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by sulam 12y ago
I don't think I follow the logic. Most of the "bad" patent lawsuits are from companies that don't make any software. Not being able to use React (or even Linux, let's say) would hardly be a problem for them.
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by sulam 12y ago
you guys can go home now, you've just made HN worth the visit for me for the rest of the month. Great discussion!
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by sulam 12y ago
FWIW this is the wrong forum to talk about Americans not climbing. It feels like half the software engineers I work with are climbers, at least as far as gym climbing is considered climbing. This is in San Francisco, and I used to climb a l
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by sulam 12y ago
I often see people refer to employee/founder risk as a reason for for employee's getting less stock in the early days, but I think this is the wrong way to think about it. As an employee or a founder, your risk in working at a sta
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by sulam 12y ago
First of all, I have never... and I do mean _never_ had a recruiter ask me for my birthdate. I've been in the industry for 20 years now (not 40, congrats on almost hitting THAT milestone!), so it's not like I just have low exposur
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by sulam 12y ago
Your servers are the lion's share of your opex, so buy the licenses. That said, if Eclipse is working for you, I'm surprised the CE edition of Intellij isn't fine, too.
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by sulam 12y ago
Speaking as someone who lived through this period during the formative years of my programming career, the author has completely missed the most influential language of the time and, in my mind at least, the number reason why Perl lost. Yes
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by sulam 12y ago
The blog post goes into details, but the main advantage pants has over other build systems we could have used is that it is designed from the ground up for a large codebase that is broken up sensibly into modules, libraries, or projects. It
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by sulam 12y ago
It's on the "we'd like to get to that sometime" or "pull requests accepted" list. It's not on the immediate roadmap unless we get a contribution from someone that needs it. Internally we don't have so
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by sulam 13y ago
The author of this piece contacted me and at least two other co-workers of mine who are identifiably over 40 asking us to comment on this subject. I told him I thought there is a simple mathematical reason why the industry skews young -- we
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by sulam 13y ago
Let me guess, you work for Oracle?
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by sulam 14y ago
Twitter is still the largest Rails site on the web as far as I know, so anyone who says that Twitter hates Rails is either being taken out of context or confused.