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by pbiggar 9y ago
I tried VS Code for a few weeks and really liked it. In particular, it's super super fast (compared to vim, spacemacs, emacs and atom, all of which I've used in recent history). It's by far the fastest and smoothest text edit
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by pbiggar 9y ago
In Elm mode, when you're on an error, you can get the whole error to pop up.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Yes, this is exactly right. If you want to automatically upgrade a thing, you need a way for them to pin their existing config so it doesn't break. A good analogy here is Stripe's API versioning: they keep making it better, but yo
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I did a similar thing, using a tiny executable that someone else had made. However, even though the container was around 100 bytes, I couldn't make a container that was smaller than some much larger number, maybe 512kb? This was in 201
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I think this advice is great, but the wording they use causes people to miss the point. Specifically the word "launch". You don't need to have a big marketing launch, you don't need to do ads, you just need to get it in
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Yes, I think that's right. I meant they could run the distributed test on the Mac cloud.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
If Google needs Mac hardware to test Safari on, CircleCI has a Mac cloud they could use :) https://circleci.com/mobile/osx/
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Often, that LLC will have important IP that isn't trivial to convert. (Hence paying the lawyers way more than $500 to fix it). What's the advantage of doing it in 2 (expensive!) steps if you know the plan already?
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by pbiggar 9y ago
If you are planning to do equity funding, the $500 to Atlas is cheaper than the $4000 to a lawyer to convert your LLC to a C-corp later. Disclaimer: happy Atlas user who did previous C-corps the old-fashioned way and did not enjoy doing tha
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by pbiggar 9y ago
> Eliminating references. PHP references have unusual semantics, where the function specifies the binding of parameters with no indication at the callsite. I feel like I called this one in https://circleci.com/blog/c
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Would you care to provide evidence for your aggressively-worded comment?
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Well, pick one. Either there's a cause, or there's no cause. Either they're full of shit, or they deliberately did this. You can't credibly claim both to dismiss them.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I asked my cofounder about this (she's mentioned in the article). She said "This occurred to us. We're a school of engineers - we talk about sample sizes a lot"? Here's her thoughts on why it's not just sample
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by pbiggar 9y ago
There was an excellent response to this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/08/26/...
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by pbiggar 9y ago
> a former employee tried charging people up to $7,500 to reactivate them since he still had access to the feature Surprised he didn't go to jail...
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by pbiggar 9y ago
dev yes, pm no. My cofounder is an accomplished PM so we've got that covered :)
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by pbiggar 9y ago
What the founders know - and are telling investors - is they have an offer to sell the company and they don't want to take it, but it's so much money they'd be stupid not to. The investors want the company to keep going -- an
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by pbiggar 9y ago
New startup | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time | Onsite | Visas mostly OK We're getting rid of all the accidental complexity of software development. Super early stage, well-funded, looking for engineering, design and SRE/ops. Su
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by pbiggar 9y ago
No, it doesn't. Firefox is a monorepo (of course, it's just one product). All their other products (bugzilla, rust, all the web properties) have different repos. Check out their other repos: https://github.com/mozi
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Are instagram and whatsapp in the same repo as facebook proper?
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I think google might be the only people to do monorepo (and even they don't - for example, Android and Chrome are different repos), but they have built massive internal tooling to support this. For everyone else, once you get past a ce
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Unclear why you got downvoted. Very valid point and considering the relationship between "wokeness" and the issues uber is facing internally, it's presumably a consideration (though perhaps they did not use "wokeness&quo
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by pbiggar 9y ago
> But no customer wants to use an unfinished product that the creators are embarrassed by. Customers want great products they can use now. The reason MVPs are so valuable is the word "viable". If your customers truly demand &qu
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I disagree. You're not exactly handing the title out willy-nilly. If they're calling Ben a cofounder, I'll be that has significant meaning to them.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Cofounder is a title, like any other. It doesn't just refer to "I was there at the start of the corporate entity". If they're calling Ben a cofounder, then they certainly mean it. You're right that he wasn't th
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by pbiggar 9y ago
We're having two different conversations here. You are saying (correct me if I'm wrong) that the algorithms you use for parsing are broadly applicable to program analysis. You are not wrong. It's just orthogonal to my point,
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by pbiggar 9y ago
I'm not saying it isn't useful - I'm saying it's not interesting (and I'm talking about the act of parsing, not the algorithms as applied elsewhere). Think about this: you start learning compilers, you spend months
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Transpiler is a recently made up word, and describes something that's just as well described as a compiler. I wouldn't spend too much time hoping for a distinction here.
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by pbiggar 9y ago
Pet peeve about compiler education that is not repeated by this article (yay, well done!): the way you have to wade through months of parsing bullshit to get to the really interesting stuff (optimization and static analysis).
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by pbiggar 9y ago
+1 for Cooper/Torczon (as someone who has a PhD in compilers, and still hates the Dragon book).

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