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by jes5199 11y ago
OK, so apparently you decided not to try to entice people with the culture or benefits, either. Does the company have a recognizable name with a strong reputation? Because that's the only thing left that could convince someone to apply
902.
by jes5199 11y ago
oh! Well, I like reading many little diffs more than I like reading a few big diffs, but the distinction is purely aesthetic. A team should try to agree on an aesthetic, but otherwise, ::shrug::.
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by jes5199 11y ago
no-ff is useful when you need to revert the whole merge - the merge commit delimits the boundaries of what used to be a separate branch. If you fast-forward, then you have to use your human brain to figure out how many commits to revert and
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by jes5199 11y ago
Those are good techniques and I advocate them strongly. Even so, I see value in very short-lived branches for code review. Ideally a branch exists for about four hours before it is merged to master.
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by jes5199 11y ago
all code is release code
906.
by jes5199 11y ago
when you look at the PR in github it doesn't look obvious that some of the commits are bad?
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by jes5199 11y ago
yeah, but Line 1 is considered unreliable and stripe doesn't automatically use it - they have an API to let you know if line 1 fails, but you have to cancel the transaction yourself
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by jes5199 11y ago
Patreon, the subscription crowdfunding service, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART) is hiring Python developers (Flask), JS developers (Angular and React), DevOps (Ansible and AWS), test engineers, SREs, internal tools people, and basica
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by jes5199 11y ago
What you're saying sounds a lot like the thesis in this paper: "Conscious Thought Is for Facilitating Social and Cultural Interactions: How Mental Simulations Serve the Animal–Culture Interface" http://users.wfu.ed
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by jes5199 11y ago
I try to be LOC neutral. A good day on a healthy team lets me delete at least as much code as I write.
911.
by jes5199 11y ago
it's stunning to me how the Bay Area / startup scene culture has become such an extension of Stanford culture. And that seems to be almost entirely due to network effects- it's not like Stanford is a particularly better educa
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by jes5199 11y ago
I actually find responsibility to be a great source of joy and happiness, and remember my adolescence as unhappy because I didn't have thing that I had enough control over for them to be rewarding
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by jes5199 12y ago
Yes, exactly for that reason. Wealthy organizations have more than an equal share of resources, and should carry an increased burden of the process when in conflict with individuals.
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by jes5199 12y ago
I don't do much threaded programming - I think it's come up once in my career? (and fortunately at the time I was pairing with a Java guru) - so I don't completely understand the issues here. Can someone link to a good introd
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by jes5199 12y ago
in your defense, twitter really is an awful idea.
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by jes5199 12y ago
have you been doing REST over something other than HTTP?
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by jes5199 12y ago
There was an unversioned spec posted for months that looked usable, then suddenly they announced a complete rewrite as "RC2". Calling it a relase candidate was misleading, though - almost everything got changed again for "RC3
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by jes5199 12y ago
Very similar to Clive Wearing, who, without memory, fills his notebooks with variations on the phrase "Now I am really, truely awake, for the first time" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing also, he ca
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by jes5199 12y ago
VCs don't exist because it's the most profitable way to use that money. VCs exist because certain people think it's a fun game to play.
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by jes5199 12y ago
I know plenty of people who loved "The Peripheral", but despite some clever contrivances in the settings, I found it to be a completely boring book. The plot unfolded with no help from the protagonists and nothing unexpected ever
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by jes5199 12y ago
personally, I think the SVN question is a pretty good example of "can you talk intelligently about any aspect of any complex system you've ever worked with?". If a candidate can explain one , I'll recommend to hire
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by jes5199 12y ago
I've tried modafinil a few times. It helps me a little with alertness, but not much - I can use it for long drives, but it didn't particularly help with programming. I sometimes get a side-effect from it that makes it something I
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by jes5199 12y ago
How do you feel about what the constant influx of 22-year-olds making six-figure salaries is doing to the culture and social fabric of San Francisco?
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by jes5199 12y ago
I'm having trouble finding the reference now, but years ago I did read a story about how an early version of Unicode's reference document depicted CJK characters in a font with Chinese-styled characters, causing slowed adoption in
925.
by jes5199 12y ago
shhhh! It's a secret
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by jes5199 12y ago
life advice from people under thirty
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by jes5199 12y ago
Patreon, San Francisco.
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by jes5199 12y ago
yes.
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by jes5199 12y ago
how about: every DSL should be a thin translation layer over a clean API. Too many times I've been burned by gems that provide a DSL and there's no other way to use their functionality.
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by jes5199 12y ago
and you get the same level of confidence. Internet startups just don't have the quality necessary to be banks.

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