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by lastofus 7y ago
If you are serious about saturating your pipe as a business with some cash to spend, there is Aspera. My understanding is that they build their own protocol on top of UDP to avoid pesky behavior of TCP.
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by lastofus 8y ago
Don't write off non-profits and NGOs. Working at an NGO is probably the most content I've been career wise, even if the technical problems being solved are not the most challenging. The people there are amazing, and being in an en
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by lastofus 8y ago
I found this comment enlightening: https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/send-off#example-593472... It seems like there are a lot of parallels between agents and core.async. Agents, like go blocks, run in a thread pool.
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by lastofus 8y ago
I believe all I/O is blocking unless you use something that wraps NIO. This is definitely true for core.async threads, but I'm not sure why it would any different for agents. This is also a bit of a departure for people coming fro
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by lastofus 8y ago
My 2 year old is just happy to talk on the computer mouse like it's a phone. Not sure where I would start other than "daddy reading".
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by lastofus 8y ago
Number 6 is basically the Secret app, though the community quality there isn’t great. Also, googling "github for recipes" brings up a number of options as well.
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by lastofus 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what kind of apps do you work on day to day?
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by lastofus 8y ago
> If there are 50 commits in every release, and a 2% chance of a given commit breaking something, then in expectation every monolith deploy gets rolled back. > Microservices are one way out of that cycle. Is the implication that micro
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by lastofus 8y ago
Learning and customizing someone else's boilerplate can be just as time consuming, though you will probably learn a thing or two in the process.
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by lastofus 8y ago
If you really want to understand the fundamentals, look into writing a toy HTTP server from scratching starting with sockets. The language you choose to do this in doesn't matter quite as much, but bonus points if you use C and the POS
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by lastofus 8y ago
I believe it was in Eskepa's "The Cure for Alcoholism"
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by lastofus 8y ago
I'm in the same boat regarding interruptions. A lock on the door can help.
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by lastofus 8y ago
It depends, as both front-end and back-end have large ranges of complexity. In general though, if you were to compare the most extreme case of back-end complexity to the most extreme case of front-end complexity, the back-end case would be
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by lastofus 8y ago
HAML for HTML is still around. SASS is nice for CSS. ClojureScript + Reagent/Re-frame is amazing though! (See Hiccup syntax)
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by lastofus 8y ago
Perhaps offer cloud based backups/syncing of notes across devices. You could use git to track history of changes over time on the server. Charge a monthly fee for this feature to cover hosting + profit.
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by lastofus 8y ago
I believe I read that Dr. Sinclair was thinking Naltrexone could also be used to help with any sort of addiction such as smoking or overeating. I don't think there is any clinical research to support this though in the same way there i
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by lastofus 8y ago
Related: "Perfect is the enemy of good" And in the case of side projects: "Best practices are the enemy of fun"
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by lastofus 8y ago
The followup argument is usually something along the lines of quantum mechanics is just probabilistic as far as we know. Quantum physics doesn't allow for free will in an otherwise deterministic universe, any more than hooking up a RNG
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by lastofus 8y ago
Just logging out on all devices has been enough to break the reflex for me. Typing in my email and password, especially on mobile, is enough to prevent me from proceeding.
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by lastofus 8y ago
> I would really love to know why this was downvoted? Some bar napkin math: $150k (savings) + $40k (living expenses) = $190k post tax. Assuming 30% goes to taxes (making liberal use of a 401k), that would be $272k salary. @ 35% it would
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by lastofus 8y ago
I regret that I will have RSI pain in my arms for the rest of my life. Chronic pain is depressing.
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by lastofus 8y ago
They are probably referring to not being an accredited investor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
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by lastofus 8y ago
I've personally experienced this with a YC backed company that still posts job listings on here. After 2 full days on-site with said company, I got radio silence. Not even a quick "thanks but no" email.
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by lastofus 8y ago
It was much nicer than Perl in that I could actually read and understand code I wrote 6+ months back.
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by lastofus 8y ago
If you have passable people skills and enjoy a bit of travel, you may consider sales engineering. You basically handle all of the technical things that are over the heads of the normal sales team, both pre and post sales. This will often lo
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by lastofus 8y ago
The editor based REPL is how the Clojure folks stay productive (as opposed to running tests at the command line). Using a keyboard shortcut to eval any expression in your code is really great. The stacktraces are still often terrible though
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by lastofus 8y ago
If you ever decide you want to cutback/stop with the alcohol, I highly recommend the Sinclair Method.
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by lastofus 8y ago
I dropped a few bucks on Quiver for a more developer friendly Evernote, and I've been relatively happy with it.
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IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds(cnn.com)
20 points by lastofus 8y ago|11 comments
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by lastofus 8y ago
To generalize, any singular component of a business is relatively worthless, unless there exists a functional business to plug it into.

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