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by jballanc 11y ago
Given that past coders for the NYTimes have included the creator of CoffeScript/Backbone and the current maintainer of ClojureScript/Om, it seems (at least anecdotally) that whomever is in charge of staffing the dev team is doing
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by jballanc 11y ago
It's funny to think that a mere 20 or so years ago, ethernet wasn't even a foregone conclusion. The first time I connected a computer to a network, I had to make sure I was plugging into the ethernet and not the token ring. Now he
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It's EGCS all over again.
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> The other way to do this is just to value equity at $0. I've worked for startups that gave me stock options, and I've worked for consultancies that have done profit sharing. In every case, I came away with $0. Options can be
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by jballanc 11y ago
They're not GitHub. i.e. The chance of GitHub and your GitLab instance on DO going down simultaneously is very slim. Spend an extra $10/month and you can set up another DO server in another data-center, and reduce the odds of si
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A GitLab droplet on Digital Ocean should run you only $10/month and literally sets up in ~10 min.
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For everyone who is currently loosing productivity, perhaps your time might be well spent reviewing `git daemon`: http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Git-Daemon
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One trick that I've learned (though I still have trouble routinely applying it myself) for these situations is: less is more. That is, as engineers we tend to want details. All the details. We want to know what happened, why it happe
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by jballanc 11y ago
"Warfare" in cyberspace doesn't worry me as much as "Mutually Assured Destruction" in cyberspace does. With conventional warfare, MAD is relatively straight-forward: pick a large open area on friendly soil, detonate
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by jballanc 12y ago
What the article really missed on mentioning is ETOPS (which is part of the success story of the 787). If you look at the total distance, there are very few routes that can only be serviced by a 747 or A380. Historically, though, many mor
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by jballanc 12y ago
For those not familiar... Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the commander at Gallipoli and later founder of the Turkish republic. During the initial invasion, he famously told one of his units: "Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am order
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I worked for Apple during Snow Leopard and Lion, and I was still excited for his reviews post-launch. To his immense credit, he would always manage to cover some new feature or other thing I didn't know about, and I wrote parts of t
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I definitely don't think it's just you. Once, when I lived in the valley, I was at a restaurant on one side of the street and wanted to go to a shop across the street, but it was the middle of the block and I didn't feel like
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by jballanc 12y ago
To expand on this a bit more: while all three implementations are "Clojure", since Clojure is a hosted language (i.e. doesn't specify/implement its own VM) and embraces this fact, there are subtle differences between the
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Reader Conditionals in Clojure(dev.clojure.org)
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Purple carrots (well, we call the "black" carrots) are fairly common in Turkey too. Additionally, Turks have a beverage made from fermented red carrots called Şalgam ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Şalgam )...i
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That makes complete sense when you consider that IEEE 754 is all about approximating values, though. It is possible that the value you're trying to represent is smaller than the smallest values actually representable by IEEE 754 floa
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> I agree with you example, in that case it is useful. It's just that it is a pain in the ass in so many other cases. It's a pain, because what we really want in such cases is a datatype server, not a relational database. For a
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I'd argue it's less about composability, and more about laziness (in the computational sense). As pointed out elsewhere, if you have all of the information needed to generate a dynamic query, it's often not a huge leap from a
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by jballanc 12y ago
Just wanted to add that if you don't regularly have the free-time to commit to a full game of Go, or if you simply prefer to play at a slower pace, you might also check out http://www.dragongoserver.net . They have a variet
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by jballanc 12y ago
What? No. Political debates occur when everyone involved agrees that they're at "A" and they want to get to "B", but they disagree on the best path to take. A technical debate is when there is a fundamental disagree
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Open source competition can be good when the differences are primarily technical (e.g. GCC vs LLVM/Clang). When the differences are primarily political (e.g. GCC vs EGCS), then the competition serves only as a distraction. As a mostly-
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by jballanc 12y ago
My thoughts exactly. I think anyone not familiar with the history of GCC/EGCS would do well to read up a bit...the current node.js/io.js situation almost an exact parallel. I also hope that Joyent takes note that EGCS was probably
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There are a number of examples of this architectural style, but much better preserved, along the side streets near the Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia). That said...I'm honestly not the least bit surprised that many of these places are falling
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Most modern "business practices" are little more than hedges. Things like focus groups, market fit, etc. are not recipes to build amazing products, but rather ways to avoid making really bad products. It's not that being auth
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My favorite story of Jonny Ive happened in the summer of 2008. At the time I was in the student internship program at Apple, and as part of the program each of the executives at Apple would sit down in Town Hall for a chat with that year&#x
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Right there in the first paragraph (emphasis added): > The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US economy. (This is using the purchasing power parity metric, which incorporates di
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by jballanc 12y ago
I'm currently in Ankara, but you can reach out to the guys at http://webbox.io and they can point you in the right direction. If you work with JS, check out the http://www.meetup.com/jstanbul/ communit
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I think you underestimate the military's ability to solve the equations for ballistic trajectories. Don't forget, the very first digital computers existed for the sole purpose of calculating firing tables. They've been at thi
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Other places to check: Üskudar, Kadiköy, Maltepe, and Kartal...pretty much anywhere along Bağdat street will still have a lively atmosphere, good access to transportation, and low er rents. The Asian side is actually growing faster than th

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