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by thedufer 13y ago
> No, we don't pay for it in taxes because we have lower tax rates than the US, and yes, our corporate tax rates are lower too That doesn't follow at all. That could just as easily occur because your government skimps on other
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by thedufer 13y ago
> If you have vacation time in the bank hopefully you get paid out for it. I was under the impression that is legally mandated (at least where I live - NYC). Is that not true?
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by thedufer 13y ago
That's not a good idea, for the record. We dropped IE9 so that core features could drop IE9 support, not to save a little CSS work. In the near future Trello will become quite unstable in IE9.
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by thedufer 13y ago
You said you don't use Redis/MemoryStore, but when you broadcast something it has to be saved somewhere until all of the polling sessions get it. Where is it being saved?
845.
by thedufer 13y ago
No, "That's numberwang" does not indicate winning nor the end of the game. It just pops up at random throughout the game.
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by thedufer 13y ago
How does this work for non-socket transports? You have to be saving the broadcasts in case someone is polling, right?
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by thedufer 13y ago
He interpreted it as "the time complexity of computing the sum of the numbers from 1 to n", which using the formula you just gave takes O(1) time.
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by thedufer 13y ago
Working at a big-name tech company definitely makes you more marketable. It won't help you much, if at all, in the interview, but it will absolutely help you get your foot in the door. "If Google hired him, he's worth an in
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by thedufer 13y ago
> Also, I'm not sure I think "technical debt" is a real thing. Can you explain what you mean by this? Are you not familiar with the term, or do you not believe it exists?
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by thedufer 13y ago
> In 13,000 hours I have had to wrestle with the consequences of O(n) complexity That is what I would expect someone who has had to wrestle with big-O problems but didn't recognize them to say. I honestly don't know what you&#
851.
by thedufer 13y ago
Looking at it in the console, it looks like $ returns a single DOM element and $$ returns a NodeList (array-like object) of DOM elements. Not sure what library that is.
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by thedufer 13y ago
It was 500 when I hit it, but occasionally goes up. Not sure what it is now.
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by thedufer 13y ago
> How does this claim coexist with that, which has been bandied about for decades, that software programming is on the brink of being automated away? Now there's a good myth. Unless you really think programming could be "on th
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by thedufer 13y ago
They're currently selling Teslas in NJ (without a middleman) and not having any legal problems because of it, so your example's premise seems to be flawed.
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by thedufer 13y ago
Its not clear that that's true. The law says "auto manufacturers can't sell cars" but it originally meant "auto manufacturers can't renege on franchise agreements (or otherwise abuse them)". Surely there
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by thedufer 13y ago
api.trello.com is just a CNAME to trello.com, in case that difference was confusing you. The authentication part is taken care of differently depending on the kind of tokens we get (the web client uses a cookie) but we turn that data into
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by thedufer 13y ago
We do that decision-making inside the web servers. It only affects the client you get, so when someone requests a page we do a lookup on the logged-in member to decide which channel they get. API reqs don't care what channel you&#x27
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by thedufer 13y ago
Alpha and Beta channels only affect what client you get. All client versions talk to the same API, so it has to be very stable/backwards compatible.
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by thedufer 13y ago
> and infinitely far in front of Fog Creek for any candidates who won't or can't live in New York Fog Creek actually hires remote people now. We made the change almost a year ago and its been a great source of new candidates.
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by thedufer 13y ago
That type of double-server architecture isn't one I'd considered. Very interesting.
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by thedufer 13y ago
> You could certainly offer general "advice", but this will never be a substitute for seeing a doctor. No, and I don't think anyone is arguing that. But surely its better than doing nothing, which is the alternative for p
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by thedufer 13y ago
Not completely orthogonal. The way Trello is set up, client and server releases are completely unrelated and don't have to know about each other. The web app is almost as separate from the server as the iOS/Android apps, which i
863.
by thedufer 13y ago
I suppose that's something to worry about, but only for the tiny portion of people for whom more than $100,000 is a reasonable amount of "liquid short-term assets". I don't expect to ever hold more than an emergency fun
864.
by thedufer 13y ago
The usual eggs in a basket advice doesn't seem appropriate when you have an FDIC-insured basket.
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by thedufer 13y ago
To add to what bobby said, changes to the API are far more likely to be additions rather than actual behavior changes (except for bug fixes, which of course all clients handle fine). This makes it easy; old clients just ignore new routes&#
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by thedufer 13y ago
In the game I played, the winner did in fact have more points, but their tiles were a strict subset of the other player's (64,4,2,2 vs 64,32,16,8,4,4,2,2), so its not really clear what the scoring mechanism is.
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by thedufer 13y ago
Its not always winning, but it does sometimes win. Is this game even winnable with every possible prng seed? I wouldn't be surprised if there were guaranteed-loss states.
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by thedufer 13y ago
When I was in school, most of the big tech companies were done with intern applications by the end of March or so. Anecdotally, my employer has ~10 interns each year and all but one or two have signed offer letters by the end of February.
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by thedufer 13y ago
It also doesn't help that much - you can still look up the api key in the package, which isn't a whole lot harder. You could probably sign your own cert, tell your device to trust it, and MITM it, too.
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by thedufer 13y ago
Doesn't https take care of the same issue, though? And it doesn't solve the problem that if you're shipping an app the secret key can be found. So what does it solve?

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