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by holman 3y ago
After using it since launch, the displays are still startling every time I step back to really look at them. They look so good . There's a few things that could be improved upon — let me look at my phone, or project a digital display
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by holman 3y ago
I wouldn’t deny that Microsoft brings a lot of friction and problems to things within GitHub, but you also shouldn’t underestimate that GitHub itself is doing a lot of this on their own merit. Regardless of the parent company, the GitHub or
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by holman 3y ago
Ruby was never really the issue at GitHub; there were plenty of other concerns that ranked much higher on the list. Ultimately it scaled well.
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by holman 4y ago
Definitely was- we didn’t have an office for the first few years. Picked up the first office in 2010, and it was a big component of work life since then (even though the numbers were primarily ⅔ remote throughout).
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by holman 4y ago
It was announced this morning- during the initial Microsoft layoffs they were told GitHub wasn't impacted.
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The Kobayashi Maru of comparing dates with times(zachholman.com)
132 points by holman 5y ago|117 comments
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by holman 5y ago
Did you know that the first release of Rails was actually closer to when the Pyramids were first built than they were to us today?
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by holman 5y ago
To be fair, Rails 2.3.18 was released two days before Docker itself was, so OP might have some general issues to fix up first, hah. :)
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by holman 5y ago
Super stoked to see you launching after working on it for so long! I still think Hubot (and bots in general, a la GitHub's internal usage) is severely undervalued. GitHub's usage of internal chat was pretty groundbreaking, which I
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by holman 5y ago
I'm a pretty big fan of it, too. Kind of like that bouncier rubberized feel. That said... it really needs an escape key, hah.
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by holman 5y ago
His HN response is pretty baffling to read. Saying he's "no longer the struggling kid from Jordan" who now needs to "be kind and model better behavior" is oddly focused on him, but it also kind of points to... peopl
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by holman 5y ago
I run a decent chunk of heavy work loads, and tbh the main things I notice on the new Air are all of the other niceties: instantly awake, ludicrous battery life, no fans. I think those aspects are going to be much more noticeable than man
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by holman 6y ago
Thanks! Really appreciate it. :)
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by holman 6y ago
> SpaceX loses another Starship prototype Not true. They know exactly where most of the pieces landed!
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by holman 6y ago
Not sure there's a particular spreadsheet or anything of investors on HN, but it could be a fun idea. For what it's worth- I'm an angel investor (past life: early GitHub, advisor at GitLab). I'm also starting an angel sy
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by holman 6y ago
If you're using Home Assistant, Room Assistant is a lovely project to repurpose Raspberry Pis to handle BLE tracking as well: https://www.room-assistant.io
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by holman 6y ago
fwiw, the healthcare joke was tongue-in-cheek for the discussion which, ironically enough, was also about Republicans in 2014. They were discussing how many on the right compared Obamacare to Nazism and how disgusting it was to make that co
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US government bans DJI over ties to Chinese government(theverge.com)
11 points by holman 6y ago|1 comments
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by holman 6y ago
Yeah, definitely. When I was at GitHub we were seeing secrets getting lifted from public pushes and tried within 7 seconds or so, if I recall correctly, and this was five years ago. This was a big reason why there’s a real scanning API now
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by holman 6y ago
The “crapper” is actually not named after my 5x great uncle Thomas Crapper; “crap” has been around for ages as slang. Interesting nonetheless, though!
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by holman 7y ago
> I'm not sure who invented [fenced code blocks], but I definitely know that it is widely used because GitHub Flavored Markdown made it so and I am grateful for that. I’m pretty sure Vicent Martí (@vmg) was the originator of them. I
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by holman 7y ago
This is a pretty interesting writeup, even though I don’t necessarily agree with everything. Makes you think, at least. I’ve been out of version control for a bit, and GitHub itself for quite a bit longer, but this part was interesting to m
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by holman 7y ago
I’d be interested if the fit is better when it comes to running. I actually don’t have much of a problem with AirPods now that I got some Earhoox ($10 little silicon arms that wrap into your ear, which sounds skeevy when I type it out right
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by holman 7y ago
Interesting part about the IPO: they've been very public for years about IPOing, and about the specific date: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/being-a-public-company/
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by holman 8y ago
Really love this post. My favorite line is: > Every month of less than 20% growth should have been a red flag. I think that's pretty insightful. 20% growth is great for a normal business, of course; for a VC-backed startup it can sh
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by holman 8y ago
Withdrawal is a really crap thing to go through, but I also want to point out that sometimes it can be a fairly non-event, too. I tapered off of Zoloft for weeks, and I really didn’t feel much of a change. Going slow and deliberate (if you
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by holman 8y ago
> Also, what is "success"? Taking $350MM in investment and not showing profitability That's an odd thing to say. Most companies that take investment aren't profitable- that's kind of the point of taking VC: you w
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by holman 8y ago
Eh, the React team in particular is pretty even-handed when it comes to what goes into CRA. This release, for example, adds support for Apollo, which goes head-to-head with Relay. I’ve been pretty happy with the team’s thoughtful approach t
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by holman 8y ago
People. Success breeds some weird shit, especially if you were close to people, which happens a lot in startups with a high work ethic. Friends turn into strangers, friends turn into enemies. Some make more money than you — a lot more — and
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by holman 8y ago
This book series fundamentally changed how I view the question of life in the Universe. I really loved the series. I can see why some others weren’t into it, but I think it’s been my favorite books I’ve read in years and years.

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