eskil

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by eskil 10y ago
One suggestion you can make to the founders is early exercise. Some companies offer this. That at least gives the employer the benefit that people put money on the table and "invest" in the company by buying their options before t
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by eskil 10y ago
Here's a relevant post from Basho about that and their take on it. http://basho.com/posts/technical/erlang-at-basho-five-years-...
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by eskil 10y ago
Possibly, like driving for Uber/Lyft, shopping for Instacart or dogwalking in the time between since they have their own cars at the depot. But the problem would still be the extremely long day. Ending with them having to drive a bus a
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by eskil 10y ago
Robert, I think it's great you comment here now and then. It's awesome to occasionally get access to the original authors of erlang. The proposed refactor in the article doesn't look like idiomatic erlang to me. How would you
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by eskil 10y ago
Here's one, https://eng.uber.com/dockerizing-mysql/
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by eskil 12y ago
Obligatory joke about danish summers goes here.
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by eskil 12y ago
Did your drivers ed/school teach you how to drive with a hood that's flipped up at highway speed? Mine didn't, then it happened to me. (but yeah you're right)
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by eskil 13y ago
I worked for Andy Hertzfeld once, it was awesome in many ways, but the anecdotes... so good.
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by eskil 13y ago
Mensch, an older code/terminal font. http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html
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by eskil 13y ago
You wouldn't want to rely on a happening upon a cargo ship anyway. You'd rely on an EPIRB.
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by eskil 13y ago
Amex has a credit card called Blue Sky. Now I kind of want one.
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by eskil 16y ago
I'm having flashbacks to the nineties and working with CORBA and it's C bindings. "Those who do not know history are doomed to reinvent CORBA_Environment." (Although there are few new details, such as the aborting if the dtor determines it
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by eskil 16y ago
What's the type for "can't be bothered with personality tests" ? If you were a pizza, which topping would you have ?