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by gumballhead 9y ago
The person's birthday is immutable and can't change. The age isn't a mutable property -- it depends on what time we're comparing their birthday to. So it should be computed by a function as he himself says. The val not b
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by gumballhead 9y ago
This was already true for the US as well. You can't fly with a laptop battery larger than 100Wh.
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by gumballhead 10y ago
Looks like this is related to https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792 , which is a bit different. So nevermind.
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by gumballhead 10y ago
Does anyone agreeing with this tweet know what bubble sort is? It's fine if you don't but if it's explained to you it should be pretty trivial. It's like saying "why should I have to write fizz buzz for an interview
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by gumballhead 10y ago
This happened at FarmLogs once. Our bug tracker started getting some really weird exceptions due to a Chinese company reverse engineering our app with the frontend code, which had our API key in it. We didn't really mind; it was just f
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by gumballhead 10y ago
I agree. How often do you need to change your RDBMS? Hopefully never. And how often do you see people wanting to rewrite everything in a new language or framework? A little more often. I think many developers are just not as comfortable wor
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by gumballhead 10y ago
GitHub renders tabs as 8 spaces. It is crazy and looks ridiculous.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
I also think that's how mobile databases for offline apps should work -- sort of as distributed slaves. If only the backend server has the authority to create unique ids, you end up juggling a complicated set of client and server based
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by gumballhead 11y ago
That's basically how Twitter Snowflake ( https://blog.twitter.com/2010/announcing-snowflake ) and Instragram ( http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha... ) did it
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by gumballhead 11y ago
Yes, it's not breeding for yield that makes them tasteless, it's breeding to make them hard so they can move through our industrial supply chain.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
Not that i love REST, but for an app that needs to work offline, boring ass REST is a pretty straight forward way to sync the mobile and remote databases.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
WTF are native mobile clients supposed to do with an endpoint that returns HTML?
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by gumballhead 11y ago
There is no situation that the cops can't make worse. Don't call the cops. Don't ever ever call the cops.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
I feel like I've read an article like this every so often for the past 10 years. I run Linux on my laptop, but it's often a pain in the ass. To be fair though, all operating systems suck in their own ways.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
Coffescript is a powerful language meant for beginners, but you really need some experience with it to understand its quirks and that a lot of it should be avoided. So basically, it's JavaScript with a compile step that doesn't d
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by gumballhead 11y ago
That's an excellent assessment, and we're actively developing our product in that direction. You can already upload your machine data files to create yield maps in FarmLogs, and this year we released the Flow, a hardware device th
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by gumballhead 11y ago
Even if it is internal, you're just making things harder on yourself if you go against convention for no reason. Most client networking libraries have abstractions built upon those conventions. Like jquerys $.ajax: it returns a promise
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by gumballhead 11y ago
I hope and feel like they'll back kotlin when it hits 1.0 regardless of what happens here. We can't be stuck with a half assed java 7 on Android forever.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
No
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by gumballhead 11y ago
I majored in econ, and could not agree more. Economics is a social science: it's the study of social behavior under constraints. To any reasonable person, that doesn't sound like something you should try solving with an equation.
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by gumballhead 11y ago
From what I've seen, Java's GC is smart enough to clean up circular references. That actually surprised me. The main danger I've seen in Android is that there is a lot of passing around Contexts as a dependency for accessing
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by gumballhead 11y ago
Sounds a lot like heroku data clips?
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by gumballhead 11y ago
We've had some really amazing interns and ask a lot from them. As Akshay says, they basically have the same responsibilities and opportunities to make an impact as full timers. It's awesome that they get a lot out of it too. We&#x
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by gumballhead 11y ago
Farmlogs is hiring designers ;) https://farmlogs.com/jobs/designer/
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by gumballhead 12y ago
I upvoted this comment because this is all very true and gets to be very expensive as enrollment rates increase, which was also mentioned in the article. But, despite all of this expense, I don't feel like I got a great education while
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by gumballhead 12y ago
I think that was the point of the podcast. It started as a typical and shitty CakePHP / Backbone CRUD app like everything else. You don't need much to get started. There's a lot more in there now, but it's still built ar
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by gumballhead 12y ago
Groupies
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by gumballhead 12y ago
Maybe check out Farmlogs. It sounds like you could be a great fit. We're in Ann Arbor so not too far away either. https://farmlogs.com/jobs/front-end-engineer/
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by gumballhead 12y ago
Right? Does this seriously need to be a js library?
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by gumballhead 12y ago
What's makes that better is that Homejoy is rated 2.7 on glass door. To be fair though, I don't have an account on there so I couldn't read past the first page of reviews and most of the negatives were contractors.

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