estefan

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   by estefan 11y ago

   Yeah. Just writing their own custom stuff. It's partly about standardisation. Using a standard web framework means transferable skills which makes it easier to find and on-board staff. Devops is the formalisation of the same thing for
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   by estefan 11y ago

   At one company our "unix guru" didn't bother to set up anything like ganglia so when the server's disk got full and brought down the product he looked like an idiot... Maybe it's good vs bad but it happens. In the p
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   by estefan 11y ago

   x 5 developers, + unknown extras with an enterprise giant... There's a good reason you don't hear of many new startups running on a .NET stack.
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   by estefan 11y ago

   I don't want to be a downer, but devops is definitely NOT just a new name for being a sysadmin. We've actively recruited for people who are not old fashioned jump-on-a-box-and-make-hot-changes sysadmins. They need to understand au
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   by estefan 11y ago

   WTF? Two completely unrelated stories in one. I quit the Guardian last month and this is one reason why...
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   by estefan 11y ago

   From experience though, I have worked at one place for 5% (which did nothing to motivate me), and one for 30%, which also did close to nothing to motivate me. I think 50/50 is the way forward. You could write an IOU from the company
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   by estefan 11y ago

   > Next time when you permanently give shares upfront (no vesting period) be very sure what you are getting into and even consider formalizing the nature of the relationship and the level of expectation in exchange for those shares in wri
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   by estefan 11y ago

   Looks like an alternative to parquet - http://parquet.apache.org/
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   by estefan 11y ago

   and in less use of the <marquee> tag.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    ~5 years depending on who you're targetting.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    > "Your kid died? Well, what if BOTH your kids died? You have a lack of perspective..." Glass half full vs glass half empty. The hedonic treadmill has nothing to do with it. It's about being thankful and making the best of
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    by estefan 11y ago

    Definitely agree. Try taking a job that pays minimum wage (if you have one), or work in a shop, as a builder, or find friends who have to work all hours to survive and you'll realise how damned lucky you are.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    I don't use FB...
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    by estefan 11y ago

    Ridley's The Red Queen was a fascinating follow up after having read this. They both completely changed my world view.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    That's fine. I just don't want to be distracted by ads.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    That sucks. I searched for ages but found nothing. Oh well, it only took me a couple of days to replace it, so it's not the end of the world.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    I was reading an article just the other day saying how the web has made people feel the need to self censor, "apologise in advance", add disclaimers to everything they write, etc. because they're afraid to offend anyone these
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    by estefan 11y ago

    The day I see ads on whatsapp is the day I leave.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    I'm using JSON for my new socketIO server. You can put anything on the wire with socketIO, so messages are small and simple. Plus the clients seem really good too. They'll auto reconnect, etc. if the server goes away. I haven&#x27
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    by estefan 11y ago

    Perhaps the ejabberd support is bad or poorly documented? Either way I just couldn't find how to do it. All I could find for MAM was logging to flat files.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    A few weeks ago I replaced a XMPP chat architecture with socketio. It's so much better for my needs (website with realtime chat). There were 2 main reasons in the end: - No way to log all messages sent to a database so that users could
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    by estefan 11y ago

    Thanks
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    by estefan 11y ago

    Snappy website. Is that on github as well? I'd like to have a poke around and see how it's made.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    I've been playing with a scala implementation called sangria ( http://sangria-graphql.org/ ). The type safety of Scala has really been helpful for refactorings and creating the schema. I can't imagine the mess I&#x2
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    by estefan 11y ago

    This guy's gold! Someone can learn react and angular but he thinks they're incapable of learning some accessibility attributes? I wonder how competent he is with angular/react...
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    by estefan 11y ago

    But obviously when you use your reset.css that all goes out the window anyway... I thought it was some semantic thing for screen readers.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    I hate Google's approach to authentication. Amazon got it so right with two simple strings and environment variables. By contrast Google have a mess of Oauth2 certificates, central config files, and a bunch of programs that seem to loo
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    by estefan 11y ago

    Agreed, but ES6 is a big improvement. I've just gone back to it and I must admit, it's not actually too bad now if you use babel + webpack.
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    by estefan 11y ago

    It might not be about code reuse, but there will be things that can be ported, just not the DOM stuff (e.g. redux/flux logic, other UI-independent business logic). I get the whole "because it's fun" reason - just make
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    by estefan 11y ago

    All these languages du jour should go out of their way to answer the question: "why bother?". 10x faster than react. OK cool. Except unless it has something like react native it's irrelevant if you might want to write an app