knewter

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by knewter 14y ago
> It's like saying if Obama visits Facebook or Google headquarters these companies now are CIA outlets I feel like you should have used a better analogy, since Facebook is effectively a CIA outlet. They received funding from them.
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by knewter 14y ago
I think Tim Bray just got into working on OAuth so that's exciting :)
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by knewter 14y ago
<3 doorkeeper. Using it to make one of our open source apps - http://github.com/isotope11/xrono - an oauth provider to support an oauth sso flow inside of apps we've built for internal use regularly. It took an hour one night to bui
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by knewter 14y ago
I think that your point is legitimate but that you overvalue the value of it. Yes, in that hypothetical situation, the CEO would be receiving disproportionate credit for the success. I even think this might happen quite a bit. But things
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by knewter 14y ago
Writing specifications, and knowing which items in the roadmap bring the most value to the greatest numbers, are hugely different beasts. I definitely took the PR-driven approach to mean identifying those 2 items, even if taken by themselv
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by knewter 14y ago
sometimes I'm surprised by this sort of thing, but then I remember that Google is INSANELY GOOD AT SEARCH and I stop being surprised when that plays out.
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by knewter 14y ago
I'm always surprised at this sort of feeling. The collective actions of everyone else at the company, if the company is not run pathologically, exist solely to pursue the goals of the CEO. The CEO sets the goals: describes what it is that
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by knewter 14y ago
So you don't believe that markets function primarily as an information exchange? This is a driving factor in my worldview. You're assuming that all of these investors are primarily concerned with exceedingly short-term gains if you believ
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by knewter 14y ago
theverge is a GREAT example
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by knewter 14y ago
at the bottom...of the infinite scrolling page? whoosh
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by knewter 14y ago
I'm an owner at a software dev shop now, and I loved this article. I can't imagine actually using grammar as a litmus test, personally, but it definitely goes into my on-the-spot judgement criteria. I feel significantly less-comfortable w
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by knewter 14y ago
For the compute-intensive work, why not just shell into a beefy box? We spent $3k on a 96M RAM 12core(+ht means 24 apparent cores) box that we run OpenStack on, with a big-ass SSD and 2 TB of spinny platters, and it's PHENOMENAL to use rem
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by knewter 14y ago
I often feel that comfort with debugging procedures is what separates an awesome developer from a codemonkey. I've long wanted to find a good way to teach debugging concepts to people. It often makes the difference between being prolific
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by knewter 14y ago
This, a thousand times. Of course the US doesn't look as democratic as some would like. It was explicitly set out to NOT be democratic. The fact that we're now trying to "spread democracy" abroad is anathema.
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by knewter 14y ago
Vlingo has LITERALLY never gotten anything I said right, ever. Just a data point.
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by knewter 14y ago
Ha, I was halfway into that before realizing this was you hosh :) Nice collection. The Diamond Age has long been one of my favorite books (of course, it was the first one I re-read when I got an e-reader)
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by knewter 14y ago
> It also sounds like the boss didn't bother asking the employee at their 1:1's about what they thought needed changing, or maybe he was just unapproachable. I'm an owner / CTO of a consultancy, and this point always frustrates me. We
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by knewter 14y ago
I have a whiteboard wall at my office. Let me make a recommendation. Don't do it. Paint your wall white, or whatever, and get a big sheet of glass (or a few). Mount that sucker on the wall. Glass doesn't suck up color the way whiteboards
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by knewter 14y ago
A billion times, this. I just learned of GNU Parallel about 3 months ago and wish everyone knew about it. Have seen it used to stunning effect with a comically large pipeline (OCR patents) across a comically large number of EC2 instances.
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by knewter 14y ago
In general, wouldn't you just support leaving the protocol out and changing the universal code embed to just `://yourforumshortname.disqus.com/embed.js`? Isn't this best-practices these days, as it covers both cases best?
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by knewter 14y ago
clap........................clap
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by knewter 14y ago
FWIW, I'm using json-schema in a project and find it both fantastic and lightweight, and it feels not at all like I'm tending towards SOAP. YMMV
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by knewter 14y ago
Sheep have iphones?
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by knewter 14y ago
The only reason for this would be that gmail -> gmail email doesn't leave their servers. However, I think it's irresponsible to suggest emailing oneself private information without explaining the caveat, because others might, say, do t
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by knewter 14y ago
I know this guy and he's awesome. The world's better off if you help his startup out :) I have no iphone though...
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by knewter 15y ago
This is just a recap my business partner put together of the Birmingham Startup Summit, and it was a great read for me. I didn't get a chance to go, even though we sponsored it, because I was in the hospital. I thought someone else might
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"Entrepreneurship as an itch that must be scratched," and other startup advice(isotope11.com)
2 points by knewter 15y ago|1 comments
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by knewter 15y ago
Clearly the gist.github engineers DDoSed them - it's all so clear!
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by knewter 15y ago
Multi-monitor support in 12.04/gnome3 is unbelievably good. There are tons of horror stories, that I've lived and that I've read, regarding multi-monitor breaking jut when it's most needed (presentation at conferences, etc). This has happ
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by knewter 15y ago
Yeah, that one. That dragonfly is effing amazing and I <3 it. I have proselytised for it for quite some time now and I'm still depressed more people don't use it. I actually found it when I started contributing to refinerycms.

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