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by efsavage 9y ago
"the web is built on backwards compatibility" It was, at one point, but now that all of the browsers autoupdate and mobile device lifespan is about 2 years, it's rare for anyone to test on anything very old. Try submitting a
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by efsavage 9y ago
I'm over 40 and haven't noticed this at all. If anything the median age in the woodshop classes I took was well above the company's.
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Facebook's Aquila has successful second flight(code.facebook.com)
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by efsavage 9y ago
If my boss posts something I will assume they found value in it and thinks it is worth the time of X people to read it for information. If they have a question about it, they will ask. If reading it right now matters, they will say so. I
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by efsavage 9y ago
This is correct. I wonder if anyone has tried doing "design and build" contracts where this becomes an internal cost center instead of a profit driver, and would theoretically get optimized out.
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by efsavage 9y ago
And the camera person doesn't have a picture...
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by efsavage 9y ago
Unsurprising as this is clearly an ego play, given that the first thing they want you to know is their names.
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by efsavage 9y ago
I hope it is excellent and advances the state of the art, but it won't reach it's full potential until it has a name people can use when talking to users, customers, and board members. "Well first we collect all of the data i
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by efsavage 9y ago
It's a bad name because this topic will come up every time it's discussed, forever. It's a distraction from other relevant issues like new features or how it performs.
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by efsavage 10y ago
The full quote is a bit more nuanced and captures this, but the key to this mantra is properly defining what "works" means. Code that "works" doesn't just mean it runs/compiles/passes CI/etc. It has
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by efsavage 10y ago
What is the value of a "computer" that does math barely faster than a human? What is the value of a motorized vehicle that is slower and more expensive than a horse? Remain optimistic.
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by efsavage 11y ago
You can still go meet that bartender, but now when you ask her about the technique you can explain what you've already tried, and will almost certainly get better knowledge from her.
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by efsavage 11y ago
The majority of driving, probably. The majority of avoiding death and injury while driving, especially in snow, is to NOT follow the car in front of you. As far as error rates, it's feels significant to me. I've driven maybe 500
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by efsavage 11y ago
For larger projects, the contractor is required to be bonded to cover things like this.
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by efsavage 11y ago
To me the value in a take-home test is in smoke testing what the applicant said they are familiar with. We once accidentally hired someone once who talked the talk but didn't even know SSH. My test involves a basic task (that is relat
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by efsavage 11y ago
Correct. Since there is no legal definition of "games of skill" yet, the industry and its' collective counsel, along with some court cases, have established a set of parameters by which there is a de facto standard for it.
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by efsavage 11y ago
(I'm a co-founder of a DFS site) DFS sites already exclude states where the games are not clearly legal (e.g. Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana or Washington, also Quebec) and have additional restrictions placed on some states (19+ in
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by efsavage 11y ago
It is extremely difficult to get healthy amounts of good nutrients with a vegetarian diet. Most vegetarians I know eat way too many starches, beans, and oils. They do not eat enough nuts, leafy vegetables, etc.
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by efsavage 11y ago
Life lessons aside, it's alot harder to spend your $20/week on weed or booze or gambling when it's an Amazon credit.
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by efsavage 11y ago
Sorry Apple. You are many years of good behavior away from my trusting you with this big a piece of my infrastructure.
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by efsavage 11y ago
There are two ways to think about microservices. Development (which your comment focuses on) and deployment. The pure/idealized microservice is isolated from the rest of your environment/codebase on both of those axes. In pract
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by efsavage 11y ago
If they had made this look like a Star Wars Probe Droid I believe the Internet may have actually broken.
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by efsavage 11y ago
It scales as much as is needed, which is basically zero. The rate of growth in the number of products I buy is effectively zero. I use one shaving cream, one soap, one shampoo, one detergent, the same number I used 10, 20, 30 years ago an
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by efsavage 12y ago
I've actually long advocated that the pocket brick is a temporary form factor for a phone/computer. The watch will soon be the brain of your computing, to which you will be able to pair any number of dumb displays, keyboards, ear
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by efsavage 12y ago
Maybe you didn't notice, but they just invented the Watch. Imagine...if you could put a whole entire clock...on your wrist. Almost everybody has a wrist!
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by efsavage 12y ago
The generally accepted way of changing or challenging a law you believe to be wrong and that provides more rent to it's beneficiaries than it costs to defend it, is to break it, repeatedly. (With apologies to those who fight against th
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by efsavage 12y ago
How much someone is paying you to write it and how much it costs to replace are good criteria to start with.
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by efsavage 12y ago
I agree, but can Go the language eventually support the level of tooling that Java has?
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by efsavage 12y ago
"Without bikes, I'd just walk and metro." Exactly my point. You wouldn't buy a car. People who live in Boston/Cambridge only use their car to get out of the city, not travel within it. For people outside of the c
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by efsavage 12y ago
In a city with half-decent public transportation, bikes don't take cars off the road, they take people off the trains/buses and pedestrians off the sidewalk (on nice days). I've lived and/or worked in Boston/Cambrid

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