jtheory

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by jtheory 11y ago
He's doing a good thing, and that should be lauded, but it can't make him the biggest hero on the podium. It's an obvious oversimplification, but it be useful to think of measuring the good you do in the world in terms of gam
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by jtheory 11y ago
Adding to the other response here -- it's great to thank your customers, and you wouldn't want to hide that you're affiliated with AgileBits. But please bear in mind that people reading HN are here to read a discussion. A
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by jtheory 11y ago
This one in particular -- I use KeePass for my personal stuff, still; but at work, there seem to be a ton of logins we need to share. Never mind sensitive stuff -- we get lots of use out of LastPass for managing the list of test and demo us
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by jtheory 11y ago
This is a great approach -- don't just learn words (and string them together in sequences taken from your native language... not likely to be right!); learn common chunks that you can re-use everywhere. There are still verb tenses that
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by jtheory 11y ago
Contract surgery is pretty routine these days, fortunately. Be careful about who's doing the surgery, double-check that they're inserting the right type & power of lens, etc. (mistakes are rare, but it's worth double-che
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by jtheory 11y ago
The tricky thing here is that really getting this message across can be hard , and the doctors/specialists involved may not have any sense whatsoever what's going on inside the head of patient sitting across from them, nodding an
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by jtheory 11y ago
Patients Know Best -- REMOTE ONLY. Core hours for most of us are in London time, but we now have developers also in EST and CST (partly overlapping). We're slowly hiring mid-level and senior full stack developers (one every couple of m
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by jtheory 11y ago
I got the impression she's not fully sure what happened, herself. I'm curious to hear the next post, when she's had a bit of time to digest it.
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by jtheory 11y ago
If you're curious what part of the lunar cycle you're seeing, when you see a crescent moon, there's a trick French schoolchildren learn -- a moon like the curve of a "p" is in the "première" (first)/
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by jtheory 11y ago
Well... > The appear.in team currently consists of 14 people, and operates as an independent startup within the incubator environment of Telenor Digital. That's not cheap, and it doesn't sound like it's just a side-project
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by jtheory 11y ago
What's your source of revenue? That needs to be clear before we can comfortably use a service for business purposes.
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by jtheory 11y ago
I'm in France -- I still see it for almost 100% of the purchases I make online if the merchant is here in France, and a decent number of them when the merchant is in the UK. The last purchase I made with my bank card that got the inte
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by jtheory 11y ago
There's a lot of luck involved, and just persistence over a long period of time. But I figure you also just have to start doing what you want to do. This is amazingly possible in the developer world in a way that's hard to ima
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by jtheory 11y ago
There's a lot out there spinning the same result different ways; but I think that's the general status -- social mobility hasn't changed in the US for decades. There's rather clearer data that the gap between rich &
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by jtheory 11y ago
Notice that this is just a short essay. A blog post, maybe. But it's also potentially a reason to search for available domain names; to actually register one (after exploring the compromises around what registrar to choose), to find
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by jtheory 11y ago
musictheory.net has some nice interactive tutorials (plus its own exercises).
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by jtheory 11y ago
I think you're assuming that the employees in question are permitted to install software freely on their work computers, and/or that the company decision-makers are aware of new sites/services they're denying themselve
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by jtheory 11y ago
Right; in some cases it's not a personal decision. We have a set of users who are using our site in healthcare environments, on locked-down computers that are difficult/expensive, so in some cases they're stuck on IE7/IE
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by jtheory 11y ago
Notes from the actual post: > When we shipped Bootstrap 3, we immediately discontinued all support for v2.x, causing a lot of pain for all our users out there. That was a mistake we won’t be making again. For the foreseeable future, we’l
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by jtheory 11y ago
Dropping old tech means projects/companies that require that support have to do it in-house. We need to support IE7+ for much of our UI, unfortunately, because of paying customers in hospital environments where upgrading is a nightmar
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by jtheory 11y ago
It's useful to frame it that way -- the law is about doing two legal things, together. Forcing violators to stop driving can seriously damage their lives (remove their ability to earn a living, see friends/loved ones, etc.), but h
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by jtheory 11y ago
That's a fun quick brainteaser! Reminds me of those old puzzles where you'd have a list of facts -- like there are 7 houses in a row, all different colors and with different species of pets in the yard, the blue house is next to
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by jtheory 11y ago
The "guide" thing is a metaphor, which only goes so far. :) It falls apart in that a guide is in a business relationship, and that adds a distance that isn't there for parenting -- in that sense a parent can be more of a frie
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by jtheory 11y ago
I'm not at all saying that the same tactics work for all kids. But there are tons of ways to influence kids' behavior that don't involve corporal punishment, and I've never had to go too far down the list, when I sit
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by jtheory 11y ago
Being a really good parent (in my view) is all about mixing authority and friendship/trust/empathy. Kids have a lot of interesting ideas that (for various reasons) they can't act out, and sometimes you're the one prevent
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by jtheory 11y ago
Sure; it's not considered an evil thing generally; it's just that the subculture of people who go out of their way and pay more to get organic/local/etc. generally aren't eating much of it: they're paying more
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by jtheory 11y ago
There's one not far from me, so I may look into it. Well, 20 min... far enough that "drove 40 minutes to pick up local produce" starts to sound dumb, though. I'm in central France. But in context -- it's not hard
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by jtheory 11y ago
I'd assume not -- because la vache qui rit is sort of the French version of American cheese (a factory-produced cheese-based product, not an actual cheese), so it's not really the sort of thing they'd want to be associated wi
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by jtheory 11y ago
I'm mostly coding in Java, which doesn't have named params... but I don't like either extra variable declarations just for this, nor mysterious booleans. My current habit is to use comments for non-enforced named params; e.g.
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by jtheory 11y ago
Context...? Are they a custom dev company seeking new clients? Or a great group of devs who are all suddenly out if work because a company went under, and they're looking to be hired? And what's your position, evaluating/re

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