embwbam

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How long can one handle crunch time before becoming unproductive?
2 points by embwbam 9y ago|1 comments
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by embwbam 9y ago
It's not that these are the best reasons to change the law. It's that these are the reasons everyone can agree on
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by embwbam 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they mean lie down for 30 minutes. I'll often only get a brief period of mental shut down on a 35 minute timer, but it helps a lot. Think of it as rebooting your machine :) Also, you can learn to fall asleep faster
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by embwbam 9y ago
I've been playing with it for about 5 years, started the local Haskell meetup, etc. I used it on a side project that reached beta in 2015, and on a startup at the beginning of 2016. Starting at the end of 2016 I started using it on a b
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by embwbam 10y ago
Absolutely true. You can learn a lot from contracting / consulting. Advancing one's career definitely doesn't mean working harder at one's current job or trying to get promoted. I'd recommend you try side gigs. Pick
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by embwbam 10y ago
Get to a level of skill and track record where it's easy to find companies willing to hire you. Then, when negotiating, give up significant salary to reduce your time commitment. It works better with smaller companies (Google, etc are
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by embwbam 10y ago
What I usually do in this case is redline the contract and sign it. (Meaning, edit the clauses you don't like in an obvious fashion. Tell them you've done this.) They will often not want to go to the trouble of going back and fort
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by embwbam 10y ago
With preferential voting we would have more than two candidates. FPTP causes the two party system
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by embwbam 10y ago
I have a small contracting business. (2 employees) I spend some negotiating power on being able to choose what technology I use.
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by embwbam 10y ago
I like purescript a lot. But the elm community has won me over. It's well designed and productive.
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by embwbam 10y ago
When your team is composed of node developers. I would choose it over Python or Ruby, because Typescript and Flow are great type systems. Source: lead node dev / CTO since it came out. Currently using Haskell for all new projects.
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by embwbam 10y ago
This is why designing the interface in a language with a powerful type system provides the same quoted benefit of TDD. It helps you think about the interface before you move to implementation. In my experience, using a type system to do thi
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by embwbam 10y ago
My rule of thumb is wait to generalize something until it is repeated 3 times. If I try before I can't really know what the problem is. But if it's something that's repeated across projects, sure I tackle it right away, but t
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by embwbam 10y ago
I don't of course, sorry. HN has always subconsciously had a masculine tone in my mind. I'm projecting
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by embwbam 10y ago
Like we only now see how bad large OO systems can be? :D. Seriously though I think that people are becoming interested in FP because they see the limitations of their current tools. That's what happened for me anyway. Also I don't
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by embwbam 10y ago
I think he means it won't happen quickly. If you have resources you'll be able to respond to the changing world.
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by embwbam 10y ago
They fixed the input lag a few releases ago. I switched from neovim two months ago and it can keep up with my mad keystrokes now. It still takes a while to launch, but that isn't as important to me as performance once it is running.
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by embwbam 10y ago
I just switched from Wealthfront to Betterment, because their software does a good job of helping you with this. It asks you what you're using the money for, when you'll need it, and about your tax situation. It'll automatica
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by embwbam 10y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with working harder. The startups are working on the weekend because they are succeeding, they aren't succeeding because they are working on the weekends. When you are in a startup that has fo
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by embwbam 10y ago
Reject consumerism, and use your extra resources for personal fulfillment, health, and fixing the world. It doesn't require everyone to cooperate, just us and those like us. Especially if we can capture the imagination of other similar
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by embwbam 10y ago
How does Kubernetes compare with Docker? Does it compete with swarm, or which parts of the docker tools does it overlap with?
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by embwbam 10y ago
I can't speak for the parent, but that's about my target too. $1.3M / 300 (safe draw-down rate) = $4333/mo. Our family spends $4500 / mo in Salt Lake City to live comfortably. That doesn't include travel or exp
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by embwbam 10y ago
I've found this to be the case. While RethinkDB has many features to help you drill in to nested content, you'll end up missing document-level features fairly soon and want to split things up.
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by embwbam 10y ago
It hasn't been bad updating a codebase to keep up because of the type checker. It usually takes 30 minutes to an hour for a medium-sized project.
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by embwbam 10y ago
I had a similar experience. I'm a great coder with good communication and leadership skills. In 2009 I co-founded a hip startup in the TV space. I had experience as a senior / architect prior to this, but this was my first time as
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by embwbam 10y ago
Maybe the first person to do so, sure. One of the reasons you know that never works (besides physics :) is that people have tried it.
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by embwbam 10y ago
as a productive intermediate+ haskeller, I found the first chapter very confusing. Try your best but just move on to the second and see if it gets any better
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by embwbam 10y ago
Evan wants to design Elm as thoughtfully as he can, and has been deliberately resisting community evolution. Eventually it will get too big and too useful, and he'll lose the ability to make big breaking changes easily. So he's tr
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by embwbam 10y ago
Bold move, but a good one, I think. I've been considering starting my students (just friends I mentor) on Elm for a while, but it's only this year I've heard of local companies hiring for Elm here in Salt Lake City.
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by embwbam 11y ago
Would it be good for me to eat more fats if I'm not willing to go all the way to ketosis? I'm healthy, maybe 5 pounds overweight, I run, cycle and rock climb. I eat a good amount of vegetables and fruit, eggs, meat, decent amount

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