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by nickstefan12 9y ago
Probably when actual "departments" become a thing (e.g. sales, marketing and engineering as separate tribes with separate incentives)
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
> the more expensive the service a B2B company provides, the more incomprehensible its website > I think the big companies do it to get you on the phone — so they can upsell. I was thinking these things, and then BOOM, he says what I
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
Also not OP, but we've been using dapulse. Terrible name, but it's been working great. It has similar concepts to asana and trello. It loads fast and easy to use.
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
Interesting take. I could paraphrase this as a response to this sort of strawman, "It sucks that we have to pay [for xyz necessity], wait [in traffic for abc experience], and accept [toxic influencers on your life], but thats just part
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
Your comment just made me think: these are all kind of conveniences of lifestyle that might relate to millenials growing up in McMansion-ville? When they move to the city, they don't really want to live in the city. They want McMansion
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
This assumes you want anything to do with the front end :). Maybe a better tact at why JavaScript first: people are far more likely to hire junior front end people than junior backend.
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
let me guess: - unzip the .docx file into xml files - parse the xml into something organizable by line (csv? etc) - commit this other file format - in the GUI of your app, when someone selects a snapshot in time, go from the by line (csv
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
> Then you user-test it, discover why it sucks for your core audience, and make it suck less, in hopes that this time you've got the minimum viable product. Seems related to: "MVP" --> "the rewrite / second sy
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
but then you have to have a car! car payment + gas + car insurance + daily bart tickets... It can add up! this equation is often true for non-family people I know: SFRent - EBRent <= OwningCar for family people renting bigger spaces, th
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
we don't run docker in production, but docker-compose has been awesome for our local dev environment. We can get new engineers new computers going in 20 minutes! Much easier than vagrant or running everything manually.
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
> But I never cared about SVG itself. It's just a tool. I cared about what I could build with it. I'm calling BS on that last statement of hers. I don't intend for this to sound mean. I intend for it to help her (or reader
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by nickstefan12 9y ago
> Automation suites are a way to harden the software, so that even minor changes will be significant and may halt development. I find this to be the biggest issue. Specifically, the "best" time to write tests is also when the c
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
If you'd be okay with a directed acyclic graph, then SQL can work. Basically "modeling trees in SQL". Specifically, you could use postgresql for the edge traversing and its jsonb column to store searchable attributes.
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
Respectfully, I think you missed the point of the parent comment. Parent comment says: if `(former programmer) turned manager` is more equal in gender than `programmer`, that might mean there is a sorting function that is pulling women out
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
"Minio" as a drop in local replacement for s3 has been great for local development. Small Golang binary.
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
bets as to the cause? internal DDoS against their dynamo clusters backing s3? DNS issues between amazon's services?
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
While I am happy for his success, a part of me can't help but wonder: "Is being popular on twitter a big part of front end development these days?: JS, CSS, HTML and Twitter Followers"
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
Its more than things being "hard". Its about the nature of the questions philosophers try and answer. Kant and his Critique of Pure Reason has those 4 quadrants of "knowing". A priori vs posteriori. Synthetic vs analytic
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
I believe that you are correct. The essence of his "intent" is probably not much different than what I'm getting at. I think what bothers me is that there is such an emphasis on precision of language and precision of "hi
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
> If you seriously attempt existentialism, you will fail. You cannot create your own meanings. If you take that failure seriously, and analyze what went wrong, you may recognize that subjective meanings are impossible. Then—since objecti
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
This feels very INTP vs INTJ. Both are stereotypical engineers, but INTP typically values understanding the problem. INTJ is stereotypically more interested in leveraging just enough understanding. The world needs both. I'm not surpris
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
Ive never put the words together, but you've basically highlighted what I want: Python (and its type system) + Go routines Where can I find that!?
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
the lack of a good standard library might have something to do with it. I'll admit im not sure.
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
Thanks! I forgot to require the spellcheck module ;).
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
In an industry without a guild / license / what have you, the incentives skew towards articles of proof. Articles of proof could be demo websites, screen shots, and open source libraries. Being the creator or top two contributor o
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In a nutshell why do a lot of developers dislike agile?(quora.com)
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
Bloodborne seems to meet all of these pretty well. Especially "speed over tanking", levels not needing to make sense if they're functional, weapon and enemy variety. Cool to read it all laid out why we like certain games so m
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
People have been underwater kicking since the 80s. They changed the rules to limit the distance one could kick underwater. Is this an old story? Also, interesting to note that in the olympic / NCAA 50 yard and 50 meter freestyle, a dra
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
Good game no one plays: Land Air Sea Warfare (it's basically old school Red Alert ported to iOS!) Shit game everyone plays: clash of clans. Basically, there's more non gamers than gamers, and more mkney in skinner box candy crush
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by nickstefan12 10y ago
The article form of "Silicon Valley" HBO... I actually turned off the TV and finished the entire article. Its amazing to think how rare it is for me to actually read an article and not just SKIM. Maybe its not that amazing. Most a

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