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   by swanson 10y ago

   This is a really cool technique to have in your toolbelt. When you are able to model a problem in this way, you can get something that also seems magical. I've found these kind of constraint solvers to be a nice middle ground between n
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   by swanson 10y ago

   http://developers.stattleship.com/#introduction
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   by swanson 10y ago

   Ethics aside, what a great way to leverage market demands/incentives.
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   Hacking my office Indy 500 pool: exploiting arbitrage in an inefficient market(mdswanson.com)

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   by swanson 10y ago

   http://mdswanson.com/ I'm not famous and I don't work at a large company. I'm a software engineer based in Indianapolis and I work at a 100 person, 100% employee-owned development + design company. I write se
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   by swanson 10y ago

   I'm looking here: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html And seeing a JSFiddle link that is fully configured to work and zip file that includes all necessary files. What am I missing?
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   by swanson 10y ago

   Are some of the long lines caused by people carrying on more luggage than in the past (due to airline fees for checked bags + perception that checked bags are mishandled, lost, or slow down your travel time)? I wonder if flipping the econom
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   by swanson 10y ago

   I'm no Javascript Boilerplate Fatigue apologist, but there are many comments in here that are treating this as a "Learn how to use React" tutorial. This is not what is advertised nor the stated reason this article was written
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   by swanson 10y ago

   I've shared your frustration. The Hello World experience is a huge spectrum ranging from the 30 screens of setup you describe to the one-click Visual Studio installer. The other thing to consider is what you assume from a reader in a t
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Thanks! Was looking for a comment about this. So many of the long surviving 'myths' seem to be traceable back to an advertising campaign.
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Don't "try to cheat" either -- or you'll be publicly shamed by an internet famous person!
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Looks like a link has been added in the body, thanks if that was you :)
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Note to themacro editors: it was hard to find the link to the company (it's on the sidebar). I was expecting it to appear in the body content or the headline.
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Some tough questions because I think you can handle them :) --- What happens if/when Twitch builds these tools into their app? (if possible, don't answer with "we hope they acquire us") Per your website, it's "
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Why not link it to them and then discuss it over a team lunch?
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Putting on my @patio11 disguise: maybe you should write up a paragraph or two about the major 'flavors' of machine learning (classifier, regression, nearest-neighbor, NLP, etc) and an example of how they could be used in a busines
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    by swanson 10y ago

    I met an engineer from Twitter at a conference and he said he was on a team (6+ people) that worked full-time on the Lists page for the Twitter.com desktop site. So anecdotally, they have (or at least had) very specific teams.
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Are you referring to research on the 'cost of change curve' or research on the economic impact of production bugs?
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    by swanson 10y ago

    I tend to agree, but sometimes in these kind of instrumented test environments, the setup cost of each test case might be very high so maybe the team found it reasonable to group all the assertions into a single test (especially given that
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    by swanson 10y ago

    A great anecdote in the 'we can't test this code' discussion -- for an aggressive two-week release cycle of this massively popular game, this level of testing has probably paid for itself many times over.
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    by swanson 10y ago

    Looks like you can find that sort of information here: https://hackbrightacademy.com/transgender-inclusion-policy/
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    by swanson 11y ago

    Formula: * Actually apologize in a human way * Show empathy by identifying the impact of what happened to customers (not your impact internally) * State action items that you've created, even if they are just in 'evaluation'
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    by swanson 11y ago

    My hobby: role-playing how I would respond as the CEO if my company was getting skewered on HN. Here is my version! --- Disclaimer: I'm [not] CIO @ Namecheap We messed up, big time. While we handle 1000s of live chat sessions everyday
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    by swanson 11y ago

    http://herearesomelogos.tumblr.com/
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    by swanson 11y ago

    I'm not seeking to refute anything. I agree that it sucks that software costs are so expensive and that taxpayer money was spent on this, but if you don't try to understand the process that is broken I don't think there is
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    by swanson 11y ago

    Great point on the accessibility audit, added that to UI/UX section.
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    by swanson 11y ago

    That's one screenshot, are you prepared to submit a legally binding quote for the project with that little information? Are there more screens? I don't know. Did the client require multiple designs and iterations -- each stamped w
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    by swanson 11y ago

    Good point, added a couple more line items.
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    by swanson 11y ago

    Let's assume a hefty markup for the long sales/BD time for a government contract like this: $336k * 0.60 = $200k Since this deals with national security, could probably justify higher rate resources staffing (security clearance re
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    by swanson 11y ago

    My hobby: role-playing how I would respond as the CEO if my company was getting skewered on HN. Here is my version! --- I am [not] the CEO over at IFTTT. We messed up. Big time. Pinboard -- and other services developers love -- played an im