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by s_m 7y ago
An interesting observation: if you go on https://h1bdata.info/ and search for "senior software engineer" H1-B salaries in in San Francisco, sort by descending - you'll see WeWork pays senior software engineer
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by s_m 7y ago
Did you read the article? SVGs are super crufty and extremely easy to optimize.
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by s_m 7y ago
I like xfce as much as the next casual Linux user, but how big a deal is it really ? How impactful on the world is the not-even-first-rank Linux desktop? Is its usership even in the tens of thousands?
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by s_m 7y ago
Counterpoint: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-hasnt-cra...
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by s_m 7y ago
Google Docs?
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by s_m 8y ago
The Electrical Guitar Company makes new aluminium-neck guitars, if that's something you're interested in. https://www.electricalguitarcompany.com/models/
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by s_m 8y ago
Great stuff. Congrats!
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by s_m 8y ago
[citation needed]
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by s_m 8y ago
Buddy, we regret it too.
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by s_m 8y ago
I've been out of the React Native loop, but I seem to remember Nuclide was FB's canonical IDE for React Native and Hack - does that mean there's not an official way of using those environments any more?
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by s_m 8y ago
This is really cool!
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by s_m 8y ago
This is going to be so useful. Can’t wait.
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by s_m 9y ago
We live in a brutal economic climate. Who can blame these kids for setting their sights on fame and fortune?
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by s_m 9y ago
Very cool! Relatedly, I made something to help me come up with chord progressions. It's hooked up to Web Audio and Web MIDI, so it can either play the sounds in-browser or in my DAW. Please feel free to take a look and steal code ideas
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by s_m 9y ago
I usually brew on an Aeropress - ~20g coffee @ medium grind (~18 on the Baratza Encore), inverted, no stir (maybe a wiggle), about a minute of contact time. I bought an Able Disk mesh filter but lost it, I don't really miss it. In term
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by s_m 9y ago
Me too. It's so much more cost effective than the alternatives, and support is great. Anything else, I'm happy to run on a PaaS.
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by s_m 9y ago
I use bookmarks for things with weird, unmemorable URLs that I use on a daily basis: shortcuts to JIRA boards; Jenkins configs; traffic conditions to kids' daycare.
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by s_m 10y ago
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about how to use jq in conjuction with pup to debug HTML-in-JSON endpoints: https://the1x.engineer/2016/08/20/efficient-endpoint-testing... jq is one of my favourite tools
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by s_m 10y ago
I would suggest you use Node. It is nice not to have to switch mental contexts when switching between backend and frontend code.
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by s_m 10y ago
You can use App Engine ( https://cloud.google.com/appengine/ ) to host a static site for free. It's easier to set up than S3, which I've also used.
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by s_m 10y ago
I used to use XE when I needed to transfer money from the US to my UK accounts. I never had any problems with it, but I only ever used it to transfer money between my own accounts and never to other peoples', so my experience might not
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by s_m 10y ago
Great article. I'm not a particularly sophisticated Scala user but I love using Scala.js for all the reasons described in this piece. Thanks for all your work on it!
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by s_m 10y ago
This is really cool. Nice one!
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by s_m 10y ago
I went to that site and my Google account was not suspended.
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by s_m 12y ago
Is this a joke?
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by s_m 12y ago
Wait, you can drown the totem?
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by s_m 12y ago
That's believable, but they don't cite a source…
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by s_m 12y ago
i don't know but it has matched up with friends' salaries at smaller companies so i trust its data
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by s_m 12y ago
i also like http://h1bwage.com/ for this purpose
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by s_m 12y ago
nice jeans + button-down shirt + sweater + decent shoes

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