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by egometry 11y ago
At IMVU we had feature toggles rolled into the A/B Experiment system. It proved to be a vital part of Continuous Deployment. Basically: Wrap every new feature in an Experiment Toggle. Deploy to production (once ready for 'non sa
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by egometry 11y ago
He dwells too much upon the age and cruft of email, but this article reads more like a layman learning for the first time about Hofstadter's law, general programming project mis-scoping, and dealing with technical debt he himself creat
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by egometry 11y ago
Webhooks are pretty pipe-y... but not every service implements them.
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by egometry 11y ago
Not necessarily. 3D modelling and sprite artistry are very different skills.
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by egometry 11y ago
Getaround ( http://Getaround.com ), San Francisco, CA, Onsite We're looking to expand our web team, so we're looking for several good full-stack engineers! The web portion of our product is largely Python/JS stack s
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by egometry 12y ago
Luckily, this isn't Europa, so we may attempt landings there.
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by egometry 13y ago
Pretty god. I've been recommending David Weekly's short e-book on this matter for years... specifically as mandatory reading for engineers taking their first or second job. Learn from our mistaaaaakes! http://www.amazo
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by egometry 13y ago
The site has a quality to it that the design world would frown upon, a roughness closer to tabloid design than Apple. I wonder if this "plays better" with some demographics? Feels more honest and less highfalutin? I've been
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by egometry 13y ago
These two posts are not incompatible. That 13.5% of kids needs to live somewhere. I'd bet that a heatmap would show "kid locuses" in some neighborhoods and "kid voids" in others.
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by egometry 13y ago
I see what you did there. (Shibboleth is one of my favorite pieces of esoteric vocabulary, but it's at least $10.)
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by egometry 14y ago
A lot of my silicon valley peers and I opted to live in the SF area and commute south for work because we found SF & Oakland far more entertaining on nights and weekends. As more and more tech jobs became available in SF itself, we star
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by egometry 15y ago
The 'expert' comment at the end is interesting and sad... speaks to the fact that any field that deals with non-obvious knowledge will basically be saturated with people who present themselves as knowledgeable but provide little utility.
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by egometry 15y ago
...what dating sites have trouble getting people to upload pictures?
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by egometry 15y ago
"Show HN" should be one of the nouns. ;)
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by egometry 15y ago
(I was at IMVU for almost four years, just left last week, and was originally on-boarded there during the last six months of Eric's stay.) The tone of testing everything, revalidating assumptions, and relentlessly refining process after mis
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by egometry 15y ago
For a very broad cross-section of design, I like to read http://designyoutrust.com
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by egometry 15y ago
A better question: is THE UNIVERSE lisp?
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by egometry 15y ago
This has been shown off a few times at SuperHappyDevHouse lightning talks doing livecoding demos. The ability to pause the game you're working on, edit attributes and resources, and resume the game is neat (and needs to be shown off better
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by egometry 16y ago
/* Don't believe the comments lies. */
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by egometry 16y ago
NPR. Always.
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by egometry 16y ago
A lot of the problems I saw at the most recent GDC seemed to stem from a lack of test adoption by game makers. It's encouraging to see a game development platform supporting and encouraging tests right off the bat.
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by egometry 16y ago
Annoying how? Too flippant? Not a fan of camel case?
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by egometry 16y ago
I have found SHDH to be the consistently least arrogant gathering of technical people I partake in. Arrogance (in my experience) tends to come from a small myopic subgroup where outside ideas are shunned. SHDH is far too big and has far to
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by egometry 16y ago
I moved from Austin to the Valley three years ago. When I came here, I missed Austin a lot. Now, although I know I'll move back there some day, I'm going to miss the Tech Culture of the valley. Austin's missing populated hackerspaces like
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by egometry 16y ago
If "startup-like hacker culture" means "engineering-driven", I doubt you'd have trouble filling seats. The thing that seems (in my experience) to drive engineering loyalty the most is making it known to the coders that their opinions are va
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by egometry 16y ago
I know of at least one YC game company: http://ycombinator.posterous.com/koduco-is-bringing-old-scho...
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by egometry 16y ago
189 comments (and counting) on a self-reflective post? The old chestnut about the media liking nothing more than talking about itself comes to mind.
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by egometry 16y ago
If you follow delicious hotlist, you'll find some of the unusable-but-pretty designs he mentions... but you'll find more of the pretty-but-usable ones. The usable get rewarded for their usability by being used.
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by egometry 16y ago
It makes sense in PHP. (Thinking in PHP is a terrible thing to do to your mind.) I believe OP is trying to say: Money is an incentive. But it isn't the only incentive. (== in php isn't the equality operator insomuch as the 'kinda like' op
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by egometry 16y ago
Communication is always an issue with larger companies. This is one of the awesome benefits of 0th/1st stage start-ups: the right hand always knows what the left hand is doing.

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