jasonwocky

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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Just because an industry supports multiple players doesn't make it a commodity. Commoditization is what happens when the product is widely seen as "good enough" that consumers don't value most of the industry's inno
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
I read the parent post three times. I didn't see any generalizations in its text at all.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> The next time I go to a client who wants a scalable international web application that needs... well, the same stuff that's in pretty much every other scalable international web application. Why shouldn't I run it up on a fra
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
"No matter which you choose, whether to use a framework or not to use a framework, you are destined to end up regretting your decision." - A smart ex-colleague of mine.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> Meh. I've had nightmares from a movie once in my life. Some of us weren't so lucky.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Depends on the use case. For automated testing, if I'm developing service A, then locally I'd usually I'd want to stub B & C with something like Mountebank ( http://www.mbtest.org/ ) (though I've never
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> FWIW, I've found that building a robust and deep "API Gateway" is the key to making SOA/Microservices work. Otherwise, you end up with duplication and latency. The risk here is that the API gateway gets too big, and
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Decisions based on average (a/k/a "mean") salaries, however, are only relying on a small part of the picture. Personally I'd like to see standard deviations accounted for in here. I have the feeling that it is easie
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> Check out the size of the dogs being walked near Central Park. Where do these people live?! True, it's NYC is an expensive place to try and mix in all of the creature comforts of suburban life. The big dog, the fancy car, lots of
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> This just makes it that much more likely that institutions will hesitate before offering free access to materials online. No, it doesn't "just" do that.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> "The results are remarkably consistent across all sectors and all forms of privatisation and outsourcing: there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient" Exactly this. I've spent y
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
This sounds reasonable, though if you hire the Best-Programmer-Available regardless of the presence of a specific technical skill, I'd be surprised if they really take a year to get firing on all cylinders. Maybe a month or two at most
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> When interviewing for a specific role, you have to think very hard about what it is you are trying to do - and don't just fall back on generic cut and paste questions. I think this is true, but it raises a question about "hir
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Hah! Shows what you know. I've got a 500 on my laptop, too ;)
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
I don't think you read danr's logic correctly, but I could be wrong. I interpreted it as "The reason women want to be treated differently [from how they are NOW] is that the world is a sexist place." Not, "The reaso
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
An Amiga cast as the wrong thing to buy? Heaven forbid.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
What's it matter how he'd fit in most Valley startups today? He was who he needed to be for his time. Not to mention, what happens to "most" Valley startups, anyways?
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Sure, I just thought that the parent was only presenting one side of the math.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> For example: the pyramids, cannot be build by one man, but wouldn't have existed if it wasn't for central leadership. Because they were valueless items to the thousands of people that it took to slave and die creating them? Y
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Well, to be fair, there's also a chance of getting more value.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
And so what then? You use it because it has traction and because other professionals use it? Or because, as many professionals find, it's the most capable tool for the job at ahnd?
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
It's an interface for professionals. It takes awhile to learn, but when you do, you're rewarded with quite efficient access to the tools given how much Photoshop is capable of.
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Not to discount the value added in this case, but remember that the report is possibly biased in the same way that many "We rewrote it and now its 10x as awesome as it was before!" reports are. Rewrites almost always tend to res
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
I don't really follow many of the author's objections. I think he or she left out a lot of reasoning. "This code reminds me of a simple server-side scripting language such as JSP or ASP that’s used to fill HTML templates wit
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
> I believe judges have compelled people to surrender decryption keys. Doesn't seem to be a widespread practice. As far as I can see, the only Federal Appeals court case to have confronted the issue ruled against compelling a suspec
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Absolutely. I have a certain level of friendliness to random strangers. But customers of any kind? I sincerely care about their experience of dealing with me and my company. So if I come off as more friendly when dealing with them, I'd
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
Same here. I work from home and often enough have a 2-year old wander into my office. Talk about random interruptions. But I don't notice skipping more than a beat. Maybe it's because I don't tend to work with really bad code
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
How in the world do you know that the friendliness is fake?
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
It might come under fair use, but can this site afford to make that case? It does seem like an awful lot of one show to be using. They'd probably be better off if they pulled this mix of concepts from multiple sources. There's r
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by jasonwocky 12y ago
A colleague of mine has often said, "Regardless of whether you choose to use a framework or not, eventually you'll be regretting your decision."

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