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by jtchang 14y ago
This is my love/hate relationship with JavaScript. There is often more than one "correct" way to do things and there is a lot of disagreement in the JS community about what way is "best". Contrast this with Python where the overarching rule
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by jtchang 15y ago
Wow some of the content there is great. Forget about searching the deep web. For me deep is the real gems buried under the first 100 or so results where stuff actually gets interesting!
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by jtchang 15y ago
That's awesome. Imagine working in an all Spanish workplace and refusing to learn at least some Spanish. I think everyone benefits from learning a bit of the language. You don't have to be fluent but even knowing the slightest bit gets you
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by jtchang 15y ago
It's scary that we are seeing how quickly the market is moving in this space. First they competed for feature parity and there was bloodshed. Then they went tried to woo us with their usability and we were in awe. In the end price was all t
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by jtchang 15y ago
Thiel is missing the point. The point is that you need to pay people enough so that money ceases to be a factor. For certain people money is not a factor so it doesn't matter whether it pay them $1 or $1MM. To others $150k is just enough mo
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by jtchang 15y ago
I have a prgmr instance and don't have any issues with it. It is a great box to play around with and the cheapest you can possibly get. You kinda have to know what you are doing but they nailed their target audience.
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by jtchang 15y ago
One interesting fact about these drop in construction components is that some of them are actually being manufactured in China and shipped over here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8602786... For it to be more econom
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by jtchang 15y ago
Google wants to make switching hardware a commodity product. Right now most switching software does not interoperate, at least not on a level Google wants. Because of this if you want the latest and greatest features from Cisco you have to
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by jtchang 15y ago
Is this seriously a post highlighting the heroics of being on-call?! Wake up -- being on call sucks. Being an on call programmer is even worse. All developers should have to work support sometime in their life to realize the pain of support
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by jtchang 15y ago
"If there is any chance that Rachel will receive spam from a stalker on her project, she should not create one." WTF. I'm sorry guys. If there is any chance your blog post may incite trolls or spammers please refrain from making that post.
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by jtchang 15y ago
This is why so many schemes that promise "single sign on" fail. People have lots of identities (and complexes!). OpenID and the like all try to link them all together. For me it just doesn't sit right: especially online. The whole point bei
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by jtchang 15y ago
You know this doesn't seem like a bad deal though $100/mo might be high for someone just starting out. Right now my options for search are: Full text SQL search Apache Solr or something similar Google Search Appliance Custom searc
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by jtchang 15y ago
Congrats to Instagram! Can't say I am not bit disappointed though with all the startups getting gobbled up by much larger companies. What's next? Pinterest?
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by jtchang 15y ago
For all the naysayers don't count microsoft out yet. As a developer everything in that article rings true. I don't want to develop on the platform when there are 3 other ones vying for my attention. However, if Microsoft were to start payin
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by jtchang 15y ago
Whoa. This is a game. In the future games like this can be made and most people will enjoy them for that they are: games.
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by jtchang 15y ago
Do you know why small startups/companies don't have an HR person right off the bat? It is because the damn concept is demeaning at the very least. Who wants to be thought of as a "resource"? Above all else I feel like culture fit is the #1
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by jtchang 15y ago
Thank you Kenneth for your contribution to the Python community. Never met but I've used your code. Keep on focusing on what is "right" for the long term and maybe someday we'll get there!
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by jtchang 15y ago
And this is why I love the Python community. Almost every person in this thread is like "Django, but there are others". I started on Pylons. I then used Django. So far I've been very happy with Django. I wish the ORM layer was more pluggabl
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by jtchang 15y ago
Do you mind going into some details about why the Bundler gem was mocking you? I'm a Python dev and only know rudimentary rails/ruby.
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by jtchang 15y ago
I'm going through Ruby koans right now but am a Python programmer. The #1 thing I like about Python is the community and has nothing to do with the language. I find the python community doesn't actively champion the language as the end all
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by jtchang 15y ago
Seems worth it to me. Not only are you getting a 3 letter domain name but you get to hold on to your current brand.
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by jtchang 15y ago
Whoa...that's awesome. Definitely a programmer. I don't care what you think of VBA...it is a great tool. I've seen some truly impressive programs written in it.
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by jtchang 15y ago
Congrats to the team. Will have to check it out in the next few days.
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by jtchang 15y ago
With promises of mounds of equity and hoards of cash? Startups are inherently risky. Loic made a very difficult decision (layoffs are hard). I am sure when he first hired those people it was in good faith. No one wants to fail.
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by jtchang 15y ago
Imagine landing pads on the top of every house/city. They would look like giant targets used for this copters to land. There could be one within a few meters of where you currently are. You place an order on your cell phone. The copters imm
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by jtchang 15y ago
Nice work...got to play with a bit of it tonight and latency is not noticeable at all.
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by jtchang 15y ago
And my all time favorite technique...an army of lawsuit happy lawyers!
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by jtchang 15y ago
Too many damn people on their high horse. What is wrong with everyone? Do people realize that these individuals are $20 richer than they were before. Someone paid them to do a job. There are much more degrading and dehumanizing things one c
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by jtchang 15y ago
Dammit. I go out to eat for the experience. Touchscreens are an experience. But if they start replacing all the waiters? That's just going to piss me off.
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by jtchang 15y ago
Is anyone else laughing at how ridiculous this vulnerability is? I just spent a few hours last week hacking through the Stripe CTF game. Environment variables, string formatting injections, and a timing/side channel attack to top it off. Th

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