oneelectron

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by oneelectron 6y ago
I also founded, grew, but have not yet sold a boutique software services co. I see on your profile you sold to a client. We have had that option before but the multiple on our earnings was too low to actually consider it. Curious what your
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by oneelectron 6y ago
What's trippy is whatever workflow you have is probably molded around tools and biases that you take for granted. In modern times, there is no workflow that exists independent of technology. I can't imagine a way to isolate a &quo
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by oneelectron 6y ago
The attention point is strong. However, I believe that it becomes a non issue if the concerns are well separated into the black boxes that they would be if drawn on a whiteboard. Fully disagree that whitespace is dangerous. It is only usele
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by oneelectron 6y ago
Definitely agree with commenting deviations. Although I also advocate comments for each "operation". No problem if 5 lines of the same operation go uncommented, but if you have 5 lines of map().reduce().filter(), save your friends
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by oneelectron 6y ago
Definitely agree on too-many-files. Documenting architecture is a whole 'nother art that's overlooked. We diverge on locating errant code though, big time. You'd trip at my code in the payments example because whatever is 30
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by oneelectron 6y ago
I see that it could displace VC somewhat in dollar amount, but there are some serious bottlenecks around filing with the SEC and getting listed to where it'd be prohibitive for a large number of companies to start that way. It's d
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by oneelectron 6y ago
Glad you can defend the totally opposing view well. Respect on the 'knowledgable about the domain' point. I would argue that there is no more abundant resource than whitespace on computers. Useless comments (usually written after
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by oneelectron 6y ago
SPACs are 30 years old. See the history section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special-purpose_acquisition_co... They also have a poor reputation, and for what seems like a good reason. It's a risky proposal
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How much you suck as an engineer = 1/(sum(len(n) for n in Nv)/len(Nv))
10 points by oneelectron 6y ago|10 comments
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by oneelectron 6y ago
Badass. Where do you live, and can I come skate?
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by oneelectron 7y ago
Guessing all of you suffer from over-generalization too. One time someone told me I was "too meta" and I thought it was a compliment.
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by oneelectron 7y ago
And here I am, thinking I'm the only fool who's rebuilt a private personal dashboard app 5 times in the past 10 years..