jroseattle

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by jroseattle 3y ago
> we have plenty of customers that just create a user with user_id "system" to track actions that aren't tied into a specific user in a company I'll try to add some context around this for my use case: we need to trac
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Needs a recursive function iterating through JS frameworks of the past 20 years.
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by jroseattle 3y ago
sed -i 's/I’m not smart enough/I have not made the effort/g' {url-in-a-file} (Pardon my syntax, might not be 100% correct here) Devs work in a performance business, and most of the time "smart" can
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by jroseattle 3y ago
The entire fake-review cottage industry harkens back to web search before Google was a thing. Search results were being gamed as implied relevance, ultimately making Yahoo and Excite and Alta Vista also-rans. Online reviews need their Googl
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Go Utes! Shoutout to my son, who recently graduated from the U of U with a degree in Geography (and CS minor.) He and his classmates were heavily visualization focused in/around geographic entities. I can't wait to see what he doe
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by jroseattle 3y ago
Just a suggestion on pricing: drop the lifetime option. I've had a bunch of perpetual licenses I've acquired over a lifetime, and nearly every one of them have said "we have no record of you" after 5+ years. I know, I kn
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by jroseattle 3y ago
This reminds me of a comment I heard a politician make in private among a group of us. When passively asked "what's going on?", her reply: 'oh, much to do about nothing!'
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by jroseattle 3y ago
> The tools for properly determining this... This isn't a logically-evaluate-output scenario. It's low-trust between employee and employer. The bullet points listed are highlighting situations where someone isn't deliverin
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by jroseattle 3y ago
These remote-vs-office discussions where nobody discusses the actual work involved are fairly pointless. Disregarding the obvious scenarios of presence-required in order to work (i.e. manufacturing), the question applies: what is most produ
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by jroseattle 3y ago
> Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary. We know that code represents effort expended, and we are very motivated to preserve the value of this effort. And, unfortunately
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by jroseattle 8y ago
Your employees need skills that are useful and in demand. They need those going forward, whether you close your data centers or not. I'd suggest you be upfront with them. Use this as a pro-active way to show you want them around, but i
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by jroseattle 8y ago
I'm seeing comparisons to NextDoor and/or other hyper-local apps. While this service has the focus at a neighborhood level, the premise seems to be more quora-meets-yelp-meets-neighborhood. I question these content-generation-as-p
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by jroseattle 8y ago
" Indent 2 spaces. No tabs." Oh dear, here we go....
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by jroseattle 8y ago
This is very much the case in Seattle. A group of my neighbors spoke with several residents in an unauthorized encampment that setup near I-5. We learned that a few of them were from Houston, TX. They had been given one-way tickets, paid fo
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by jroseattle 8y ago
We experienced the same type of issue with my company, and decided to try to address it. First, our problem statement: filtering phone-screens by recruiters is resulting in poor experience, false positives, etc. We thought about potential c
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by jroseattle 9y ago
With all due respect, this is only a strategy to prolong eventual death. Counting on survival by hoping there's a backlash against Amazon is folly. B&N needs leadership to offer product and services that can compete, period. Need t
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by jroseattle 9y ago
This entire thought process assumes that tax incentives and such are the difference maker in this process. That it's an auction that goes to the highest bidder. This is highly inconsistent with Amazon's approach for long-term proj
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by jroseattle 9y ago
My favorite part is the progressive screen display and the random flashing cursor.
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Well, more than just an anecdote for us though. We have 20-30 engineers all running the exact same hardware spec as engineer #1. So, it's sufficient evidence for us.
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by jroseattle 9y ago
I've had one engineer upgrade his work mac to high sierra. Failure, full stop. We've warned every other engineer not to apply the high sierra OS update until further notice.
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Yes and no. Yes -- the subject matter of the meeting is well-defined beforehand and distributed to all. No -- our topics ARE the agenda and it's normally highly focused. We have on occasion had a second bullet point, but it's rare
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by jroseattle 9y ago
This entirely depends on the discussion. As a manager, I use 1:1 to discuss matters related to or pertinent to the individual. I use group discussions to discuss group-level matters -- this is usually something related to project work, i.e.
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by jroseattle 9y ago
> While impressive it feels too much like a First World Problem. Aren't there any real problems this team could have solved? Talk to any couple who has had difficulty conceiving, and the humanity of this "first world problem&qu
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Similar story -- my twins were in the NICU for 3 weeks. The alarms at first had us on edge. After a few days, they became white noise.
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by jroseattle 9y ago
"What I lacked in experience I could make up for in enthusiasm." So many startups are based on this very premise. Reminds me of this poster: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0535/6917/prod
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by jroseattle 9y ago
Are there docs or maybe a blog post that identifies the value-add on top of Express? While I see the API design example (which applies to me), we already do that with Express v4 (it's more code organization than anything else.) I'
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by jroseattle 9y ago
This, a thousand times this. As an ex-contributor to some old school Apache projects, I know too well the over-whelming feeling that the marathon of maintenance can elicit. Open source becomes open-ended. For sure, start with a thank you. P
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by jroseattle 9y ago
While some points here are worthy of discussion, this blames the arrow instead of the archer. Write good tests, automate what you can, and make sure you're using your chosen implementation correctly and appropriately.
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by jroseattle 9y ago
"We only hire the best" is a statement made by those who subconsciously don't believe they project outward quality and excellence in their everyday execution. It's as if those on the selling side believe that others see
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by jroseattle 9y ago
I lead teams of software engineers, and what we have learned is that those who bring drive and active energy in their positions excel the best. It's a performance business, and over the long haul effort matters greatly. It's also

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