louischatriot

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by louischatriot 14y ago
When beginning working on our current startup, we decided to switch from Windows to Linux to make development easier. I was planning to keep a partition with Windows but I soon found out how being on Linux I didn't have to worry about shit
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Reading suggestion for him: Lean Startup. He went with an idea that needs to be validated (I don't find obvious that condom key chains are a sure kill ...) and instead tries to produce 10,000 of them the first time. Wow.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
That's something that happens a lot in the JS/nodejs world too. It has the potential to be disastrous if you're not rigorous, that's for sure. But it still enables very concise and maintenable code.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
That's especially true for high-paying jobs in finance, law or management consulting. Here your wage raises so fast that most people don't see how their tastes are evolving. For example, after 2-3 years most cannot go to a nightclub without
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I'd go further. They don't know that people will not like them if they keep on saying 'yes'. Someone who can say 'no' when he needs to is more respected than a yesman.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Very interesting thesis. But why did you use the two very specific examples of the factorial and fibonacci sequence? They don't strengthen your (again, very interesting) point but rather dilute it.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I especially like frustration detection. Such a great way to react at the right time and stop a user's anger at the right time. I wonder if this could be possible on computers too, by using an ambient movement sensor or simply the webcam? t
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Unfortunately (for the labels) this is completeley useless. Even if they managed to block it everywhere in the world, another torrent sharing site would appear right way (and that would be history repeating itself).
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by louischatriot 14y ago
tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50c222ad1a39f34847000d06 I personally don't like pairing very much. I like be in the zone and crank out code. Then I do a pull request and get one of my teamates review the code. He can spot mistakes, sh
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Very interesting proposals overall, not too sure about the localization (don't most programmers speak English ?) though.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
That's interesting, with two caveats: - Many people may be wary of giving an idea for which they see a huge potential, but it may not be a problem for side projects - I don't see what the people giving their opinion would gain. Maybe it's j
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I also agree that the most important first step is to find content that's interesting to you. Coming from France (a country well-known for its crappy language learning methods), I learnt english as a teenager because I wanted to understand
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Pirating is part of how I learned to make software. To me it was a game at the time but disambling programs/debugging them while they run was a great way to understand how they work.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
You're right we may be posting to many of these these day. That's not pure self-promotion as re really think they help people get the gist of very long articles (remember the immortal jellyfish story?) but of course we shouldn't spam HN.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Yes, the "fear of being perceived as spam" is certainly something we all have. I really feel like stating what our company does would be like "Hey I'm company X trying to sell you Y you don't care about".
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by louischatriot 14y ago
tldr versioin: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50bb074fcfbff44a4d000b00 Impressive, hard to believe things such ad "cloaking a building to seismic waves" can actually be done!
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by louischatriot 14y ago
tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50ba19a9cfbff44a4d000441 I can relate to most of it even though I don't work in the Valley. Especially the "make friends and listen to their insights" part. We are friends with a few more experienced tea
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by louischatriot 14y ago
tldr: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b76494ada40f0817000160 It seems to me that most of these problems are communication problems. You just got a backing of XXX hundreds of thousands of dollars and don't want to disappoint with some bad news, but
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by louischatriot 14y ago
The scary thing is indeed that most software companies do not have security experts nor the means to hire ones and are basically defenseless against such attacks. Kind of reminiscent of patent trolls. tldr version of the article: http://tl
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by louischatriot 14y ago
tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b6a7a7bb22039977000ced I enjoy writing client or server Javascript (yeah, really!), but some of these new features (such as generators) are something I very much look forward to.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
If you don't have time to read this very long (albeit great) piece, the tldr version is: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b64589bb2203997700060f
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Quite a long (although interesting) article. tldr version: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b62f8abb22039977000471
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Here is a tldr of the interview: http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b61713bb2203997700013f
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by louischatriot 14y ago
TIL how to use Chrome. Thank you.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Exactly. Offering the possibility to filter out these jobs is not enough, they simply shouldn't appear, because they hurt your platform's credibility. As paradoxical as it sounds, I think you should be picky about the jobs you accept, so as
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Very accurate points, in my opinion. The money quote: "In general whenever a X-guy enforces solving a problem with X everyone should step back and try to analyse it objectively". All three of us at tldr.io are coders, so we indeed jumped in
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by louischatriot 14y ago
I can also answer that as I've a fair bit of Rails experience. This time, we built our API using nodejs/expressjs for the first time, so we had to learn it plus the ins and outs of handling user login, sessions, CORS and a lot of small thin
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Totally agree. The simple question "do I really fear doing that" is very useful too. I quit my management consulting job to start a company when I asked myself this and answered "anyway I'll always be able to live comfortably so why not"
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by louischatriot 14y ago
Exactly. It's so easy in fact, and so amount of SVG you need to learn to build great graphs so small that I almost never rely on a high-level graphing library (e.g. Highcharts) anymore.
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by louischatriot 14y ago
We really didn't make the choice to prepare for millions of users. We like having complete control over our code, and nodejs+express gives us that. I'm sure we make some mistakes Rails would correct for us and we take a bit more time on dev

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