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by nirvana 14y ago
Everyone not in the Yahoo bay area offices is "remote" to them. Talking to engineers in New York is talking to "remote" engineers from the perspective of someone in the bay area. Does it matter that much if they're in an office in new yor
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Meyer built personal office nursery before remote work ban.(allthingsd.com)
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by nirvana 14y ago
I hypothesize that for a ruby programmer, learning elixir would allow them to learn the way erlang works, and then the transition from elixir syntax to erlang syntax would be very easy. The thing is, elixir is really just erlang with some e
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by nirvana 14y ago
Engineers need to be disciplined. You know there's a problem with the culture when things like MongoDB become popular, despite very highly public failures, and fundamentally bad engineering choices. It shows the power of marketing and ideo
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by nirvana 14y ago
...where you don't care if you lose the data. So data sets where you are getting a new version of the data every day and so if you lose yesterday's dataset you don't care. also, datasets that fit on a single machine, rather than need to sc
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by nirvana 14y ago
I love all these "benchmarks" of "NoSQL" databases running on single nodes. Plus you don't name the competitors or any configuration data so... this is really marketing not engineering. Not that any engineer worth a damn would use a datab
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by nirvana 14y ago
Erlang was the first functional language I learned. It took me a couple weeks of pain but then once I got it, I started to love it. The "unreadable" becomes poetry. (And truthfully, the support for concurrency in erlang is why I chose it
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by nirvana 14y ago
FWIW, In Erlang Land, the "A" release (eg: 16A) is the "beta" and the "B" release is the "finished" release. So 16B is the complete, ready for production version of 16. Next release will be 17A, or 16B2 if there are bug patches required. Al
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by nirvana 14y ago
Back when he was alive, Milton Friedman did a study of the costs of health care in the US from 1900 to the 1970s. (I think the first study was in the 1970s, and it was updated in the 1990s) What he found was that the funding mechanism of he
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by nirvana 14y ago
Frankly, I think Linus Torvalds may be the next Steve Jobs. This is very Jobsian. He knows what's right, and he's dressing down people who also knew what was right but did the wrong thing anyway. People act as if Jobs was a tyrant badmout
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by nirvana 14y ago
I know exactly where Meyer came from, and a fair bit of inside baseball about her time there. If you disagree with my argument, please make a counter argument. Snide comments are useless.
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by nirvana 14y ago
TL;DR: Here's the thing: All engineering is "working remotely" because being "remote" is simply a matter of isolation. This is why even people in the same room use headphones, IM, etc. Everything that's not working remotely (eg: isolation)
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by nirvana 14y ago
Alas, this article doesn't explain the problem. Ok, VFX companies are going out of business while the films they helped make are having success and winning awards. Why? Did they not charge enough? Are they left holding the bag when effect
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by nirvana 14y ago
Here's the thing that weeds out recruiters for me: If you get far enough to get me to respond, I'm going to ask a couple specific questions in my response. Answer them. Just yesterday I responded to a recruiter, explained my situation and
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by nirvana 14y ago
Because the OECD has enacted numerous "money laundering" laws, and the IRS has regulations that require foreign banks to report information on US citizens with accounts. Sure, the foriegn bank is not located in the USA ,but many of them hav
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by nirvana 14y ago
It is. And one of the interesting things is, every 3-4 months they bring in another 30 startups.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Five years ago I quit working for other people and started working for myself. At the same time, we decided to start traveling, to get a better idea of other cultures for our products (which are internationalized) and to see if we found a p
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by nirvana 14y ago
Well, you did call a directory structure that is easy to navigate "opaque", and all of your criticisms are like those from someone who hasn't bothered to even try and figure out how to accomplish what you claim to want to do. It would be be
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by nirvana 14y ago
If OS X hasn't advanced as much as people would like, I suspect that has a lot to do with iOS sucking up a large portion of Apple's developer resources. However they are over that hump and over the past 2 years with Mountain Lion they're mo
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by nirvana 14y ago
This perspective is inaccurate. The auto-save feature is versioned, so if you want to go back to an eariler version, you can, and in fact, it's much easier. In the past if you made changes and saved the file, only the latest save was on t
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by nirvana 14y ago
Except that in the case of all the data she's complaining about the Apple products DO use conveneint data formats. The MP3 structure supports tags in the files as a standard going back to the 1990s and Apple supports it. I don't think Linu
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by nirvana 14y ago
The idea that Apple has her data all locked up is completely asinine. Frankly, saying so is dishonest. Apple has been careful to not do what she describes. It's hypocrtical to say that Linux which stores stuff in a directory structure is
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by nirvana 14y ago
Whatever happened to Atlas? I thought cappuccino was dead. It seemed clear to me that it needed an Interface Builder equivalent, but Atlas was in perpetual beta and ignored for years, motorola bought them and the 280 north guys went to "ho
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is good stuff and he covers a lot of important indicators. One thing I discovered in 2001, and validated from 2002-2007 is that monetary policy is a massive indicator of the direction of countries. Once you understand economics (Econo
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by nirvana 14y ago
Stealing someone's boat is not karma for writing an article pointing out how much of a hypocrite you are. The first is a crime, the second is protected speech. Plus you wouldn't be so mad if you didn't realize he was right.
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by nirvana 14y ago
He's afraid to sign a form that has an error on it, because he's a moral person. Meanwhile, she's giddy to steal his very expensive boat, because she knows no matter how much she fucks it up, it's not going to come back on her. Plus nice n
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by nirvana 14y ago
Is there any evidence (eg: a direct quote) [1] that Steve Jobs actually "hated Java"? I'm tired of this kind of sloppy nonsensical, and actually, dishonest attribution of opinions to Steve Jobs. It was bad enough when he was alive. Jobs cle
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by nirvana 14y ago
The answer is very simple: Brody is lying about what Tesla told him, just like he's told many other lies in his article and in the rebuttal. Putting it into a "he said / she said" is a smokescreen. The car might be a lemon but the idea that
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're looking at the cost of production, and then the price and assuming that all of the space between the two is profit, and seem to be implying that somehow it is a ripoff. What you're not considering is the value to the customer. The in
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by nirvana 14y ago
North Korea is at the end state of socialism. Hayek wrote a famous book called "The road to serfdom", and this prison camp, and the way the rest of NK citizens live is the serfdom he's talking about. Once you accept that you're owned by "s

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