samstokes

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In Love with Your Warts(michaelnygard.com)
1 points by samstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 11y ago
This quote from "a Google spokesman" seems unambiguous and key: "We’ve never received an All Writs Act order like the one Apple recently fought that demands we build new tools that actively compromise our products’ security..
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Key-based device unlocking(continuations.com)
1 points by samstokes 11y ago|1 comments
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Let's stop talking about quality(blog.samstokes.co.uk)
52 points by samstokes 11y ago|37 comments
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Bill Gates Says Apple Should Unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone for FBI(macrumors.com)
14 points by samstokes 11y ago|8 comments
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by samstokes 11y ago
Downvoted for the ad hominem dismissal of the OP, but also... "Eric Smith Roberts"? Really? If you're going to appeal to authority, at least get the authority's name right.
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by samstokes 11y ago
This is a great story, but describing the lava lamp as a "completely irrelevant stimulus" misses a key insight into why this worked: it introduced (or strengthened) social pressure to fix a tragedy of the commons. "Everyone
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by samstokes 11y ago
OSX: tar -xf some.tar.xz (WORKS!) Linux: tar -xf some.tar.xz (WORKS!) I had no idea tar could autodetect compression when extracting. (I wonder if this is GNU tar only, or whether the OSX default tar can do it too?) I'v
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by samstokes 11y ago
I don't know about Flink or Spark, but streaming joins is a use case Apache Samza was explicitly designed to handle. It uses node-local caching to make the join efficient, and persists the cache updates in Kafka to make the cache persi
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by samstokes 11y ago
This move was basically infringing on rights to have his personal beliefs. Everyone has a right to believe whatever they want. Nobody has a right to be CEO of Mozilla. Mozilla does, however, have the right to choose their CEO.
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by samstokes 11y ago
I found this tutorial a very good solution to the problem you describe: http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial... It assumes very little and builds an app from the ground up, includ
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by samstokes 11y ago
This works if you are three co-founders each with 33%, since any two of you could fire the third. (I am also not a lawyer, but this is how I got my H-1B five years ago.) That said, the fact that the H-1B process is now a lottery - i.e. no
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Proposal to add documentation to Stack Overflow(meta.stackoverflow.com)
5 points by samstokes 11y ago|1 comments
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by samstokes 11y ago
My own anecdata definitely supports this study's conclusion. I wish I'd been in the habit of regular exercise when I first got into the startup scene. That said, I fear the outcome of their recommendation: > Organisations w
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Coder used 23andMe to create a race wall around the web(wired.co.uk)
2 points by samstokes 11y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 11y ago
The original article has a bit more discussion: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/22/23andme-api-b...
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by samstokes 11y ago
Just want to vigorously agree with the recommendation of "Becoming a Technical Leader". That's even if you don't think a leader is what you want to become. One of the earliest points he makes is that leadership is somet
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by samstokes 11y ago
This is a good point, but I think it's very much in line with what the OP is saying. Technical debt hampers your ability to change . Anything you're scared of changing clearly fits that description. Those workarounds that get c
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by samstokes 12y ago
Maybe we can keep the speculation and character smearing to another thread? I have no connection to the author, but he's written a very personal post about a subject that isn't often discussed, so I don't feel like this thre
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by samstokes 12y ago
Thanks for taking the time to tell everyone why you felt the article lacked credibility, rather than spending that time discovering that the article was, in fact, satire.
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by samstokes 12y ago
Yes, but the converse is not true - you can apply for permanent residency having stayed for less than six years.
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by samstokes 12y ago
It's only applicable to those folks who have been on H1B over 6 years and have applied for permanent residency. I read it as over 6 years or applied for permanent residency: """ Eligible individuals include certain H
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by samstokes 12y ago
Two things about this I really like: * The automagical guessing of missing estimates. Propagating the estimate for a subtask to other subtasks at the same level makes a lot of sense for a first guess, if I'm any good at task breakdown
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by samstokes 12y ago
Supporting evidence: https://github.com/mikar/hodor
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Women in Tech: The Book(kickstarter.com)
5 points by samstokes 12y ago|0 comments
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by samstokes 12y ago
Looks like Canonical at least is doing that: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201411-16196/ "awarded the status of Certified Pre-Install for Ubuntu" "Certification notes: Hibernate
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by samstokes 12y ago
Anyone have experience running Linux on this 2015 model? In the market for a new laptop and love that trackpoint.
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by samstokes 12y ago
Maybe she shouldn't be allowed to, and should consider that 20 minute code as not existing. (Because on day 1 of her week, she could have written it properly.) Completely agree with this, and I wish it was said more often. Prototypes
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by samstokes 12y ago
If I can choose to pay full price for a luxury mansion or pay $1 for the same mansion , of course I should pay $1. That choice is not usually available, either in real estate or in software. More likely, I'm choosing between a studi
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by samstokes 12y ago
I think you're arguing against people using the phrase "technical debt" as a criticism, but those people are missing the point. Technical debt isn't a perfect metaphor, but there's an aspect of it I think you'r

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