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by l1ghtm4n 6y ago
Happened twice to me now: weak product team and product definition. Engineering optimistically forges ahead and ultimately gets flogged for not delivering results. Long work hours, micromanaging, and unpleasant work culture. First time exp
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by l1ghtm4n 12y ago
NYPL on 42nd st and 5th ave. Free wifi and incredible architecture. Plenty of quiet spaces to use. Also a small coffee shop inside.
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Ask HN: periodic events as a service?
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
2 best years of my 20s were spent getting away from computers altogether. I quit programming in that time and got back in with help from some old coworkers offering me a job. This was after I had a) finished my degree, b) travelled south
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
All very good points. I had worked some years ago on a prediction market site which attempted to merge 3 mechanisms for gaining collective intelligence: Polling, paramutual betting, and full buy/sell market. It was motived by the fac
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
In this chain of forbidden places is also Gardiner's Island in New York at the end of Long Island. Apparently gifted to the Gardiner family by the Queen before the US existed. Signs surround it warning the public that they're no
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
I can't help but have a little CueCat-ish response to Glass. I don't wear glasses and don't care to. So Glass saves me from having to take my smart device out of my pocket by having something on my face all day? NB: I'
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
Musician, Spotify user, and Radiohead fan here. Spotify fulfills my dream of working in a record store so I can spend all day discovering music. This argument is behind the scenes paperwork between the service and the content owners. They
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
Even better than git for publishing, I like the "fork" concept as applied to the more general web. Forget copyright issues for a moment... if you could fork sites here it would allow for really fast site creation where you can bu
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
Just one data point. I'm 35. I did startups in my early 20's, took 2 years off to travel and finish school. Opportunities were still there once I was done. You could say that no work history is the same whether it was due to t
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
That is definitely another way to do it. You do lose the significance of the HTTP verb, though. One reason i've come to the dedign i proposed is that a web form usually isn't creating and deleting in a single operation, so I use
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Patterns for REST API bulk operations(l1ghtm4n.com)
2 points by l1ghtm4n 13y ago|2 comments
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by l1ghtm4n 13y ago
Excellent article. I've just written up REST API design patterns for our group here and it maps very closely to the guidelines you've outlined. Many other posts about REST design are lacking real world experience items like rate limiting.
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
Trello doesn't support this feature natively, but there are some third party apps which do. Gmello, Emello are two I know of. Feature request is here and could use a vote. https://trello.com/card/create-cards-via-email/4d5ea62fd76aa...
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but what is the implementation? Is it a web interface which reads gmail? Is it a web-based email @inboxpro.com? I can see a lot of benefit to the features listed, but I can see a big target market where the individual
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I'm disappointed to find so few details about the algorithms they're programmed with. Past public installations I've seen like this are visualization of input to ponder. This just seems like random blinkenlights. Doesn't give me much to
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
Thanks for the data link. I'd consider the difference of 6.1 vs. 4.1 per 100k comparable. I was right about Oakland, though, at 26.3. Even Stockton is higher than SF at 19.7. I'll use that one to back up my fear of bored kids in isolate
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I've lived in NYC and SF. SF doesn't have bad neighborhoods, just annoying ones. Crackheads are a nuisance but they aren't very dangerous. Oakland might have some bad neighborhoods. Honestly the burbs scare me the most. I'm probably mor
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I use it for a project that is static generated via stasis. Stasis creates a public/ folder with duplicates of JS and CSS files, so I slugignore the originals.
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I was just thinking about this today. The web devs I'm working with are talking about ditching Rails entirely in favor of in-browser template rendering by JS. With a backend also in JS, it seems to clearly be a winning development environ
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
What I got from that comment is that open source begets open source. With all the forking, related projects want to be hosted together. And with all the developers contributing to many projects, it's a social graph with a lot of gravity.
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I agree with MetaJack that analysis and execution are two different disciplines. "Quants" use tools like R and Excel, while the models and trading engines are most likely C++ or Java.
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Statis + HAML + Bootstrap = Static Bliss(l1ghtm4n.com)
1 points by l1ghtm4n 14y ago|0 comments
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Learning what I'm bad at(l1ghtm4n.com)
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
How about summarizing blog posts for twitter?
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I think the biggest kicker recently is JRuby which runs Rails. There is a very large Java ecosystem which can now pull up into Ruby. Seems like I see it everywhere recently.
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
This is great news. I wrote some articles and made other contributions back when Kurt had it live. Had a shirt too! My #1 hangout for that time, invaluable resource for aspiring coders. Today's game DEV landscape has really widened, thoug
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by l1ghtm4n 14y ago
I've opened Hevibyte to new sign ups. It's secure sneakernet. http://www.hevibyte.com
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by l1ghtm4n 15y ago
Steve Blank is speaking next week at Startup Grind for those in SV. http://www.meetup.com/Startup-Grind/events/38750922/
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by l1ghtm4n 15y ago
I only purchased an iPad after realizing one specific use case. Managing my new baby. General purpose computing or browsing is left to my laptop. Things specific to baby like FaceTime/skype, pandora music, one-handed browsing while holdi

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