mpdehaan2

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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Thanks! Yeah not there anymore but good group of folks! Not too many people pushing immutable systems and continuous deployment so well either, which was nice to see!
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
NOTE: this is a hoax: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514455
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Not so easily. I wrote Ansible, but no longer work on it. There are numerous problems with the hoax. (A) the user skipped --no-preserve-root to the command, if he really wanted to delete /, he would need to try harder on a modern distr
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by mpdehaan2 10y ago
Hmm, this is always hard. The interviewer is trying to recruit you and also filter you out, but usually will not honestly respond to questions about what they don't like, or will hold some of those against you. Ergo, you really have to
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Seriously this. Salary is NOT everything, and a job that is kicking your butt all day and especially eating into weekends is not worth the tradeoffs. At least, it will catch up with you. Salary is useful for buying things, up until a poin
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Ironically, the package to make your package requirements easier to write has additional requirements not in the core distribution :) But more seriously, good idea in thinking that things should already be this way. The dual maintainance of
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
There kind of used to be acceptability for this - i.e. architects designing the class topology and sometimes even method names, and handing it down. From what I've witnessed, this started to fall out of favor around the early 2000&#x2
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I've given perhaps 50-100 interviews and I'm not sure how many I've been on the other end of. I still believe interviewing is hard. One of the things I typically told my employees and coworkers to do was to avoid psycho-anal
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Perhaps you're not technically deep enough to see other solutions. Perhaps you are trying to disagree with a point by conflating it.
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
It seems like it would be easy enough to crack it open and replace the OS boot data. That being said, I really WANT the data in this case. I hope Apple finds a compromise where they can help get this specific data without risking leaking a
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Sometimes companies can be successful in spite of their leadership, because they have people that care about the users and products working under those conditions. I just imagine how much BETTER those companies could be with more positive l
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Absolutely not. Python strikes an amazing balance in being a rapid development but also sustainable language, that makes for maximally maintainable code. While I can't speak for it's growth in data science, it's widely used i
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I kind of feel much adoption of "microservices" is not for technological regions but for human ones - to increase separation in architectual and code choices where just dividing work up by component wasn't enough.
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
So many times. If we take the (cough) hackers and painters analogy to weird places, software is painting. Where when if you have everybody being creative, the vision can get watered down and not as good as it could be. Companies are the s
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
First off: screw Silicon Valley. Using this as a label for the whole tech scene really has to stop. Second off: I really like the patronage idea. It feels horribly unfair if you are NOT included, which is why it can't last in many
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Sure, they have access to the schedule, but seldom does someone want their calendar being filled up and someone else deciding what their priorities are. So it ends up being more about having a status symbol.
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I would look at is as ok language for lightweight scripting of Java, but some areas like how bad the tracebacks are or how well many of the clojure-specific libraries are fleshed out (or quality of docs), leaves me with major concerns about
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I always found this somewhat amusing, encountering it enough. Email to someone. Suggest meeting. Someone's email, CC you: assistant, schedule this. Email to assistant. Let me see when X is free (cc you, person). Person's reply t
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
The basics work pretty darn well from homebrew and Rust 1.5 (using the online instructions from the Rust homepage), the windows dependencies cargo is downloading aren't a blocker. brew install sdl2 sdl2_image sdl2_gfx sdl2_mixer sdl2_n
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Posting this right after some good suggestions for the service was given feels like this is saying it is wrong to make suggestions for GitHub because they have done good things. This to me, itself, is wrong. The GitHub issue tracker does ne
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Thoughts: Is the quality of the trend data they are selling going to go down with less users using FourSquare every day? Or are they going to buy and sell location data from other people, possibly providing some data and analysis layer on t
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I wonder if the whole "managerless culture" is to blame and is unfixable? (In other words, why hasn't SOMEONE had this thought about issues in N years? One is they deem it not a problem, another could be that they think to
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
While I don't maintain Ansible anymore, +9 billion on this. GitHub is hard at scale. GitHub is fantastic because everyone is on it, but the issue system has not improved since inception - and I felt the UI changes have actually steppe
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I'm not sure about your businesses, but that sounds super great. (Though even 30 hours a week and a quarter of that is super great if you're happy). But I don't think joining a startup as an employee is terrible - perhaps it
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
I think 1% to even 0.5% is pretty likely - at which price maybe you might have to accept something maybe 15-20% below market. I would love to see early developers at this stage get 2-5%, though I think that would be hard for some to push a
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Generally, fairly accurate. One word of warning - It would be nice if most startups became happy "CEO-on-Forbes" unicorns at round C, but not all do. I've seen a startup take a handfull of millions into Round F. Which is of
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
Social media when it is talking about your startup is particularly hard, trying to constantly manage the perceptions is a ... huge challenge (even if you don't have any internal challenges). Founding a startup is also a good way to wo
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
No problem! I've already fixed it so that all my code is forward compatible with Python 7000, despite not knowing what any of the syntax or library changes are going to look like.
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
It's designed to make you watch something now and does make it harder to explore something, read reviews, and so on, or just add it to your queue than it used to. Kind of a trend I detect with "let's overhaul what's not
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by mpdehaan2 11y ago
You are saying your branch is reliable, and I'd agree, most are. There are some bad ones out there where they prefer to hide behind the system and dodge complaints, no matter how nicely brought. Basically Newman from Seinfeld is an a

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