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by robotpony 10y ago
That's exactly the purpose, the list applies the wonder of the human imagination to emerging tech. The purpose is to spark further imagination and wonder. Inspiration has value on its own. I've been reading lists like these for de
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by robotpony 10y ago
You can also look at the CTO role as slightly different style of hacking; you program with teams, training, and planning in addition to setting technical direction and leadership. Many CTOs design and code as well (I do) as a senior-senior
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by robotpony 10y ago
I've seen a few applicants who had faked Github profile graph data. I found this a good indicator of the developer personality/ethics, and we happily passed on them.
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by robotpony 11y ago
In later elementary school at least (in Canada, in French immersion, in a moderately-above-average public school), homework was very effective in increasing knowledge. Our kids enjoyed it, and expanded their vocabulary and fluency in a seco
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by robotpony 11y ago
This is why I prefer dating contracts to deep technical interviews. If someone shows enough promise in their CV and portfolio, and they're personable enough to sell themselves reasonably, then a 1-2 week contract to cover some real wor
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by robotpony 11y ago
Can confirm. We were also seeing SQS errors around that time. We had some Opsworks instances reboot as well, but only minor outages overall (us-east and us-west).
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by robotpony 11y ago
FWIW, the RAM trend is related to power, heat, and the increased speed of disk. SSD performance offsets some of the reduction in RAM, at a much better heat/power cost. Swap is much more viable on SSD than spinning disks, making huge RA
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by robotpony 11y ago
I'm not so sure. I spent the last few nights with my 14 and 16 year old kids, playing Mario Cart, Mario Party, and Mario Bros, and loved every second. Maybe it's our expectations that are off.
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by robotpony 11y ago
LemonStand | Vancouver, BC | Web Designer We're growing our design and development and are looking for a junior Web Designer to round out our store themes and be a hero to our customers building stores online. You can post your blossom
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by robotpony 12y ago
5-6.5 hours sleep at night, 1-2 20 minute naps during the day. Also: 1-2 days a week of 7-9 hour sleeps (weekends, lazier work schedule). Sleep + nap is generally more productive for me, though on the low end (6 hours or less total daily),
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by robotpony 12y ago
MongoDB is a pretty big part of most of my client JS stacks (including MEAN), and most of my colleges have clients that rely on it as well. It's a reasonable balance of performance and complexity, though it's not a replacement for
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by robotpony 12y ago
It's a common mistake for medium and large companies too. Most budgets are poured into design and development, which encourages adding requirements, more design, etc., not leaving anything for ongoing content development and marketing.
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by robotpony 12y ago
You're right, it's an unsubstantiated opinion. I haven't seen grand examples of design swinging back toward skeuomorphism, though some of the more extreme minimalistic choices have been changing.
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by robotpony 12y ago
Desert areas of BC hover around 40C much of the summer, and areas of southern Ontario hover in the 30s with ungodly humidity.
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by robotpony 12y ago
Drinks and french fries represent the largest margins, but profit on other items (in the restaurants I managed) was solid as well. I think the misnomer is that soft drinks and fries have huge margins, and that foodstuff has standard foodser
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by robotpony 12y ago
Also, `'s`?
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Plato's "What is real?" explained by a 8-bit Zelda animation(youtube.com)
2 points by robotpony 12y ago|0 comments
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by robotpony 12y ago
An app that lets you track the last person to buy beer in a group of friends by taking their picture. With an in-app-purchase, you can ensure that the next time you meet that the app lists yourself as the last beer-monger (while still retai
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by robotpony 13y ago
Amateur hour at upbeat.com ... OP clearly has limited experience with large hosting vendors. It's frustrating to wait for updated information, but AWS delivered reasonable details as they were available. Could it improve? Probably. Doe
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by robotpony 13y ago
I'm in my 40s and have been designing and building software for money since the early 90s (and coding since the 70s). I remember asking these same questions at some point, while watching older developers lose their mojo (often ending u
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The truth of hiring (or where we get it wrong)(warpedvisions.org)
1 points by robotpony 17y ago|0 comments
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Interview with Vancouver startup cofounder on their recent LemonStand release(warpedvisions.org)
1 points by robotpony 17y ago|0 comments