mmartinson

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by mmartinson 9y ago
In addition, once you have hack solutions that are validated by users, replacing them with more robust solutions is extremely satisfying.
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by mmartinson 9y ago
These comparisons don't really make sense. I just spent a decent chunk of time evaluating the current state of these tools for implementation in a new product, and seeing a comparison of the prom + grafana toolchain with the comparable
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by mmartinson 9y ago
It's interesting how at-odds the concept of plagiarism in a university classroom is with the industry-lauded values of open source software and reuse of well established implementations. As someone familiar with the university system b
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Wrecking your brain trying to figure out what another person was thinking is a pretty fascinating way to appreciate the incredible complexity of human beings and how other minds work differently than your own.
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Careful with that should, or you might take someone's eye out.
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Spend 9 hours a day looking at an electronic display. Hands on paper, leaf scrolling. API reference books get dated pretty quickly, but more theoretical or conceptual references hold up pretty well in a collection.
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Why comment at all if you're going to be merely dismissive and nonconstructive?
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Ya I've actually seen a number a few shops making real moves in that direction, at least here in Vancouver. The OSS ecosystem is obviously pretty immature but I think it's getting good enough that it's starting to seem like a
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by mmartinson 10y ago
I'd be curious to see if this becomes viable as an interface wrapper for teams that writing new services in Elixir while supporting important pieces of legacy Ruby code. This seems to be the situation in a lot of Ruby shops, and it wou
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Every time time someone uses the world "conquer" to describe a climbing accomplishment, a million climbers face palm. That said, this is a pretty descriptive article describing what happened in a way accessible to fairly general a
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Given the meteoric adoption of Docker and its nuances, this number is completely unsurprising to me. I am surprised it is not higher
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Subtly advertising to friends for extremely poor compensation? Imagine your friends were paid to bring up brands in conversation without letting you know they were doing it. Maybe they'd find themselves a bit lonely after a while..
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Great news for you, you are the master of your own destiny and never have to (: The age-old wisdom holds of course for so many cases, but writing code isn't always software engineering. Wouldn't you grant that it would be a mistak
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by mmartinson 10y ago
If you're doing fast prototyping or hacking for fun then mindless variable names make sense, but working on a production codebase that is or will likely be shared by others is a different situation. There no argument for absolute quali
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by mmartinson 10y ago
Is that a criticism of the emphasis in the author's writing or the people who use this website?
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by mmartinson 10y ago
I agree that there is a lot of space for distinction between the kind of work that people are doing in the software field, but I see prototypes being thrown into production as a hugely positive thing, not a problem. Part of the beauty of th