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by patsplat 8y ago
That and we're all fools for doubting the scientists diagnosing ADHD https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18562975 /eyesroll
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by patsplat 8y ago
Find that much of my IC work as a Tech Lead is spent protecting my team from requests that distract from their goals. That and keeping the build running smoothly.
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by patsplat 8y ago
Duh corporations are intolerant of discrimination because discrimination is ILLEGAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 h
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by patsplat 8y ago
Email notification is a fantastic event notification tool for services that don't / won't emit events or submit to callbacks. It's the one pixel gif of systems integration.
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by patsplat 8y ago
Voice is not for personal computing. It is best for social computing. This is a completely new metaphor for interactivity, and problems are to be expected. This incident speaks more to Amazon's speech recognition rather than a weakne
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by patsplat 8y ago
Is sterile laundry clean?
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by patsplat 9y ago
A simple matter of hand painting hundreds of frames of Mickey Mouse for a throw away illustration
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by patsplat 9y ago
Didn't Zynga report the same savings prior to collapsing? Is reporting massive savings on an infrastructure project a signal of softening demand and a weak product pipeline?
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by patsplat 9y ago
the absence of delivery stats is a key omission
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by patsplat 9y ago
Currently, the only documentation I've seen for extending Siri depend on an app running on a particular device. More than anything else, this device-centric focus is holding Siri back when compared to Alexa and Google Home. Am I missi
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by patsplat 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_fuel
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by patsplat 10y ago
While tangential to the main point, it's weird to read about the failure of the open source phone knowing about the Android Open Source Project. What's missing from AOSP is Google Play Services aka proprietary web services. Open
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by patsplat 10y ago
Pick your day job carefully and tend the garden that is your career.
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by patsplat 10y ago
On a yearly task with little code reuse my productivity went from 3 weeks to 3 days the second time. In another migration measured the time to cut and paste and concluded a day of grind was better than a week of scripting. Many tasks have a
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by patsplat 10y ago
The main thrust of the comments so far are negative, but in my opinion this was a great idea. Phones are personal devices. Plenty of time is spent on smoothly machined surfaces, wood cases, etc. A little biosphere is a beautiful idea, and
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by patsplat 10y ago
Agreed, but it still comes down to demanding more from law enforcement agencies in multiple jurisdictions. Contractors exist to implement the policies of their clients. What agency holds the contract? Who manages the system? Which electe
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by patsplat 10y ago
Not really. The client may not be sharing its spy tools but is very likely lying about how organizations are being classified as terrorists. This is about the law enforcement agency, not the arms dealer.
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by patsplat 10y ago
I stopped going to whole foods after getting food poisoning from a lunch buffet plate that cost $18. They overcharge, and don't deliver the quality to justify the markup. http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blog/addre
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by patsplat 10y ago
Once one critical component in the framework is no longer good enough it can be very difficult to upgrade. Frameworks aggregate many dependencies. Managing the dependencies that deliver value while ignoring those that are irrelevant can ne
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by patsplat 10y ago
Put another way, it would be absurd to generate Arduino, Hololens, and Android runtimes from any single language framework.
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by patsplat 10y ago
Was referencing the run-time's viability on devices as small as a Beagle Bone micro controller, a mobile app, up to a backend service, etc. There's an attractive opportunity for code reuse. Have a preference for process pools over
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by patsplat 10y ago
This a great point that gets to the heart of the problem with the premise of a full-stack framework. Defaults end up more "good enough" rather than "great"
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by patsplat 10y ago
JS(ES5) runs across a wider range of devices than Ruby. If the core premise is to build a single framework to consolidate all development JS(ES5) is a better run-time to target. One can argue that Ruby is prettier, but JS can be very good
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by patsplat 10y ago
There's a separate argument to be had about single process vs multi process backends, but that gets away from the core premise of Rails. Part of that premise included opinions and defaults about client-side development. Rails was uniq
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by patsplat 10y ago
Agreed. Would love to see DHH build an opinionated framework for node rather than waxing poetic about Ruby.
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by patsplat 10y ago
Many of DHH's complaints are normal parts of every software project: - depending on third party packages can be a pain - switching environments / languages is annoying The argument that these things disappear with Rails is weak. T
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by patsplat 10y ago
If he really believed that, then the thing todo would be to re-write rails to run on top of node. Then he'd have a runtime that spanned nearly every possible use case and device. Sticking with Ruby betrays that aesthetics are really
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by patsplat 10y ago
Front-end MVC frameworks are deployed and run client-side. Their emergence is a supporting point to the argument that the view is migrating away from the web server and onto the client device(s).
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by patsplat 10y ago
Agree with your comment, but am not sure there is a more potent monolith than AWS or GCP.
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by patsplat 10y ago
There was a moment in web development where a single "full-stack framework" was possible, that moment has passed, and that moment was more rare and unique than it seemed at the time. The future seems to be more about lambda funct

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