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by matrix 9y ago
Intriguing approach. Anyone know if there's a write-up somewhere from somebody that's tried it? It's always helpful to learn from the gotchas others have run into.
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by matrix 9y ago
Small kids are a lot more work than many people realize. Ditto building a business. Trying to do both at once without being financially independent first is not a choice anyone should make if they can help it.
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by matrix 9y ago
That blog is the perfect example of how to create content that provides compelling value for your target market, and establishes credibility for your product. Great stuff! Have you tried publishing a column in newspapers and the like that f
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by matrix 9y ago
Agreed. Kotlin + Dropwizard is an interesting approach. How well do Kotlin and Jersey play together in your experience?
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by matrix 9y ago
Excellent and very informative post. I'd love to see the things SureSwift needed for due diligence and their hand-over list - it would be a good checklist of things you need to have squared away to ensure a smooth transaction.
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by matrix 9y ago
I think you'll find that in the cases when it worked, the people involved were in the same city or otherwise able to work together physically at least part of the time. I feel it's the only way to build a relationship.
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by matrix 9y ago
Lots of good points, but one thing still keeps me off this particular train: .NET does not (yet?) have the same level of availability of high quality free libraries that other major platforms do. Things like image processing, database DSLs,
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by matrix 9y ago
I have yet to find anything quite as nice as SSMS for Postgres, but Navicat for PostgreSQL is pretty good. It's not free, but its not expensive and has features I feel are worth paying for such as being able to diff schemas or data acr
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by matrix 9y ago
It looks like Gatsby generates a static site as a SPA? What's the advantage of that approach over multi-page sites generated with Jekyll, Hugo, etc.?
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by matrix 9y ago
Any standouts that you recommend? I ask because the two we were given are a bit ordinary. Perhaps there's a wide variance in quality of her books?
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by matrix 9y ago
There is precedent for a bias against hiring someone who is too attractive, see "Fired for Being Beautiful: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/opinion/fired-for-being-be...
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by matrix 9y ago
Just put one or zero in the salary field(s). No company worth working for is actually checking your salary history. Resorting to entering '; DROP TABLE candidates; -- will definitely get your application rejected though.
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by matrix 9y ago
I like this concept a lot, but like most choropleth maps (i.e. maps that color-code a state or county for a given value), it's misleading because the this is really city-level, or even suburb-level data. I'm not sure what the bedt
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by matrix 9y ago
And. Make it possible to do the process online for all three credit reporting agencies (one of them still requires a phone call). Having to pay and spend at least 20 minutes on the phone to lift your credit freeze because is just ridiculous
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by matrix 9y ago
I have, but it has had datepicker as "shipping real soon now" for at least six months. Not confidence inspiring. Wouldn't it be nice if UI components (and just as importantly, their styling) was decoupled from the JS framewor
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by matrix 9y ago
True, to an extent. You are right in that that residents of SLC (plus similar areas like Park City and Ogden) are politically disenfranchised due the state being something of a theocracy. However, SLC itself is actually pretty liberal and h
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by matrix 9y ago
Here is the the list of top Computer Science programs: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch... #40: University of Utah.
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by matrix 9y ago
A reasonable choice to be sure, but I do disagree on the weather and mass transit part. Atlanta's urban sprawl means that fewer residents live near a transit stop than in most cities of comparable size. And the weather - obviously that
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by matrix 9y ago
Step 1: Create a "reverse" income statement to test whether the basic concept is financially viable. Step 2: Talk to at least 10 potential customers to assess the idea. Make sure most are people who don't feel obligated to be
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by matrix 9y ago
Interesting idea,and I'd love to see this work, but this particular chart isn't helpful in practice due to huge differences in vehicle depreciation, repair and insurance costs (e.g. S Class vs Land Cruiser) Another thing that this
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by matrix 9y ago
Very strongly agreed. Syntactically significant whitespace is the source of so many preventable errors that I believe it's simply not worth the aesthetic improvements.
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by matrix 9y ago
For Java (or other JVM languages such as Kotlin), TwelveMonkeys is powerful and does not have external dependencies: https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys
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by matrix 9y ago
This highlights something about our industry that I find a little weird. Collectively we want to be respected as professionals, yet feel it's ok come into work whenever it pleases us despite its impact on the team. In my view, a true p
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by matrix 9y ago
The narratives described in this article - "captivating the nation with tales of people who made fortunes" - reads very much like that around start-ups in recent years. Maybe the real money is in creating books and TV shows about
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by matrix 9y ago
I think these billing limits only apply to AppEngine services.
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by matrix 9y ago
Sure, but I think the font should be (to some extent) scaled proportionally to the map area or perhaps some other way of making the text larger. A typical use case for me is zooming in on a highway to see what exit number a particular ramp
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by matrix 9y ago
That's very encouraging to hear. Is your team still using it with Spring (Spring Boot?) or something along those lines? If you were starting a new Kotlin REST server app today, do you think your team would still use that?
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by matrix 9y ago
Perhaps a little off-topic, but can anyone share their experience with using Kotlin to build a non-trivial web app and what their stack was?
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by matrix 9y ago
I strongly agree. Let's do the math: With a brand new un-proven product with an unproven pricing model, how many customers does it take to get to $10K MRR? In three months, how many qualified leads can you find and reach, and what pe
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by matrix 10y ago
Great article. This quote in particular resonated for me: "I had to let go of doing it The Right Way from the get-go, and allow myself to fumble through using suboptimal or just plain amateur setups just to get comfortable with individ

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