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That price difference comes in at under a half day of developer time per month. That's rounding error in the cost of shipping something.
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"Make 25% of your ads go away" feels a whole lot like the "cable TV will have less ads" promise of old. We all know how that turned out. The outcome of this is going to be "publishers run extra ads, you pay to make
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I think it's more the "JS" and less the "Node". If you're building a web application, for the most part, Javascript is part of the equation, especially as frontend dev has shifted from "write a few lines o
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> Serious developers, particularly ones with CS degrees, look down on bootcamp programs as “programming light”. I’ve noticed a disturbing trend of experienced developers not wanting to work with rails now that it’s been “polluted” by th
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I don't think React really takes too much of an opinion on how we store our models -- it is, at it's core, a view layer -- a function that takes as input a model and spits out a UI. I've written model layers behind React UIs
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T-shirts, yes. Dress shirts are generally collar size / sleeve length, with a handful of companies (Brooks Bros. and Charles Tyrwhitt, off the top of my head) offering 3-4 different body cuts as well.
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One of the things we need to do, as a society, is to stop yapping about "creating jobs" and start caring more about "ensuring that if your job goes away, you're fine". For most of us, our job will go away at some po
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The other major tool I'd put up there with Smalltalk and Hypercard is Excel, at least when it comes to automation of real-world business problems. To an extent, it made a large enough set of problems easy enough to solve that tools hav
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This was the first thing we read in freshman World Cultures class in high school -- the context was to make us aware of our own ethnocentric bias when studying "other" cultures.
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There's a definite balance between cargo-culting and reinventing the wheel. Minification is often a premature optimization. A somewhat proper/standardized module system (aka that which comes with ES6), on the other hand, is almost
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Killings by police, though, are killings ostensibly on our behalf. The blood is on our hands.
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FWIW Fairfax County, VA is about as rich, white, and suburban place that you can find in the US.
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Looking at what Flos and Artemide lamps go for, there's definitely a market at that price point. Whether it's worth it to you or me, well, probably not. But hey, you can cover a lifetime or three of petrol for the cost of a Tesla,
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I'll plug my friend's book here: http://www.gamkedo.com/kit/ It's in JS/canvas, so tools that you should be familiar with.
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As a pretty heavy counterexample, compare public transit funding vs. highway funding pretty much anywhere in the US, or education funding (which screws both urban and rural, to the benefit of suburban). In terms of cities I've lived i
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Also, It's hard to say "abuse" with a straight face, when at the end of the line there's a serious payday involved. It's easy to say "let's make sure we get it right", when 6-figure checks are involve
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Camden is plenty "typical enough" in terms of poverty-stricken, gang-filled neighborhoods. What might exist in Camden that doesn't exist elsewhere is that, at least as far as local government goes, Camden doesn't have th
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The exact exchange: Google: "Just checking in to see if you have an update for me? Can we set a time to speak on Friday?" Me: "I decided to pass on [OTHER OPPORTUNITY]. I let my manager know about the offer last Thursday. I
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As far as my specific interviewers are concerned, I liked 7 of the 8 as individuals, which is great. What I didn't like was the company felt like a monoculture. Same schools, same majors, same pre-education background. Everybody looks
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> Google is filled with smart people.. but their interview process is pretty stupid. Google is filled with people who can solve Data Structure / Algorithm questions in 50 minutes on a whiteboard. Their interview process selects for
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Last week I walked away from a Google offer that included a 70% raise. A large portion of this was a rather dehumanizing interview process, along with the realization that the process doesn't select for people I want to work with, and
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I think you've got it wrong. The degenerate case of this is that you've one object, called a "Computer", which can "compute". We live in a world. It has state. Something needs to manage, check, and hold the sta
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All the features they announced (including force touch trackpad) seemed to indicate "iPad pro is coming". At this point, I'd say better-than-even money that they will announce it to coincide with the actual release of the OS.
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Related story: Academia pays peanuts, and I'd love to see the postdoc/grad school racket get ravaged by "poaching". Also, probably the most important contributor in CMU SCS becoming what it is now was an act of "poa
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This a thousand times. Hire for attitude, pay for skill (and keep pay in line with skill as skill increases).
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Along with everything else Bret Victor has done.
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Using "big data" technology is more than just an factor of input size. If your operations making the data bigger, you might well need a bigger tool. You can start with a data set on the middle-to-high-end of memory-sized, but if y
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A brief history on the naming of the fruit company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzzOwRx3D1E
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I know. But if we make it too easy to blame "the system" or "sexists" or any reasonable definition of "other people", we all forget to look in the mirror.
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I think "it's always been that way" is a bit too harsh -- I think it's less about people huddled in a back room making a preconceived intention to be sexist and more often through things like "Well, I'll start

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