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by revvx 7y ago
But that's exactly what I did? Sorry, I didn't phrase it right. My non-negotiable requirement was 20% more than I was getting. I gave a hard number and they said "yeah we can give that" before the interview. However the
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by revvx 7y ago
I had the same thing happen to me a couple times. Long and tiring process. Blackboard, make a project, lots of dirty laundry about "long gone incompetent developers" that made the current system a giant mess. Lots of red flags but
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by revvx 7y ago
From the day I learned about his work he became my greatest influence in my career, and still is to this day. I'm grateful for all the insights and the perpetually fresh perspective, on distributed systems, on PL research, on databases
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by revvx 7y ago
> how do you justify it when someone asks questions about whether it was necessary? I know of a local company whose data solution consists of dumping into Segment > S3 files > Pentaho (IIRC) > RedShift, and then using two differ
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HTTP Frameworks Must Die(hueniverse.com)
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by revvx 7y ago
I don't really have a company but I've been in the industry for 5 years, my advice isn't much personal experience as it is insider knowledge. Hope it's ok. The answer: it really depends on your audience and your goal wit
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by revvx 7y ago
Actually I've been in this business for 5 years and worked in both agencies and content companies, so I have more insider knowledge rather than experience as a customer, hope it's ok. Most agencies are just hiring freelancers and
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by revvx 7y ago
The metric isn't exactly "newness" but relevance. Timeless or "evergreen" content doesn't have to be updated. It's alright to keep them as is. But keeping obsolete content online is a pain in the ass for u
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by revvx 7y ago
I avoid talking about because I don't want people getting ideas, but it's easy to detect voting rings with HTTP referers and voting history alone
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by revvx 7y ago
HN has a lot of anti-voting ring protection, so I doubt it would have stayed in #2 for long if this were the case.
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by revvx 7y ago
Some super-basic things I learned at a past job that might help newbies: 1. Use a subdirectory instead of a subdomain for your blog. That alone helped half of our customers get better ranking. 2. Keep editing older posts so they always stay
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by revvx 7y ago
That might sound like the most obvious thing ever written here to the point of sounding stupid, but: In my experience as a manager, ANY kind of micro-level timekeeping or micromanagement is not only dehumanizing, but also an utterly unsusta
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by revvx 7y ago
Why?
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by revvx 7y ago
Marketplace is useful if you want to sell things locally.
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by revvx 7y ago
People do it because every other option sucks. Sharing to someone else's timeline is way too invasive, sharing to your own timeline and tagging the person is weird, sharing via message is too disruptive. What people is looking for is a
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by revvx 7y ago
Closing tags is not really an issue with XML. In my experience, the biggest reason people hate it is because it has too many ways of structuring data, and it allows people who design the schemas to go overboard. Attributes or child nodes? M
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by revvx 7y ago
First, this is a false dichotomy. There are alternatives to Electron that don't require a 120 MiB runtime and don't involve using the OS APIs directly. Second, this is not a criticism on application writers, but on Electron itself
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by revvx 7y ago
I strongly believe Web Components will catch on, but not in its vanilla form. Writing code for them is a pain in the ass for non-trivial stuff. They're too low level compared to modern frameworks. IMO the future of the web will be abou
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by revvx 7y ago
> One traversal mechanism I'd love to see but I've never seen implemented coherently is... given my relationship to ancestor X, iterate through all my antecedent peers under x. This would make processing some kinds of structure
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by revvx 7y ago
Great answer likewise! Some of those are really cool indeed! Deep copy/deep extend is a must in every programming language ever. I have no idea why 90% of the environments I ever programmed with make it so damn hard to deep copy data.
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by revvx 7y ago
That's absolutely not true. Sometimes some of my information is gathered without my consent or even without any warning, such as when I use a website with a FB tracker, or when third parties upload some of my personal information to Fa
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by revvx 7y ago
Why not, may I ask? Just means both sides are wrong.
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by revvx 7y ago
For me: there's a world of difference between giving someone your private data and having third-party services (Scorecard, Quantcast, Criteo, Tapad, others) give it to them. Just because I happen windowshop some store doesn't mean
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by revvx 7y ago
> I'm not exactly claiming Carmack-level jQuery proficiency, but comments like yours make me wonder (optimistically) whether you've forgotten all of the amazingly useful things that jQuery can do. Ajax, selectors and CSS transi
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by revvx 7y ago
1. With Netlify you don't need to install any command line tool. For non-technical users it's a must. 2. Netlify is a CDN, so "dragging and dropping" would be equivalent to setting up S3 + Cloudfront. 3. You have to crea
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by revvx 8y ago
You can see some evidence that suggests it when you search for a specific software or ebook to download. Piracy is gone, but you will find hundreds of automatically generated credit card phishing sites full of Google Ads, sometimes promisin
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by revvx 8y ago
IMO, Youtube changed for the better. It used to focus on controversial and current, now it focus on curated and evergreen content. Exactly the kind of thing people in this thread are missing from Google Search. Maybe some similar change is
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by revvx 8y ago
I agree with you. Maybe the problem is that PageRank (or whatever they call it these days) has run its course. I mean, it supposed to gauge "what humans think is good", but it's failing miserably. It's indeed time for a
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by revvx 8y ago
I agree with you. What I mean is: I don't think their fight is misguided or evil this time, they're trying to keep the result pages useable for end users. They're just doing a terrible job out of it. (Or: they're doing a
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by revvx 8y ago
IME, it's not blackhats anymore causing the problem. It's (legitimate, but shady) marketing agencies and startups handling thousands of customers and with deep pockets to do SEO research.

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