samstokes

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by samstokes 8y ago
Since this has become yet another discussion about "the pipeline problem" instead of a discussion about a tactic major tech companies are using to duck accountability, this Twitter thread might be informative: https://t
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by samstokes 8y ago
You've italicised "pipeline" as if you believe this is a novel insight, but actually it's very common to dismiss diversity and inclusion efforts by redirecting attention to "the pipeline problem". Unfortunately
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by samstokes 8y ago
The submission title is misleading (“License Changes for Confluent Platform (Kafka)” at time of commenting) - the license changes do not apply to Kafka itself, as the article specifically states.
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by samstokes 9y ago
WHY NOT BOTH? (OP here. I figured the prominent company branding was sufficient disclaimer that yes, we do have a product to sell; but we built the product because we see a better way of doing things, rather than vice versa.) TL;DR: use pr
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Build Observable Systems(honeycomb.io)
9 points by samstokes 9y ago|3 comments
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by samstokes 9y ago
"Terrible idea" is a rather aggressive way to dismiss hours of someone's work because you don't like the name.
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by samstokes 10y ago
a) You don't have to take VC funding to be a startup. b) If you do take VC funding, you don't have to adopt VC culture too. (VCs don't even get a board seat until the series A.) Some startups do adopt VC culture anyway, but i
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Why GitHub Is Doing Much Better Than Bloomberg Thinks(medium.com)
5 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 10y ago
That's true, but any incentive structure at all has similar hazards. (Ever seen the software quality bar lowered in order to meet a deadline?) So long as the company does have standards, and processes it trusts to enforce those standar
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by samstokes 10y ago
This appears to be a human interest story masquerading as a social psychology report: Your slow email replies are causing serious anxiety citing one anecdote, then four paragraphs later: there are no statistics or research on just how an
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by samstokes 10y ago
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I signed up :)
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by samstokes 10y ago
Absolutely agree there is a need for this. The website is obviously an MVP, but some feedback from someone who is squarely in your target audience: * I am hesitant to sign up for yet another source of email without more information about t
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by samstokes 10y ago
That was the point I attempted to convey with my last paragraph: this isn't an argument for accepting any old talk so long as it fills some demographic quota. It would be a strange conference that replaced quality of ideas with demogr
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by samstokes 10y ago
I literally couldn't care less about demographic checkboxes Then you are not the audience those "demographic checkboxes" are there for. (Neither am I.) I'm a white male engineer, and I've never had the experience
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by samstokes 10y ago
Rebasing the root commit has been possible for a while using `git rebase --root`. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30277149/how-to-use-inter... goes into more detail.
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by samstokes 10y ago
I see how one could interpret it that way. I meant to imply rather that software generally needs to be regularly changed in order to continue providing value to its paying customers. At minimum, you've got keeping up with security
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by samstokes 10y ago
"A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for."
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How to start your own home bar(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
2 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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How to start your own home bar(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
1 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 10y ago
Along similar lines, I think you meant "astute observation" [1], not "succinct observation" [2]. The latter is accurate, since he didn't use too many words to get his point across, but probably not what you intende
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by samstokes 10y ago
It's slightly ironic that Foursquare, the article's first example of this trend, is based in New York City, not Silicon Valley.
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by samstokes 10y ago
I wish Github had a way of running these sort of checks before accepting/rejecting a push. (I can understand why they would be reluctant to run arbitrary user-supplied bash on their servers, though :))
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by samstokes 10y ago
My guess (I didn't downvote) is you would have fewer downvotes if you a) addressed the comment readers in general rather than the poster of the article in specific, and b) explained "what we're doing at Kumu" that is rel
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Eve proposed developer syntax(github.com)
1 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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Move fast with confidence(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
2 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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Move fast with confidence(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
6 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 10y ago
Beeminder ( https://www.beeminder.com/overview#how_beeminder_works ) has been life-changing for me, taking me from zero to working out 3x/week and meditating 4x/week, and currently helping me learn to blog more regu
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Amazon Prime offers ad-subsidised unlocked phones(amazon.com)
3 points by samstokes 10y ago|3 comments
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Tiered replication(engineering.chartbeat.com)
1 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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Let's talk about confidence(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
4 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments

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