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by pbiggar 10y ago
Author here. To answer some questions: yes this is obviously poking fun at Docker, but I also do really believe in Docker. See the follow-up for more on that: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/ In
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Funnily enough, people do. In fact, containerization came from Google caring a lot about performance! A good intro to how containers help, and to the probable future of computation: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MwxA4Fj2l4
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Prepare to be worried: https://circleci.com/blog/it-really-is-the-future/
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by pbiggar 10y ago
This seems really cool! I installed it yesterday to try it out - I really want something like this. Your on-boarding is really good. However, when it comes time to create an account, I need to create a username and password. Can't I ju
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by pbiggar 10y ago
This was our first hire, full stop. Before the seed round closed, and a long long time before the A.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Disappointed that the answer isn't "We use AI to do it."
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Your puns are glorious!
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I searched the whole page and I don't see the word "validate" anywhere. Is there no-one to tell this poor guy to throw up a landing page and buy ads to see if anyone cares? Blastoffering - don't quit law school, don&#x2
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by pbiggar 10y ago
LA has skiing. Big Bear and Mammoth are nearby.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
So glad they're doing this. FB messenger is just about my favourite messenger - it beats the pants off iMessage and isn't as annoying as WhatsApp (the UX around starting a conversation with a new person in whatsapp is super shit).
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Can you clarify why CS skills are necessary, vs the ones you learn in bootcamps (which I would guess are much more specific to this use case)? I agree they do all these things, but in a way that can be taught quickly and is mostly learned t
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Well done Chrome. While it's the way that I go back and I now need to change my habits, this is the kind of hard decision that you need to make to have a really great product. They weighed the upsides and downsides, and pissed off a sm
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Judging from my own experience, spending some time through the start of Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual, with a side of Programming Pearls or Practice of Programming, would do wonders and easily outstrip a CS education. I'd say y
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by pbiggar 10y ago
> Engineers make dozens of architectural decisions every day. > Two really key fundamental knowledge areas if you're goal is to build actually reliable and relatively efficient software. I would challenge you on this, and suspect
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by pbiggar 10y ago
In my experience, bad CS college grads can't code at all, and >50% are terrible programmers (they probably self select out of your interviews though). I would wager a "bad" bootcamp grad could put together a single-page ap
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I meant for "standard" developer positions: I would say far fewer than 10% of developer positions require skills such as knowing how to code quicksort, or knowing the CAP theorem.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
> This does not leave bootcamp grads equivalently skilled to university grads. If you want to do hard algorithmic or low-level programming, you’re still better served by traditional CS eduction. Or, if I may suggest, a low-level/alg
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by pbiggar 10y ago
It's not discussed, but I would guess that the best CS grads beat the best BC grads, but average/bad BC grads beat average/bad CS grads.
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by pbiggar 10y ago
I should add more context here. A data-flow analysis framework has significant overlap with an SSA-based analysis framework, except that the SSA-based one leads to simpler analyses which are more powerful. A good comparison is CCP (conditio
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by pbiggar 10y ago
Except they are exactly right!
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Make it easy to get a refund. Or allow them to be resold directly or indirectly via an exchange you host.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
If ever there was a indictment of the quality of forensic evidence, this would be it. The expert "guessed" the contents of the encrypted drive? With what, magic? Did the arrangement of the encrypted content hint at the presence of
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by pbiggar 11y ago
https://circleci.com is 37 on the list. 37! Ahead of I think any other SaaS company. Either my unintentional content marketing campaign has paid off, or something is weird with how they count this.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Another thing that contributes to this is the massive influx of people moving to SF. There's so many people looking for friends that they're easy to find. I think this would be tougher in other cities without the same influx.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Is that situation the same as a outsiders spamming? I don't see the connection.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I've dreamed of this for spam. You scan my email and find people who have spammed me, violating whatever laws govern these things. Then you claim the statutory penalty on my behalf, taking a cut. Then maybe people will stop. I'm m
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Ah, I see. I guess you'll have to weigh whether that giant obstacle to adoption is worth that feature. My bet is that it won't be.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
Love it! Some comments: - I want to upload a thread, and it asks me to give Oauth to my entire email. That's a little too much! Can't I just forward an email? I figured that was the point, given the name. I just CC everyone@fwdeve
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by pbiggar 11y ago
I wonder why the OP chose to say "snapchat users". It's not mentioned in the article, and it seems from the pictures that there were dozens of people - I can't imagine they were all Snapchatting. Weird.
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by pbiggar 11y ago
You need to pick your niche well. Go for one where people have lots of different opinions about how it should be done, then pick a particular niche. Bug tracking/project management is a good example of this: there's the big winner

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