larzang

15 ms·

91.
by larzang 9y ago
It's been so terrible the management of my apartment building sent out an email last week asking everyone to contact Amazon and complain after months of escalating problems. The staff keep having to rescue packages Amazon drivers have
92.
by larzang 9y ago
Sure, SASS is just a power-tool, it still requires a sane architecture. CSS of any flavor should be modular and semantic, it's just that SASS gives you a big leg up once you're comfortable with those concepts. It's still on
93.
by larzang 9y ago
If you're lazy and dealing with a non-critical system, `yum update --security -y` as a nightly cron job goes a long way. If you're working on something important, say critical national economic infrastructure, you do the equivalen
94.
by larzang 9y ago
I'm very skeptical of their data considering it doesn't include Peapod, the oldest and largest internet grocery delivery company.
95.
by larzang 9y ago
That's great for front-end guys, but it's frustrating to me as a back-end developer to have expectations that I can show live examples of my past work to potential employers when I've spent years designing and building enterp
96.
by larzang 9y ago
What's wrong, there aren't any really deep holes where you live? Maybe a river? There's always the fire route if you really can't find a better way to dispose of your money.
97.
by larzang 9y ago
Assuming you have a CD pipeline, sure, but many of us are still stuck with companies following a traditional structured release model, in which case Gitflow still makes a lot more sense.
98.
by larzang 9y ago
e.g Comcast. Doesn't everybody just love having to pick between the diverse internet options of 1) all of Comcast's abusive shenanigans or 2) 2002-era dsl speeds?
99.
by larzang 9y ago
There has only been one site that has been a consistent companion since I discovered it in high school in '99. One site that has served as a foundation in shaping my life. That site is zombo.com. You can do anything at zombo.com.
100.
by larzang 10y ago
This is a part of their sales playbook. Even if you have a top of the line modem that just came out and is on their support list, they will tell you its either unsupported or about to become unsupported and push you to rent garbage from th
101.
by larzang 10y ago
Same way as any other API really, mocking and/or real dry run calls where supported (which is most of the API in AWS' case). Then a staging version of the real environment for final testing.
102.
by larzang 10y ago
If you're willing to deal with the development overhead of creating/storing multiple formats, which if you super care about optimized content serving you're doing anyway for sizes, then just use a picture element with fallbac
103.
by larzang 10y ago
CKAN, the package manager for Kerbal Space Program mods, works by having a central metadata repo that they accept pull requests against for adding metadata for new mods, and then the mods themselves are hosted on Github or SpaceDock or wher
104.
by larzang 10y ago
Yes and no. For example, the company I currently work for has 15 years of unaddressed technical debt, and it has enormous impact on everything we're doing today. Fixing it is absolutely necessary, and where it's been possible to
105.
by larzang 10y ago
I can't speak for other cities because I haven't watched their job markets enough, but anecdotally in Chicago I've seen it break down mostly like this: Big companies use enterprise Java unless they're stuck with a legacy
106.
by larzang 10y ago
Exactly. I'm a self-taught mostly-backend web developer and so I know a variety of related languages, I know the standard tooling and best practices for both front and back end, I know things like OO patterns and project architecture
107.
by larzang 11y ago
Power users have ublock installed and don't see any of this anyway.
108.
by larzang 11y ago
Of course, my job wouldn't exist without the sales people bringing work into the company. That doesn't mean I'm not glad they all sit clear on the other side of the office in a quarantined section where they can extrovert at
109.
by larzang 11y ago
How would you handle the currently-employed with a such a setup? Having to either give notice or use up a week's worth of vacation days just for an extended interview at a single company sounds like a real horror show from the intervi
110.
by larzang 11y ago
> Go shouldn't have "use cases". One should be able to do almost everything with ease with a language built in 2008/9. Assuming that Go is a general-purpose high-level language, yes, but is it? It was created to repl
111.
by larzang 11y ago
The core of the modern web isn't static: it's transactional, it's personalized, and it's end-to-end encrypted for both security and privacy. How does a distributed caching model accommodate such things? If it can'
112.
by larzang 11y ago
The business I work for uses Square, who are rolling out EMV+NFC readers soon and are covering liability in the meantime, which is nice. Weirdly a couple months ago my local 7-11 upgraded to readers which have the physical EMV slot but thos
113.
by larzang 11y ago
If you read the blog posts and YC app it's pretty obviously a parody.
114.
by larzang 11y ago
Curb has the universal app convenience of Uber but partners with licensed taxi companies instead.
115.
by larzang 11y ago
The core SA audience at its height are in their 30s now, and the internet has changed. The people who used to deliver content solely on SA for the audience there now have global reach through other platforms. FYAD and FYAD-lite alumni are
116.
by larzang 11y ago
Uber "disrupted taxis" by disregarding the law, removing protections for both passengers and operators, and shifting risk on to operators while shifting profit margins to management. None of which exactly inspire confidence when i
117.
by larzang 11y ago
The business I work for uses Square Stands for POS, and we've noticed they've been steadily adding additional paid value-adds mostly relating to customer contact/retention to their dashboard system. They don't seem to be
118.
by larzang 11y ago
Cost of living is essentials: food, housing, healthcare. It has nothing to do with what electronics you can buy.
119.
by larzang 11y ago
Wage stagnation isn't just the last decade, it stretches back 40 years, and it has nothing to do with limits in productivity. In inflation adjusted terms, worker productivity has increased almost 75% between 1973 and 2013, while compen
120.
by larzang 11y ago
It's unclear if they mean to imply that 1) there are more vacancies of any type than people entering the field or 2) there are plenty of people entering the field but not enough experienced senior developers to cover the vacant senior

More ›