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by swanson 11y ago
> “We want every candidate who comes into an interview with us to feel prepared and confident.” Was expecting to then see a list of specific resources that a candidate could use to become prepared and confident. Instead, the guide provid
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by swanson 11y ago
> Checking our node_modules folder into source control (and avoiding ever 'npm install'ing again), seems like a bad idea. Why? Vendoring dependencies is a "thing" people do.
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by swanson 11y ago
Something that is missing/would be nice to add: with Mandrill I could pay to get a dedicated IP address (ensuring that I don't get impacted by other parties on the platform). Do these other services offer that?
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by swanson 11y ago
NEW DEAL: 50% off your burn rate! Hurry! This deal expires Q1 2016.
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by swanson 11y ago
You might find this talk valuable -- it's my personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJjmw9TRB7s
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by swanson 11y ago
Maybe another improvement would be some metadata field on the fork to indicate why this fork was created . Are you forking because you want a copy in your namespace? Are you forking to add new functionality? To support different versions?
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by swanson 11y ago
For those curious, the relevant PRs/issues appear to be: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/1095 https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/pull/1109
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by swanson 11y ago
Whether or not you buy what they are selling (this is an ad for Basecamp over Slack) -- there are some great points raised that I think are worth thinking through even if you are all-in on Slack/Hipchat/etc. I found the "one-
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by swanson 11y ago
I've had good results with them. We never had more than 5-7 flags at any given time. We would flag things by environment (dev/staging/prod) and/or by user (everyone/beta users/internal team). Flags were there b
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by swanson 11y ago
You should make the example text ("Try atom/atom") a link so I don't have to type in the boxes myself :)
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by swanson 11y ago
I wonder if a user-agent that was something like "Not a Googlebot" would a) allow access (probably regex based) and b) be truthful/plausible deniability.
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by swanson 11y ago
Are there any documented cases of a business failing because their JS payload was too large? I get that smaller code is easier to understand/work with, but I've never been able to internalize the desire for small payload -- just d
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by swanson 11y ago
A bit surprising after this OTL report came out this week about pro sports league getting more involved with sports betting: http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/14660326/nba-nfl-mlb-... as w
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by swanson 11y ago
I kind of wish that software issue trackers/ALM/SCM/whatever-the-fuck-its-called-today would be a bit more opinionated and enforce some set of practices. I think some people are looking to these tools for help building an eff
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Internal tools should be sold or killed(mdswanson.com)
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by swanson 11y ago
Good question :) That would probably be closer to a "tech lead" but, of course, it all depends on how your team or organization is structured and what arbitrary titles you may use. Someone playing the architect role while staying
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by swanson 11y ago
Change your job, or change your job. You could discuss how the lack of documentation is causing the team issues; maybe even frame it in a way to highlight how documentation will make him more useful (more time to spend on architecture vs an
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by swanson 11y ago
I clicked through to the article that "ultimately annoyed" the author -- I found it to be a pretty decent, high-level discussion of architecture patterns in the real-world (N-tier, monolith, microservices, event driven, etc). The
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by swanson 11y ago
ESPN Boxscores -- or FanDuel/DraftKings themselves -- have this data available. Or there are projects like https://github.com/BurntSushi/nfldb
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by swanson 11y ago
Funny enough, the automation/optimization/scripting/algorithm aspects of DFS are a big part of what makes it interesting to me. I have domain knowledge about sports, so DFS is a better testbed for me to learn and explore thes
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by swanson 11y ago
Another interesting wrinkle is that starters often get the credit or notoriety for the project, even if there is a large group of others now maintaining and supporting the project. Not to say that the project starters have abandoned the pro
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by swanson 11y ago
"Presumption of stupidity": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883 Really enjoyed both the article and the discussion on that one.
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by swanson 11y ago
Funny enough, this concept was on the Comedy Central show "Nathan For You" -- pizza delivery guaranteed in 7 minutes or you get a free pizza . The delivery was always late. ( The free pizza was a 1" mini pizza and the rest of
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by swanson 11y ago
It's a selling shovels during the gold rush move. There are tons of people popping up that sell lineups on Twitter (similar to stock picking 'schemes', split your audience and keep selling to the ones that you gave good picks
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by swanson 11y ago
My big takeaway from the original post was that "early insiders" controlled the frontpage of ProductHunt. This post confirms that "early insiders" can still post straight to the frontpage. I see data from this blog post
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by swanson 11y ago
Funny coincidence -- I just received an email with a countdown like that today and was very curious. In my case, the email was using: https://www.realtime.email/
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by swanson 11y ago
$1/month for a twice-a-month email that lists 2-3 shows/movies worth watching on Netflix/Amazon Instant. Could be new release/added or older 'gems'. Bonus pts if it could sync up with my accounts to not recomme
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by swanson 11y ago
Date formatting is the source of so many of these headscratchers :( I'm reminded of the difference between 'yyyy' and 'YYYY' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810157
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by swanson 11y ago
Love this. Especially the part where you don't spend time building yet-another-dashboard page. Once you've settled on the graphs you want, you could then integrate them in your product admin directly if you want. It sort of remind
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by swanson 11y ago
For those asking why HN should care about a "sportsball blog", here are some pretty great Grantland articles that made a splash on HN: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds: http://grantland.com/features/diplomacy

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