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Amazon suffers glitches at the start of Prime Day(cnbc.com)
2 points by rpeden 8y ago|0 comments
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by rpeden 8y ago
Thanks for providing some perspective! I appreciate it. And I completely understand that long form sales copy is often what converts visitors into customers. It just doesn't convert me . But it would be totally irrational for content
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by rpeden 8y ago
From the article: Valderrama allegedly said that she organized newsletter swaps, in which authors would promote each other’s books to their respective mailing lists. Funnily enough, I've seen this same behavior from developers, freel
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by rpeden 8y ago
It doesn't always do the trick. :) Long, long ago when I worked at at bowling alley, when it was busy I'd have to run down to the end of the lanes a few times a night to untangle the strings the pins were attached to.
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by rpeden 8y ago
I read it, and I found it very useful. In particular, I used the advice in the book to help me stay motivated when working on code bases that old, large, occasionally crufty, and once in a while downright nasty. Over time, I've grown t
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by rpeden 8y ago
It's not all that common for developers, but forced vacations are fairly normal in accounting and finance - or at least they were in another lifetime when I worked in accounting. There have been cases where an employee has been committ
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by rpeden 8y ago
If you enjoyed it, you might like the sequel Lila as well. I think I may have even liked Lila a bit more than Zen.
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by rpeden 8y ago
To be entirely honest, I probably wouldn't because if someone is asking me to pay them for advice on how to improve my business (a.k.a. consulting), I'd wonder why they're only charging me $100. This seems like one of those a
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by rpeden 8y ago
I think it depends on where in the world the user is from. Where I'm located, it doesn't seem like WhatsApp is used much, or at all. I don't think I've ever met anyone in my personal or professional lives who uses it. So
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by rpeden 8y ago
Modern SOAP doesn't sound too bad to me! But then again, I never found SOAP to be all that bad. I might have been lucky, though. Every time I had to use SOAP, it was just a matter of auto generating a client interface in whatever langu
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by rpeden 8y ago
I ran into a fun one like that many years ago in IE. The JavaScript I had written was failing, but when I opened up the devtools to debug it, it worked. It turned out that in that version of IE, the console object only existed when the devt
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by rpeden 8y ago
My dad got us a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. We used out TV as a monitor. I remember typing in games in Basic, and then saving them to an audio casette so we could load them up again later. That was my first taste of a computer, and of programm
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by rpeden 8y ago
For sharing code (even view code) between React Native and React web projects, also consider Microsoft's ReactXP project[1]. It is very actively developed and might be what you're looking for. [1] https://github.com&#x2
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by rpeden 8y ago
There's no reason a language can't be both strongly and dynamically typed (like Elixir or Python) or statically and weakly typed (like C). :)
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by rpeden 8y ago
It's interesting they're using Electron for Win7/Win8 when React Native for Windows has a WPF rendered that works nicely on Win7 and 8. Perhaps they just found that maintaining two slightly different RN office apps for Window
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by rpeden 8y ago
Even first-party roving salespeople can be a big turn-off. I've found that my local Walmart is often cheaper than Amazon, but I've been shopping at Amazon more frequently ever since I was repeatedly ambushed by people trying to ge
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by rpeden 8y ago
I understand what you're getting at, but I respectfully disagree about this being clickbait. A clickbait headline would be something like 'He made cheaper diamonds using this one simple trick. Jewelers hate him!', because you
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by rpeden 8y ago
In some fields, 'edge' has long been used to refer to devices running in the real world - such as IP cameras and IoT devices that gather sensor data. I used to work for a company that worked with security cameras, and they always
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by rpeden 8y ago
Peter Seibel's Coders and Work also provides an interesting perspective. As the title implies, it focuses more on developers than founders...although in some cases, the developer being interviewed was also a startup founder. Some of
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by rpeden 8y ago
You might enjoy Steven Levy's Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution [1]. It's not too focused on specific people or companies, although you'll encounter some well known people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Richard St
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by rpeden 8y ago
This might seem like a roundabout way to start, but I'd recommend Code by Charles Petzold[0]. It starts out with just wires, switches, and relays, and as the book progresses he goes through the process of building up a simple CPU and
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by rpeden 8y ago
This video from the FortMcMurray fire is one of my favorite examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieTQvIdG-Vo The craziness starts about 30 seconds in.
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by rpeden 8y ago
Well, cromwellian works at Google, so maybe he did build it himself. :)
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In the book, USS Ethan Allen (an SSBN) made an appearance as well.
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Some of the scenes were pretty funny and unexpected, too. I remember the first time I saw a king kill a bishop. I was expecting something fancy, and instead the king just pulled out a handgun and opened fire.
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by rpeden 9y ago
How long have you been doing those 70 hours weeks? Some of what feels like decline might be exhaustion or burnout.
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by rpeden 9y ago
I'm not sure it's the first one to focus on that. I remember Cherokee being really user friendly. It can't do nearly as much as Nginx, though, and there hasn't been a new release in four years so it might be dead. On the
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by rpeden 9y ago
In my experience, the person adding the technical debt usually had every intention of going back to fix it, but they were never given the time to actually do it. :)
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by rpeden 9y ago
Making a fork also lets you keep a copy of a repository if the original public GitHub repo is deleted or made private. So in that sense it's more useful than just starring a repo.
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Coalition urges Airbnb to ban ‘ghost hotels’ in Toronto(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by rpeden 9y ago|0 comments

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