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by rboyd 8y ago
that's awesome -- y'all are like the tech version of the Mad Max War Boys. sacrificed yourselves betting on the wrong tech. witness me!
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by rboyd 8y ago
https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop perhaps?
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by rboyd 8y ago
Connecting with similar people would be good. Getting relevant link recommendations would be great. Similar ideas: delicious, prismatic, StumbleUpon. Biggest issues are probably chicken-and-egg problem and privacy concerns.
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by rboyd 8y ago
I came into a project where I quickly realized the 2 upwork developers was just 1 dude who decided he could double his pay. Management was asleep at the wheel.
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by rboyd 8y ago
No, it’s not, and even if it were true it wouldn’t disqualify lisp, since you can quite happily wield lisp in a context which lets you express logic in simpler/constrained forms. Consider hiccup, datalog DSLs, etc.
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by rboyd 8y ago
not just any dorm room.. a PRINCETON dorm room
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by rboyd 8y ago
If I remember correctly he has a daughter? It would be interesting to get an interview from her. Fravia was a big inspiration as a teenager.
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by rboyd 8y ago
twins. I was born in 82 and the borland pascal and c++ compilers were my first "real" languages after some qbasic. that feeling when you'd stay up all night long stuck on a problem with nowhere to turn for help, then finally,
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by rboyd 8y ago
first interplanetary flight risk?
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by rboyd 8y ago
Uh I tried to summarize in the same tone as the article. That’s kind of the point of a tldr. I agree the article was clickbait and it’s obvious Google wouldn’t abandon kubernetes. Thanks for the downvotes though.
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by rboyd 8y ago
Google tired of fronting the bill for k8s dev infra, welcomes CNCF to the neighborhood with $9m housewarming gift to maintain.
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by rboyd 8y ago
There’s a couple on YouTube that are building a concrete (ICF) house together. The channel is called Pure Living For Life. https://m.youtube.com/channel/UChhBsM9K_Bc9a_YTK7UUlnQ Construction work is amazingly easy to u
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by rboyd 8y ago
While I agree with everything you've written, it seems like taking a stand against the executive would require a lot more courage than wrecking someone lower in the ranks.
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by rboyd 8y ago
the whole thing sounds crazy but I'm genuinely confused why the author didn't take a stand at the crazy offensive statements that were shared earlier in the article. is it because the female colleagues took issue? if someone at my
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by rboyd 8y ago
For dev? Maybe some categories of standalone desktop and mobile apps? Something with less frequent releases and without a server infrastructure to monitor. A lot probably depends on the team you have to work with. Maybe education? Producing
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by rboyd 8y ago
From a quick scan of your comments on this page, if Donald Knuth came in for a job interview at your office you would 1) encourage him to spend less time on algorithms and more time learning "hard" stuff like ajax+css+php. 2) offe
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by rboyd 8y ago
Bookmark this page so that 15 years down the line in your career you can reflect on it. You will have delivered a working software product against all odds, under impossible budget and time demands. Finally they let you hire some help and i
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by rboyd 8y ago
Go through the review and let them recognize your achievements. See what their action is first, they may already have a title and pay bump planned for you. If they announce your raise and it’s under your desired amount you need to ask for e
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by rboyd 8y ago
sweet, looking forward to those discount codes
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by rboyd 8y ago
if getting funded on demo day is like getting drafted to the NBA, applying to startup school was like trying out for JV team. is being told we got accepted to audit something like being invited to watch the game from outside the stadium usi
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by rboyd 8y ago
wow same. ours was kind of a last minute effort so I was shocked and had pretty grounded expectations, but man my heart goes out to anyone that was already celebrating (quite a few on Twitter).
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by rboyd 8y ago
have you been able to keep up with expo sdk releases? I have a cljsrn app still on expo 23 and it's turned into kind of a trainwreck to update. considering dropping expo for vanilla re-natal
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by rboyd 8y ago
It’s B. Usually just can’t get rid of A because of politics. Enjoy the free lunches though.
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by rboyd 8y ago
how is this buried? that old quote comes to mind "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it" totally agree. batten down the hatches, winter is coming, etc
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by rboyd 8y ago
BitTorrent?
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by rboyd 8y ago
I’mma go watch Waterworld again
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by rboyd 8y ago
Nah, it was just idiots that were marketing "let me show you how to get rich with bitcoin" courses, etc. I always wonder how much HN hates crypto just because it's important to have a good story for sleeping on crypto.
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by rboyd 8y ago
https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos (betanet branch has the launch release)
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by rboyd 8y ago
Which part do you disagree with? Are you commonly blocked by Clojure errors where you have to stop and spend a material amount of time deciphering them? Nowhere have I said that if you see an error message you don't know how to program
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by rboyd 8y ago
Thanks very much. I'll take a look at Lona. A couple of days after I posted that I started thinking about whether it would be possible to develop a sketch plugin to render react components onto artboards, then I googled my way into you

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