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by kbuchanan 8y ago
How big is the team you’ll work on for each firm?
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by kbuchanan 8y ago
Although I agree, it's not the neglectful parents who are reading books like this...
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Clojure, like so many of the functional languages, struggles to attract beginners. I mean for rilz beginners. I don't mean it's unsuited to them. My company has a developer with one year of Javascript programming experience prod
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by kbuchanan 8y ago
Agreed. While they're not fully static, our websites are used in tens of thousands of schools nationwide. A CDN (no matter the provider) was getting blocked by some district somewhere for some reason or another (dedicated IP or not
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by kbuchanan 8y ago
I'll also wholeheartedly agree with this comment—my company has a long history of shipping on time and under budget. The caveat is that we closely follow #2: we aggressively strike requirements from the overall target if it means prese
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by kbuchanan 8y ago
If anything, you make a great point that "playing politics" is a skill in its own rite, is worth mastering, and it is (dependent on the system) productive in bringing about people's wishes.
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by kbuchanan 8y ago
I also read the book. It's a bit overwrought with classical quotes and psychological exploration. Don't get me wrong, I love the classics, but I often wanted the book to get on with the details of the story.
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by kbuchanan 8y ago
I do, for sure. Feeling like you're helping your employees (and they're sending signals that they feel helped) definitely relates to the delight you get from watching your children grow.
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Banzai ( https://teachbanzai.com ) | Provo, Utah | Full-time, Full-stack Engineer | $60-130K Banzai builds financial literacy tools including software for schools, homes, and community groups. Banzai's software is experience-
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
You make a great point that there's a lot more to being a founder than simply pulling the trigger on a business license. Props for making it work in your bidness.
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Here's a more cynical possibility: What if casting about for brilliant startup ideas is actually a signal that you are unlikely to be a founder, by DNA. In my experience, founders simply can't help themselves from starting things,
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Ten years ago when Facebook was gaining momentum, I chose to stay away, and remain so today. In recent years a new mantra has emerged: "I wish we could live without Facebook, but that's not practical anymore." Not true. It is
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Regression to the mean?
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Isn't this the nature of wanting to be special? If you fancy yourself Mr. Bespoke Blog Reader, than you gotta go look where others don't. This feels like one of the conflicting desires of the open web crowd: the view that decentra
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
A little over two years ago my little team of three (gasp!) succumbed to the allure of microservices. After six months of writing custom solutions for problems I'd created, I bagged it. The _one_ upside of our microservice architecture
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Loved this. It raised a question, though: how do your clients hold you accountable to your rates? How do you demonstrate $10K in a week was worth their while?
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
It's human nature to crave feedback. Heck, I avoid social media platforms, but that doesn't mean I don't compulsively check to see what HN readers think of my comments. But it's abnormal to orient your life around likes,
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
I spent years in all sorts of ORMs and have sworn off them in favor of pure-SQL patterns like yesql (for Clojure) and massive-js (for Node.js). For me, the boilerplate of writing SQL queries is trivial compared to the productivity and perfo
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
> Today, we are so far from that initial vision of linking documents to share knowledge that it's hard to simply browse the web for information without constantly being asked to buy something, like something, follow someone, share t
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
He's not making a political statement—he's simply saying that a "grandfathered" household enjoys a salary and house value that rose sharply with the area's demand. Newcomers, however, have no such head start. As lon
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. From the article: Violence happens only when talking has stopped.
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
This trend — to quit — instead of participate, is a dangerous path for politics. Lyndon Johnson (possibly the greatest politician in modern history) taught us that politics is the "art of the possible". And the only way to make a
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
You're absolutely right: the web and its breadth of tooling solves A LOT more problems than VB or Flash could ever dream of.
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Early in my career, having mastered Visual Basic I decided it was beneath me and I'd move on to more sophisticated tools like J2EE. When Ruby was born, Java's IDEs and static tooling became stupid, because Real Developers(TM) use
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
But that's the basic point: premium mediocre represents the belief that three weeks in Europe is the right choice when you're young and near broke. It's this part of the millenial value set (whatever their economic prospect
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
I wish more people could see that if Damore is right about biological variation underpinning sex disparity in tech, this exposes an opportunity for women. In the absence of affirmative action, women who pursue engineering roles will revea
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
Would not a formal PR response, like, "No, we are not in league with neo-nazis," have been more effective and less contradictory?
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Can anybody tell whether it supports multimethods and protocols?
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The first thing that appeared upon clicking the link, for me, was a full-screen overlay ad asking me to subscribe to Backchannel. Unreadable indeed.
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by kbuchanan 9y ago
I think we're talking about the same thing from two angles—when a task appears uncertain, it's important to isolate it. Sometimes, as you suggest, it's an exploration (build the engine before the body to see it turn over), bu

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