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Why is YAGNI a good rule?(lionelbarrow.com)
29 points by lbarrow 13y ago|54 comments
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things(medium.com)
13 points by lbarrow 13y ago|2 comments
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by lbarrow 13y ago
You've got a point. I'll edit it to say "terrible". How's that?
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by lbarrow 13y ago
He'll be remembered as a terrible CEO. Ballmer took over as CEO in 2000. In the 13 years since then, Apple has experienced an unprecedented resurgence. Google and Facebook have gone from being obscure startups to giants. The tech indus
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Great article! FYI, I'm an engineer at Braintree. We'll be eliminating our monthly minimum very soon - stay tuned.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
I'm glad to hear it. Was there anything about the language that you found particularly forced clarity and modularity? I'm giving a talk comparing Go and Ruby next month and I'm curious as to what people with experience with
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by lbarrow 13y ago
My understanding is that that is, in a single sentence, exactly why the project initially got started at Google. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Go-Google
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by lbarrow 13y ago
One of the big projects they're working on in the next version of Go is to make the internal scheduler more Erlang-esque =)
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by lbarrow 13y ago
It's interesting to see that more and more internal projects at Google are getting redone in Go. However, this sentence stands out to me in the article: "Before doing the rewrite, we realized we needed only a small subset of the f
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by lbarrow 13y ago
There's no requirement at all that functions return error codes. If a function can't fail, or if you don't care about if it fails, don't return an error.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
I'm an engineer at Braintree. The way I see it when you compare Braintree and Stripe in the UK: - Stripe has instant signup. Braintree does not (yet). You have to send us a few documents; the signup process takes a few days. - Stripe m
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by lbarrow 13y ago
How did you achieve a 16 second response time for your blog ? What the heck were you doing?
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by lbarrow 13y ago
I agree with the OP's statement that if you didn't contribute to the code (and you didn't pay for it, etc), you shouldn't have a say in whether or not the software is open-sourced. However, I think that unless the progra
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Reading these comments, you'd think that everyone on GitHub was only there to beef up his or her resume. Personally, I've made far more open source contributions at my current (awesome) job than I ever did while on the job market.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
I can't wait to see the Javascript implementation of Linux.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
The military-industrial complex is a different idea that refers to a separate set of problems.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
What's the advantage of doing this instead of just making tags a separate table with a many-to-many relationship with documents?
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by lbarrow 13y ago
0.5% conversion is pretty good for a SaaS product that only targets businesses.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
The article about us was written in March of 2011, before we accepted funding. We were bootstrapped for 4 years.
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Braintree partners with online bank Simple to expand reach of one-touch payments(venturebeat.com)
1 points by lbarrow 13y ago|0 comments
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Sorry, I understood what you mean by a firewall. I'm curious as to why you think it's necessary.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Could you explain what you mean by "ensure that foreign surveillance is firewalled off from the rest of the government"?
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by lbarrow 13y ago
The UK was very close to intervening in the American Civil War.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
The program is correct, but the function name is wrong.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
I use a strongly, statically typed functional language. Because my code has no mutable state, the type system of the program proves the program correct. So I don't have to write any tests at all and maintenance is easy.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
This article is frankly kind of silly. Just because the boomers were alive and working during all these trends doesn't mean that they were responsible for them.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
I can't get past the first paragraph of this article. Anyone who kicks off their argument with three sentences of continuous name-dropping is not worth listening to.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
We work with you to get you set up with a merchant account. Unfortunately, the application process isn't instant yet like it is in the US.
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by lbarrow 13y ago
Have you looked at Braintree? We're charging 2.4% and $0.30 in Australia, with no monthly fee.
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Show HN: Braintree-Go, a Go package for processing payments with Braintree(github.com)
2 points by lbarrow 13y ago|0 comments

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