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by hox 13y ago
An example using a Raspberry Pi and SiriProxy, which actually handles more than just the "open" command from a year or so back: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=25118 .
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by hox 13y ago
You're not alone, but I agree that it is odd when the age of your life-stage peers trends much higher than your own. getting married early on and having kids seems to be something many people don't consider until their 30s now.
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by hox 13y ago
More than likely plex streaming, like roku has.
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by hox 13y ago
"Older engineers are not smart in the way that start-ups want them to be..." Sigh.
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Radial NCAA Bracket in D3.js(billmill.org)
70 points by hox 13y ago|18 comments
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by hox 13y ago
What was it about your standups that were hurting your team? I'm on the fence with daily standup meetings. they definitely can help a team communicate when there are a large number of external forces at play in a larger organization an
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by hox 13y ago
What about figure 9 that shows sustained 60+ hour work weeks drop productivity to 45% that of a 40 hour work week after week 4? Additionally, you are never going to find research that discussed the magical unicorns you describe and not aver
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by hox 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246035
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by hox 13y ago
The lack of remote opportunities at every Bay Area company, save for a few prominent ones, is disappointing. I live in the area but am frustrated by the commute, but also cannot afford the premium of living in SF. But I should stop before t
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by hox 13y ago
Seriously. I have a 3 week old right now and was taking BART in everyday. People who know they have contracted a highly contagious disease and decide to travel on mass transit the day after should really consider the consequences of their
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by hox 13y ago
One's core value cannot be quantified by an objective metric. We are not all computers.
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by hox 13y ago
We need far more discussion of this type in this forum, especially because the "FU money" and "technical master" roles are rare and difficult to achieve. These can be ideal scenarios for people, but we need to discuss th
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by hox 13y ago
Correct, but the site isn't following the terms of that license.
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by hox 13y ago
This really looks like maxmind city level, so... until we get confirmation from the dev on what db it is, assume this service can disappear at any moment due to license issues.
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by hox 13y ago
How often is the AS info updated? What source do you use, and how do you handle multi-homed IP addresses?
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by hox 13y ago
And presumably this service is just repackaging such an existing system. My old company had a tool to figure our what widely used geo db was used for these services (to properly judge it's value), but I no longer have access to this to
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by hox 13y ago
Interestingly enough, Alan Shreve gave a talk at RedisConf a couple of years back detailing something very similar used on the twilio stack to rate limit draining a queue: https://inconshreveable.com/talks.html
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by hox 13y ago
https://github.com/blog/1539-portland-maine-drinkup
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by hox 13y ago
you just described slashdot! also, you are crazy if you only take developers in the Bay Area seriously. I live here now, but that attitude completely blinds you to the vast majority of programming knowledge that exists on the planet.
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by hox 13y ago
Why correlate age to risk taking? And in this context, what is the risk of going to a twitter/Dropbox/box, which all have major funding and major revenue streams?
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by hox 13y ago
it really depends on the situation. of course I'm being g a bit dramatic; working long hours is really hard to not do as a founder, because it really is your life. but it's not 100% your employees' lives, and implied culture
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by hox 13y ago
You are correct, he never explicitly said anything about working long hours, but implied that only those that work "after 5" and don't indulge in entertainment such as netflix are motivated and "doers." I don't
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by hox 13y ago
Why does the perception exist that working longer hours equates to good forward progress? That unless you aren't willing to devote your every waking moment to an idea, you aren't a "doer?" This is such a ridiculous idea.
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by hox 13y ago
And? The article makes no mention of what each server is responsible for, how much redundancy is built in (this is AWS where nodes die on a whim), whether all of these servers are used for production or if there is a spread across dev and s
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by hox 13y ago
Brands have value to consumers, but countless multi-billion dollar industries lie in the glue you speak of. We do not all share the interest of fighting for advertising eyes.
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by hox 13y ago
The government is not the media. Terrorism headlines are sensational and grab attention, thus advertising dollars. Don't confuse the two.
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by hox 13y ago
Damn you I was going to come post your storyboard. :(
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by hox 13y ago
Yet go is a dependency nightmare! Dealing with more than one developer on a project with dependencies is incredibly difficult due to the insane decision to not support locking a dependency to a specific version.
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by hox 13y ago
My advice: 1. As an advocate for a practice, ensure you use that practice in all that you do. Advocate for it in every team meeting. Try to stress why it is important, and how it can directly make things better, instead of just "maki
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by hox 13y ago
The cost you speak of is directly trading software quality for "speedier" delivery. Heck, this was even posted just yesterday: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2013/34-70694.pdf . One of the big p

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