gen220

56 ms·

751.
by gen220 5y ago
If your company is small, I don't think you should be using git submodules at all. My last place was about 10 years young, 150 engineers, and was still working within a single git repo without submodules. There is a non-zero amount of
752.
by gen220 5y ago
Each insurance company offers a myriad of different policies, and they change a little bit every year. Brokers will educate you on specific plan mechanics but will avoid explicit recommendations because they don’t want to take blame for cho
753.
by gen220 5y ago
It's a cool feature, but it does require touching the trackpad/mouse!
754.
by gen220 5y ago
Re: cmd+tab issues, consider trying cmd+space+(first letter or two of the app), followed by cmd+`. Especially for touch typists, I think it's faster than cmd+tab: doesn't require you to use your mental "app icon classifier&qu
755.
by gen220 5y ago
This is a lot like hiring for great iOS / android developers. And also great web developers, FWIW. IME, the most value-generative and knowledgeable frontend/UI people I've worked with have all had really "weird" bac
756.
by gen220 5y ago
I think Go works so well with Bazel, because Bazel's concept of versions and modular dependency trees is very similar to Go's. Python and JS have come a long way in this regard, but depending on the libraries you're using, th
757.
by gen220 5y ago
I think part of the reason the Flask extension ecosystem is so weak, is that most problems solved by an extension have solutions that are relatively small / cheap to build in-house. These things are difficult both to depend upon extern
758.
by gen220 5y ago
Ah yeah, fair enough. The places I worked at-scale had their own o-auth setups (built mostly with FOSS) wired up to flask with some relatively small libraries [1]. I personally wouldn't want my web framework to implement login/pas
759.
by gen220 5y ago
Question for the legal-minded folk here. Is this "theft" illegal in the criminal sense? It's exploiting an unintended hole in software, but it's technically following the smart contract faithfully, albeit against the bet
760.
by gen220 5y ago
What problems do you run into with Flask (presumably + SQLAlchemy)? IME, this stack has been pretty simple both at-scale and at-home. At scale, my experience is mostly using it in REST APIs serving a react frontend. At-home, I've used
761.
by gen220 5y ago
They sue pirates where the LTV of the litigation is greater than the CAC. So, they tend to go after businesses with predictable and large incomes, that are dependent on music, to varying degrees, for generating that income. Peloton, for exa
762.
by gen220 5y ago
Good insight! Let me zoom all the way out on the abstraction scale of what you said, and let me know if it makes sense. There are some segments of the music industry that are specialized, and capital-intensive or labor-intensive (merchandis
763.
by gen220 5y ago
Looking for pointers on a music industry question. For an up and coming musician (e.g. Billie Eilish in December 2015, after it was clear she had potential and after she had signed with an A&R in January 2016, but well before she signed
764.
by gen220 5y ago
I agree coming up with a good backup strategy is an essential ingredient to long-term-sustainable self-hosting. Speaking for myself, I don't have the goal of 100% detaching myself from "the grid", so to speak. I still want to
765.
by gen220 5y ago
See also https://marc.merlins.org/linux/talks/ProdNG-LinuxCon2013/Pro... which has some interesting history and context from that time. In paper form (more gory details): https://www.usenix.org&#x2
766.
by gen220 5y ago
No problem! If you search around for "Debian vs BSD", you'll find more exhaustive explanations [1], but it mostly reduces to the fact that BSD is more coherent & organized than GNU/Linux; it's more feature-rich
767.
by gen220 5y ago
Google has used debian as their base. Netflix uses a BSD flavor (I forget which) as their CDN cache. FB used CentOS, not sure what they use today since CentOS is EOL'd. Debian (and, formerly, CentOS) is a good standard: it occupies a s
768.
by gen220 5y ago
I'm not familiar with this study in particular, but there's another similar one for the elite NYC public high schools, which have historically had a similar "halo effect" attributed to them. They found that the student c
769.
by gen220 5y ago
This is a great call-out. To put it another way, if the university system was a public company, there would be activist shareholders advocating that the company be split. Each of these entities would perform better without the distractions
770.
by gen220 5y ago
If avoiding sale-of-ownership to a capitalistic entity is a strategic goal, incorporating as a non-profit is one tactic. Among other protections, ownership of non-profits in the US (501c3) cannot be purchased by for-profit entities. A 501c3
771.
by gen220 5y ago
I think there are a few common themes, from my perspective: 1. Be popular "for the people": as in, you're used by and contributed to by a passionate community. (Wikipedia, vim/emacs, pretty much any gnu project) Commerci
772.
by gen220 5y ago
If you look at the `network` tab in developer tools, you'll see every http request made by your browser, and the headers that are sent along with the request. e.g. when you hit the `reply` button in HN, it'll make some HTTP reques
773.
by gen220 5y ago
I currently do this with HDMIs (I somehow make do with a measley 4K monitors). I assumed such a thing existed for thunderbolt but hadn't looked into it; it looks like you're right that this market is underdeveloped at present. Hop
774.
by gen220 5y ago
Can you not use a thunderbolt switch? In my home office, I've got two monitors and a switch to flick input between a personal machine and a work machine.
775.
by gen220 5y ago
Yeah, I built out some models for this as a weekend project, based on my limited knowledge as a bandcamp consumer. It's a surprisingly-complex domain! Simply modelling all of the relationships is a fun experiment. i.e. so-and-so is the
776.
by gen220 5y ago
I took a poke around; it looks like the source code is a little dead and incomplete (e.g. I see mentions of paypal, but no imports of paypal libraries or targeting paypal apis). Some of the text (like business rules) are genuine insight&#x2
777.
by gen220 5y ago
It'd be reasonable to structure the development company as a non-profit, to prevent an outcome like Bandcamp's. I think it may be possible to build the marketplace in a purely FOSS-y way, but it would be illegal to operate it with
778.
by gen220 5y ago
I have the secondhand POV of a middle class Russian friend who grew up in Moscow and went to US for university, and keeps very up to date with domestic politics and economy. Did not expect full-scale invasion, has many generalized and speci
779.
by gen220 5y ago
Wireguard, with dynamically-updated DNS resolution to a residential IP is very solid for a free tier and has the key benefit of zero third-party (i.e. not controlled by you) dependencies, other than the IP provider and the DNS resolver, whi
780.
by gen220 5y ago
The picture is a bit unclear, with the data we have available. For example, the NYT is paying journalists more than they ever have, historically (this is why so many big names are working for them in the last few years). They also are emplo

More ›