mrgordon

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by mrgordon 13y ago
A friend, as opposed to a friend of a friend or someone on the internet
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by mrgordon 13y ago
I have used the Rollbar Clojure client library and I found it to be adequate FWIW
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by mrgordon 13y ago
Rollbar. We used to use Airbrake but Rollbar has been much better for us. It is still pretty new but they are constantly adding features.
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by mrgordon 13y ago
One would think that but...
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by mrgordon 13y ago
Exactly. You should have seen the Leopard nightlies. The top bar translucency was off for a while and it was basically non-functional. The dock would crash regularly, etc.
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by mrgordon 13y ago
It depends on the job. While I don't doubt that is true for a simple web development task, most programmers who live in states with poor economies and no tech jobs probably have not written service-oriented distributed systems on AWS that h
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by mrgordon 13y ago
Yep, and you know what to write tests for
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by mrgordon 13y ago
Yeah it is very difficult to find Rails developers who are on the market. Wages for Rails developers have certainly been going up in the Bay Area, even including the tons of junior hires, because no one can find senior talent. Maybe this is
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by mrgordon 13y ago
I am extremely disappointed that major technology executives and investors are pouring millions of dollars into advertisements supporting Keystone XL and other terrible causes as some sort of twisted political alliance to get immigration re
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Silicon Valley Group's Political Effort Causes Uproar(nytimes.com)
3 points by mrgordon 13y ago|1 comments
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by mrgordon 13y ago
I'm assuming you are supposed to upload it to the cheapest t-shirt vendor of your choice based on volume etc.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
yes exactly, this is how a friend did it in jruby (he got a perfect score)
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Coding time was actually not precious here. They gave about a day to do the qualification round but only eight minutes to run your program once you downloaded the input data, so the round was optimized for writing highly performant code at
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Performance is not technically a criteria but you have eight minutes from the time you download the input data until you have to be done uploading the output data. So if you spend 50 minutes incrementing integers, then you'll get 0 points n
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Seriously, I can't help but think they are just trying to get clicks with this sensationalism. This article is a mess.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Boston has been the second biggest VC market (counting the Bay Area as one) but every report I've seen shows New York has tied or surpassed Boston over the past few years. http://mashable.com/2013/02/21/top-cities-startups/ http://mycrai
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Yeah, Kendall Square has definitely filled that nitch for a while. There have been enough successful exits, particularly in biotech, that I don't think it's really any contest as far as the local area goes. It seemed like the startup scene
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Still the place to be in Boston/Cambridge for start-ups, certainly, but it is hardly "the" place compared to San Francisco and the valley. The lack of funding, even compared to New York, has been a real problem for the ecosystem. Why did Fa
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Yeah, I've been enjoying using Clojure for this reason. The strengths of the JVM and Java libraries with the development time and functional style of a Lisp.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
I wish it were a bit more robust than it is. The ZooKeeper version we run (3.3.4, admittedly not the newest) reports the wrong version number (3.3.3) and has a major bug in the way it does snapshots. We found that it doesn't serialize the t
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by mrgordon 14y ago
This. I work for a low bullshit company that is always looking to hire people and has sponsored visas. Don't assume that your company represents every company.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
You're probably looking at $500 a month for the Thai beach situation, but yes it's good deal!
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by mrgordon 14y ago
It seems he means that his intuition was correct but wasn't followed for lack of data backing it up
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by mrgordon 14y ago
If we see these sorts of improvements overall, then this is a very exciting update
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Yeah I've even seen pushback hiring from additional US states as there is more paperwork if the company doesn't already have employees there.
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by mrgordon 14y ago
login form. bam, you are being followed around the web. maybe Quora will even decide to tell your friends what articles you clicked on. who knows what new "feature" they've added today
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Merb and Rails did merge, but that doesn't mean any reasonably sized Merb codebases had any hope to migrate. It's a different framework with a different ORM. All those developers that followed Katz early on got burned when he joined Rails c
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by mrgordon 14y ago
"Yehuda Katz has done amazing work on Rails 3 and Bundler. When he tells me that he’s not going to abandon Ember.JS, I believe him, because he has a track record proving so" Uhhh nothing against Yehuda but I strongly object to this as someo
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by mrgordon 14y ago
Exactly. I'd love to see this with sentiment analysis (ideally done by humans instead of support vector machines) The data from people using Senti to rank movie sentiment has been interesting: https://senti.crowdflower.com
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by mrgordon 14y ago
We have a single sign-on (Rails) application along with a client library that other apps use to integrate with it (which provides helpers for checking for accounts and roles as well as rspec helpers for writing tests that involve logging in

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