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by jonaf 9y ago
I'm shocked to see an IPO for one of these delivery companies. Not because there doesn't seem to be a value proposition, but because I don't understand what sets them apart from the competition. They seem to be in a flooded m
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Ask HN: Are bonuses common for software engineers?
4 points by jonaf 9y ago|5 comments
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by jonaf 9y ago
Perhaps the better question is, how is this better than Google Spreadsheets? Most of your reasons still apply, but I believe google docs handles large spreadsheets pretty well (after an initial loading phase).
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by jonaf 9y ago
To clarify the comment re: Bill Gates biggest regret, his biggest regret according to the referenced article was that Microsoft never shipped WinFS. He did not regret the product itself. It was unclear to me what the parent meant, as my fir
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by jonaf 9y ago
I haven't tried Atom since one of its earlier releases. I haven't tried it again since the slowness seems to be the number one complaint. I figure when it's not the most common complaint, maybe it'll be worth another sho
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by jonaf 9y ago
A colleague of mine really likes VSCode for Node, as it's more of an IDE than Sublime text. However, for text editing, outside of vim itself, I haven't encountered anything remotely as good as sublime text. Really. Why would I use
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by jonaf 9y ago
It sounds like maybe you need a better network of strong recommendations that you would personally find interesting. For me, my interests lie in non-fiction literature, and I have many colleagues who share those interests, and so I often fi
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by jonaf 9y ago
I have taken Zing for a spin on 24 c3.8xl ec2 instances running Elasticsearch with 32G heaps and just under 2 billion indexed documents with millions of updates/day. The results are considerably better. If I just went up to 30 or even
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by jonaf 9y ago
Nix has a tool called nix-ops that will provision vms on virtual box (you can use containers powered by libvirt as well if you want). It's cool because you can use functional programming concepts and it takes a lot of the support heada
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by jonaf 10y ago
The author briefly touches on schemas. Anyone have experience or recommendations working with clojure.spec? If I were using Clojure with a schema less database, would I stand to gain anything significant?
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by jonaf 10y ago
Sorry, but this is naive and bad advice. Rate limiting is a critically missing component in many service APIs, for more reasons than I can even comprehensively enumerate off the top of my head. Scaling an API of any real value is NOT trivia
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by jonaf 10y ago
There is a convenient reindex API available in more recent versions, although in most cases where you can rebuild your index anyway, it's faster to do that.
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by jonaf 10y ago
Ha, not really. I don't play gigs or anything like that. :) My blog's in my profile, although I converted to a static hosted blog on github recently and haven't written anything since (classic!). I'm working on open sour
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by jonaf 10y ago
I'm the father of 2, ages 3 and 2. My wife is due with number 3 in May. My son (3) was diagnosed about 18 months ago with level 3 ASD. I have a beautiful family that I adore. I'm a software engineer, and I was just promoted a coup
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by jonaf 10y ago
This is interesting. I never thought of using vim commands to power the browser, but I do love text interfaces. (I type 150 wpm's and find keyboard navigation markedly faster than the point-and-click interface -- especially since key
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by jonaf 10y ago
This article is about math. In my ignorance, I mistook the article to be about the monitoring project[1] -- I expected some kind of proof/theorem behind the monitoring project. This article is not about the monitoring project. [1]: ht
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by jonaf 10y ago
This isn't exactly relevant to the OP, but, what's wrong with XML?
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by jonaf 10y ago
Thanks. These gems are particularly the kind of insight I am relying on HN for!
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Ask HN: Learning Lisp?
21 points by jonaf 10y ago|15 comments
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by jonaf 10y ago
While I share your sentiment, don't forget that there is a very large pool of prospective employees who may be beneficial to a company in spite of a more narrow skill set, even if they don't grow their skill set. Take college grad
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by jonaf 10y ago
1. Rust. As a DevOps engineer with a lot of experience and interest developing and operating distributed databases, I have so many ideas and Rust is perfect for them. 2. Everything about building and using FPGAs to their potential. 3. machi
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by jonaf 10y ago
Your particular example made me smile. I'm currently leading a team whose primary product is the front end service for the core SaaS business that does billions of monthly impressions (hundreds of millions of uniques). This product is
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by jonaf 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I agree with you, mostly. This is exactly the reason why I refuse to use Lombok. It literally mutates your bytecode! That's a disaster waiting to happen, and a potential debugging nightmare. I think that there is
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by jonaf 10y ago
edit: see replies to my comment. I mistook the Hyper pull request being merged for being in the latest release, but it isn't. Rocket uses Hyper for its HTTP server. So I checked to see if the Hyper HTTP server was really production-rea
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by jonaf 10y ago
I've worked a lot with this pattern in Python (Flask), Java and Scala. I have found it a little inconvenient beyond the simple hello world app when dealing with Flask, but I haven't encountered this problem with Java/Scala. T
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by jonaf 10y ago
Since you mentioned "for somebody it's not a new thing": this looks a lot like Flask, if you're into Python (except for the type safety); I'm sure there's a Ruby equivalent. It looks a lot like Jersey on the JV
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by jonaf 10y ago
This is true in the United States as well, exactly as you describe it.
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by jonaf 10y ago
Is there a Vue Native project of some sort? Currently planning on using React for a new project strictly because I can use the same components for a native app on multiple platforms.
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by jonaf 10y ago
One idea where you can distinguish you're in addition to being just better: add commentary/disqus and have some sort of system that aggregated and ranks comments (like stack overflow answers) on each man page. I find that man page
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by jonaf 10y ago
SWF is awesome, but it can feel very abstract for most use-cases. In light of this, one of my good colleagues wrote a library called Super Simple Worfklow. It provides the level of simplicity that one would have expected from SWF to begin w

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