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by jacobobryant 8y ago
My wife was recently accepted into Lambda School. From my research, I think it'll be a good deal. Your two points are spot on IMO: better education due to incentive alignment at the cost of higher payment if it works. But I think I giv
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by jacobobryant 8y ago
For releasing, I wasn't thinking so much about the actual act of deploying the code. I meant getting code to a state where it's ready to be shipped and used by customers. It's important to break yourself out of the perfection
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by jacobobryant 8y ago
I also love music as recovery. I haven't picked up my clarinet in a while, but guitar has worked out very conveniently for me.
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by jacobobryant 8y ago
Yes, my experience is mainly just performing. I haven't done any composition. Maybe if I had, I would've come up with some different analogies. I think the analogy to playing music still works, though. You iterate on a piece by pr
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by jacobobryant 8y ago
Also, for the purposes of the article, you can even just discard the music analogy and focus on the four parts: you need some theory, you need time to work on your own projects, you need time to work on production code, you need to actually
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70 points by jacobobryant 8y ago|27 comments
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by jacobobryant 8y ago
Agreed, the funds will probably only make a difference if each OSS project gets at least enough to sustain a developer full-time. Otherwise the authors still have to maintain their day jobs. This was a great read: https://www.for