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by omouse 11y ago
I actually introduced Slack which is much better than Google Hangouts; having any sort of shared chat room is much better for team cohesion but I feel there's something missing the culture because we don't constantly chat. At my l
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by omouse 11y ago
I find that a remote culture is hard to build if half your office is remote and the other half is in the office.
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by omouse 11y ago
And hopefully this talk of a basic income will be the most sensible solution instead of forcing veterans and people with low incomes to beg and wait for any sort of help. It's disturbing that this guy has to wait for months to get vete
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by omouse 11y ago
I know someone who works a marketing/sales job, they're making enough and saving enough to afford a condo in the near future. They also do some uber driving. It isn't always poor people, it's people who want to make some
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by omouse 11y ago
Feels like there needs to be a workshop or teaching section that can funnel these folks and learn them some Ruby/Rails/Haskell/whatever. > If you attend a hackathon with a preconceived notion of recruiting a team to build
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by omouse 11y ago
I wish I was using TypeScript right now; we're using babel for ES6 transpiling and I've found a situation where a particular importing of a module doesn't work correctly. It appears correctly when I run it through the eslint
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by omouse 11y ago
>* Much of the software development you will do in the plain vanilla business world is not very analytical, interesting, or exciting. Many companies are very slow moving* From what I've seen this is mostly because these companies ar
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by omouse 11y ago
Boring front-end developers also aren't involved in the project planning or design process so they're low-status. Of course I expect them to follow the spec and do things the boring way, because that's what they're paid
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by omouse 11y ago
I'm at yet another place where every one does their own thing and once you get past 2 devs this quickly becomes an issue. But heaven forbid you want to set aside time for training and making sure everyone is on the same page with regar
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by omouse 11y ago
> financial services is an intrinsically regulated industry where consumer protection is often very rigorous for a good reason Hah, hahaha. Right. What kind of a cynic can say that without a trace of sarcasm?
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by omouse 11y ago
This. It's like everyone wants Firefox to look like version 1. Seriously guys, there are great features like reader mode which people don't know about. There's a sync mode that people apparently aren't using (I know abou
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by omouse 11y ago
If you don't like Pocket, get more people to use the Sync feature instead or help build out Sync to do what Pocket does. To get to free/open source sometimes you have to start with proprietary software and progressively move over.
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by omouse 11y ago
This is something I'm seeing too; having a committee design a product has resulted in feature after feature being put together in an incoherent way. Pump out features can't work for long.
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by omouse 11y ago
That's what's happened in the city of Toronto and surrounding areas; some of the roads are gravel but for the most part they're paved and it's a pain in the butt when you drive on pot-holed roads. There's some subur
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by omouse 11y ago
I'm sure the salary range is still around that point; there's definitely a salary barrier that is hard to climb over. In Canada for example if you make past 80k you must be a rockstar and a senior dev. The value generated to compe
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by omouse 11y ago
I think the documentation has been the biggest sore spot. With React there's a certain lifecycle and within a few minutes I understood what's happening. With AngularJS it feels like the lifecycle's explanation is spread out e
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by omouse 11y ago
It's an interesting comparison but not something I would put much weight into when it comes to making a decision for my next project. Both React and AngularJS can be introduced progressively so as a 20% time project introducing either
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by omouse 11y ago
Sure but using C# and Java are fairly good indicators that there's a slow-moving enterprise mindset at work. I guess I should have said that in my comment; that they're indicators . I didn't mean to imply that there aren&#x2
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by omouse 11y ago
Licensing fees and tech made for large slow enterprise teams. I've seen the shops that have C# or Java as their backend and they move too slow to be a competitive threat. If their frontend is written in Ruby/Rails or Python/D
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by omouse 11y ago
This is why I advocate for even the most junior programmers to earn more cash. Even a junior programmer's code can save hundreds of hours of labour and increase profit.
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by omouse 11y ago
because we're constantly told that we're lucky to be working on something cool that we usually love to do. we're lucky to have air-conditioned offices and internet access all day.
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by omouse 11y ago
If one of my employees wrote something like this I would never have accepted it. Actually that's the typical corporate apology. The whole team gets the blame when you're playing the blame game! However CEOs and executives like
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by omouse 11y ago
I'm at the last 10% of a screencast script; there's two more phases after this but for some reason my productivity on the project has slowed to a crawl. I'm not sure how to overcome this feeling.
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by omouse 11y ago
That's because Uber is an infrastructure project that just happens to be VC-funded instead of taxpayer-funded. Uber is targeting the taxi industry and delivery services. Their competitors like Lyft have too small a vision. Lyft doesn&#
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by omouse 11y ago
It'll be less than a decade, people are already talking about replacing trucks with self-driving trucks and there's been lots of research and experimentation with self-driving cars and synchronization. The pieces are slowly fallin
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by omouse 11y ago
I wonder if this works mainly for C, C++, ObjC, Java and C#, Python, Ruby or would it also work for Lisp/Scheme and other more powerful languages? Does it only work for crashes? In any case, CS is awesome. Love it when research that a
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by omouse 11y ago
I wouldn't mind that kind of short tour of duty if they would pay for the roundtrip airfare every few weeks and for a room in DC. I assume only politicians would that kind of sweet deal though.
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by omouse 11y ago
> Most social impact projects and organizations are in the east coast, and, at least as far as I could tell (but in all likelihood, it’s probably because I suck at finding them), most of them don’t seem to have significant / meaning
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by omouse 11y ago
Some of them are lucky enough to get acquired by bigger ad-tech companies; I was interviewed at one of those and it was funny because they looked like they were ramping up in revenue (over 30% growth year over year) and then bam acquired.
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by omouse 11y ago
That's the important question for B2B companies, how long is the sales effort to close a deal on something like this? How will anyone discover this and buy it?

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