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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't work there, but where I work we deploy 10-20 times a day and if somebody asked me to change the way we store data in cookies, it would probably take a bit of time to roll out. I'm only defending them because it annoys me when people
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by mnutt 15y ago
Any code changes take a non-trivial amount of time. It sounds like the solution is to delete more of the cookies on logout, but there may be other Facebook services that use them and need to be transitioned away.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I signed up to Spotify before they had any Facebook integration, but when they originally got Facebook integration (see your friends' lists) I thought it was pretty cool to be able to browse through my friends' playlists and find new music.
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by mnutt 15y ago
ExtJS is open source. (GPLv3) Since Graphite is Apache 2.0, it looks like they're only able to use it due to some sort of exemption from Sencha. I don't know of any total replacements for ExtJS but something like Sproutcore may come close.
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by mnutt 15y ago
One way that I could see where actual lines is a more useful measurement is if there is any correlation between what percentage of the code you can see on-screen at any time and bugs. Not saying that there is such a correlation, just that t
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by mnutt 15y ago
While solving problems on your own is a great way to learn things, another solution to this is to just talk to someone. They don't have to be an expert in the field, they just need to be there for you to confirm your base assumptions are s
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by mnutt 15y ago
Definitely not the good guys. While I totally sympathize with Numair's story, I can actually see scenarios where both Numair and Chamath would be telling the truth. We were sitting in the record label's offices with the biz dev guys (and e
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by mnutt 15y ago
I don't think he resents them as much as he just realizes that he had mistaken assumptions. He heard that teachers often pay for their own supplies, but what he didn't know was that teachers hate doing it.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Absolutely, any company that does this has a totally broken interviewing process. Though in our case there wasn't too much structure day-to-day, there was total lack of structure.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I worked in a company that did that a couple of times, but not to that extent. Usually the job description wasn't well defined and the candidate didn't have any champions within the company. We would keep on bringing the candidate in over
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by mnutt 15y ago
It's probably a javascript error. They probably have javascript that hides the full article, but then adds a "Continue reading" link and attaches a click handler to it. If the click handler throws an error and fails to stop event propagat
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by mnutt 15y ago
To answer my own question, it's because the author is doing asset bundling.
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by mnutt 15y ago
This is very, very cool. I've wanted something like this for a long time. Running it, I'm having some issues loading pages that I think has something to do with caching static assets. Why not use an existing static file library?
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by mnutt 15y ago
He's referring to this: "Please note version 2.0 is a significant new release, but is 2.0 solely because 1.8 + 0.2 = 2.0; for example the upgrade from 1.6 to 1.8 was similar in scope."
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by mnutt 15y ago
This is true for some startup ideas, but not others. By saying "think of another idea" you eliminate many useful types of startups. I see your point, which is that you don't need a fancy office and an HR staff to get a company off the grou
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by mnutt 15y ago
The NYC MTA seems to have done an about-face from "you can't have any data, and we'll sue you if you do get it" [1] to opening up their data and holding app contests: http://mtaappquest.com/ I'm still waiting on a real-time train schedule
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by mnutt 15y ago
If you don't allow third-party scripts to store any information on the client, you break everyone's Google Analytics scripts. Then everyone will have to give out subdomains to analytics companies, ad networks, etc and we'll be right back w
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by mnutt 15y ago
Or they'll hire someone else who is willing cut even more corners to hack the thing together in a few months, but leaves the codebase in an even worse state.
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by mnutt 15y ago
It's interesting to consider Java in light of the Innovator's Dilemma, since companies facing the Innovator's Dilemma would like to avoid it so they can continue making money. But Java is a tool more than it is a company, so maybe it is act
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by mnutt 15y ago
Those two things sound like backend capacity issues, rather than frontend. The frontend as I understand it is almost all static HTML/JS. So they may be having capacity issues, but that would be true whether they stayed on the old twitter
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by mnutt 15y ago
The $28k could be more accurately called 'Kickstarter costs' since they promised those things in exchange for the $200k they got.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Security cuts the other way, as well. If you put out a bad desktop release with a major security flaw, you'd better have a good way of force-upgrading everyone or you'll have some percentage of users running the insecure version forever.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I was going to call you out for recommending HipChat and then posting a referral link, but then I saw that the referral merely gets you a custom icon that they draw for you. Pretty interesting incentive.
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by mnutt 15y ago
I think the article is flawed in many ways, but if you define 'working' software as software that works for users in such a way that people actually want to use it, then working software isn't so easy. And getting from nothing to working s
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by mnutt 15y ago
I'd imagine they mean the heroku style of tight coupling between the app and its environment, rather than the WAR file style of generating a package that can be deployed by somebody with no knowledge of its inner workings.
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by mnutt 15y ago
56k is quite a few, but the top extensions have millions of users. I'd imagine the vast majority of Alexa Toolbar users get it bundled with other software they're installing.
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by mnutt 15y ago
> Switch to an existing tab when following a link to an already opened url I think this would be pretty jarring unless you restricted it only to tabs that had just been opened. A better approach would be to cache the URL you typed and
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by mnutt 15y ago
Following that logic, most doctors and lawyers are also interchangeable for the most part. The majority of work in those fields is applying what you've been taught and trying not to screw it up. And of course there are exceptions, but from
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by mnutt 15y ago
There's no reason a lawyer in India couldn't learn US law. He probably wouldn't even start very far behind US citizen. The real problem is that he can't set foot in a US courtroom without a visa.
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by mnutt 15y ago
Ah, you're right. Though while it doesn't put a hard limit on the number of lawyers, it does limit the number somewhat by the requirement that you have to attend 3 years of an accredited university and then pass the bar exam.

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