joslin01

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by joslin01 10y ago
Agreed, but I will say it's been a boon to my iOS development.
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by joslin01 10y ago
> My own prediction is that TDD is the deciding factor. If this turns out to be the case, then people would reach for statically typed languages to augment & cut-down on tests. Like everyone here is saying, the pendulum is moving tow
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by joslin01 10y ago
Game Dev Story is fun and has no micro-purchases. I was hooked for a couple weeks straight.
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by joslin01 10y ago
I'm actually not annoyed nor do I misunderstand why people are sighing. Your emotional appeal does not hold much weight when faced with real business practices of hiring "the best" that every organization is going to strive f
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by joslin01 10y ago
How is that a "trick" question? I never been asked that in an interview question and had the correct solution in my head in just a few seconds for the very reason he gives -- experienced programmers can map their intuition to code
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by joslin01 10y ago
I remember being surprised the first time I read it, but maybe some context will help. > Amatuer hour Many developers would love to build a shitty first app and throw it on the app store to proclaim to the world: look I made it on the ap
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by joslin01 11y ago
You're getting down-voted because your argument boils down to Sam is a smart guy, trust him. Engineers like to think for themselves and play detective. For consolation, I had the same reaction especially when I first read the blog-post
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by joslin01 11y ago
I appreciate your reply and especially in the new light of the counter-complaint. I'm not so sure anymore where I stand.
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by joslin01 11y ago
To you and everyone else attacking him, you're conflating his explanation with his personal character. That's not fair.
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by joslin01 11y ago
Right, but he also said: > Given the time pressure because of the pending merger, we had to set a Friday at 5 pm deadline for Kyle’s offer, which Jeremy let expire.
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by joslin01 11y ago
That's crazy!
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by joslin01 11y ago
I like to think Sam is a relatively sane guy with good intentions. He seems to have wrote this to send a message, which means he believes in the principal of what he's doing, which is what makes it easy to trust. It actually seems a lo
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by joslin01 11y ago
Teenagers growing up don't only have a plethora more of opportunities & tools -- they also have a plethora of distracting activities that can take away from the careful attention needed to make great music. Sometimes I believe the
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by joslin01 11y ago
How does this apply to the music industry sucking? I didn't take this as Steve Miller being an unhappy person though you are right, many successful people do end up the road down to depression -- Elvis being another great example.
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by joslin01 11y ago
I should have said "you're acting like a clown." But I like the idea of having you realize that making a statement such as "enslaved" in regards to a secretary merely doing the job assigned to her (and is free to qu
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by joslin01 11y ago
He has said himself that while working on Facebook in the early days, he thought the whole world needed something like it. I believe the college-first approach was more of a tactic, but also a somewhat obvious one after his earlier expediti
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by joslin01 11y ago
You could argue programming really took off in the 80s, and look at the plethora of languages then that are obsolete. Medicine and physics are more than 100 years old; programming is very new in the grand scheme of things and rapidly changi
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by joslin01 11y ago
The reason why therapy has little use to you is because right now you're very stubbornly defining your happiness. What good does anyone's words mean to you -- you who think you have sacrificed happiness. I been there and said si
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by joslin01 11y ago
Sorry, 100% agree with you but with your life going forward, it's "fell on deaf ears"
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by joslin01 11y ago
So that interviewers can gauge your ability on searching & referencing code examples from the web? Who's being realistic?
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by joslin01 11y ago
Wonderful writing. > The inordinate love of money, no doubt, may be and is "the root of all evil," but money itself, when properly used, is not only a "handy thing to have in the house," but affords the gratification
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by joslin01 11y ago
You make solid points, but just as people's attics become cluttered with crap that they never use but are reluctant to throw out, I think you could argue users innately feel the same with their personal photos / friends / pos
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by joslin01 11y ago
Ebay is too big, yes. I live in NYC, so I prefer to just meet someone and exchange cash & product. Going through ebay would be so much more work.
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by joslin01 11y ago
Thanks, yes I did (edited)
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by joslin01 11y ago
You're not wrong, but I don't think organic shopping with other strangers is under any threat (currently). For example, I just sold my PS4 to some stranger for cash. I would be intrigued if a company could beat them there because
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by joslin01 11y ago
I would argue that was more of an expensive land-grab. Whatsapp was/is not an existential threat to Facebook. If a messenger could overcome FB, snapchat might actually have a chance, but the key value proposition that FB offers is that
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by joslin01 11y ago
Probably. It was pavement after all back then, but it would hurt more the longer I kept standing there.
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by joslin01 11y ago
I did this for about ~6 months and developed knees that ached all the time. I was running at the same time, so maybe that had something to do with it, but really I never noticed some huge health or energy shift. The thing I will say about i
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by joslin01 11y ago
I agree. My first startup I worked on while in college was "beating cragslist." We looked at it and laughed and said this is so old! As we went about our business, we realized there was no way we could reasonably change the world&
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by joslin01 11y ago
Well, we don't have tons of money to play with, but in general lower price is better and telling them to work up toward the higher price. Money can have an odd effect on people; give them too much, they might appreciate it and work har

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