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by efsavage 12y ago
It's an "it just works" technology that also goes very deep and solves a number of problems where the competing solutions are an order of magnitude more complex and/or expensive.
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by efsavage 12y ago
This is all too true. I come at this problem from the opposite end of the spectrum. I am no misanthrope by any stretch, but I have to actively engage in things that many others (especially the people who feel the need to blog about &#x27
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by efsavage 12y ago
At first I was thinking "$4 for 14k plays sounds pretty good!", but then I did a little math. If I listen to a streaming service for 10 hours a week (seems like a plausible average?), that's about 800 songs per month. So I&
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by efsavage 12y ago
I do this on a current project. Certain fields are rarely need and turned off by default, others are usually needed and turned on by default. It's not done via a special syntax though, just query parameters, so something like /p
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by efsavage 13y ago
If a 5 year old child asks you if he will be killed by pirates (yes this has really happened to me), would you say no? If so, you're lying, but I don't think there is any "moral wallpaper" here, it's simply letting
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by efsavage 13y ago
Are there facts behind this? Because my anecdotal experience is the complete opposite.
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by efsavage 13y ago
Agree. "Agile" methologies are a great way for: 1. Good managers to manage new or mediocre engineers. 2. Good engineers to control new or mediocre managers. No system will completely mitigate bad managers or bad engineers, and if
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by efsavage 13y ago
I disagree. In the hands of a competent web designer, photoshop is still the most expressive tool available. I've been bouncing PSDs with a designer for the past couple of weeks and I want him being creative and making something beau
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by efsavage 13y ago
$acceptablePageLength = ($yearsExperience / 10) + 1;
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by efsavage 13y ago
I can see that, I guess it's just going after a different use case than I was using it for (i.e. the decent designer-less site). It has no real value to me if I have to go through and style everything over again.
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by efsavage 13y ago
Am I the only one that thinks v3 looks terrible? I like v2 because I could just whip out a little internal site/admin console/etc. and it looked as good or better than most other similar things without changing anything . I have
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by efsavage 13y ago
A very informative article, thanks for linking. However, his estimates for the energy required were very conservative, and even if these numbers don't work out with today's water prices, they do make sense at a certain point that
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by efsavage 13y ago
I don't put much stock in those who make claims like "the next world war will be over water", because we have a massive supply of water (the ocean) and a massive supply of energy (the sun) to power whatever we need to do to m
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by efsavage 13y ago
yet
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by efsavage 13y ago
I'm not sure there is any animal less concerned with privacy than a dog :)
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by efsavage 13y ago
This is a neat device, but GPS would seal the deal for me. I've looked at Tagg ( http://www.pettracker.com/ ) which has it, but it isn't waterproof which a must for my Lab who loves to swim.
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by efsavage 13y ago
I work with Spring daily, and I haven't written a line of Spring XML in, literally, years. Granted I don't use all of the modules it offers, some of which may still use XML, but the best part about Spring is that you can pick and choose wh
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by efsavage 13y ago
My gut tells me that SaaS is the wrong play here. Offering a hosted option is nice, but half of my projects will flat-out not use any third-party service as part of the dev environment, it all has to be self-hosted, and many of the other h
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by efsavage 13y ago
Odd, nearly everyone I know pronounces it "sequel" (including "my sequel" and "sequel server". The only people I interact with who spell it out are people who don't really know what it is, so it's kind of a warning flag when someone says i
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by efsavage 13y ago
> How do these people get to their position without being able to do that type of stuff? Typically by hard work and good fortune. A non-accountant/non-MBA has a good idea, starts making money, hires a few friends, and tada , a person
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/dev/null vs. MongoDB benchmark (engineering.wayfair.com)
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by efsavage 14y ago
Standups are definitely status meetings, and there's nothing wrong with that. As someone else mentioned, it's the audience that matters. 5 or 6 good engineers and a clueful manager in a room are going to sync up and get back to work, usua
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by efsavage 14y ago
> Does anyone want to apply to YC with a novel idea: make computers for people who make money using computers? I'm not saying it can't be done, but we're probably the worst customers. On the one side you've got people who's machines ar
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by efsavage 14y ago
Not very reliably. AFAIK, the geographic resolution on phones GPS would not hold up to scrutiny if you were driving within 10-20% of the speed limit.
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by efsavage 14y ago
I'm not talking about real speeding, I'm talking about driving 70-75 in a 65 because that's what traffic is doing. A week later I get a ticket in the mail because some zealous law enforcement agency subpoenaed a bunch of records from aut
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by efsavage 14y ago
Love it. Want it. Except... Now I'm carrying around a device that can reliably be used to issue me speeding tickets. What is my protection from that?
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by efsavage 14y ago
We've defined standards for humans that we find acceptable, in part because there is much that is implicit in the operator being a human. For example, a cop at an intersection, holding his hand up, then pointing left to redirect traffic
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by efsavage 14y ago
The key thing is that the government is not going to (and should not) get very deep into regulating/legalizing this tech until it actually works, which is fine. 2020 does seem more realistic for a mass market roll-out. So long as it's read
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by efsavage 14y ago
A rotating mishmash of text files, spreadsheets, google docs, scrap paper and a notebook. For professional engagements I've lately used pivotal tracker, github issues, basecamp, and jira.
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by efsavage 14y ago
Probably a few factors: 1. How important I say it is. 2. How important the tasks it is blocking are. 3. How close to the due date it is.

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