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by jes5199 12y ago
my experience is the opposite: I often have a very good first impression of someone that gets shattered when they try to write some code or to explain an algorithm.
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by jes5199 12y ago
Much of programming is mindless plumbing, but the problem of specifying what problem you're trying to solve will never go away. Focus your attention there.
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by jes5199 12y ago
This is evidence that we are exporting some toxic memes out of California that cause young people all over the world to try to kill themselves to do what we do here with no understanding of what's going on.
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by jes5199 12y ago
If I felt like it was possible to get refunds from the App Store when I bought something that promised more than it delivered, I would be more likely to spend money there. As it is, way too often I've lost $1 or $2 to an app that I imm
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by jes5199 12y ago
split it evenly between the employees and all retire
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by jes5199 12y ago
I almost didn't catch the epilogue - he's shutting down the RubySpec project entirely, because it hasn't accomplished what he hoped.
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by jes5199 12y ago
it's great if you like to pair program every day. I get sick of pairing after about 3 hours. So it's not one-size-fits-all but I often meet people who can't imagine disliking pairing and try to convince me that my lived exp
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by jes5199 12y ago
ah, right, that's why I don't work there, I had forgotten.
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by jes5199 12y ago
and I'm sure it's completely worth the trouble.
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by jes5199 12y ago
(I'm not going to subscribe to read this so I'm just assuming...) Is this a good time to bring up the Tyrany Of Structurelessness? http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm The observation is: if you preten
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by jes5199 12y ago
We could rent them all apartments for that much
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by jes5199 12y ago
GPS routing is awful compared to a person who knows their way around a city. Uber drivers in hilly cities like San Francisco never, ever think to avoid climbing right up and down the steepest hills - the algorithms don't tell them not
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by jes5199 12y ago
People do tend to have boring conversations, but individual people are almost always Extremely Interesting if you can get to the layer underneath the standard communication protocol.
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by jes5199 12y ago
there isn't a trivial mapping from one to the other, but they both do have the quality of "knowing what we know of the universe, what happens next?" and they both seem to conclude "if we aren't doomed that's be
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by jes5199 12y ago
speaking of numbers, they say they're phone support but it's still impossible to find a phone number.
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by jes5199 12y ago
There's a classic essay by Thomas Nagel that makes this exact point in great detail: "What is it like to be a bat" http://organizations.utep.edu/portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
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by jes5199 12y ago
I'm not up to date on everything YC funds - what other non-web companies have they funded?
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by jes5199 12y ago
That one reminds me of the system I worked on years ago that wouldn't accept credit cards that expired in August or September (of any year).
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by jes5199 12y ago
"scintillating scotoma" is the one with the shimmering edge. I've had that a couple times.
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by jes5199 12y ago
Patreon San Francisco, CA We're at 3 software developers right now and we need to build out the team to keep up with growth. We need front-end, mobile, and dev/ops. And probably some more generalists, too. Our culture is still sup
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by jes5199 12y ago
I know I do hit Command-Q instead of Command-W almost every day on my Mac. I've installed a big keyboard macro application so that I can remap "Command-Q" to "nothing", I literally don't use it for anything els
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by jes5199 12y ago
this is one of those times where the people using badly configured proxies just need to live with a broken internet rather than drag the rest of us down
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by jes5199 12y ago
Patreon. The crowdfunding site for ongoing projects. San Francisco, CA. Software Engineers: Full-stack, Mobile, DevOps Yesterday we were featured in SFGate with pictures of the apartment we were working out of but, as of today, we have a be
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by jes5199 12y ago
the sed language allows conditional jumps to labels. That makes it powerful enough to write programs in. If you had to just write programs by running a series of sed substitution expressions to a file over and over, and not use conditionals
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by jes5199 12y ago
> They're not like upgrades from ext2 to ext3, it's like ext2 was modified in a weird way to support new features that older ext2 implementations do not know about. It's my understand that this is exactly what ext3 is, tho
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by jes5199 12y ago
You haven't used Kickstarter? They've been using Amazon for payments for quite a while now. The experience is okay. Comparable to PayPal, but maybe a little simpler.
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by jes5199 12y ago
I've been wondering - is there a point when people lose faith that they're getting ROI by buying adwords? Isn't it possible that the culture may just stop giving money to Google at some point? And then no more aqui-hires, so
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by jes5199 12y ago
Yeah. I have trouble remembering to eat meals regularly - I guess I sort of just don't really like eating? - and Ensure is available at the drug store. It's perfect for that "oh crap I haven't eaten in 24 hours and my pr
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by jes5199 12y ago
yeah, but when I was that age you'd have a good chance of seeing my friends and I just sitting around the television watching videotapes. Is it really different?
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by jes5199 12y ago
Maybe! but sometimes the net productivity win comes from letting the frantic person spin their gears down until you reach a velocity where thinking clearly is possible

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