't work on that anymore. Last I heard {other
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by drgath 12y ago
As someone who pays Meetup.com $144 a year for my group, I'd love to have a cheaper alternative.
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by drgath 12y ago
All of that extra cost was R&D, which is currently being funded by Google's advertising. While I have no idea what Google's business model will eventually be with self-driving cars, at the end of the day it's just softwa
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by drgath 12y ago
> But how can putting this functionality into an extension package be considered a reasonable design choice? I like the design of Atom, because it allows me to freely compose an editor that does exactly what I want, and nothing more. Wh
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by drgath 12y ago
While I'd still consider FB a PHP-company, it's important to note that their use of it has evolved into a PHP derivative language ("Hack"). Also, Yahoo is years into a project to move everything away from PHP to JavaScr
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by drgath 12y ago
> I NEED TO EDIT URLs. I'm using Canary with this option enabled, and all you have to do is click the domain box, then you can freely view, edit, and copy the URL. All this update does is hide the path portion of the URL. That&#x27
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by drgath 12y ago
Absolutely. I also think it's ridiculous that every language has it's own package manager, and some of them work in considerably different ways. Considering the amount of work put into NPM, Gems, PIP, Pear, Brew, RPM, APT, etc..
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by drgath 12y ago
With so many self-hosted Github alternatives, and even Github Enterprise (self-hosted Github), I don't feel sorry for anyone having trade secrets stolen if they were hosting via private repos on Github.com.
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by drgath 12y ago
FWIW, Github hasn't been a "small company" for quite some time. github.com/about/team says they are currently at 237 employees.
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by drgath 12y ago
As a former Yahoo, I can confirm. There's certainly still some great engineers at Y!, but you could start a Fortune 500 company with former Yahoos.
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by drgath 12y ago
As others have mentioned, this was probably due to inactivity. I stopped using Instagram years ago, but still had 'instagram.com/derek', and just checked to see if that was still my username. Nope, it is now 'derek____
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by drgath 13y ago
MIT is considered by most to be a "liberal license", and phrasing it that way makes for better marketing than stating the exact type of license in a "Features" section. The additional license is for another project (murm
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by drgath 13y ago
Running into the same jank issue as well. Chrome 33, Macbook Pro i7 w/ 16gb RAM. While I'm not at 30fps (averaging in the 40s), there are definitely some frames being dropped. Runs a bit smoother in Firefox.
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by drgath 13y ago
> Remember when we had standards and interoperability? And the carriers charged 20 cents per SMS [1]? Yup, I remember those days. No thanks. [1] http://gizmodo.com/5832245/atts-new-text-plan-overcharges-yo...
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by drgath 13y ago
I was recently asked a "making change" question [1] in a front-end interview, and once I finally understood it, it really really helped my comprehension of how to properly dissect tree-recursion-branching problems. Here's th
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by drgath 13y ago
I concur. I recently finished Effective JavaScript, and found it to be an excellent and insightful read.
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by drgath 13y ago
Worth noting that I was promoted to that team due to being an overachiever on a lower expectation team. So here's the issue... I could have stayed with the old team and ensured my job security, but instead I chose to go with a tougher
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by drgath 13y ago
See the link in my profile. :)
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by drgath 13y ago
I was one of those who was laid-off, or fired, or whatever you want to call it. I've been really confused over the last week because the reasons for my termination were pretty vague. But wow, after reading that, so many things make s
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Google begins barring browser plug-ins from Chrome(news.cnet.com)
26 points by drgath 13y ago|7 comments
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by drgath 13y ago
> Seriously, if you want to cheat DirectTV call them up, go to retentions for cancelling service, and get FREE (or heavily discounted) Sunday Ticket, just like many others. Your entire first post was about getting NFL content without
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by drgath 13y ago
> Sunday Ticket is free for DirecTV users No, it is $60 per month or $300 / season. > Sunday Ticket is $40/season with the purchase of $60 Madden 25 (meaning, $100/total for the whole season of Sunday Ticket), and does
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by drgath 13y ago
Violence?
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by drgath 13y ago
FWIW, the March 2013 (pre-acquisition) version of this same report [1] ranked Y! at #2 with 191 million, 5 million short of the July figure. For comparison to other gains during that same time, Microsoft gained 13 million, Ask gained 4 mil
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Yahoo #1 Web Property Again In US, First Time Since Early 2008(marketingland.com)
4 points by drgath 13y ago|6 comments
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by drgath 13y ago
No more so than flying coach. It actually looks more like flying business class on BA.
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by drgath 13y ago
Considering most voters (57%) disapprove of the high-speed rail project, it sounds like he'd be doing Californians a favor. http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/transportation-nation/2013/mar/28/...
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by drgath 13y ago
As Musk has stated, he was one more failed SpaceX launch from pretty much being bankrupt. As a "mad scientist", it's pretty easy to blow your money on ideas that don't quite pan out.

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