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by owyn 14y ago
The only way to get mediawiki to scale is to do the same. :)
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by owyn 14y ago
I have too! It's kind of the worst kept secret... Personally I'd be sort of annoyed at people wandering through my office all the time to show it off when I wasn't there, it's a great example of the creativity of the people who work there.
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by owyn 14y ago
Great effect. Of course, it chugs my browser just as much as flash does... (hitting 100% of cpu usage on one core) An HTML5 canvas is not automagically awesomeness. :)
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by owyn 14y ago
"Broken" here is from the perspective of the investors in VC funds, it refers to a report available here: http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/vc-enemy-is-us-report.... tldr; only 20% of the VC funds used by this one investor (the Kauffm
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by owyn 15y ago
It's one of my big fears too. I've had friends who had to go through physical therapy due to RSI issues from programming. Some simple precautions can help. First, take breaks. :) Stand up, stretch, don't work "tense". When I get in the z
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by owyn 15y ago
This is cool! But the command line is pretty inoperative in FF (11.0 mac). I tried to take a look at it but it's not throwing any useful errors. I did notice that you are using jquery-terminal version 0.4.7 and there is a more recent 0.4
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by owyn 15y ago
The bit explaining velocity and sprints is really just a sentence... It may deserve a bit more emphasis. It makes sense to me, but to someone who isn't familiar with it, it is easy to gloss over that part. And you also don't mention that
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by owyn 15y ago
tl;dr -> it works pretty well Planning poker has worked for me at companies that didn't otherwise adopt any agile processes. It's better if you use points in a more comprehensive way as mentioned in the article but a lot of umm... "peo
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by owyn 15y ago
phantom.js can do this, and the bonus is that it's already written in javascript. :) It depends on QT for it's webkit component but that's it... Doing a screenshot with it is pretty much a one liner: page.open(address, function() { page.
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by owyn 15y ago
It's easy to spin a failure into a learning experience, that's a familiar story arc for everyone in the hiring process. My second job was a massive failure (with a public IPO and everything), doesn't seem to have hurt. I even got a job be
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by owyn 15y ago
Hmm. It's not clear from your post, but if you are in the midwest, that could be part of the problem. Every company in the SF/bay area seems to in a hiring frenzy right now. You're the same age as me... and being without a job is a scary
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by owyn 15y ago
Heh. Link bait title from Forbes, who would have thunk it. This is all just paper wealth. They are just comparing a hypothetical valuation from a few months ago to the pricing of the real IPO. I'm willing to bet that the original valuatio
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by owyn 15y ago
Good point, I have no first hand knowledge of working at Apple. I have worked at some smaller companies (and that's where I am now) that do have a good work/life balance but nobody would recognize those names so I just picked one. Definit
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by owyn 15y ago
I don't think you can run a 3000 person ~1B/y company like a startup. It's one thing if there are make or break projects at a bigger company that people sign up for explicitly, but it's not scalable. Not everybody can work at that pace an
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by owyn 15y ago
That's probably partly because they haven't updated the specs since mid-2010... but I also bought my mac pro with the minimum RAM because I could get it a lot cheaper from a third party. I'd rather have a minimal minimum config to save s
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by owyn 15y ago
My co-workers ran in to the same problem once they started using node.js for a project (it's a chat server!) All the examples out there are very "hello world". Even the chat server library that we attempted to use as a foundation for the c
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by owyn 15y ago
This idea will never work, but on top of that his "rules for entry" are totally silly. Just take a glancing look at this data and you can see that his criteria should be inverted http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html There are ~6M fi
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by owyn 15y ago
It's a one liner. Once a page is loaded into the browser: page.render(path_to_output); I think it can save in PDF, GIF and PNG formats (it checks the extension on the filename to determine format)
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by owyn 15y ago
PhantomJS is great, although there are some bugs in the WebKit embedded inside QT because it's a bit old, it has the advantage of supporting flash plugins and it can do screen caps. I'm using it for a project now.
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by owyn 15y ago
Wow, thanks for the warning. I was just about to upgrade. I have an entire drive devoted to Boot Camp I'll probably be okay? It looks like there is one error situation detected during install: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4649 The ana
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by owyn 15y ago
Possibly early optimization syndrome? Redis is awesome, but the main problem here seems to be the amount of data (in the hundreds of gigs) and not scaling writes... The stated requirements are 7500 notifications per second but a single inst
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by owyn 15y ago
Here is one of my PHP standards... I prefer this to more complex template systems, although the idea is borrowed from Symfony I think. The style I try to adhere to is to only use simple variables and loops in html templates. This is the ba
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by owyn 15y ago
Heh. Mine is called print_pre.
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by owyn 15y ago
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place. It's useful shorthand in a few specific cases, but I would argue that this sort of code is bad style and if I was in charge (which I am not) it would be in the "never do this
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by owyn 15y ago
Just my opinions, after having a bit of a "been there done that" feeling reading this... If you're looking for work, you aren't really burned out. I had to take a year off at one point, and I thought I'd never work as a developer again afte
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by owyn 15y ago
I'm an advocate for code review at the current place... We already use fogbugz, and I'm pushing for us to switch to hg from svn so that we can use kiln too. Code review is one of the main features that I'm using as a lever. I fear that st
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by owyn 15y ago
Check out vextab/vexflow, no need to re-invent the wheel. It's a complete (and open source) framework for music/tab notation: http://vextab.com/
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by owyn 15y ago
The lyrics on the Melvins album "Houdini" are almost entirely gibberish, it's mostly English but the words are half random and half nonsense. If you squint your ears a bit, you can imagine what it's like to have brain damage. Classic! Loo
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by owyn 16y ago
It's not greed, it's lifestyle inflation from being a grown up, combined with location. You are a student, you don't have a family or a car, and you can tolerate living with room mates outside of a major city. That's a totally different s
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by owyn 16y ago
Ah, that makes sense... now, is it a conspiracy OR a coverup?! :) I too am glad that things seem to be getting better not worse. Cringely has an interesting take on it: http://www.cringely.com/2011/03/flea-powder-may-be-saving-li...

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