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by spotman 12y ago
I am a partner in a software consultancy company. We do any kind of unix based programming, and have worked on everything from financial software, mobile applications and streaming video servers. Most of my work involves building server ap
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by spotman 12y ago
Crazy that it has been 5 years. Time flies when your having fun. The golang team has done a fantastic job. It is now my primary language of choice to get things done. 2 years ago I started playing with it moderately, and now in the past 1
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by spotman 12y ago
problem solving skill comes with experience dealing with real world problems. sometimes school alone is only part of the equation. your problem solving skills overlap with computer science knowledge, but they are also different things. pas
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by spotman 12y ago
Choosing a message queue can certainly be tricky. Not a complete list, but you should consider: a.) do you need persistence? some queues offer this, some do not. many systems can be configured in either mode. you might need persistence i
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by spotman 13y ago
I think its important to note that the title says most , and doesn't say 100% of the time unit tests are bad. It specifically mentions using them for critical functions/algorithms, or 'units of computation'. But, he ou
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by spotman 13y ago
Ah, interesting, did not realize that. Seeing people like yourself in the git stream made me think otherwise:)
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by spotman 13y ago
And its even funnier that cyrus-imapd (which is what fastmail.fm runs, and contributes heavily too) is what I think (please correct me if wrong) is what is shipped with OSX Server. So the one IMAP server that apple likely uses for their
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by spotman 13y ago
Unfortunately your experience is all too common. I personally interviewed two times at google. The first time I never made it to their offices, but made it through 4 phone interviews, that all went well. After I had gone through the 2nd
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by spotman 13y ago
This is the coolest idea I have seen in a long time. I really really really wish you the best success! I signed up for the beta, and can't wait to try and use it to hook into alerts. I look forward to calibrating ambient frequencies
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by spotman 13y ago
re: "compatible to another" - this is definitely not always the case. it certainly may be the intention, but is not always the case. Random example: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.phonegap/363
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by spotman 14y ago
It can be hard to keep your head up in this situation, but, you should try. Just because this startup fails, don't let it effect you forever. Sure you have a right to be upset for now, but know that you have to move on. In the way that yo
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by spotman 14y ago
Can anyone comment on the battery life for the iOS client in comparison to skype? I am a heavy skype user, and it doesn't seem like hipchat has a lot to offer than skype does not. Not to mention the inertia that skype has. however, I woul
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by spotman 14y ago
Ah, thanks. Mis-read that part of the article.
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by spotman 14y ago
20mg is an awful high dose. The usual dosage is between 75-1000 micrograms. 1000 still being awful high. (and 20 milligrams, is a _lot_ more than that!) Wonder if its a typo, of it they are just going balls out.
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Smoke With Friends(smokewithfriends.com)
5 points by spotman 14y ago|1 comments
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VMWare Injects 30M into Puppet Labs in a Strategic Partnership(puppetlabs.com)
1 points by spotman 14y ago|0 comments
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by spotman 14y ago
I feel the same way. However I also live in California. I feel like its extremely accurate here, but it is also where it was essentially born. So it is not surprising it needs more work in other places. For everyone I know that lives her