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by swanson 11y ago
Hi, it's a joke. :)
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by swanson 11y ago
Doh - thanks. Looks like the geoip library I was using has moved. Fixed now for all your critical precision weather needs ;)
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by swanson 11y ago
Hell, if Watson needs some weather data -- I offer the most precise weather forecasts already: http://mostpreciseweather.com/ Just send me a check.
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by swanson 11y ago
> But imagine you’ve been working on Castro 2 for the last year, betting the company on a big launch and a sustainable income. Sounds like the Castro 2 dev(s) made a bad bet if their success hinges on the available of a free alternative
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by swanson 11y ago
Sure, here is what I used for last season: https://basketballmonster.com/ for projections (terrible website, but really good). Don't have much information on their approach, but the common wisdom for NBA is to project
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by swanson 11y ago
I've had decent success at buying this kind of "edge". There is a ton of free information out there, but if you are willing to shell out a little money upfront, you can get pretty close to the same tools the "pros"
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by swanson 11y ago
Yeah, it's very hard for it to be a completely "hands-off" process. Just some warning though, NBA is actually one of the worst offenders in having incomplete lineup information until right before games start because NBA teams
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by swanson 11y ago
I'm not sure I get why "Moments" are any different than putting a hashtag into the search box and hitting "Live". The only difference I can tell is there are a bunch of auto-looping 3 second video thumbnails when I
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by swanson 11y ago
Let's say that you, zem, are an expert player and you have entered a roster into DraftKings Million Dollar contest. I, swanson, am an employee of DraftKings and have access to your lineup and/or data about all the other lineups en
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Juking the Stats(mdswanson.com)
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by swanson 11y ago
These Realm video/posts are really great. I like the format of posting a video with a full transcription/blog post attached. Keep up the good work :)
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by swanson 11y ago
I'd use Backbone. It's old (relative to other JS stuff) but stable. It's one thing to learn and has all the pieces (model, views, events, router). Plenty of resources online or in paper form. If you want, try applying some of
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by swanson 11y ago
Sure - at the end of the day even the best intentions can result in a poor quality output. I've just found that my own personal outlook is much better if I stop complaining about how some other person messed up and focused on where the
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by swanson 11y ago
I don't mean to advocate against YAGNI or writing simple code. I can't authoritatively to your specific example, but what I am suggesting is that you default your assumptions to a view that this developer had some reason for the c
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by swanson 11y ago
You might find value in exploring the idea of Characterization Tests or Software Seams.
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by swanson 11y ago
This is an awesome comment, thank you for sharing. Do you know of any other resources/materials like this? (Specifically would love to learn more about these kind of principles as related to mechanical engineering or a factory/pro
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by swanson 11y ago
I absolutely agree that there exists terrible code and that there are incompetent individuals or folks that simply don't care. But if one assumes that as the default response, I don't think that is very helpful. Even in your exa
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by swanson 11y ago
The same presumption happens for people, too. Developers tend to assume that the people that wrote the terribly messy code that you inherited were incompetent. I think a much more productive and healthy attitude is to assume that everyone w
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by swanson 11y ago
I think this is webkit thing - it happens in Chrome (on both desktop and mobile) for me pretty often.
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by swanson 11y ago
Haven't checked it out yet, but it's getting good reviews so I will at some point. "Halt and Catch Fire" is another great show currently airing that HN crowd would probably enjoy. It's a period piece set in Texas du
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by swanson 11y ago
Caching involves adding generally untested code to your production environment. Caching can bring your production environment out of sync with your development environment. Caching introduces state between generally state-less requests - in
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by swanson 11y ago
While the documentation is a bit sparse (on the web, there are better docs buried in the source code), I found this library to be much easier to work with then the alternatives - which are mostly from academia and have a heavy emphasis on m
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by swanson 11y ago
This sounds terrible but how should I invest to capitalize on this? Is there something on Vanguard I can throw some money at and be glad I did in 5+ years?
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by swanson 11y ago
You can find a link to his Twitter on his About page - he tweeted as recently as yesterday.
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by swanson 11y ago
This is a great read and it articulates my own frustration with the current practice-de-jour of "we write such readable code that we don't need documentation". While readable code is great, I still don't want to have to
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by swanson 11y ago
Had a challenging week working with an offsite team that just came to a boiling point.
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by swanson 11y ago
I'm very interesting in tracking team mood. We track ours daily (using https://moraleapp.com ). Here is a graph of my team (10 devs) mood over the past six months or so: http://i.imgur.com/Pxla7fl.png (you m
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by swanson 11y ago
There was an interesting discussion on a recent Bikeshed Podcast episode about Monolith vs Microservices, featuring DHH: http://bikeshed.fm/14 - worth a listen (you can skip the bits about ActionCable if you aren't a R
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by swanson 11y ago
This is not terribly difficult to get running locally (at a smaller scale). Square has a tool called Spoon[0] that makes it really easy to run a test suite across a bunch of devices. On a recent project, we had 5-7 devices plugged into a sp
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by swanson 11y ago
Absolutely, thanks for the list. I'll share my own personal one for that same context :) http://www.mdswanson.com/blog/2013/05/31/summer-reading-list...

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